The Police Are On The Way

Jack talks about witnessing a serious face-off between two muscle-bound dudes and a sikh at a gas station. What the sikh said...will shock you!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I'm at the Comedian Store gas station on Friday.
I got to work with like my gas gage saying
you can drive ten more miles, and so I was
gonna get gas on the way out, the one right
here near the radio station, and um, I'm getting gas.
I pull into the I pull into the stall and
there's a guy in Uh. Uh, there's a car in

(00:23):
front of me. I pulled in behind that and there's
a guy leaning on the back of it drinking a
Coca Cola. These are not things that stand out to
me is interesting, nor would they you. But there's a
guy leaning on the scene. Yeah, and I'm just trying
to I'm just leaning there anything, and I'm doing some
stuff on my phone. So I hadn't gotten out to
pump my gas yet, don't some stuff on my phone.
And then I see, uh, a guy walking past my vehicle.

(00:46):
He's going to that car. And I noticed him because
he's particularly jacked and wearing like one of those what
do you calling an T shirt? An extra medium medium,
So he's swollw he's muscular, you know. I noticed that.
I guess because I'm lately homosexual or whatever did with this,
but I did I notice that, and then and then

(01:07):
but then he and the guy that was leaning against
the car. I can tell they're getting into a little
bit of an argument about something. Boy, and I thought,
I like that. I just kind of got my I'm
just kind of watching that, and um smiled. And then
I see the owner coming up behind me. And then
he's standing right next to me. I don't think anybody's
noticing I'm in my car, but he's standing right next

(01:28):
to my driver's side window. He's fighter rolled down my window.
I could have plucked the hair out of his beard
and if you so chose, I mean, he's that close
to me. And he starts yelling, you gave me a
five dollar bill, not a twenty dollar bill, and the
and the guy says, no, I didn't. I eff and
gave you a twenty dollar bill. And his buddy says,
you gave me a five and I gave it to him,
and it's there's some discrepancy or anything. And then then

(01:50):
and the guy said, you're not going to steal from me,
and the and the and the and and and it's
getting and the dude is getting really heated. Now. One
thing about this gas station I've noticed because I regularly
get gas there. It's I leave work, you know, I'm
leaving work around eleven o'clock noon. Everybody there has got
the I'm incredibly hungover and I'm just getting up for
the day vibe. They're there to get like some greasy,

(02:11):
crappy foods and and some energy drinks because they've just
rolled out from the apartment complex having had a hard night.
And that's always the vibe there and anyway, and that's
why that guy was leaning on the car and he
is kind of squinny iron and drinking his Coca Cola though,
I'm guessing that's that's that's the state of mind ians
he's in. He starts yelling at the owner. Well, this
guy's like seventy years old, uh, fellow of I'm guessing

(02:35):
he's from India. He's Seek. He wears the turban of
a Seek. He's really tall guy, um but old. And
the young dude starts screaming at him, and then I
and and with enough that I realized things could turn
ugly here. And I'm going through all the freaking calculations
I gotta do right now. Am I about to have

(02:55):
to wade into the middle of a couple of twenties
something jack to do. Dudes who are beating up an
old man. I can't watch that happen. I mean, I
got all that adrenaline going. I mean, because it's you
can tell, you can just tell. It's the vibe is there.
It's on, and that guy is screaming at this old man,
and that old man is not backing down. And the
young guy takes his Coca cola and throws it at

(03:15):
the old man and then kicks over the window wash
thing or whatever at him and everything like that, like
cleanse the dead malls. While I'm sitting in my car,
I'm right next to this guy and I don't get
out of my car, which I will wonder for the
rest of my life with it or not that was
a good decision. I think ultimately it was. But um,
I'm trying to decide, do I get out of my

(03:36):
being a coward here? Do I help this old guy
or or or am I going to make it worse?
Because as I said to my wife when I got
home and I told him this story, because I still
rattled because I didn't know if after throwing the coke
and kicking the thing over the next thing is he
he punches this guy in the face, and you know,
he's an old man. Luckily, the other jacked dude who
would come out and argued with him a little bit,

(03:57):
went over and grabbed and said, what the eff are
you doing? And get him in the car and they
take off. My guests would be he's like, dude, we
got drugs in the car, or dudes, you've already got
a record, or you know whatever. Um, I wonder if
his buddy was a little tweaked up or something too.
And then this and then and then I get out
of my car, being the great coward to that. I
am now that the the people have left, um um,

(04:20):
and the old and the old man who runs the
convenience store there, he said, this is what happens. And
he's looking around at everybody there by the way. Nobody
else lifted a finger to help anything either, But he's
the young man said, this is what happens when you
live in a democratic state. This used to never happened.
It happens all the time. Now there's no point in
calling the police. They won't do anything. This happens every day.

