to save the story for prosperity, I was in the Masons arm pub in Edgware on News year eve when a fight broke out at the other end of the pub, then this guy came up to someone standing near us and smashed him over the head with a pool cue and proceded to run out through the door, someone else shouted stop him.
so i attempted to stop the guy running out, unfortunatly he had a lot of brothers with him, and I can remember being hit, and striking back (hard as well i had nice bruises on my knuckles) then being jumped by his brothers.
next thing back of an ambulance.
on the plus side though i did get to take morphine based pain killers which were great"!