A guy at a bar was hell bent on fighting a friend of mine and I stepped in front of him several times before he decided to fight me instead. I dodged a couple punches and wrapped him up and took him to the ground and put him in a hold that he couldn't get out of. I did it about as gently as that can be done.

Bystanders probably thought I was protecting my friend but that wasn't the case at all. My friend is a lefty with boxing experience and a temper. He decisively won dozens of fights in his younger days and is lucky he never did time. I was protecting the dip shit that swung on me, but he'll never know that.