One incident after a stag night in Cambridge left the groom with a broken eye socket, me with bleeding in the sinus and they thought I might have a broken cheekbone (I have a lump in my cheek to this day), another guy needing 9 stitches in his forehead, another with a black eye, and finally one with 70% loss of the sight in his right eye. No charges were ever brought against the people who attacked us. One of that group was female, and was egging them on, and I remember her shouting “smash their glasses” after we’d been kicked in the face already, as if that wasn’t enough.
Edit: actually I’m not sure if I was kicked in the face. I remember seeing that happening to Alberto, though.
To this day, I’ve never been able to fathom what triggered that. Unwanted attention from groups of pissed up males has always made me wary, but especially since then, and I tend to avoid Cambridge city centre on Friday and Saturday evenings these days. In Glasgow as a student I remember my flatmate coming home with a fat lip; he’d been completely randomly punched in the face by someone walking the other way down the same street.
