KShap: I agree. I'm sure the situation wasn't completely one sided (human nature after all). I don't think too many people in the world would just move on completely humbly without a retort.
I know that for me, I would be waiting for the first moron to throw a wild right hook, so I could knock him out. And even though I wouldn'tbe throwing the first punch, I would probably still run my mouth out of pride.
It's a sad fact of life that people are this way, but if any traceur is willing to see the signs of imedeate violence, he or she could easily escape it.