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.
High School, Self Defence, got arrested. School administration sided against me and call the cops. I was 17. School district then tried to expel me, but failed. Charges eventually got dropped. I ended up just hating school and authority¹, I just took the GED, I got high scores on it without studying (I mean it aint hard, just basically highschool speedrun via a test that takes like a few hours in total time, I know the stuff already). USA btw.
(¹I mean, who doesn’t hate authority, that’s like American tradition, lol)
I have to thank my mother for becoming a citizen and therefore I automatically derived citizenship (under the Child Citizenship Act), so I already had citizenship several years prior to this incident. I can’t imagine the alternate-timeline of the possibility of being deported for a stupid school fight (I mean it’s a hypothetical worst-case scenario, not sure if that would actually happen in practice for something that small, but then-again this was during trump term 1 so… 🤷♂️ anything could happen).
My Mandarin skills are like… 2nd grade level last time I’ve been in school in China, if I got deported, not sure I’d survive in that society, especially in this scenario, I’d be separated from my family that are probably gonna stay in the US and I probably get left behind.
Hypothetical alternate timelines always hurts my brain just thinking about them…
I think I had a few fights in like elementary school, I was always the one getting bullied for some reason… always on the defence, I never even provoked a fight. What the fuck is this life.
Had a similar thing happen in middle school. Got jumped twice with one of them being inside the hallway of the school and them breaking my glasses. I blacked out and hurt one of them by slamming his head to the wall to stop it so the school and his parents called the cops on me which treated it as assault. Since it was in the hallway there were witnesses that came to speak to them and one of the teachers brining back my broken glasses so that didn’t go far past my lack of care for the authority there until I left at end of the school year*. The year before that one of our teachers encouraged that I fight one of those dudes in class since she considered her room where “beef is squashed” but I had no beef with them (rough city but I wasn’t involved in the street/gang drama the mid 2000s had going on). That school shut down 2 years later and became a new brand.