Video: Bodega Beatdown, Just In Time For Thanksgiving!

It's Thanksgiving tomorrow, which for many New Yorkers means taking a break from the stresses of the city, and stuffing oneself with food, family, mirth and merriment. But for some people, it's just another time to have a fight in a Bodega. AnimalNY has video of such a fight at a Bodega at E112th and 3rd, in which an agitated, possibly tweaked customer flips out on a display aisle and then gets into a fight with someone working at the store as a crowd gathers and cheers/jeers. The police are called, and the large man with long hair is brought down after many false stalemates. Everyone who watches this video will find a different moral in it, but we just want to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving, and let's all try to avoid Bodega fights for one day!

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By Ben Yakas in News on November 24, 2010 3:10 PM

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Guest

Shop owner should have kept pummeling him/her in the face. And to the idiots who watched and didn't help take the POS down, they are all wusses.

Purp

mirror:

http://www.mediafire.com/?68pgalg3lr6qg38

ibexclusive

Just another day, in the neighborhood, just another day on the way, feelin' good today, feelin' ey ok!

Ragingsemi

Holy Sh**! This is my bodega! I can't believe all those ghetto ass fools just stood around and let **** (I'm not posting his name) handle this all by himself...damn I should move out of the ghetto...

thefacts

It's a guy and the fight happened months ago.

Ho hum.

whitecastlerock

Bodega is a proper noun?

Cannibal

not in this case. Only when a bodega has been taken over and transformed into a hipster speakeasy is it a Bodega.

HBHB

I'm really starting to miss NYC. And I'm not being sarcastic.

Turkum Lan

Why get his/her/she-male's rotten blood on your hands while you can just shoot his/her/she-male's ass. Too bad we live in NY and you can't carry a gun, weren't bodega's allowed to pack heat now? Believe if we all were allowed to carry, that guy/gal/gay/hoe would not be able to trash the place like that.

Kreo

do not mess with Pakistanis. From Soup N@zi to this, when will the fat whities learn their lesson

PS this is a joke, no none of the people I mentioned can be Pakistanis and/or Caucasians, and of all them I have bad feelings only for Nazis. ;)

BigUps

Very true cannibal. Either way it deserved the beat down. Want to act like a man then take the beat down like a man.

Rosie Lemon

Either way, Man or Woman, "it" shouldnt of been in there talking AND startin shit!

jaycjay

it's just another time to have a fight in a Bodega.

video of such a fight at a Bodega at E112th and 3rd,

let's all try to avoid Bodega fights

So we're talking about fights in places called 'Bodega', as opposed to in a bodega?