Thanksgiving Brawl 08'

Setting: Thanksgiving was dwindling to an end. We were cleaning up the dishes and putting up christmas decorations, christmas carols playing and children playing in the front room. Suddenly, we hear a blood curlding scream, the kind when someone has been shot or something really bad has happened. Dan rushed to the front window and yells for me to dial 911. Instinctivly, I do. But I have no idea why, except that there is someone screaming in front of the house. As I am talking to the operator I, look out the front window and see about 10 shadows across the street at our neighbors house in a big ball on the front porch. There was a full swing brawl taking place. I could see kicking, and punching and alot of tackling. Glass was being broken over peoples heads. ( Mayhem in a nutshell.) I hurriedly sent the kids into the back of the house in the family room and had to explain to them if there are gunshots to get on the ground. It took the cops about 8 to 10 minutes to get here and by then our neighbor had ordered everyone to "leave before the cops get here". By the time the cops showed up (9 of them) everyone had disbanded and drunkenly driven off. An innocent passerby stopped his car to try to break up the fight and ended up getting whacked on the head with glass while his wife and kids looked on. ( These are the reasons we don't intervene in situations like this.) Needless to say, I will give an update on what caused the brawl when we find out. Otherwise, it was just another eventful night living in Mission Viejo "Safest City In America".