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Originally Posted by thewitt85
That's terrible man. Did you have an earlier altercation with him or anything?
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Nope. Not even remotely.
Don’t want to get super into it but since it makes no sense without the context (not that it makes any sense WITH the context...).
It was a guy that I knew, & he was aware I was at the show & kept an eye out for me. He obviously found me. He was the brother of my wife’s ex. They had broken up 2-3 months prior (which at the time the ex was not at all bothered with and was 100% ok with & had been done with the relationship for some time at that point anyway). Her & I had been friends as part of a larger group for a few years. Her & I were “friendly” with each other at that point in that we were into each other but absolutely had not even so much as kissed yet. I had 2 pavilion seats & several other friends were all in lawn. I had bought the seats with my buddy as the other.. as show approaches, I ask her & my buddy if we could sit in seats (her & I) & friend was cool with it as he could then hang with all our other friends in lawn. Day of show was my bday (29) and we all hired an SUV & driver. Ex’s brother found out we’re we at show “together” and surmised that the reason she dumped his brother (again it was fully agreed jointly when they split and no one dumped the other) and I’m not sure if he called his brother (her ex) from show and got the “order” or if he just decided to “teach me a lesson” himself himself but when house lights came up, instead of fighting the crowd, her & I just kinda sit on the backs of our seats to people watch for 5 min as crowd disperses then plan is to meat friends at limo service lot area for ride home. He saw me, sort of jogs up to me and yells my name (we were second to last row of 202 row YY 2 seats in from sides, and so the main aisle was directly behind us :ZZ is handicapped seating and has the big gaps), as I hear my name I turn thinking it’s a friend as I often run into ppl at shows. I didn’t immediately recognize him as I barely knew the guy and he had then grown a beard but as it’s registering who he his he just hits me (he also yelled something to the effect of “this is what u get”. Not sure if it was the first or second punch that knocked me out but I woke up slumped back in the seat pouring blood. She’s screaming for help and didn’t have her cell phone. She didn’t know how to open & use my iPhone (this was a year after they were released & she had a blackberry) to call anyone. No security ran up. It was nuts. Apparently after I went down, he climbed over the seat back and sort of straddles my body while punching repeatedly with both fists. (He tried to claim it was a single punch yet the CT scans show my nose being broken both ways several times clearly showing hits from both directions over and over). Dude is a psycho. Was discharged from military for fighting (dishonorable I believe) and he was drunk. Again, all on my 29th bday, on essentially one of our first dates, seeing my fav band on a Saturday with friends and a car service. It was supposed to be a good day. I was in the hospital until like 6am getting CT & MRI scans. I definitely don’t dig my bday after that. But, 11 years later and her & I have been married since 2013. We’ve been to like 19 shows in 5 different states so far.
He was charged by the state... there was a 6 day jury trial (just over a year later) & he was found guilty of a class 4 aggravated assault felony. His sentence was 24 hours which is total BS.