For all those people that don’t live in the U.K this is hugely exaggerated, opportunely hyping up a recent story (about new pint glasses) to fill space. I’m not saying that things don’t happen and that some of the above isn’t true and I’m sorry that Andy’s had such bad experiences, but i think he’s just been very unfortunate. If your sensible enough, then “being attacked with some kind of weapon” is not “It’s something that you must accept as normality”.
Before you start thinking that I live in Tunbridge Wells. I’ve spent the last 24 years in Glasgow or London, which if you are gonna get bottled, well the odds are higher, maybe.

what a nonce go learn some self defence or something, old blue last is full of limp wristed long scarf wearing tight jean wearing fags like u, how the fuck you got bottled in there i dun know

the only time i ever saw anyone bottled was in a tiny placed called Westward Ho! Never seen it happen in London although I’m sure it does.

If you live in London and everywhere shuts at 2am you’re going to the wrong clubs!

hugely exaggerated? Have you been out on your average high street after whetherspoons has kicked out its pound a pint swilling masses once tripped on a glass it broke an overweight forty year old bald man literally ran from the other end of the street to headbutt me for causing a disturbance to his night.

I thought this was a really good article. And in response to the first comment, well maybe your a little more streetwise or just have more plain luck than the rest of us. Someone getting glassed is a regular occurrence on any night out really, and that is not an exaggeration.

This is overexaggerated for sure. Perhaps we do have a tendency for bottling/glassing (although the former mainly occurs in high profile penalty shoot-outs, eh lads!!!!!!!) but i would suggest that this piece is more akin to a Daily Mail fear/moral panic inducing article. Plus, anyone who laughs at a violent drunk trying to break a bottle on a wall with which to stab them frankly deserves to be stabbed. Andy Capper is blatantly the kind of dickhead who goes around bars spilling people’s drinks when he barges past them with his hugely over-inflated ego on his way to the toilets to do another bump of coke because the last bit’s worn off and he’s trying to stave of the reality of his boring, self-obsessed circle of friends. Terrible, terrible article.

that statistic tells you all you need to know: a lot of people get glassed. weather badly or not. i hardly think that fact that gordie hasn’t been glassed means it’s not an issue.

southport absolute terrible place for a night out. Going out if your wearing anything that wasn’t sourced in matalan or primark with hair longer than a number one your going to get into an argument that will end in a fight. Reminding you this is the place were stephen gerrard battered a dj

this is not meant to be a fucking MET report, obviously. it’s a statistic that is in it’s self pretty interesting / shocking, tied in with a design for a new pint glass. the rest is anecdotes. you lot need to chill out.

I’m not trying to deny that people don’t get glassed, at all, they do and its fucking shit, its just that it suggests that ‘its part of a night out’ Which its not, you can be fucking unlucky sometimes and their are plently of scary stories (e.g. the sauchiehall st gauntlet on a friday night). I just don’t think its soemthing that should be hipsterised and exagerated, as if its ‘them’ that do it, when the writer is probably part of the lairy, drunken masses himself. Sorrry I’m just rambling! anonymousse said it better

The last paragraph is melodramatic but the rest is true. The big cities are arguably tamer because there are “safe, gentrified hipster bars” and because people restrain themselves when they don’t know who they’re messing with. The real nasty shit goes down in the smaller cities and provincial towns, where any given night is blighted by brawls, and vicious assaults like glassings are seen every weekend. These are the simmering backwater pressure cookers where everybody recognises everybody else and holds grudges: they actually run into people who went to the wrong school, belong to a different subculture, or used to date their girlfriend years ago. When a town has a single after-hours venue serving as a sewer for the human dregs emptying out from all the local pubs (which otherwise keep the townsfolk binge-drinking in segregation) then things are bound to kick off. My friend and I have a saying: “there’s no such thing as a ‘rough pub’” - meaning all pubs are potentially dangerous but years of drinking in shitholes teaches you how to conduct yourself to minimise trouble. Having said that, nobody is immune - even a “limp wristed long scarf wearing tight jean wearing fag” like the author, who has a track record of immersing and handling himself in threatening environs, can’t escape a flying glass.

