Barbarians

Late on Saturday night I came across a fight outside a Paddington hotel. Upon arrival I saw a bloke (click image) get king-hit and go down like a bag of spuds. He didn't move for awhile and it looked pretty bad. Then I recorded a follow-up fight in front of the cab.

After work I rang the cops and offered the footage, if needed, but was told the main event had occurred beforehand and a bloke had been arrested. Otherwise no one was taken to hospital and no complaints were received from the participants.

Here's a short video of the final altercation. My passengers were Korean, or Japanese, and could be forgiven for thinking, 'Australian barbarians'.

UPDATE: A weekend of drunken brawling   

Comments

[James]

And right over the road from St Francis of Assisi -- "Make me an instrument of your peace", indeed!

[Grandma]

I posted a comment on this (and had to join Vox) after I played the video. Comment shows up there but not here.(?) Should I repeat comment? (Maybe my "name" is saying it all.)

[Paradise Driver]

That was Japanese your passengers were speaking.

[Paul Pluta]

ummm great.... and they wonder why nobody wants to drive cabs.... $8- an hour, a shift starting or finishing at 4:00am, drunken losers, and trailor park fools...... and according to news.com.au cab drives are NOT to be trusted - sexually abuse customers..... etc. WHAT A STIGMA! thank god I got out of the industry.

[Dataceptionist]

We were driving from a wedding in Palm Beach to Manly to kick on a bit, have some drinks etc. As we drove along Harbord Rd we saw a group of kids we thought were mucking around on the side of the road. As we drew closer however we realised that three of four kids (about 14!) were beating the ***t out of a kid on the ground, really laying into him, kicking him around the head and the ribs.
We couldn't just keep driving, and stopped and hollered at them to stop. Thankfully they seperated fairly quickly, seems the kid being beaten had "stolen our bike", his guilt obvious when he bolted without even thanking us.
We thought though, regardless whether he did it or not, no one deserves that treatment. If we hadn't been there they may have continued and he could have sustained internal injuries with no one even knowing he was there.
It was the first close up violent encounter I've witnessed thank god.

[Colin]

that was most definitely korean and not japanese the passengers were speaking ..

[manly cabbie]

$8 a hour driving cabs good thing you got out of the game pluta you wern't much of a cabbie.