The Red and Black

There were a few more than 5 people from what i was told. I heard when the cops got there all the underage people that helped jump 2 guys and a girl ran so that they wouldnt get in trouble. By the way those guys are a bunch of pansy ass frat boys. It was more like 15 guys.

Pretty typical of ACCPD. Looking for someone who they could issue a speeding ticket to instead of actually protecting or serving the public.

To BillNye above, way to participate in gossip journalism just like your idols there at the r&b. "what i was told", ha, pathetic. If you weren't there don't say anything. I was and I saw it happen from the back of the bar to the front and outside. It was two beligerent idiots that aren't in fraternities that went mad after a simple misunderstanding and started pushing and hitting everything in sight when the bar staff intervened. Don't be ignorant gdi, speak on the facts.

Again, GetaLife. You seem to spend a lot of time on this Web site for someone who hates "gossip journalism."

Hey you fratastic kid. You need to get a life and realize your so called 'brothers' jumped one guy verses 20. Of course your going to say it was the other three that started it because you have to look out for your 'brothers'. The hilarious part is that you fratastic boys were more messed up than the three people. Does it make you feel better knowing you can beat up a girl?

read the police report.

I was one of the three or two and a half if you consider it was a girl. I didnt witness the misunderstanding, but i did turn around to see five guys stomping my friend and when I did I did what any friend would do and jumped in to help my friends, a guy and a girl getting stomped. But no hard feelings I think the fact that 2 guys and a girl ran house on a bar full of frat boys is embarassment enough for them. It's sad that the girl is the only one you can tell was in a fight and she still looks better than they did.

Suck on that Frat boys.

only dbags stomp on a girl. candyass frat boys

Thats my boy K-love!! Yall too p-dub and Christina!! MAC-TOWN!!!!!

Lorio I love your comment about how the police didn't do anything to help the victim. If you had any idea, there really isn't much one can do for a cut/puncture wound except apply pressure to the wound and wait for medical help which is what the victim's friends were doing. Officers are trained the same first aid as the general public has general knowledge about (i.e. common sense). Anyone with common sense knows to apply pressure. I'm sure if he had needed CPR or whatever, the officers would have provided that care.

UM.....SO YOU GUYS THINK YOUR PRETTY HARD CORE TO STOMP A GIRL? PLEEEEEEEEEEEEESE COME TO MY TOWN AND TRY TO STOMP ME LIKE THAT!!!! YOU BUNCH OF FRATASTIC VAGINAS. I WASNT UP THERE WHEN IT HAPPENED BUT I PROMISE YOU ILL SEE YOU GUYS SOON :) AND THE FUNNIEST FUCKIN PART IS YOUR GUYS HAD 20 PEOPLE AND WE HAD 3,AND ONE WAS A GIRL .....WHO WENT TO THE HOSTPITAL??!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH

Who opened up the sewer pipe that spills from Flanagans? Something tells me hair gel, a tattoo, and a belly button ring may be the primary culprits here.

and how exactly do you pronounce your last name, David?? and by the way what culprits are u speaking of.

I saw a bouncer get beat by a stiletto.

stick to your gel hair, shorts, flannigans and go hang with the townies which one day you'll pathetically become. nobody did work on anybody. bartenders tried to break up two GDI cunts who don't know how to drink from ruining everybody's night. no body jumped anybody. nobody did work on anybody, just pussy ass sucker punches and a stabbing. if your so confident in your whoop ass abilities, let's see you try it again, we know that won't happen.

