ORIGINAL: Swampdog
Paul, How about this one .I was 14 years old ,wasn't a roughneck .But did not take much junk.A boy from another grade he was 16 or 17 had been picking on me all day at school.Making comments about how he was going to beat my A$$ when we got on the bus.When I got on the bus he was sitting down in one of the seats needless to say I was about half way ( well all of the way) scared of the guy he was bigger ,older.when I went by he started to get up saying what he was going to do.Soooo I popped him in the mouth about halfway out of the seat. I wasn't about to let him get up and get a hold of me.Broke his jaw ,knocked out 2 teeth ,broke his nose.Strange thing is I remember the girl next to him had a white dress on and it instantly turned red.Anyway I had to go to juvi court they actually had me charged with felonious assault.Now get the reason .If you hit somebody and they DON'T bleed it is simple assualt if they bleed it is a felony.It was reduced to keep a felony off of my record .It could have been bad, a felony for a kids fight on the way home from school. Hell we fought just about every day and when we got through we went and played in the woods after.
When I was a kid, I lived mostly on Army posts. Us Army brats weregenerally bussed to the local community schools. I remember that there was always an MP on the bus as well as the driver, just to keep crap like that from happening!