People get glassed everywhere, just london seems to have some weird romanticized view of football hooliganism/machoism being directly related to the size of your testicles and how many “birds” you can pull.

Also, where the hell ARE you going if all the “latest bars close at 2am”. Does the Old Blue even close that early…?

Maybe you are just a twat actually.

Needless to say, Vice, you are shit!

if only you weren’t free, then you’d notice sales were going down and realise we think you are shit!

is this not less a story about violence in the uk and more a story about what a disagreeable wanker andy capper clearly is?

glassing happens everywhere. i saw a bouncer get glassed in france last week, and a few months ago my friend got glassed in his own home ‘village’ in holland.

i wonder how many vice readers fail to spot some journalistic techniques the writers employ to make the reading so much more enjoyable.. no shit it’s dramatized. but the stats don’t lie either

I feel this article gives a fair reflection of the problem, living in both the countryside and london i can count more than 9 or 10 people who have been a victim of this amongst my friends, and no I am not simply part of ‘that’ demographic!

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I guess as an American I find this all pretty surreal. I’ve been out to rowdy bars hundreds of times, seen dozens of brawls, and yet never once seen someone get glassed.

Maybe that’s because in the States doing that would almost certainly get you arrested for assault and weapons charges. Either that, or someone will come back with a gun and shoot your dumb ass.

If I saw Andy Capper in the OBL I’d glass the cunt too.
This story is a monsterous exaggeration. I lived (and drank heavily) in Glasgow and London for years, never once been glassed, glassed anyone, seen a friend be glassed, seen ANYONE be glassed, or EVER hear about ANYONE who I knew personally be assaulted with broken glass under any circumstances. Not sure if Andy Capper is lying or is just the kind of person that it’s irresistable to glass. Judging by the prick’s track record though, definetly one of the two.

Another yank here…. And I can say that after several visits to the UK for work (not just London, but Manchester, Norfolk, and Blackpool) the entire country has a drinking problem in the same vein that America has a weight problem.
Its your national epidemic, and its changing your culture in all of those slow, creeping ways that most locals just don’t notice. I’ve been to alot of different places, but the whole breaking shit when drunk thing seems to be really bad in the UK. Australia has a similar, but slightly less pronounced problem. In Hong Kong, the running joke is that you can tell the British and Australians apart from the other white people by the broken glass around them.
I think the only reason that the USA isn’t that bad is because a glass bottle is classified as a deadly weapon, which will get you a minimum of 5 years in alot of jurisdictions.
Why the hell don’t the pubs just switch to plastic cups if its such a big problem?

The UK is jam packed with white trash. I’ve never even seen a fight where I live and I get trashed every weekend.

If it isn’t a problem when why are they inventing this glass? And why are the statistics like that?

Anybody who has ever fought for the right to finger a slapper arounf the back of the butchers knows the truth.

The hypocrisy of people is amazing.
Can anybody see it displayed in comments like:

“If I saw Andy Capper in the OBL I’d glass the cunt too.
This story is a monsterous exaggeration.”

I don’t know capper that well but he’s always been very pleasant when I’ve met him. Stop glassing him with your words!

There’s not a lot of this in the US because glassing someone would definitely get you shot for sure.

What I don’t get is if people don’t like vice magazine then why are they reading your article???

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ell, there are 4,000 more deliberate glassings a year in the UK than America has got gunshots, both intentional AND accidental.

madddddddd

This isn’t an exaggeration, i live in Hastings, salt of the earth type place and every Friday/Saturday you see people wondering about with bloodied faces. You dont, however, have to get involved. I’ve never had it done to me and I reckon thats cause im not a dickhead and I dont go to chav bars.

Has anyone here ever met Andy Capper?
You’d glass him in the face as well…

anonymousse - “Plus, anyone who laughs at a violent drunk trying to break a bottle on a wall with which to stab them frankly deserves to be stabbed”

Fucking spot on ha ha!

Has anyone here ever met Andy Capper?
You’d kiss him in the face as well…

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Have any of you that say this is ‘over-exaggerated’ a-read the article or b-been out in a bar/club outside of London/your ‘gentrified area’? If you do not look like a ‘normal bloke’ and have anything to be pulled up on by moronic drunkards, you are a fucking target. I totally agree with this piece and think it is an UNDER exaggeration if anything. Ireland is possibly slightly worse, but this country is yes, unsafe to walk around after closing time in the company of ‘revellers’. Too many drinkers, not enough thinkers!

