hehe i got suspended my sophomore year for making fun of some dumb chick on a note passed back and forth in history class...we threw the note away. So she picked it out of the trash and gave it to our assistant principal. Such irony, considering we wrote stuff about how she ate out of a dumpster...I miss high school

I was joking around with my friend and our respective brothers that I could take some guy, my brother then took it upon himself to tell this guy what i'd said.

We should start a fantasy fighting thread. It's apparant that half of the posts in this thread belong there. Anyone here not an uber ninja, and willing to admit that they've been beaten up or maybe even walked away from a few fights? I've studied martial arts on and off throughout my entire life, and I've walked away from 90% of the people who have tried to fight me.

Fighting is bad, when it can be avoided...mkay?

aha, so you can go home, walk into your front door, and then go right back outside again to fight.

A loophole!

In 7th grade, after the whole Columbine deal, they had a bunch of violence-related talks in class with the guidance counselor.

Some kid told someone that he knew someone who made a bomb, and that kid immediately raised his hand and said what he was just told. The counselor demanded that the kid give up the name of this fictitious bomb-maker, and somehow my name came up. I was a quiet kid, so some people in the class agreed it was concievable.

I was called to her office and asked to respond to bizarre allegations. After proving two physically impossible, she still persisted. I asked that my parents be called because I didn't have to deal with this.

She claimed it was 3 kids that said it, then 6, then dozens... she just wouldn't be wrong. I explained to the principle how ridiculous a lot of it sounded, and he realized that, but he can't just assume"dozens" of kids just made up stories.

I missed class the following monday for the meeting. It was proven false, and my parents flipped out threatening legal action. As far as I'm aware it isn't on my record (or even if such a record still exists, now that I'm in college.) I got no apology, and everyone in the class who heard the initial accusations assumed it was true, since no one heard anything to the contrary.

What really annoyed me was that in those situations, the accused is crucified, but when it's proven a lie, the accusers aren't punished at all. They don't want to discourage someone from testifying, but when you falsely accuse someone of attempted murder without even thinking of the consequences, you are a detriment to society, IMO.
Violence and drugs are such a big deal, but simple ethics, and the value of someone's name are foreign concepts.

I've been suspended for getting punched in the head and causing the guy to cop a few broken knuckles. That's because whenever anyone's in a fight at my school, each party is automatically guilty. Admittedly I started it although there was a lot of provocation...

I'm a wuss. I'm quiet. I also build up rage for a long time. Not a good combo when someone does something and SNAP you punch the guy in the face.

My former school district had a policy that if you were caught breaking school rules (drug use, fighting, etc.) on anything that was "owned" by the school (in this case, the bus stops[/b]), you would receive the appropriate punishment.

That of course, is trumped by our marvelous ID policy. You always had to wear it on a school-issued laniard. If you were found without it, you were fined $5 and given a new one, even if it was on your person. Three offenses, you got a detention. Two offenses later, you got suspended.

The IDs were, of course, supposed to keep us safe from people shooting up the school. This was obviously a well thought-out plan because:

• The majority perpetrations of school violence are done by members of the student body
• No one would dare attempt to try and hurt someone without an ID hanging around their neck
• No one would dare hurt someone who's wearing an ID around their neck.

Makes me want to shoot the people who made this policy with a school ID hanging around my neck.

i got expelled from two schools cause i couldn't stop pissing all over myself:( now i carry a bucket around.

that sucks. I would have sued for defamation and slander had I been in that situation.

I just remembered the only time I ever got detention in high school. I came to school late because I'd had a doctors apointment, during my gym period. Unfortunately, I was taking bowling in gym that quarter, and the bus to go to the bowling alley had already left. So the office decided to give me detention. Man that sucked... you werent allowed to talk, listen to music with headphones, or even put your head on the desk.

Did you have an excuse? As long as you had one you shouldn't have gotten detention.

BTW, never been suspended.

Ironically, I got suspended in high school for skipping class so much. Brilliant. And it's not like it was an important class. It was just phys. ed. (gym). And of course, p.e. is so important to getting a good education and having a food future.
So of course, my other (read: more important) grades suffered *because of* the administration's intelligent punishment decision.

How did someone steal your locker? o_O Or did you mean 'lock'?

I got suspended for using my face as a flamethrower (butane bottle + mouth + lighter = almost 1 meter long jet of flame) cause some 3rd graders in the next bus over were talking smack.

But nothing worse... cause I got expelled shortly after that

Got in a fight in 8th grade (I'm 10th now).

