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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Morbid curiosity: what precipitated the attack? Did the assailants just walk up and cold cock him? Did they all know each other prior to that evening? [/quote]

He was talking trash, but didn’t physically touch anyone.[/quote]

It did start because Diviney started trash talking a group of random strangers.  Initially the whole thing was going to end peacefully, but as the other group started to walk away, Diviney walked back to them and started trash talking again (I think there were some slurs involved, but I may be remembering that incorrectly).  When the other group reacted and threatened him, he started to back away but apparently kept making smart remarks.  One of the assailants punched him, he hit the ground, and then the other one kicked him in the head.

Nothing justifies the assault at all, but there is a lesson to be learned here on all sides about mixing alcohol, provocation and violence.[/quote]

That's the wrong lesson to be learned here.  The correct lesson is that some people are crazy evil people who will kill you but do not wear warning signs that say that.[/quote]

That’s part of the lesson.  Don’t go out of your way to provoke people because you never know who might be the person to snap in response.  It doesn’t lessen the culpability of the person who snapped, but the other person’s culpability is cold comfort when you end up like Ryan Diviney.[/quote]

That kind of drunk, obnoxious razzing about sports teams happens all the time.  Usually it's all good spirited teasing.  Sometimes it gets a little heated.  But for someone to snap and pound a person into a vegetative state?  No, that is pretty unheard of.  Not a normal or expect reaction AT ALL especially among groups of college kids.[/quote]

If it weren’t for the fact that he went back to them the second time to harass them, I might agree with you.  But there’s still no reason to go around insulting random strangers, even over a sports team.  Save it for your friends where you know how they’ll react.[/quote]

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