(04:42):
There's lawlessness in this state. He was so mad, and
I said, hey, man, I agree with you wholeheartedly. And
I said, I said, I got on my phone and
got their license right number. Do you want me to
give it? He said, I'm not calling the police. I've
done it before. They won't do anything. They won't even
attempt to do anything. Right, Why would they? When the
city fathers, the prosecutors, nobody wants to hear it. If

(05:04):
you're not going to go after people who smashed out
the windows of stores and stole jewelry, you're certainly not
going to go after a couple of guys who threw
a coke at an old man and kicked over the
lovely cleansing fluid. And the problem with that attitude is
that crowd that's willing to engage in that behavior. They
know it. It seeps into society, it gets into the

(05:27):
zeitgeist of the times that they're the line that you
couldn't cross in the old days. There is much further
out now of what you can do in public and
get away with it before you're ever gonna get in
any real trouble. Right, and the predators among us, and
there are predators among us, uh, they will figure out. Okay,

(05:47):
the line is moved, let's push it. Let's see how
far we can go, and they will go further and
further and further, which is why Rudy Giuliani cleaning up
New York focused on small quality of life crimes. A
message was, no, you can't kick over you know when
she'll wash your fluid and throw cokes at old guys.
You can't smash windows. You can't be doing this crap.

(06:08):
And it went upward and there was an enormous drop
in violent crime, which is now skyrotting, skyrocketing, by the way,
which brings us to if I can find it, Yeah,
there it is, brings us to the the really the
pinnacle of idiocy of AOC's career. So far, I gotta
get through my cowardest part that we're done. No, so

(06:29):
uh afterwards, I'm I'm, I'm, I've got that full on
you're almost in a fight adrenaline thing goes and uh
And took me a long time to calm down for that,
and then a bunch of concern of whether I did
the right thing or not. I mean, since it turned
out okay, um, ultimately yeah, and I'm almost positive if

(06:52):
the guy had swung on the old man, I'd opened
my door, and I had to get involved, although who
knows what had happened at that point. My my thinking was,
you know, it's like the cops. The some cops are
good at escalating or de escalating whatever. I thought the
second I opened this door, it's about him and me,
because I know how it is. I've been in your
bars where fights happened. The girl, the whatever that started

(07:14):
this no longer it said, it's you about me. Oh
you think you can stop this? It's between you. Just
challenged Yeah exactly. I just challenged him and nothing matters
at that point except for him and maybe his friend
who feels like he's been challenged, also taking me on.
So I stayed in my car. Um and they didn't
swing on the guy, thank god. I don't know what
I would have done if they had. My wife said,

(07:35):
you know, I didn't think of this in time. She said,
here's what I've done in the past. Um, And I
wish i'd have done this. I wish i'd I wish
i'd have rolled down my window and said called the police,
throw on the way. I think that would have had him.
I think they'd high tailed out of there right away.
Could be I think I would have ended it immediately. Yeah, yeah,
I'll remember that in the future. That's a good one. Yeah,
or you can actually call the police. Oh, it was

(07:57):
happening so fast, I mean it was is it happened
so fast and it was this close to the guy
swinging on the old man. I didn't have time to
get out my phone and like trying to figure out
the call and again yeah, I'm here at thought, and
now it was. This was all in the span of
eight seconds. Maybe I'm well okay, alright, wow, yeah, blink
of an eye. Yeah, well, I'm glad the less tweaked
up guy. You know, cooler heads prevailed. God, you can

(08:19):
just see how these sort of things unfold though, the
sort of thing you're reading about in the newspaper or
ce on TV, where you know, I'm sure that guy
was just one lack of impulse away from actually hitting
the old guy and then you know, you don't know
what happens at that point. Yeah, horrifying. I don't know
how many punches I can take from big, old, swollen

(08:41):
guys at this point. And I'm not seventy Yeah. Oh
the other thing, he said, the old guy and he's uh,
he he owns the place he's he's like six five,
but he's the old man. He said when I was younger,
I want to kick the ass. I know how it goes.

(09:02):
This is what happens when you live in a democratic state.
How interesting is that that in the heat of he
had to know he was almost in a fight with
these two guys. In the heat of that, that's the
first thing in his mind that things have gone to
hell around here. I know the area he's talking about,
and lawlessness has exploded in the area because it's been
permitted because of utopian policies, because of wishful thinking about crime.