I’ve been out tonnes of times and caused many a ruckus and still never been glassed (touches wood), that of course, does not mean it isn’t happening to innocents every weekend you know. Drinking is this country’s biggest problem, not fucking kids in hoodies on road tryna make some Ps. C’mon, where is law and politis when you need it…

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“the latest bars close at 2am”

erm, wrong…

creese is completely right. i grew up in cardiff and swansea and the level of violence outweighs london by a hundred. i’ve seen all my closest male friends started on, punched in the face or beaten up in front of me by complete strangers. then the last 3 years in london i walk home alone at 4am and i’ve not even been mugged. its great. i think people in provincial towns and cities have much more anger too because they’re limited to going to the same 3 shit bars/clubs every week and are frustrated by their shitty, boring lives.

When somebody writes:
“This cocktail of fun releases a chemical in the brain called Imgonnaglassyershyafuckingtwatyercunt.”

Then you know the article is half comedy / half serious. Jesus you guy are so fucking uptight.

As a brit, just moved abroad, it’s so funny everyone is talking about this unbreakable glass…even here in Canada..

I told my canadian friends that in the UK, forget about the glass…we use fists and get proper physical. lol. Plus if that glass is not empty forget about wasting it on someones face.. WE LOVE OUR BEER!!!

I agree strongly with those who say that they’d want to hurt Andy Capper. Honestly, I worked with him and he’s a total cock. I’d not just glass him, I’d stab him in the chest, if I thought I could get away with it. I honestly would. I don’t condone violence but I want to shake the hand of the man who sliced Capper’s face and made him suffer.

Fighting talk. Want me to set it up?

A mad fact is that some British pubs already use plastic glasses but ‘glassings’ STILL occur! Usually the hapless assailant is jeered by the crowd before being beaten shitless by the incredulous, unarmed victim - at which point everyone salutes the vengeance of the underdog as the British equilibrium of sporting ‘fair play’ is restored. The whole episode is piss funny to watch until you stop and think what might have been. It just demonstrates the mindlessness involved in the act of glassing somebody - not a moment’s thought about the effectiveness of the weapon (or ineffectiveness in the case of plastic), utter disregard for the potentially life-changing consequences for either party, just a vicious ‘reflex’ action.

this is a funny article - anyone who thinks it’s like the daily mail is a fucking idiot. he’s riffing off a fact and some anecdotes and he’s pretty funny at it. who’s the prick who threatened to kill him? that’s a pretty stupid thing to do

What a load of fear-mongering bollocks, I’ve been going out drinking round towns in the North West (think Wigan, Bolton and various other shitholes) for years and I’ve never been attacked, with glass or without. These towns are well known for their drunken violence but it’s easily avoided by staying away from the meat market bars and clubs and ringing cabs instead of standing around the taxi tanks. The areas you’re likely to get glassed in are fucking horrible places to hang out in anyway, why would you even want to go there?

READ THE STATISTICS.
“There are 4,000 more deliberate glassings a year in the UK than America has got gunshots, both intentional AND accidental”

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I wrote that earlier but now I’m stoned and feeling remorseful. I’ve never actually met Andy Capper and I wish no harm to him, I just thought it would be funny. Sorry Andy.

The first time I’ve been on this site. Only those who have a sense of pride in the fact that Britain is notorious for things such as this would say that this is a good article. You can see that same moronic pride in the writer. Very poor, won’t be back again.

Mate, any fool can see that this article is totally contrary to any sense of national pride. Or glorifying drunken thugs. That’s what the article is agains, right?

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i heard andy capper wasnt his real name….

i heard it was forehead gingerbeard….

Andy Crapper. That is all.

abc said:

“READ THE STATISTICS.
“There are 4,000 more deliberate glassings a year in the UK than America has got gunshots, both intentional AND accidental””

Oh no, not statistics! You do realise statistics is the science of lying with numbers don’t you? There isn’t even a source listed for this figure, and neither does it give any breakdown of the demographics of the people getting glassed. I’m willing to bet the majority are pissheads looking for a fight. Try engaging your brain before you read something, maybe then you won’t just blindly believe anything put infront of you.