I am absolutely amazed at how this has become an argument between "GDIs" and "candy ass fratboys"...someone was STABBED!! Fights break out all the time in bars, not saying it's right, but it's not that abnormal. Regardless of the numbers of people on each side involved, and whether the GDIs were "jumped" or not, it might have been a thought to the GDIs that Bourbon street tends to have a majority of greeks on a regular basis. If you have such a problem with these "fratastic" guys as you refer to them, then go to a different bar! Also, sticking up for your friends may result in a smaller group vs. a larger group if more friends are present on one side. And for all of you people who think you know everything...the doctor at the hospital confirmed that the cut was indeed from a BLADE of some kind, aka it's a STAB WOUND; a broken beer bottle was not capable of a clean cut like that he said, nor a tear/shred through his shirt like there was. The police report is completely inaccurate considering it was only taken from one-side of the fight (the "GDIs") and just because a weapon wasn't found, doesn't mean there wasn't one. It could've been easily hidden in all the chaos. This isn't something to take lightly, the location of the STAB WOUND is extremely close to a major artery and the doctor said that if it had been a little farther over towards the chest, a lung could've possibly been punctured. And to the girl who "kicked the frat guys' asses", hitting/stabbing a guy with a stiletto is not kicking ass...it's being a white-trash psycho who lacks class. I'd stick to Flanagan's, the one time I've actually been there, and the last, I seemed to find a lot of your trashy kind in excess.

Those "GDI"'S should be a little more accurate on there stabbing but only a few inches is not too bad. By the way Bourbon Street supposedly had cameras so why don't you go watch them if you really think someone had a knife. And the only reason the GDI'S went in there is because they saw a girl they knew from highschool A.K.A. the girl that got pushed. Then some asshole got pissed because one of the GDI's hugged her and started shit. And to the stabbing victim i recommend getting a new Dr. because is a GDI as well. No one had a fucking knife you GOD DAMN IDIOT!!!!!

i guess the psycho stiletto swinger hid the "blade of some sort" in her anal cavity once the cops arrived. Im not quite sure how u go about sucker punching someone when ur getting jumped on by 20 people. Oh and for the record u can do just fine with one lung. As for trying it again i guess some of MACTOWN's finest might just have to pay yall a visit. then it will be GDI's-2 candyass frat boys-0 Love, Bill

Yo suckas this is what really went down. Some fat slob from Macon came in the door with his fat slob of a friend. Why two knuckleheads like that got let in with earrings and greased up hair is beyond me. Anyway... the fat slobs start causin' a ruckus in the place and actin like all the ladies be wantin they jelly roll asses. Some swanky frat guys in polos and loafers went over and tried to put them in check. Then all hell broke loose. The dope bartenders kicked those punks out and everything was chill.

Then some trailer trash chick who looked like a prostitute I picked up on Reese St. last weekend, started screamin and hollerin and startin all kinds a trouble. So then they fightin in the street and she be stabbin folks. Then the frat guys tried to stomp her out you see... because sometimes you gotta save your pimp hand for special occasions and use yo feet.

Then the rednecks or guidos or whatever those douchebags were tryin to be got all upity and tried to put the frat guys in check. Because you dont stomp on a girl, no matta how many time she stab you. So they be bustin and a fightin and then the po-po come and break it all up.

After it was over I grabbed my boys Merce-dawg and B-Hump and we smoked some pot in the bafroom.

omg...that was so funny. takias brown, you are hiliarious. tell us mo...

By the way these so called "GDI'S" with gelled hair,earrings,white trash prostitute ETC...seems like your eyes misinterpreted their appearance. Possibly upon wishful thinking, assuming because there was only "2 and a half(the prostitute stated as a half,considering shes a girl)" against like 20. Therefore, i guess they should be stated as sonme kind of "Hard-Core Thugs"..b/c they did most the damage...lol...and this so called "knife"...pretty sad when a bottle that HE fell on has to be blamed on this "GDI." and if that was so called the case then why did'nt his "so called friends" stick around to make a statement besides like one. Possibly B/C they were all underage, and if not underage for that bar considering most of them you have to be 21 then underage drinking. Maybe they need to check there ID's more thoroughly or loss there liquor license. On another note, Steven Underwood goes by Kyle Underwood why dont cha look him up on facebook as well with the others and check out their "Gelled hair, Hard core tats, knives,earring, AK 47's, ETC." However, the evidence points towards the police report, and will fall back on the police report if taken to court. so why doesnt every one quit running their cock suckers and wait and see what happens. Kinda fuuny how the bartenders who knew the "frat-tastic's' srated cleaning up before the cops got there anyway. I feel sorry for the guy so fell on his OWN beer bottle, hope he recovers soon. Sucks most of his 'friends' fled in order to cover their asses from underage drinking and not completeing thier statements on the police report since these GDI's and all had a "knife/razor." Bless your soul.

bourbon street is gross. it'll suck when normal bars have to start letting in all the freshmen who don't want to go to a place where someone got stabbed.

