Note, cops arent lawyers and aren’t always 100 percent sure of what they are talking about. But this is basically exactly how it has been explained to me, by my criminal defense attorney
Again this myth comes from the Seattle fight with Ben Fodor aka Phoenix Jones( His brother is much cooler and far less of a douche. They actually fought and Caros beat him by UD lol) and the Seattle Municipal Code here. Which makes it semi ambiguous in some ways.
SMC 12A.06.025 Fighting.
A. It is unlawful for any person to intentionally fight with another person in a public place and thereby create a substantial risk of:
Injury to a person who is not actively participating in the fight; or
Damage to the property of a person who is not actively participating in the fight.
B. In any prosecution under subsection A of this Section 12A.06.025, it is an affirmative defense that:
The fight was duly licensed or authorized by law; or
The person was acting in self-defense.
C. As used in this Section 12A.06.025, “public place” means an area open to the general public, and includes streets, sidewalks, bridges, alleys, plazas, parks, driveways, parking lots, automobiles (whether moving or not), and buildings open to the general public including those which serve food and drink or provide entertainment, and the doorways and entrances to buildings or dwellings and the grounds enclosing them.
The only reason I was educated about mutual combat laws, was when I was involved in mutual combat without realizing, won the fight, the when the other guy called the cops to try to say it was assault, I learned that if someone invites you to an address(in this case his residence) to fight, it’s legal.
This is why I was not arrested. The guy in an online group invited me to come to his address for a fist fight. Conversation was had prior, about what would go down. It was all documented and because of that, neither of us were arrested even though he called the cops on me to say I assaulted him, not an arrest, not a citation, not even a warning. Just educated as to why I wasn’t going to be in trouble.
This whole conversation, started with me making a lighthearted joke to dryfly based on his post he made.
By all means, take this sidebar conversation off topic, derail the thread, and spend time trying to prove you are right on something that means fuck all to none of us lol
Sir this is the internet and the OG, we are going to fight over the most pedantic and dumbest shit and you will participate and fucking like it god damn it!!!
i once had some sexual poses photographed by a pro at the studio, but they had to stop halfway through. there was too much electric sexual attraction for them, they couldn’t take it.
He’s not fit enough to distract from what he’s got on his neck and that big nose. Or the bad tattoos and tiny package in his underwear. I’m a male stripper. I pay attention to those things.