I was out with the wife and some Filipino buddies last night, but it was a pretty disappointing night all told, very quiet, nothing going on, bars half empty, boring really. Spent two hours in HiSo, but they were playing a lot of drivel 'nothing' music, so we left at 4am.
So, we're walking back to our friends trike to head home and we see this new bar on the strip, Centauro, so we had to go in. Nothing special, revolving stage in the centre, but fairly lively compared to most other bars we'd been in. But then it go interesting. Some sort of scuffle/fight kicked off in the entrance, a white guy and a bouncer, and I watched it from my seat, as you do.
Then the white guy went down and two other Filipinos jumped in and started to kick and stomp him. I've seen this shit before several times so I rushed across and got in between before it went too sour. Some old guy was killed in Field Ave a few years ago due to this 'pack mentality' and I wasn't going to be one of those guys who stand round waiting for someone else to go and help.
The guy was pretty shit faced, had a swollen eye, but was convinced he had some genuine reason to be brawling. I pulled him aside, calmed the Filipino guys down and told him he was in the wrong place to be getting into fights, that regardless who was right or wrong, he would lose, and he calmed down a bit.
Later I tried to talk to him, see what the score was, but he was so pissed I couldn't really understand him.
Then the Korean owner of Centauro came across and explained something about the guy running up an 11,000+ piso tab and not wanting to pay, or not being able to afford to pay, so that was where the misunderstanding stared.
He also mentioned the guy had run up a 75,000 piso bill in another bar (I'm sure that is what he said, and his English is pretty perfect) and paid that okay. Then he had apparently been shouting drinks for loads of people in Centauro and it all went down hill from there.
Centauro closed at 6am so we left and went to Phillies for breakfast. 