Look you bunch of dildos its the fucking vice website. If you want to read some statistically correct unsensational piece of journalism do everyone a favour and fuck off to the guardian website.

yeah this will happen if you go to shitty, cultureless clubs. sort your life out.

Fucking hell, you people are idiots. (for the most part) what is it about commenting anonymously that brings out the COMPLETE CUNT in people? im guilty of it myself sometimes but, pffft, the level of jealousy and haterism that goes on about anything ‘vice’ related makes me embarrassed i ever said anything bad about this magazine.

first of all, this article was just an interesting little read.
kind of saying that violence is bad, thats a good thing to say. theres a LOT of stabbings here (london) 3 of my friends been stabbed here. mind you its mostly my other friends doing the stabbings but still. cut that shit out will you.

also this line: “…the fact that hard-working, decent foreign people with good family structures are doing the jobs that fat, alcoholic, lazy British people cannot be arsed doing any more…” is GOLD and needs to be printed out and stuck on my wall.

thats another thing you could talk about re fucked up stuff about the UK: the overwhelming / creepingly sinister tone right through all classes of the media, about how foreigners / immigrants are fucking this country up. thats a messed up view. for example: for 2-300 years or something Mighty Great Britain collonised half the planet, with extreme prejudice, basically had everyone singing ‘god save the queen’ for x amount of years… and now you’re freaking out when the ancestors of those colonial chickens cross the road back to roost in old blighty…

i forgot where i was going with this.
something about fuck you, i liked this article

God I am happy I live in Chelsea.

No. People get into fights because they’re looking for fun. If you’re a ‘creative’ you can go on some mission with your work brothers to create something great. If you’re a business man, making money is a rush. If you’re from the demographic where just about anything is posh which in the UK might as well mean gay, then most things are boring, because unless you’re a super stud eventually you run out of stuff to say about birds and football cos work is shit and you’re not meant to moan. And then cars and money just make you mad anyway. So then you’re left with having a fight.

if you get glassed once a year then you are doing something wrong.

i know, its the ginger beard thats doing it. unoriginal, but probably true.

Andy Capper has never looked hotter. C’est Chic!

er, to get bottled 3 times in 3 years is quite the streak of bad luck, clearly informing your view that this is in some way an acceptable risk to face on a night out.

Casual violence, such as the odd scrap and punch-up that fetter the streets at kicking out time is clearly the more common factor than glassing.

In short - what a load of balls.

If you’re a dedicated British drinker who doesn’t restrict themselves to drinking in the same safe gentrified hipster bars every night, then being attacked with some kind of weapon is not just something you need to be mildly worried about. It’s something that you must accept as normality.

this is clearly bollox

maybe one reason whey it doesnt happen in the US is they dont drink pints>>?!

This article is sadly very true. And I should know I’ve glassed several people over the years whilst really ripped to the tits. For all sorts of reasons if they look like cunts or look gay. It’s ridiculous especially as I’m a gay man myself. Must stick to the barbs in future.

hmmmmm

London aint that violent on the whole unless you go asking for it. It is pretty much easy to avoid being stabbed in the face. Usually. I dont recall anyone I know who ISNT a colossal trouble hypermagnet getting attacked

Although I was mugged a couple of years ago. I expect it was my turn.

Cardiff however is/was a very good place to go out drinking if you are looking for a drunken assault of completely random ferocity by complete strangers for no reason other than NOT dressing like a cunt on a clubbing holiday in Benidorm

“cultureless clubs” BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. please come back anon. i really REALLY want to know what kind of ‘cultured clubs’ you go to. do they have candles and stuff?

So this article is half bullshit and half truth.
STOP WHINING. Regardless of what the writer has to say, there is indeed a high level of violence as a result of being tanked to the brim at 4am. to be frank, London is DAMN RIGHT safer than it used to be. I mean, five years ago, you’d walk down the street hoping you wouldn’t get mugged, and then find out your mate had got mugged for the fifth time that year..haha.

