Road Rage Beatdown

Here is a segment containing a fight during a road rage incident.  The original video, minus the somewhat lengthy commentary, is age restricted (which can be a PIA to view) so here is the news piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhmOzhPRxQs

While the commentary is long and only mildly interesting at best, there are a few pieces of information which are worth getting.  Mainly, the 'victim' has a documented history of road rage incidents.  This seems important to what happens first in the video.  In particular, he seems eager to escalate hostility.

So much so, he doesn't consider the fact that he is outnumbered by two cars and at least four guys - perhaps more, but we never get to see how many guys are in the car with the camera.

In the video, his opponent has two of his buddies standing right there which, it turns out, are more than needed to make his situation turn south.  Go ahead and study the details yourself, I'm sure by now you can identify the technical aspects and mistakes.  No need for a blow by blow analysis, but consider what this guy did not.

He chose to escalate a situation which he was outnumbered, and invite a duel.  It seemed more than just puffing and bravado, he really seemed to want to fight.  I say duel because he made clear signals he was wanted a gentlemanly fist fight to resolve the situation.  He probably didn't consider that once Bald Guy started losing, his buddies would jump in to help.  It didn't even take that long.  His buddy jumped in at the first opportunity to give his friend the upper hand.

While Red Shirt probably thought himself a capable fighter, he was poorly prepared to be dealing with two guys and didn't have any idea what to do from the ground.  Then it turns ugly.  He finally gets knocked out, and his two opponents repeatedly kick him in the head as he is passed out.

Given the viciousness of the street, the guy seems LUCKY to have survived fairly intact (i.e. no lasting brain injury, disfigurement, or worse).  You antagonize animals and get them worked into a frenzy, then hand them easy prey, you are a special kind of idiot and probably not long for this world.

Take note though of what the video doesn't show very well.  These two cars pursued Red Shirt and cornered him, so he wasn't going anywhere.  It's hard to say at that point whether it was a good move to get out of the car or not, but clearly Red Shirt made some bad choices which resulted in a beat down.