Reddit, what made you completely lose your shit in public?

When I was 17 I was at Walmart with my mom and my twelve year old twin brothers. As we walked to the line to pay, my brothers and I stopped to get some drinks out of a fridge while my mom walked up a few feet and started loading stuff on the conveyor. A bro guy and his trash whore monster of a GF cut in front of our Mom and placed his shitty snow globe and some candy in front of her. He looked at her and chuckled as he did so. As we walked up my mom said something and he told her to shut up, and moves to get in her face and raises a hand like he will smack her, that's where he fucked up. I immediately told him to apologize, move his shit, and fuck off. He looked me up and down and laughed, not sure why, I was young but had a few inches on him and more muscle although I was wearing a big sweater so he couldn't tell. So I shoved him hard full force, he moved about five feet stumbling backwards, and I grabbed his snow globe and threw it at a nearby wall shattering it, and told him to fuck off again, this is the point where everyone was staring at us. My Mom started screaming as the dude charged me. I straight kicked him right in the dick, and he fell backwards to the ground, then I mounted his chest and beat the fucking shit of him. His GF grabbed my arm and I shook her off, then she kicked me so I grabbed her leg on the third or so kick, and pulled her down and started putting my hands on her throat while still mounted on the knocked out bro, when my brothers and Mom pulled me off. I was insanely mad, probably the angriest I have ever been in my life, I wanted to kill anyone looking at me incredulously. We left immediately, bleeding guy on the ground, his GF crying, everyone just staring at me like I was fucking nuts and a nearby wall covered in fake snow and broken glass.

Cops stopped us outside and handcuffed me, apparently they were in the parking lot, and thought it was odd when people started running out the front doors scared. They interviewed a few employees, my mom and brothers, watched the footage of what happened and they let me go when they saw the guy get close up on my mother and move to strike her. They told me to pay for the snow globe, so I did and apologized to the employees nearby. At the time my city was a smallish town, and had quite the country culture even though it was growing so fast. So messing with a man's mom justified what I did in the cops' eyes. They were pretty cool guys, and still work in that city to this day, I see them sometimes when I come back to visit family.

I admit throwing the snow globe was a bad idea, but you don't fuck with my family or friends, especially a man's Mom. And if a woman attacks me I will fuck her up. I have gotten in fights protecting women I hardly know, you do it to my Mom or any family and I will kill you if someone doesn't stop me.

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