ANYWAY….at the end of the day, it’s not places like london where glasing so much of a probem, but the smaller towns like the majority of people with common sense have stated. I know someone who got glassed in his back ‘cos he told some goon to fuck off. but that was then…. and this is now, and london’s piss now compared to five years ago when kids just wanted other kids’ phone’s.

non-smashable glass?? GREAT!!! they’re not so much for london as they are for the rest of the fucking country. You want to get glassed in the face? go to cardiff, swansea, edlington or some dead-out town in the butt-end of nowhere middle england.

any person who stands about laughing his head of while some guy attempts to smash a bottle to stab you is a complete idiot, WE ALL GET IT.

GREAT the government spent a couple million of a our money to design a new unsmashable glass….but you might as well just get plastic ones…. though beer in a glass simple tastes better than a plastic cup.

just like how beer tastes better in a bottle than it does in a can.

argue as much as you fucking want.

mate just getting mugged??
5 yrs ago, we wer fuckin avin it in norf london. all dem pussy private skl kids gettin bang up by mandem.
snot about dat nemore doe init, man wud rather make P shottin pow n green.

So should this be described as ‘White on white’ crime? as it invariably is.
Haven’t been out in Richmond since the early 90’s but I know it was a regular occurence back then. The night wasn’t complete without some violence in one of the pubs. And that was when they closed at 11pm. The whole idea of later drinking hours was supposed to quell the urge to down as much as possible before the bell goes. I guess it hasn’t worked.

Andy Capper once gave a vitriolic and unnecessarily bitchy review to a really rather good record that I released on a label I was running.

It had severe detrimental phsyciatric effects on the artist and I have hated that twat ever since.

I can only imagine that the only reason pissed up cunts decide to want to cut you up is because you are an arrogant cock-faced prick who brays at the top of his plum voweled poncy fake cockney voice, hence attracting their perfectly reasonable irritation.

When warned that every non-Hoxton twat around you thinks you deserve a thorough kicking you almost certainly decide to carry on being an overbearing snob and hence get your just deserts.

Shame it doesn’t happen more often really and I congratulate the misanthrope who excated the revenge that I never got the chance to mete out.

Fuck you.

Hey, Will Arnold.. Capper’s from Liverpool you dumb cunt. Would be useful for your bitter little stereotype mythology if he was a plum voweled mockney but sadly not. Maybe your record was just fucking shit. Loser.

You sound like you where bullied at school

“mate just getting mugged??
5 yrs ago, we wer fuckin avin it in norf london. all dem pussy private skl kids gettin bang up by mandem.
snot about dat nemore doe init, man wud rather make P shottin pow n green.”
^^^^^^^
Hilarious. This article and the entry pasted above really sells us Londoners as complete ignoramuses. I have lived in London my entire life and never been on either end of a ‘glassing’.

Still nice to see the cunt get glassed

now this is crappy journalism.
I’m sorry to hear Andy’s been glasses three times running but FUCK! I’m 36. I’ve been partying in Manchester, London and Luton all my life, and I’ve never seen someone bottled. of course it happens. it happens way too much. there are small minded thugs out there, made more small minded by getting pissed out of it.

but the UK’s not as bad as this fella makes out. it certainly isn’t ‘normality’

people who get smacks in the head generally bring it upon themselves in one way or another. perhaps “Oi cunt, you’ve got a twatty scarf”
“oh do I really? is that the case? well just because you wouldn’t know cool if it came up and smakced you in the AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!”

I could be wrong

138,000 comments!!

what an article!!

great job, i liked it. (especially the comment from the guy who once got a shitty record review OH HO HO HO HO you fucking cock, what an embarrassing thing to write!!?? i fuckin love it)

keep up the good work, you ginger limey bastard.

Andy Capper- is that even a real name? Or a play on the beer loving, wife dodging cartoon character of yesteryear?
Mind you, would come as no surprise reading this appallingly scripted ‘article’ which reads like it was done in 5 minutes by a kid on the bus the way to school.
I grew up in Toxteth, as a photojournalist I have been on the piss in shitty bars all over the world, including Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Southport, Blackpool, Rhyl, Cadiff, Poole, Soton etc, etc and saw the aftermath of a glassing only once, in Bristol, by a girl.
That said, I am 6′2″ and built whereas ‘Andy’ looks like a ginger Iranian. If you can rub up the effete shoreditch twats in the Old Blue Last enough to get glassed, you must be a supreme cock.

