Never, ever break up a 'chick fight'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Most Canadian boys are taught from a young age not to hit girls and protect a female or weaker boy if they are threatened.

After sitting through two of the court proceedings that followed the so-called midway mauling" at Lee Park last spring, I'm convinced we should put just as much weight on the not kicking someone when they're down" rule.

Devin Marshall, 13, tried to do the right thing May 10, 2008 while attending a midway carnival at Lee Park. He made an effort to convince a teenage girl to leave a female friend of his alone.

I'm assuming he thought his friend couldn't defend herself against the other girl.

But this particular young lady wasn't much afraid of Marshall and she definitely didn't take kindly to him calling her a prostitute.

He was kicked in the groin and took a few punches to the kisser for his troubles. And when he defended himself from further assault, wrestling her to the ground for his own protection, she yelled for help.

The real trouble began soon afterward. Her friends pulled him off and a couple dozen hero-wannabes swarmed in like hornets lapping up pop at a picnic.

The mob mentality took over and a husky boy stepped forward and dropped Marshall with a thundering sucker punch."

He ran away, the Ontario Court of Justic was told, and two other young men stepped in and laid the boots to Marshall, who suffered two fractures to his jaw, a fractured cheek bone and cuts.'