A Man Decided to Fight Jack Reacher. And It Went About As Well As You’d Think
Reacher star Alan Ritchson had an incident with a neighbor. Sources say that the actor beat the living daylights out of this man. And honestly? Good.
TMZ has reported extensively on Ritchson’s little altercation with a man named Robert Taylor. Police say that the star made physical contact (aka decked him) with Taylor after a verbal exchange. Apparently, this man was upset that Ritchson was riding his motorcycle down the street with his kids. The noise and speed were reportedly the issue. But, things escalated and the Reacher actor took action. Taylor offered his own version of what happened in an interview with TMZ. Here’s what he had to say.
“I don’t really wish the guy any malice or ill will, but we just don’t need people riding through neighborhoods like this,” Taylor explained in TMZ’s interview. “I just decided I’m going to take a stand because someone has to, or it’s going to end up way worse.” The man DID step in front of Ritchson’s bike, causing him to fall. And the video DID show that Ritchson was going the speed limit so this man just clearly had an issue and decided to take charge.
As the dust continued to swirl around the confrontation, the Reacher star had some thoughts on the matter. On his Instagram, Ritchson posted a quote from freaking Napoleon of all people. He mused, “Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.” Much to ponder on that front. I think it was probably a mistake to step to a guy that looks like Alan Ritchson in a fight! Still, A lot of the entertainment news press and social media accounts that live for this kind of thing are wallowing in the scandal of it all.
Alan Ritchson gets into physical altercation with some random guy
We’ve all probably gotten frustrated with a neighbor a time or two in our lives. In this way, just for a moment, we are like Alan Ritchson. The stress ordeals of modern life create pressure points for these kinds of altercations to break out. If you’ve been paying attention to HBO’s output lately, The show Neighbors comes to mind. The entire doc series rests on the idea that fissures between people who share space grow with the oxygen of the Internet.. That’s exactly what’s at play here with the Reacher star. Dwell interviewed producer Dylan Redford about how we get into these dust-ups.
“With a lot of other different types of internet confrontational videos, or Karen videos or whatever, it’s oftentimes two strangers yelling at each other engaged in something, and then they go their separate ways. At the very core of these videos is that they are stuck together,” Redford points out. “Like, you know that at the end of this video, they’re going to have to still keep living next to each other. And there’s these questions of, has it always been like this? What was their relationship like before?
“Because they are neighbor conflict videos, it implies an existing relationship before the conflict happened. That relationship could be minimal…it could just be saying hi to each other on the way to their cars or whatever, or their kids play. Or it could be really in-depth,” he continued. “But I think that part of what makes those types of confrontation videos so interesting to us is that there’s a relationship that exists before and after that video that has a lot of emotion attached to it.”
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