If you’ve never been in one, no need to comment “never”. For me it was over a decade ago as a teenager at a state fair. Quick fight broke out between an annoying guy and myself. He was following my little group around tossing stink bombs at us. A little pushing turned into a little punching. We both ended up in cuffs but neither with actual charges. We were both banned for the following 2 years from that fair.
Just a few mild ones. Never swung on anyone but some altercations.
In highschool I was ready to throw down with a guy in a fancy car who couldn’t find a parking space so he just parked in the middle of a one way parking lot to run into the bank. I yelled at him out my window and he came over to get in my face but when I got out I was like 8 inches taller. We yelled at each other face to face then went on our ways.
In my mid 20s at a Jesus and Mary Chain reunion show a drunk guy in front of me was double fisting some beers and started spinning around with his arms up splashing everyone. We made eye contact while he was spinning and I flicked him off. He took offense to that and dropped a beer and started pushing me. I was going backwards and reached out and my hand kinda grabbed his throat. His eyes went wide and I’m sure mine did too but before anything more happened some other people were pissed at him too and shoved him. He went flying through the crowd and we didn’t see him again in our section.
Later that same show a mosh pit broke out and I was on the edge of it. No one seemed pleased this was happening and i had shoved the dudes back in pretty agressively to get them away from me causing at least one of the thrashers to end up on the floor. The dudes in it were swinging extra hard forsomee reason and ended up hitting a chick on the edge of the pit in the face and I think breaking her nose. She was covered in blood at least. That was the last straw and the crowd descended on them. Security came in and broke it up.
I don’t know what was up with that crowd. I expected a bunch of chill aging hipsters (and it was mostly that) but it seems quite a few people came in with different mind sets. I’ve been to legit hardcore and punk shows with a more polite crowd and where the thrashers weren’t looking to hurt anyone.