the man hunt
June 19th, 2009 -- Posted in amusing, friends, texas, vacation | No Comments »i mentioned that we witnessed a man hunt while we were enjoying the sunset at the oasis in austin. it is probably one of the silliest man hunts ever, but since we were there, i thought i’d give the details.
we heard arguing beside us and saw a woman grabbing at her purse that just happened to be held hostage by some guy. he was holding it away from her and she kept telling him to give it back. he refused. i think she pushed him or something and i’m not saying that she was right, but i don’t think he even felt it. he was really tall and big and she was teeny. anyway. there was a table of guys sitting beside them (including a dude with the best mullet everrrrrr) and one of those guys stood up and said something like “hey man, i don’t want to have to separate you two”. he was smiling when he said it and wasn’t being a jerk; he was just trying to intervene on the woman’s behalf. very noble.
well, nobility got him punched in the face. the guy just looked at him and bam! punch! bad bad bad idea to punch a dude that has a table full of other dudes with him, because they all immediately jumped up and charged the guy (the guy that was holding the purse from that girl).
a bunch of waiters came running to break it up, security was called, etc etc. everything calmed down and we enjoyed the sunset.
then we saw flashing lights and police cars down the road. then a helicopter kept circling and circling and circling with a spotlight near the oasis. we were all like “nahhhhhh it can’t be that dude! how dumb would he have to be?!?!” thankfully, our waiter was a big gossip whore and kept us updated. and the purse guy must have been either really drunk or really dumb or a combination of both, because he ran from the police.
i never found out if they caught him or not, but he didn’t really have many escape options.
it was quite entertaining. :)
