I actually deleted it, because I thought it didn't relate to your situation. I thought your story was about where you were living. but you must have caught it in time. It makes for a great story, but being arrested and being hauled before a judge and having a conviction recorded is no fun. I wouldn't hesitate to do it again, I believed I was outnumbered and my life may have been in danger, these idiots meant business and I did what I had to do. It was a while ago now, but I used to naively believe that just reasoning with people is all that is needed when conflict arises. It didn't occur to me the reason these people behaved in such anti social ways was because they were by nature unreasonable people incapable of reasoning.
there was this time in my epic lean days at a night club and this black dude who was smaller than me maybe 6foot or 5'11 was really jealous of me grinding on all these girls in the club.. he kept saying "wussup man wussup man i think i can take you"
i was like "oh yeah i dont want no problems"
It was a crazy packed club but i knew if i hit the guy hard id be going to jail or something bad
i totally backed down though and tried to get away from the dude who had the crazy eye for me he wasnt even big he just wanted a fight with me bad
violence is only worth it if you can get away with it
but yeah if people were doing that shit on my garage and then they challenged me i wouldve done the same thing bro. good thing you didnt hit the guy in the face with the bat