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Lmao @ Sizing someone up at the gas station, I've actually seen that before. I was sitting in the car though. They scared the crap out of the "sizer upper". Mean mugged the hell out of him.
It was so funny the way he speed away on his bike.
Sorry,not a city in USA,but Darwin,in Northern Territory of Australia,is sometimes known as The City of the Broken Jaw..highest number of such occurances by far in Australia.
Probably East London, Birmingham or Liverpool. Ok. I realize the OP probably meant just American cities. While you're definitely way more likely to get shot here in the States, cities in England definitely have more fisticuffs. There is an abundance of hooligans and hoods on the streets there just waiting to getting into brawls at bars, football games, or just random places. Fist fights are pretty much "out of style" here now, tough guys opting to pull triggers (and many who have skills with their fist avoid punching for fear the retaliation may be from a pistol muzzle) but in Merry olde England they are still all the rage.
I've heard this about Britain. I don't know if we're going international with this, but someone after you mentioned Darwin, Australia and I'd heard of it's rep too.
I think one of the Scandinavian nations also has a high assault rate. It was one where binge drinking was popular. Maybe I'm thinking of Finland, even though I've heard some argue it's not Scandinavian. New Zealand is also about the same as the US according to one study I read. Possibly in one of their shabbier cities there's some fisticuffs.
Ok, stupid thread or not, i'll answer: Fights can happen in any city, no matter the crime rate....i've personally witnessed several fights here in SF, including a few random, unprovoked ones (a couple were more like "attacks" rather than anything resembling a fair fight), which is to be expected on a higher than average basis probably, when you have some combination of the following, as SF does:
LOTS of drugs
density
lots of homeless people
lots of thugs/dealers/gangbangers etc
lax/hamstrung policing
understaffed and underfunded police
a "rotating door" justice system
The latest random, unprovoked "fight" i saw here, which i've already talked about in a couple threads, involved a teenage gangbanger beating an old man on a crush-loaded bus during rush hour. The old man's crime? He asked the kid to stop kicking him in the back of the legs.
Or the time last year when some crazy toothless dude told a woman on the bus that he liked her front teeth, after she smiled. She got creeped out, and got off the bus...only he followed her, knocked her down in the bus stop, knocked her teeth out, and stole them. Yes you get your teeth stolen here, forget fights at the gas station.
Then there's the guy who went around the city randomly stabbing women and children last year, including a sleeping woman on the train, a mother walking with her kids, and an 11-year-old boy on his first solo bus ride.
I could really type a couple pages of this kind of stuff just from the past few years...but then i'm sure people in many other cities could as well.
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