| Ron750 |
12-02-2017 12:22 AM |
Define Badass
On a thread about the Women’s MC club, called the Litas, they kept calling them badasses. I’m sure they’re pretty, interesting, Skilled motorcycle riders. But why are they badasses?
I don’t hang with murderous criminals, so most of the badasses I know are veterans, or police officers. Some doormen.
I was a doorman on Rush Street in Chicago. I broke up a few fights, but I’m no badass. One guy I worked with was though. His Dad was a Chicago cop. We worked with a nice guy who would always get in a fight when he was drunk. One night we could see the writing on the wall, so my buddy took a broomstick that had an eye with the bar keys attached to it. He took the keys off, so it was just a stick with an eye sticking out. When the 240 lb drunk started a fight, the wiry 6’2”, 190 lb doorman walked up, whacked him upside the head, pulled it forward opening up a jagged, 1/2”deep cut. Big man fell like a pile of rocks. I thought that was cold, but efficient. There were no repercussions back in 1979.
So that’s the kind of guy I think is a badass. Quiet, polite, but strong in mind and body. They don’t bully people, but they don’t take any crap.
I could tell tell stories about a Racine cop I knew that was a defensive tactics instructor, and Vietnam Marine veteran, but I don’t know what the statute of limitations is.
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