I am writing the impartial truth. I'm not trying to make myself feel cool by talking s*%# on a blog. This barfight occured the way hundreds of others have occured in downtown athens: two groups of people blew a misunderstanding way out of proportion. To say that one side was at fault is completely absurd, because if either side weren't hammered drunk, for example if the misunderstanding happened in a grocery store, apologies would have been made by both sides and there would have been no incident. The bartenders originally thought that the conflict had been resolved, until one side swung at a bartender who was trying to break up the scuffle, which, in my opinion, is completely unacceptable. Bartenders are at work trying to make money, not to prove their fighting ability or masculinity. The other bartender jumped the bar when the first bartender had the person who had swung at him in a headlock, and the person whom he had in a headlock bulldoged him into a booth. At that point, the "innocent girl" began to beat him with her stiletto, leaving multiple bruises and scratches on his back. The bartender did the only thing he could to stop being beaten, which was to push the "innocent girl" away from him, and she subsequently fell down in the booth. Had the girl not been physically agressive, not to say that she was necessarily wrong in trying to help her friend, (although decorum suggests that girls not fight physically) she would not have been shoved. I know the bartender personally and the last thing he would want to do would be to hurt a girl. As the bartenders removed the two men from the bar, an indiviual from the numbers side attacked one of the guys being removed. When the two bartenders removed the two men from the bar, they allowed the girl to go get her things and proceed out of the bar. When all three were outside of the bar, they (except for the girl of course) proceeded to take their shirts off and continue being verbally agressive. The bartender that was outside did the only thing that he could do, which was to keep the people he had taken out, only because they were closest to the door to begin with, away from the 4 people (not 20) that were being agressive from inside the bar. Despite the bartender's best efforts, another fight broke out outside of the bar in which 3 guys from inside the bar and the two guys outside of the bar went at each other and wrestled while punching and kicking each other. The girl that was with the 2 guys was knocked over and was trapped under the dogpile that ensued. The bartender, who was not involved in agression outside of the bar, tried his best to pull the girl out from under the pile. He kept yelling, "there's a girl under there," however neither side would yield to allow the girl to get out. The bartender tried to pull the girl out until she , whether intentionally or accidentally, kicked the bartender in the face. He then, since the fight was outside of the bar and therefore no longer his responsibility, left it alone until it resolved itself. When the fight ended, one of the agressors, who was the son, friend, brother, and maybe even uncle of someone had a 4 inch gash in his side, from which protruded an inch of muscle and fat, which required immediate medical attention due to the alcohol content of his blood and the size of his wound. When the police were called over, one side said that the guy had been stabbed, so they treated the two shirtless individuals as violent agressors. The two shirtless guys were handcuffed and searched. The search revealed nothing. As to prior comments about the response time of the EMT's, it was perfectly understandable that the police first called in an ambulance, subdued the possible violent suspects, and saw that pressure was being put on the wound to slow the bleeding. When the bartender learned that there was a broken bottle with blood NEAR it, not on it, inside the bar, he immediately emptied the bar and allowed the police to take pictures of it. No one tried to clean it up or hide the bottle, as was previously asserted. The broken bottle was broken in half, and there was blood next to the bottle, but a beer bottle that is broken in half does not have the strength to puncture human flesh in the way that the wound was made, in reference to the depth and width of the wound, as stated by the physician's educated OPINION. No one knows, except for the two shirtless men, whether or not a blade or key was used, however one cannot always trust the honesty of those facing criminal prosectuion. It is conceivable that a blade could have been hidden or discarded in the time that it took the police to assess the situation. Once again this is not to say that that was the case, but it is still a possible scenario. No arrests were made, however the matter is under investigation. That investigation, in blind trust of our justice system, will hopefully expose the truth. Until then, both sides have to realize that someone was seriously injured in a bar fight. Whether or not it was intentional, whether he was greek or not, that guy endured one of the most painful expericences that a human being can undergo.

