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Drunk trailer park fight

October 8, 2009 · NC expat · redneck media

On a recent Friday night in Brooklyn, I was sitting with my wife and wondered to myself, “What might people in my old hometown be doing with YouTube and a global audience?” I did a search for “greenville nc”:

YouTube search for Greenville, NC

The search auto-suggest feature took me straight to “greenville nc fights,” which was too much to pass up. Ladies and gentlemen, I submit to you “Drunk Trailer Park Fight”:

You just have to love the shaky camera work through a rain-covered windshield, the breathless silence as the spectator takes it all in, the shadowy figures walking in circles with their dukes up, the mobile home backdrop. . . . all punctuated by the only dialogue in the clip: “Oh shit!”

Oh shit, indeed.