Guy was bulling around me, and finally (because of my cursed "sharp/golden tounge"), I got him mad enough to swing at me.

He didn't land a blow once on me, and his right side of the face was bleeding so bad.

I didn't get in trouble, no witnesses and my mom and step dad work for the School district (Assistant principal [the guy that punishes for fights] is my mom's second cuzin), I got out of it with no problem.

Heh heh....seems that once the word go's around that you're a martial artist, people start treating you WAY differently, with more respect...or fear. Everyone at school is my friends though, so they're calm now, but back then it was weird.

So, advice:

1) Don't get into fights. Avoid them at all cost.

2) If you're a boxer, martial artist, wrestler, or anything combatent, keep it as secerete as possible. It makes you feel you're different because you know how to fight, and other people don't. Very strange.

3) Be a Jedi.

All the advice for today.

[EDIT: Taught my friend basic NetBIOs and CMD commands. Seems he used it to bring down the whole school network like printers and stuff, and he got into trouble. Poor kid.]

I have that same policy here at our school. No one wears them half the time, and when we do, we earase certain letters to form a word, or glue pictures of magazine cut outs (Cats, the Scarecrow, Osama Bin Ladin, G. W. Bush, ect.) where our pictures are.

We don't have the detention thing though, good enough. No one wears it, and all the teachers ask for it. It's wasting time, and false safety practices.

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Legally speaking, if you were under attack and you attack back, you have the legal right to hurt them anyway possible until you no longer feel that they're a threat.

Morally speaking, yes it's a self defence. "A best defence is a good offence." Sayings and stuff like that, blah blah blah.

School speaking, self defence is rolling up in a ball and being forced to kiss a toliet seat because it's Freshmen He** week. (No, this didn't happen to me, it happened to a friend of mine)

So, genereally speaking, yes that is self defence. It's a type of self defence. A type you might not be conftrable with, but one that I am.

*Devilish grin*

And I encourage people to take Martial Arts. Or if you're a girl and not into that stuff, at least Aerobic Kickboxing or somthing. You never know when you might need it in your life. Plus, it's a great excersize for both body and mind, and a great stress reliever. And, you don't have to be a certain body type; all people can learn. Plus, it's both a team and individual game. I don't care what martial art you get into, just get into one. It's great to know how to defend.

BTW, Tae Kwon Do dosn't count.

*Second devilish grin, followed by an evil scornfull laugh*

I've walked away from every single one. I got picked on a fair bit for whatever reason and every time it got into a fight situation it was always several, substantially larger guys ganging up on me. I was never stupid enough to try and take them on.

The stupidest one happened in year 8 (~1994), which was the year the French were doing nuclear testing in Murora (sp?) atoll. My last name sounds French (it's actually Dutch-Indonesian) so a number of guys tried to beat me up because of the nuclear tests, because I obviously had omething to do with it :rolleyes:. I also live in Australia which made the whole thing doubly stupid. There were 3 guys who wrestled me to the ground, one guy jumped on top of me and tried to grab my throat. I pushed him off and then walked away.

I never really saw the point in fighting as I was probably going to get my arse kicked.

Nope. That's defamation of school property.

Run, you do the right thing by not initiating fights, but it's still strongly encouraged by me to learn Kenpo. You'll never know once you get in life/death situations when you might have to defend yourself to get through.

Kenpo's "founders" realize that people usually don't attack 1 on 1, and find support from friends or a group.

You'll learn how to defend against multiple people (got tournament video footage/life stories if you know any Kenpies) effectivly and test proven. Note that Kenpo is the oldest traced back martial art out there, and through the years have been tweaked and modified to have the most effective attacks without hurting yourself *grins at TKD's*.

[EDIT: P.S. if you havn't noticed already, I don't like TKD. But I'm just jokeing with them. Got a few friends that are TKD, actually. They still can't get out of headlocks applied by bullies, and when they spar me for fun, always get injured in the knee or foot somehow.]

"Nope" what?

And technically, it's our property in thier eyes and mine. I bought it. It's now my ID badge. They just require me to wear it.

People... there is no "c" in "offense" or "defense."

And there is no "i" in "0vVh4g3".

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=offence

I don't think I need to post the one for defence.

I don't think you're British, Yoshi. :p

Sorry. The "nope" came from four years of frustration of immovable policy.

Whatever. Wanker.

