Born to do Math 171 – ‘Danger’ in ‘Dangerous’ Jobs for Austin ‘Danger’ Powers
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Born To Do Math
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2020/06/01
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What have been the dangerous jobs?
Rick Rosner: Nothing has been that dangerous. When bouncing bars, every once in a while, they would punch me. Drunk people don’t hit very hard. At one bar, the Oar House, it was on the border of Venice and Santa Monica with gang people who you would see every once in a while. Somebody, a bicyclist, pissed off a gang guy. He was shot at. I saw the bullet ricochet off the pavement.
I guess, that’s slightly dangerous. Another at the same bar when I was not there was standing out front. A car pulled out into the intersection without knowing a truck full of gang guys was coming out at 80 miles an hour. She underestimated the speed of this oncoming vehicle, because they went much slower. There was a collision. The truck rotated in the air, there was a guy, or two, in the pickup truck, which, as it rotated, the bottom of the bed became parallel to a light pole. It covers one of the guys in the pickup truck in half.
The bottom of the guy hit the bouncer, who would be where I would have stood if I was there, in the arm and broke his arm.
Jacobsen: That’s insane [Laughing].
Rosner: [Laughing] Yeah. The same bar, I got dragged out by my hair. You don’t want long hair as a bouncer. The guy had whipped a glass beer mug across the bar and cut somebody’s head open. Two bars were throwing him out. I came over. He grabbed my hair. I dropped to the ground. The bar bouncers were smashing this guy’s head on whatever they could on the way out. I got my head smashed minorly as he wouldn’t let go. I got bitten a couple of times working at a bar. I got bit a couple of years ago, who I was paid to harass by giving him a strip tease.
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