Posted on 07/19/2013 7:14:13 AM PDT by Gamecock
What happens when a fight breaks out at a bar? A Penn State sociologist gathered data from nightlife venues in Toronto to find out. From BPS Research Digest:
Michael Parks and his colleagues trained dozens of observers who analyzed 860 aggressive incidents across 503 nights in 87 large clubs and bars in Toronto, Canada. Aggression was defined as anything from a verbal insult or unwanted physical contact to a punch or kick. Incidents were twice as likely to involve one-sided aggression as opposed to mutual aggression. The most common incident involved a man making persistent unwanted overtures or physical contact towards a female. Male on male aggression was the next most frequent category. All-female aggression was rare.
Third parties intervened in almost one third of these situations, and they were more than twice as likely to intervene in a non-aggressive way than to be aggressive themselves. Eighty per cent of third parties who got involved were men. Drunk third parties were more likely to be aggressive. Surprisingly perhaps, the most frequent kind of aggressive incident (male on female) was the least likely to provoke third party involvement. One-sided aggression between men also provoked few interventions. Parks and his team think this is probably because such incidents are judged to be non-serious and unlikely to escalate.
I crack (Cracker) me up.
5.56mm
lol!
Well done.
Becaus it just may lead to kissing.
Some of the best fun I’ve had was being called to bar fight when I was a cop. After puti’n some “Whup ass” on a couple of guys, I walked back in to make sure everything was calm. I’d find illegal guns, knives and pipes laying on the floor. I’d ask “Sir, is this yours?” of course it was “No.” I’d retrieve everything and as I went out the door, I’d turn and say “Anybody else want some exercise tonight?” All I got was grumbles as their illegal weapons went out the door.
My brother witnessed a bar fight/killing in Florida and testified at the trial. Best part of it for him was that he got paid by the court to fly back there from the Northwest, twice, first class, with hotel and daily expenses. Vacation, vacation and a third vacation.
I humbly suggest the professor apply for a new grant for secondary, followup, research at Chuck-E-Cheese and Waffle House.
Those results may be skewed toward an opposite bias.
Heheh...dogs...all of us!
Like the other poster said...I should have applied for a government grant to study it!
Going to the gay bar in town became fashionable for ‘hip’ straights in my city once upon a time.
I think it ran its course when the HIV “plague” hit. The newspaper started running daily statistics on infections.
Surprisingly, when the number of HIV patients stabilized at around 85 and didn’t make a lot of headway into the straight community they dropped the statistic count.
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