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Originally Posted by Bushbasher
It's his word against yours and who is the cop likely to listen to, the loud mouthed, scruffy, stoned and half cut bogan or the mild mannered, well dressed middle aged bloke trying to mind his own business. The bogan knows that too which is why he won't bother getting on the phone.
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When a victim of assault turns up with injuries from being punched in the face, the police will investigate it to their fullest capacity. There is a good chance they will get the truth and not judge based on stereotypes.
Sounds like you condone lying to the police and preventing the course of justice?
As much as I hate people that inconvenience others by noise pollution at inappropriate hours, violence isn't the answer... this is coming from somebody who is no coward and has been involved in multiple serious physical confrontations (none of which I started, all of which I finished).
Violence should only be a last resort, imagine if PoppaSmurf had hit him too hard or in a bad spot and killed the man? He would be charged with manslaughter and spend a long time behind bars.
I'm not trying to demonise PoppaSmurf, just asking him to reconsider how he deals with such matters in the future for his own sake. It does sound like his neighbour was a complete jerk but I would have called the police first in this case rather than resorting to violence without attempting to pursue other methods of conflict resolution.