Why is it that only on this newspaper's website and on this university's campus, "GDI's" and "Frat Boys" are always against each other? What the hell is the point? I'm in a fraternity, and I have alot of greek friends and alot of non-greek friends. I dress differently than some of my greek friends and some of my non greek friends, yet strangers often say, "F$#*%n frat boy" when I walk by coffee shops during the day. That, to me, is equally as disgusting as racism. Some people gel their hair because they think it looks good. I don't. People like me wear polos because our friends do, and we grew up wearing them. IT DOESN'T MATTER IN THE BIG SCHEME OF THINGS.
While I'm ranting, I'll talk about "Athens's Finest." Every single person involved in that fight was ID'ed, and all of them were at least 21. Nevermind the fact that MULTIPLE cases of battery were proven to have taken place. Nevermind that the POLICE ended up throwing away the broken beer bottle, instead of, call me crazy, keeping it for evidence. Because there were no MIP's to be given, the police considered it an open and shut case of "eye for an eye" law. Protect and serve indeed. In a big city that doesn't care about how profitable MIP's are for the department, every single person would be arrested and at least questioned. If they needed evidence, they could have asked for the video footage of the events, in a nice, polite way that just so happens to be called a subpoena, or they could have used the video footage from the cameras on the street that they installed at taxpayers' expense(which I have never heard of their use except for "cruising violations"). Since we live in a town with around 12,000 underage students, our safety from bums and (excuse the vernacular) crackheads that truly harm people is thrown out the window in pursuit of the almighty buck. When bartenders walk back to their cars at 4:00 a.m., ripe for the picking if a criminal's buzz lasts that long, is there a single cop in downtown Athens? The answer is no.

Due to the anonymity of blogs that even I have utilized, people will undoubtedly respond to this in many hateful, immature, and even threatening ways. Be that as it may, this, without bias, is the account of what happened. If this newspaper wants to be taken seriously, I would recommend that it strongly consider monitoring comments made on its articles for profanity, threats, and other improprieties unbecoming of a well-run newspaper.

It's so funny how everyone is such a good witness and somehow identified the 2 guys as earing wearing, gelled hair having fat slobs. Why dont you read the police report, get there names and look at them. Neither has earings, gelled hair or is a fat slob. Though, the fight was a big misunderstanding, neither one of the gdi's would never want to actually injure anyone seriously in a bar fight. Broken noses, bloody lips, and bruises are one thing, but stabbing someone is ridculous especially if you consider we the gdi's nothing to stab anyone with and nobody has witnessed seeing a knife. One person has said the Dr. is positive that a beer bottle doesnt have enough strength to make that kind of cut. However, they go on to say maybe it was a key. Are you kidding??? I would much rather fight someone with a key than a beer bottle. Have a good day Get Well Soon.

Once again, all parties involved were 21 or older. There is no need to slam the bar for catering to underage. Bourbon Street has never had an underage violation; however, City Bar: The Classiest of All Downtown Bars, "Freshman, Don't Even Try" Bar was recently busted for serving a 17 or was it 18 year old a beer. Why don't you publish that Red and Black? That is right up your alley. If you need the date, it happened on Friday 6/27/08.

The perps should just be lucky that Durg, the B Street Bounty Hunter was not there. He would have absolutely dominated them like a wrap from Jason's. Even the most famous bartender in the world, Disgusty would have beat these fools down. I have seen him single handedly, take down sports team when they swung at one of his friends. But they really got lucky that the wonder kid from Oconee Street, the blonde bomber was out of town. He's fresh off a Tybee brawl and would have pwn3d these suckers!

Bringing a knife to a simple bar fight is as cool as bringing condoms to your family reunion.