Joe, I've only read the first post, but I can say I've been in this situation before.
As you can probably tell from my picture thing, I ride a motorbike (well, did, it got written off a few nights ago when a car drove into me, thank god I've still got my car in one piece), and as such I make sure I wear a lot of protective gear. Helmet, gloves with reinforced knuckles, armoured jacket and heavy boots. You see where I'm going?
Anyway, I go past a bus-stop on my way home from college every night, and see a few local kids there, either waiting for or getting off the school bus. They're good kids, really are, a lot of them are younger brothers and sisters of lads and lasses I know who are a similar age to me. I always give them a toot on the bike horn or flick my full beam trigger to give them a flash of the lights.
Anyway, a few weeks ago I started noticing a crowd of chavs near the bus stop. Don't know who they are or where they're from - our community is very close-knit and they aren't a local crew, thats for sure. No idea where the buggers came from.
So one night I'm on my way home, and OMG WTF, there's carnage in the bus stop. These chavvy kids are kicking up and going for all these 14/15 year olds. Deary me, I thought, rode past and straight to a mates house. I dragged him out, and we each got a suspension fork from a bike he was dismantling. He jumped on the back of my bike and we got back up to the stop, where this was still going on.
Off the bike, helmetted up, each holding the bars off of a motorbike. We told them to get off the kids, which they did. We walked forwards at them, and got them into the corner of a bus stop. Asked the kids what they'd taken - IIRC it was a gameboy and one of the girl's mp3 players. We demanded them back.
At first it was "I 'ent got them blud, 'onest". A few more steps forward and the goods were "found" by them "on the floor". Guess the kids must have dropped them, eh?
So we basically told them that we don't want them here any more, by this time another couple of lads from our lot had arrived for back-up. They were sheepish and seemed like they were gonna clear off. We turned to walk away, and one must have ran and grabbed my mate, the one who had the bar. I remember shouting "OI!" then bringing my weapon down on the attackers head, which knocked him out. The others legged it, the one who was unconcious we dragged back into the bus stop, checked he was breathing, and then as he started to come round we left him to it, with a note on his stomach that said something along the lines of "Deck off".
Surprisingly we never saw them again, and the kiddies haven't had any more trouble, yay.
It sounds like a story from the ghetto, I know, and I'm not usually a violent person, but people attacking younger/smaller people than themselves I honestly can't stand. I didn't go up there looking for a fight, and the bars were just to frighten them off, but I ended up using mine...
Also, now one of the 15 year old girls from the bus stop texts me about 91283921 times a day. So now I've got an admirer who's still in school, cough, jail-bait, cough.