I worked at a horribly violent nightclub for 3 years during my last posting in Manitoba....at least once a week, somebody would end up stabbed at that bar....
The only time I ever managed to get into a scary moment was when I had 3 guys outside that I had just tossed out, the other staff went in and left me alone with them....lo and behold, one of them decides that it's time to shank the doorman...
he grabbed me and tried to hug me, as if to make amends for his stupidity, and as he tried this, I noticed his other hand reaching into his pocket. At this point, I tossed the drunken %@#$ over a stair railing and but both of his hands behind his back...i don't remember everything I was yelling at him, but i know it was the worst loss of temper that I've ever experienced...the other two guys walked away
the staff came out, the cops showed up, and they found a 4 inch blade in his jacket pocket...had I not caught this guy doing what he did, god knows where I'd be today
I also pummelled a 40 year old cowboy type that sucker punched another bouncer....tossed him over the hood of a car, and from the what the head bouncer tells me, I had his whole body twisted and he was on the ground begging for me to let him up...when I let him up, he actually stood up and ran away...
I'm not a big guy, but it goes to show what adrenaline can do in hairy situations....
this has nothing to do with me ever getting beat up, because I've never been in that situation without snapping and throwing people over objects