LOL, I've takin some pretty mean whoopin's in my life for my friends sake. 5 of my best friends and I used to bounce for a couple of the more popular bars around town, which if you know anything about Bakersfield California, the reputation the city has is well deserved. Lots of hardworking, uneducated and violent people.
We have a popular bar in town called Chuy's and 2 years ago on St. Patties day, all damn 6 of us caught a hell of a beating when we tried to bounce out a Correctional Officer. So out of this big group of "BRO's" one of the sh!t-faced CO's wanted to pick a fight with an entire table of guys (who were just having a few beers and checking the scenery). He walks up to the table,eats some of their nachos and grabs their pitcher of beer, pounding it right in front of the group. Obviously It didn't go over well and we have to step in to break it up. So myself and my best friend Derrick go over and tell the guy he's out for starting shit, and to go sleep it off. He says fine, and starts walking toward the door. As soon as Derrick turns his back, he swings a haymaker for me and misses completely, stumbling to the ground. I tell Derrick to grab our friend Josh (who's the head bouncer there) to help throw this guy out. Derrick ignores me and decides the best way to fix the situation is to rear naked choke and drag the guy kicking and squirming out to the parking lot. As soon as he starts I realize his entire group of about 20 people are already next to us and are suddenly yelling at Derrick to let him go. The commotion signals my other 2 friends Nick and Henry over and they start telling everyone to sit the hell back down, and stay out of it.... surprise, surprise, they don't. People start yelling profanity and threats, and the situation gets quickly gets out of control as four people grab Derrick and he let's go of the drunk bastard who started it. The guy sucker punches Derrick as he's being held back and all hell breaks loose.
I didn't even get a punch off , it was all i could do to pick my downed friend up and out of a melee of stomps and kicks (while being beaten down myself). As I dragged Derrick (who had already had more than enough) to the parking lot in hopes of safety, I yelled at Josh who had come back inside that Henry and Nick were still fighting. Josh goes to his truck and grabs his Maglite. I get in just in time to see Josh shatter a guys forearm with his flashlight as the guy tried to block it from hitting his face. Josh swung it on any and every person who he deemed a threat and layed out a good 5 guys before the cops arrived and stopped everything. To their credit, the guys who beat us down wanted nothing to do with the cops and we all got told to go home. We did end up losing our bouncing jobs with the place afterwards, and there's still plenty of bad blood concerning the other bouncers who watched us get our faces punched.
