I'm the zebra on the right:
Pretty much an uneventful night at the bar. Some good outfits that you can check out here:
http://www.myspace.com/lewsgrillandbar . Two jokers, two Dorothy's (Wizard of Oz), one Joe the plumber and zero Palins. Plenty of slutty whatevers.
At the end of the night was all the excitement. My bar is usually a pretty tame place. I can count the number of fights in the last two years on one hand. After I turned up the lights and we started to close up, I noticed a couple of guys jawing outside on out patio, so I run out to see whats going on. By the time I get there, I see a guy get decked and I rush in to break it up. A bunch of regulars and myself get in between the two guys and the fights over except for some jawing back and forth.
So as the two combatants head towards their separate vehicles, the guy who landed the punches left and the other guy (who had a hell of a shiner) was still wandering around with his friends. I'm trying to calm him down and tell him it's over an he should just go home. He finally gets in the drivers seat and his buddy who seems more sober gets in the back. I try to tell the sober (relatively) to drive, but they aren't paying attention to what I say.
So the guy starts up his car, an Escalade, and guns it right towards all the people outside that were breaking up the fight. I was standing by the drivers side and he missed me by a couple of feet, but I could see the people were hemmed in by two cars. Before he hits anyone, he hits the brakes and turns the wheel. A couple of people were pushed a bit by the car, but got out out of the way. The driver hits the gas again and plows into a parked car, just missing some people. The car is shoved over a bit and the Escalade completes his turn and takes off out of the parking lot. Here's the car he hit:
The cops are called and that's a whole different ordeal, but I'm just relieved that no one got hurt.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2008.