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| Fight club draws techies for bloody underground beatdowns | |
| 2006-05-31 | |
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — They may sport love handles and Ivy League degrees, but every two weeks some Silicon Valley techies turn into vicious street brawlers in a real-life, underground fight club. Kicking, punching and swinging every household object imaginable — from frying pans and tennis rackets to pillowcases stuffed with soda cans — they beat each other mercilessly in a garage in this bedroom community south of San Francisco.
"When you get beat down enough, it becomes a very un-macho thing," said Shiyin Siou, 34, a Santa Clara software engineer and three-year veteran of the clandestine fights. "But I don't need this to prove I'm macho — I'm macho enough as it is." | |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #13 Redwood City, maybe. Menlo Park, I don't think so. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-05-31 19:50 |
| #12 Angelina Jolie and a leash....mmmmm |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-31 19:40 |
| #11 "Pocket Protectors at Twenty Paces!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-05-31 19:27 |
| #10 Crazy! What an idea! get some cameras down there stat! I sense Geekfights.com is just about to go into business! |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2006-05-31 16:46 |
| #9 Is this some sort of high-tech Bumfights? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-05-31 15:36 |
| #8 ...and remember, guys. Brad Pitt looked like a badass in the movie and now Angelina Jolie walks him around at the end of a dog leash. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-31 15:35 |
| #7 Oh-oh. Looks like somebody's violated the first and second rules of Fight Club. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-31 15:33 |
| #6 I'm not buying it. I loved the movie fight club but what I didn't believe was that people would voluntarily get into fights over nothing while sober. Fights hurt, and they hurt for days. And the loser doesn't get that grand glow of victory. If this was real I would expect them to be taking up martial arts or boxing rather than bare knuckle brawling. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-05-31 15:29 |
| #5 "All day long these guys think they're the captains of the universe, technical wizards. They're brilliant but empty. Sounds like our IT department..... |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-05-31 15:04 |
| #4 Basically you have a bunch of single H-1B visa foreign engineers who can't get laid because there are no available local women from their culture. So they fight instead. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2006-05-31 09:57 |
| #3 Pussies. They should see one of our Board meetings. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-05-31 09:35 |
| #2 Kicking, punching and swinging every household object imaginable — from frying pans and tennis rackets to pillowcases stuffed with soda cans I don't think so. Not unless they have a real remote burial site. I saw enough broken bones and concussions during my karate tournament days, and that was under controlled conditions with pads. This goes into the Yanking The Journalist's Chain file unless otherwise noted. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-05-31 09:17 |
| #1 Why do I get the feeling that some geeks are playing the usual [re:MSM] suspects who routinely fail to check the veracity of their exposition? |
| Posted by: Slasing Spert8394 2006-05-31 08:47 |