<_< *runs from britassians.*

I don't get it. People are saying that TKD martial artists are bad fighters...now thats not right, I'm a blackbelt in Mu Duk Kwon (a break-off of TKD) and easily know how to get out of headlocks, bearhugs, etc. I can also fight well. The people injuring their legs and stuff is because of their lack of either stretching or lack of technique appliance (aka, their doing it wrong :p ). Yeah, only a select group of people know I'm a blackbelt, or in karate. And in my school, even when people do know that you take karate, they make fun of you more, saying its because you don't know how to fight, or they use the automatic, "Well, once I get in close, I can beat you." Well, I'd like to see them try. Lets make a layout, shall we?

Mu Duk Kwon = Tae Kwon Do + Jujitsu + Hapkido + Weapons + Traditional Karate + Boxing

Please, let me see if that vertical punch is really that good for breaking jaws....:D

Other than that, never been suspended. I tend to just give the message across vaguely enough so they go away.

It all comes down to the individual. The art isn't as significant as the abilties of the person learning it. Any decent martial artist transcends his own art anyways. Tae Kwon Do schools teach more than just Tae Kwon Do techniques and Hapkido schools teach more than just Hapkido techniques. This may not have been true in ancient times, but it certainly is today. A good mix of martial arts is the way to go. UFC and Pride Fighting provide evidence of this. There are always exceptions, but the vast majority of the top fighters would agree.

I almost got suspended because I accessed a network drive. There are no rules against this.

The problem is that kids in the Web Design class (which I did not take because I have been literally teaching the teacher) play Quake 3 in their free time and put it on this same network drive so that they could copy it onto each of their personal directories. However, despite the fact that I have never played Q3 at all, even there, I was on their access list for that drive. So I almost got suspended, but a tip from one of the Ruskies at the school who was in the group gave me time to talk to the sysadmin and clarify my position.

Having my name negative in any computer related thing would be a terrible detriment.

Isn't it ironic that people teach you in school that violence is wrong; yet, we have military recruiters who come to high schools? Personally alot of your fighting seems justified because it's self defense. Not to mention the guy who attacked you first deserved it.
I have never been in trouble of any kind.

Didn't know you boxed. That's pretty cool, I love boxing!

I went to a Mu Duk Kwon class twice, actually. Once again, it's popular, more than most people think. But, on the second day, the "leader" (can't remember what they want to call them..Sifu? Kyoshi? Master? What?) anyways, the leader modified one of the taught techniques. Right in front of me, he said "Why don't we do this instead?" That instantly tells me he isn't loyal to the art. What I liked about it is they improved a lot on basic kicks and punches from TKD.

And the 2nd degress that sparred me that knew TKD (by the way, only purple belt if it really matters to you...why do people ask it so much? Belt dosn't matter.) didn't stretch, niether did I, didn't have any problem. Guess it's because Kenpo realize that when you get attacked, not only will you be ganged up on, you'll also don't have extra time to stretch. We stretch most the time, though. Lol weird, isn't it?

Lol, makes it sound like I'm all about kenpo when I'm more of a Tai Chi man.

Jujitsu/Judo = good stuff too. Cool you know it.

To justify why I don't like TKD much, is a little story.

About four months ago at Tracy's Karate Studio, a few minutes after my privite lesson, three Tae Kwon Do (Two Korean style, one American from what I know) students entered our studio. They apparently are mad because of the news segment that ironically my dad and I did on the Local News a few weeks earlier, doing a Tai Chi form while Tony (our Kyoshi/Sifu/Sensei/whatever you want to call him, he dosn't want a title really) explains the benefits from Tai chi. They're mad because they a couple of thier students started rumors that we're talking bad about other martial arts, and others they left permantly from thier school, and they blamed us. Tony asked them to leave, all three of them, and they refused to. Well, one of them got really angry and started throwing kicks on Tony. Tony blocked and did a move that made him end up by me, on the other side of the room face down. The second guy noticed that Tony defended, and attacked him with a roundhouse. Tony blocked and backfist, hard, right into his groin. The other younger looking guy was sweeting, but didn't do anything.

Turns out the guy that got smacked in the nuts resulted in internal bleeding, and was sent to the hospitol. His legs looked funny when they put him in the ambulence. The other guy was arrested, as Tony is a deputy of Greene County.

Bad luck, I tell you.

But, I don't treat all TKD's like I hate them. Like I said, I respect them. And got a lot of friends that are them. We just have our differences...they're an Olympian sport, we're a war-art self defence.

Korean term for Sifu or leader is Sa Bum Nim. Boo Sa Bum Nim is assistant. And I always stretch because if you stretch often, then you won't have to stretch when a conflict comes around. Makes you more naturally flexable.

I stretch when I lift.

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