the hypocrisy is annoying.
It'd be a little funny if the friend had done it, but it really bothers me that some grown *** man just walked up and did that. Not ok, no matter what the kid was doing. But I feel so dirty having to defend a Hawk like that.
Having lived with multiple fifteen year old boys, I can tell you they can be long on smack, and woefully short on common sense and awareness of surroundings. I have a feeling there was probably a little bit more than teasing his bud happening, or that perhaps it was loud enough to carry over to the people around them...and there may have been words back & forth between him & the assailant. It kind of surprises me that even a drunk guy would walk up & punch someone in the face for "just teasing his friend". Maybe we'll learn there was more, and what it was...maybe we won't. Basically, I'm guessing that the kid was annoying, the guy was drunk, and that's a bad combination. Doesn't justify hitting him; drunk or not, the guy should not have hit a 15 year old, but I can also see how easily it could happen...to a Hawkeye, a Badger, OR a Cyclone.