I went and saw the Cult and the Cliks with my wife and some fuck*ng drunken douchebag was flailing his arms, lashing out with his elbows. It's one thing to do shit like that at a Dwarves show or something, but the Cult is sort of hippieish. So when he was pogoing I grabbed him by the waistband and tossed him over the security barrier.
At some point I noticed that a lot of douche bags were showing up at Built to Spill shows. Probably primarily 21+ shows in Salt Lake. You'd think some of these dudes had never had a beer before, right? Well, at this one show there was a guy up front with a pretty nice camera snapping some photos. Keep in mind this is Built to Spill and not Suicidal Tendencies, so he had reasonable expectations of keeping his camera safe. We were a couple rows back and noticed this drunk dickhead flailing his arms and weaving back and forth kinda violently, and he kept bumping the photographer. So after a while the guy has had enough and turns toward the douche bag and kinda gets into it with him. Doesn't throw any punches but gets into his face and there's some yelling and then there's some shoving. And then, out of nowhere, like a bird of prey rising from its nest with it's wings spread wide, an enormous security guard appears from the barrier between the crowd and the stage and
lifts both guys by the back of their collars up off their feet, gracefully but forcefully carries (OK, maybe drags, but in my memory the dudes were at least a foot off the ground the whole time) them through the crowd, which of course quickly parts, and throws the dudes out. Totally sucked for the photographer but its not like any of us were going to get in the security guard's face and tell him about it.
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