Ok got Jerboa working. ::: spoiler Title Assault discussion and rant

:::So today I go to the cafe I like to get a coffee from at the train station before work, and the guy next to me at the counter is having a friendly chat with the barista. Suddenly a guy comes up to him and slams a coke can into his neck. The can sprays one drop of liquid onto my leg and I stare at it stupidly. The two guys are not throwing punches but the guy who was attacked is just meeting his force, they’re just kind of swaying. My stupid brain thinks they know each other, and then I’m like, “hang on why would he hit him with a Coke can?” (I am super dumb before coffee and had half my brain on my birthday). The attacker then headbutts the other guy and walks away. The victim kept an incredibly cool head. It all happened so quickly and was the most unprovoked and totally random thing I have ever seen. The victim looked a bit like Andre Agassi and the perp looked a bit like Catweasel but younger. His neck was scratched up from the can and he had a rapidly growing lump on his face. I told him he needed to get that seen to. I’ve seen the perp around that area and he’s a homeless guy who’s made himself a little encampment I’ve seen. Never seen him act like this before, but has obvious mental health issues. A couple of us gave the victim our numbers, but he said “the police aren’t gonna do anything anyway.” It was just really disturbing in that it was so completely random and unprovoked. When one of the other witnesses asked, the guy said he didn’t know him and had never met him before. For years I had anxiety and was in a heightened hyper vigilant state, and it took years of counselling and medication to actually deprogram myself from that. And then today something like that happens right next to me and I stare like a stunned mullet (to be fair, so did everyone else). When I got to work the kitchen manager said lucky it was just a Coke can, what if it was a knife. I thought shit, that’s true and seriously the guy would’ve been dead.

The day before that, some pervert got arrested for trying to abduct children just down the block from there. He actually climbed into a car and the mother was right there! Seriously what the fuck‽ I feel like carrying a ciggie lighter to go with my can of deodorant, if my dumb brain decides to react in time for it to be useful.