Another memory from my high school days...
In the tenth grade, a few friends and I were standing in the middle of the block talking shit amongst ourselves (we had been drinking earlier) when some African males accompanied by a Caucasian male asked us for a dollar. We all kindly said we didn't have none, but one of my shorter friends, A, (who I think suffers from Short Man Syndrome) said something cocky like, "Yes, I do... but it's mine, not yours." Immediately, the Caucasian started talking shit and proceeded to push him down to the ground and kicked A in the chest as he fell. Another friend, B, thought that what had just taken place was un-fair (since the Caucasian was a lot taller than A) so he just went crazy on the Caucasian. Then the Caucasian's friends got in and started whopping on B and that's when the rest of us jumped in... fists everywhere. After a few seconds of violence, we broke up and started talking shit to one another. It didn't stop there, though. B was so out-raged, that he went to the trunk of his car (as he clamied to "You better run or I'll kill you motherfuckers!") and pulled out his father's un-loaded shotgun. The African males and Caucasian froze up for a few seconds then started to run as they begged B not to shoot them while my friends and I laughed our asses off. It was a funny sight... one of them even grabbed a plastic garbage can and used it as a shield. One tried to hide behind a public telephone, another behind a bush, and the brighter two ran around the corner.
We immediately vacated the sight knowing that we were drunk, driving a Ford Pinto without a license with an illegal shotgun in the back, and knowing a witness may have contacted the ho-lice.
I've not only had troubles with norteños, but sureños as well...
Same neighborhood as above story... three friends and I... sitting on a bench drinking some 40's. Like an hour of chatting and drinking, A (same A from above story) notices some good-looking females sitting not too far away from us, so he decides he wants to go over and talk to them. Knowing he might do or say something stupid, my friends and I follow. We're sitting there talking for like ten minutes when some of the females' male friends show up. We "what's up?" each other when one in the other group, Z, asks A where he was from. A replies with, "I ain't from nowhere... fuck sur, fuck norte... fuck them both." Z takes offense and challenges A to a fight, but A backs out. A backs out, but C jumps in saying, "He won't fight you, but I will." A one-on-one fight begins and nobody jumps in. They soon separate (both injured about the same), but keep looking at each other like they want to rip each other's heads off as the females plead for them to calm down. We get up from the bench and start walking in a group. Z then says he has to go to the restroom, so he runs ahead of us. We were walking uphill, so we couldn't see what was on the next block. When we get to the corner to cross the street to the next block, we notice a mob of about thirty angry madmen in blue being led by Z, but we keep walking thinking things were going to be resolved in a mature, calm manner. We get like 10 feet from each other and Z asks A to repeat what he had said earlier. A says he didn't mean it in such a way to disrespect him or his "homies," but Z keeps insisting. Z then rushes A and the angry mob starts to take punches at A as three guys hold him by his arms and neck. When my friends and I try to help him out by pushing motherfuckers or throwing punches, Z looks at us and tells us that the problem is not with us, but with A. C says, "Fuck thirteen," so they start pouding on him, too. This "jumping" procedure goes on for about a minute then the angry mob runs off. My friends and I then run to help A, but he was not in the garage corner the angry mob ran from, so we're like, "What the fuck? He was just here." We search the area assuming the worst when he calls D on his cell phone from a public phone saying that he was about two blocks away. We meet up where A was hiding and he tells us that a guy in a "Unified School District" truck opened his door for him, told him to hop on, and dropped him off three blocks away. I just wanted to enjoy my buzz and it was obviously fucked up.