How did this come about? What a fucking cunt.

Glad to hear it all sounds like stuff that will heal up okay.

:(

Did he just start on you?

I've never even been punched, even when I've deserved to be (ie quite often)

this happened recently to a friend of mine.. a very tall, large friend! he got head-butted in the face and had his nose broken. i'm not sure what would happen to your attacker if he was prosecuted.. was it just totally random?

my friend told me about two people that got stabbed while they were walking.. some guy and his girlfriend attacked by a bunch of 'youths'.. for no reason..

i guess you're lucky that it wasn't worse but 'lucky' is probably the wrong word..

Were you with other people? Didn't anyone try and stop him?

at the amnesty international thing

no where near as bad as you, and i hadnt been punched in the face in a long time, years, i forgot how much it hurts and how long it hurts for after

I'd say unless this guy is a repeat offender type, he isn't likely to get caught but I could be completely off the mark.

I recently had to an official, important interview/meeting thing with a bruised and cut up face and yeah, it isn't much fun. Hope your face clears up soon!

you're a rugby player. Its the height of the season, and a valid reason.

You'd hope the police would be able to do something if it was on camera and there were witnesses. One of my sisters friends got beaten up by some chump who couldn't handle his drink in a case of mistaken identity- he pressed charges, apparently the guy had a couple of previous assault convictions and got sent down and had to pay compensation.

Luckily I've never been in a fight, I don't think I look like the type who would attract aggro. Touch wood.

hope you feel better!

good luck with the interview, i'm sure they'd understand if you told them the truth...

i was out with my girlfriend for her birthday last night, with a bunch of other friends and stuff. we went to Belushi's bar in covent garden.

at some point in the evening i noticed this guy going over to our corner, and taking a jacket off the jacket pile and starting to make off with it. i had just put this jacket on the pile myself for a friend, so i was sure it wasn't his. so i went up to him and (politely) told him that it wasn't his. he was sure it was, bt after a bit of talk i persuaded him it wasn't. so he then told me to go find his from the pile and then he would give me the jacket back. this sounded dodgy to me so i persuaded him to give me the jacket while i went and looked for his.

so i went and looked for ~5mins, but there was nothing matching his description there, and the bottom jacket of the pile was my girlfriend's so i was pretty sure his jacket wouldn't be in with ours.

so i went back and told him it wasn't there, and maybe he should go look somewhere else (again - very politely), at which point he started getting lairy and accusing me of messing him about and stealing his jacket, and starting raising his finger towards my face and stuff. so i tapped on the shoulder of my friend who was standing next to me and indicated this guy to him. my friend is a pretty big beefy guy, so when he stepped in this dude took it down a notch. he was still being really aangry towards me though, accusing me of stealing his jacket and being 'a fucking liar' when i told him that he, in fact, was the one who was stealing jackets (again this was very matter of fact, and not aggressive).

so eventually he backed off when we persuaded him we really didn't have his jacket and he should go look elsewhere.

then i went and told some other friends (including the guy whose jacket was nearly stolen) what had happened, and we agreed to keep and eye on this guy to make sure he didn't cause any trouble or steal any other jackets.

so then a bit later he seemed to be moving off, after having a cheeky look at a couple of other people jackets but having no luck getting away with them, when i saw him go up to our table and ask one of the girls by the coat pile to pass him one as if it was his. so i then pointed this out to the same big friend of mine who was nearby and he stepped in and told the guy to leave i think, which he did, although he was a bit angry.

so then i figured the threat had passed, and about 20 minutes later i decided i needed to take my girlfriend home as she was really drunk and tired, so i let people know we were leaving and went.

so we get to the tube station (covent garden) and see the lift is there and we are the last people in. when we get to the bottom (and the doors open on the other side) i notice this guy is in the lift and he has clearly spotted me. so everyone piles out of the lifts, and we are left cornered inside by this guy who is quite clearly still pissed off about me 'messing him about' earlier.

so he starts telling me how i'm 'not so cocky now without all your mates behind you' and i'm just trying to calm him down and diffuse the situation, then he just starts laying into me. i'm just trying to defend myself and keep my girlfriend out of the way of him (she kept trying to get involved so i had to keep pushing her away!) and eventually i kind of rugby tackled him to the ground and someone must have heard me shouting for help because this other guy turns up to see whats going on. i suppose he then figured i wasn't worth pursuing any further (this bits a bit hazy - i was a bit out of it!) and made off towards the platforms leaving me dripping blood from my nose.

so then i went upstairs and spoke to the security guys in the tube office and they phoned the police and i gave a statement and stuff. but it was all caught on camera and was completely unprovoked so hopefully the cunt gets caught.

ps oooh bigger text!

By your description I'd say he'd be up for ABH - 3-6 months but more importantly looks fucking terrible on your record so no one will employ the cunt.

Hope you're ok pal. Getting smacked in the face proper smarts

You'll look like you've carried out a 'hit', and have kept the severed head. Maybe.

a friend of mine was beaten up following an altercation in Belushi's last summer. There's something about Covent Garden bars that attracts lowlife.

I actually had a very close call last night though.
I was walking along the pavement when two guys wanted to take up the whole pavement. I kept walking with thinking one would move, he didn't so I did at the last minute just brushing one of them as I walked into the road.
Shouting started I just kept walking.

I didn't brush on purpose either. dickheads.

sorry you were not as fortunate as me :(

- what an utter wanker :(