What record / artist was the review of?

Will arnold, a bad record review jsutifies a glassing? What about free speech? Grow up you awful turd.

Capper is a good lad and has always been a gentleman to me at least.

My mate has been glassed in Newcastle 4 times in the last 2 month by people who feel that getting barged into on the dancefloor of a club is just not on.
Saying that though i guess he’s just unlucky.

Here in Newcastle, Australia, this was a fairly big problem. Now we have shitty
plastic schooners, that I am fairly certain cheat us out of a few mLs of watered down vodka and beer. I’ve known of two girls who thought it was the appropriate action, to glass some poor bastard for some petty bullshit.
Mind you someone also thought it was appropriate to run a guy down out the front of the same pub, the Cambridge, seeing a pattern here? Thanks England..

Anyone who says this is exaggerated I hope gets their face smashed with glass or worse next time they’re out.

Don’t fuckin’ say its exaggerated cause it hasn’t happened to you. It happens every day and night all over the country. FACT. My wife works in a hospital and she sees it everyday.

So… if the story was about a lad who got bottled every time he went out then yes, it would have been a stretch.

Blah, blah, blah London’s safer than it was 5 yrs ago.
Middle of nowhere is where it always happens…and L-town is just as rough.
I’ve seen lads fight police officers in Hastings, my mates got jumped in Brighton, a lad got bottled in the head in Liverpool. etc etc…I’m always traveling and its always happening.

You know what else is normality? Murder.
It’s like like saying that is hugely exaggerated. It isnt.

Its Life. It’s Britain.
-And its just an article about boozing quick and dumb fucking knobheads getting into strops and smashing someone.

Oh and be nice..

-Or I’ll GLASS YOU ;)

To all those who have never witnessed a glassing in a pub, then you obviously only visit pubs in tweeland.
I have lost count the amount of times I have heard a glass shatter, followed by screams and ‘Im gonna fucking kill you, you cunt”.
I was glassed myself once. Luckily I was to pissed to feel the pain The scar is on the lip…..even I can’t see it unless I really look hard.
I witnessed my first person being bottled at the age of 12.
I have witnessed a person commiting suicide (Jumped from a burning flat even though the fire brigade ladder was right beside him)
I have witnessed someone being murdered (Drunk man on the Old Kent Road, London. He just spat on a passing car…..The occupants got out, chased him and then stabbed him to death)

Shit and violence are real and daily occurances in britain.

Glassing really is a way of life for a lot of drinkers.

this is just a natural release for the repressed and oppressed British … its cultural and emotional. no big deal.

Glassing is a problem in the same way pretty much everything in the UK is a problem. This country is just full of grown men staring at other men, as they can’t work out why they don’t have the same face or haircut.

Don’t laugh at the type of people who would try and break a bottle on a wall to stab you and appear as the type of person who is confident. In cities, not many people try and fuck with a guy who behaves like he knows where he is. Small towns are just a waste of time, no method applies.

“Just flush it all down the fucking toilet.”

It HAPPENS. end of. funny article. The people who say it doesn’t happen will eat their words eventually.

Not exaggerated. Once, when there was no-one to glass, my mate glassed himself. No shit

It could be worse mate you could be ginger

Let’s be honest at least 70% of the UK general public would chiv this numpty. what a tool..

If you get glassed every year you’re probably an annoying cunt who deserves it.

If you are going to call the Brits lazy and fat and think that it’s OK to make racist remarks(Brits are people too, and even if you’re one you don’t have a licence for bigotry against your own people either…), no surprise they’ll sort you out.

Try to be more polite next time and karma won’t run over your dogma…

To all the people saying how to avoid getting glassed I have a suggestion for you. Don’t be there in the first place.
Don’t be the last one to leave the club/pub at closing time, be the first and just go.

I have been provoked and assaulted once in the UK. I’m a researcher and consider myself as decent. Do travel a lot across europe so I do know european club ambiances. Believe me we British do have a huge problem.

That is provoked several times where I just turned away and left and assaulted once when was trying to leave and was assaulted by 5 big brave men when I was alone with my girlfriend.