This town is so peaceful, but violence lurks in the air down here, especially late night. I have seen many fights walking home from work at 4:30 AM, and some of them were pretty vicious.
I posted already about the guy who got choked and beaten to death (his skull crushed by a brick or rock) during Fantasy Fest.
I saw a guy literally getting the shit kicked out of him my first Fantasy Fest, and it almost happened to me as well that year when I had a run in with 5 Miami street punks.
But last night it was a couple of Upper Keys cracker boys, who somehow took offense to this completely harmless guy who has been a Key West stripclub institution since before I moved down here 6 years ago. This oriental guy weighed about 110 pounds, never bothered anyone, hardly talked at all really. He would kind of dance a little to the music, but not in an offensively geeky way or flamboyantly or anything.
They threw him down some stairs and then kicked him in the head so bad that the paramedics had to pull his tongue out, and when they did the bones of his jaw kind of fell apart I guess, it was broken so bad. One person told me his eyeball had popped out but that might be wrong--I know his occipital orb was crushed though so maybe it was partly out or the socket was distorted, at least. They had to fly him to Miami by helicopter, and induce a coma to save his life. You know it's bad if they have to put you in a coma on purpose. Supposedly he is getting better but I am betting he will never be the same again if he does live.



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