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I reacted completely differently. Which shocked both myself and my girlfriend. My girlfriend works in upper clapton so i had decided to walk both our bikes up to her so we could cycle around and enjoy what was left of the evening. When I met we stood for a few minutes while she packed everything into her bag, as she was doing this she screamed and something hit me in my back. I turned thinking WTF to see 3 teenagers, the lead one said he wanted our bikes and the other one pulled my girlfriends out of my hand and laughed. At this point i simply got angry, i chucked my bike at the lead guy, unprepared he staggered backwards and then I let out a torrent of punches and kicks, which eventually led to me having a black eye and two of the assailants having a combination of broken jaw/ribs/ perforated eardrum?
I look back and think what a stupid position I put both myself and my girlfriend in, but part of me (the alpha male part) thinks I rock!