What the heck is wrong with people these days? I live in St. John's, Newfoundland, where people are particularly nice/polite in general, even more-so than Canadians in general. I know every city has its dark corners, but seriously, I never thought I'd hear of something like this happening in St. John's. Back home in Vancouver? Sure. St. John's? No.
A classmate and I were walking between buildings on campus after our last lecture when one of her old friends from high school / an acquaintance of mine via another mutual friend caught up to us looking for said other mutual friend. He was wearing big white plastic-framed beach style sunglasses despite the -10 Celsius cloudy day we're having. My classmate asked why he was wearing them, and in response he took them off to reveal a face covered in purple & yellow bruises and a pair of completely red eyes. Apparently while he was at a house party over the weekend, a group of 4 or 5 guys crashed the party and started bear macing everyone in sight. When this guy tried to be civil and talk with the crashers, they jumped him and started beating him with a copper pipe. This sent him into 'fight or flight' mode and started violently defending his friends. To make a long story short there are now 3-4 innocent students still in hospital, the police are looking for the 4-5 who started the whole thing, and this kid doesn't remember the rest of the weekend.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people? Who starts an unprovoked attack on university students at a private house party, with bear mace and a copper pipe, in Newfoundland?!