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Arguing is (almost) never fun.
Whether you're fighting with your significant other, friends, coworkers, or family, a bad fight can leave you feeling unhappy and overwhelmed for days on end.

More often than not, it also keeps you from achieving the very goals you're arguing about.

A study of nurses found that when they argued about patient care on the treatment floor, they were less likely to arrive at a good decision, and lost focus on the task at hand in favor of interpersonal conflict.

But we don't always have a good sense of why we fight. What pushes us to the point of conflict, when we know it will make us unhappy? And why does it leave us feeling so glum afterward? These findings from the world of psychology offer some less-than-obvious answers.

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Cell phone video captured a brawl at a Denny's restaurant in Vineland, New Jersey.

The video shows teenagers tossing plates and hurling chairs inside the dining room early Saturday morning.

Police say the fight involved about 15 people.

The teens fled as police arrived around 3 a.m.

Authorities say they made one arrest.

However, they want the public to take a good look at the video and help identify anyone else involved.

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Today's Top Stories WATCH NOW TOP VIDEOS Cell phone video captured a brawl at a Denny's restaurant in Vineland, New Jersey. The video shows teenagers tossing plates and hurling chairs inside the dining room early Saturday morning. Police say the fight involved about 15 people. The teens fled as police arrived around 3 a.m.

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With Fight on Broil, Restaurant Owners Go Own Ways

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The David Burke Group is rebranding itself as Craveable Hospitality Group and pursuing new projects as it battles with David Burke himself, who is working on his own new ventures.

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Boys at fisticuffs on the playground after school. Hollywood heroes protecting their lady fair with a well-placed punch to the jaw. In American pop culture, violence often serves as a visual symbol for a character's values. In real life, however, the sight of two people brawling has many of us rushing to dial 911. But is that right? Don't two people have the right to duke it out? When should we call the cops?

Disturbing the peace

Despite the legal and physical risks of brawling, American culture is slow to abandon this primitive form of dispute settlement-fistfights, in fact, have even broken out among elected officials. Depending on the localities involved, participants in a fight (and politicians are no exception) may be violating laws related to "disturbing the peace," breach of the peace," or "disorderly conduct"-which can result in criminal (usually misdemeanor) charges. These statutes are often quite vague, leaving it up to responding officers to decide if any laws were broken. Depending on circumstances, even shouting profanities can be a violation (some municipalities do not separate breach of peace and noise ordinances).

Many cities are beginning to call out fighting as a separate offense. For example, the City of Seattle has a specific ordinance establishing a $125 fine for late-night disturbances in public places. Established in 2010 to respond to an increase in nightlife-related incidents in densely populated neighborhoods, the so-called " Meathead Ordinance" specifically bans fighting in public places.

If a fight breaks out on private property (such as in a bar) the property owner has the right to eject the perpetrators-and to call police if they resist; remaining on private property after being told to leave is a form of trespassing. Property owners who do not remove brawling guests could be subject to premises liability for not taking reasonable care towards the security of their patrons, as in the case of Haber v Precision Security Agency, when the bouncers at a New York nightclub failed to intervene as an argument escalated.

Mutual combat

Even so, as recently as 2012, Seattle police officers accepted the concept of "mutual combat," to allow a formalized street fight. Washington state case law includes precedents for allowing such street fisticuffs, provided both combatants consent to duking it out and agree to some ground rules.

In other cases, mutual combat has been offered as a mitigating factor. For example, in a 1982 case, United States ex rel Bacon v. Robertis, a prisoner in Illinois contested his murder conviction, arguing that he and the deceased had engaged in mutual combat and therefore the trial jury should have been instructed to consider a charge of voluntary manslaughter. The United States District Court (Illinois) court, which heard the prisoner's petition, was not persuaded, and in his opinion, Judge Milton Shadur made this statement regarding mutual combat: "Our Court of Appeals has quoted the definition of 'mutual combat' . . . as 'one into which both parties enter willingly, or in which two persons, upon a sudden quarrel, and in hot blood, mutually fight upon equal terms.' Two other conditions must be satisfied as well: 1. the accused cannot have instigated the fight; and 2. retaliation by the accused must not be disproportionate to the provocation."

Additional liabilities

Fighting can result in serious legal repercussions-even when the circumstances of mutual combat apply and no witnesses are present or no one reports a disturbance to the police. Combatants may be charged with destruction of property for any incidental damages, such as broken windows, resulting from the fight.

Whether or not both parties consented to engage in a fight, if the fight results in injuries, the injured party is legally the victim of assault and battery. And even if the most liberal definition of mutual combat is applied, if someone dies, a reduced charge of manslaughter will do nothing to bring back the dead.

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Is fighting in public legal? Or should you call the cops? - AvvoStories

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Boys at fisticuffs on the playground after school. Hollywood heroes protecting their lady fair with a well-placed punch to the jaw. In American pop culture, violence often serves as a visual symbol for a character's values. In real life, however, the sight of two people brawling has many of us rushing to dial 911.

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School fight and teacher body slams a student

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School fight and teacher body slams a student

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Cell phone footage that was shared on Facebook shows two girls arguing in a Florida classroom as their teacher stands between them

As other students egg them on, the two girls launch into a fight - pushing the teacher out of the way and dragging each other by their hair

The teacher calls for help and other staff arrive 4 minutes into the fight

Staff said they were shocked by the lack of respect for the teacher and the children involved now face punishment

A shocking video shows a teacher helplessly stuck in the middle of a classroom fight - with no one coming to her aid.

The footage, recorded by a teenage boy in the class at Gibbs High School in St Petersburg, Florida, shows two young girls exchanging a war of words with their classmates egging them on.

The female teacher initially stands between the girls, trying to get them to calm down, but then the students start lashing out at each other - and she can do nothing but stand back and watch.

Other students clear tables to make way for the fight, while they encourage the girls to scrap.

The fighting students can be seen pulling each other's hair, slapping each other's faces and dragging each other across the floor in the four-minute footage.

The teacher can do nothing but abandon any effort to continue teaching the class.

At some point, she called for help, but it is not clear when, Pinellas County Schools spokeswoman Melanie Marquez Parra told the Tampa Bay Times.

A campus monitor, two administrators and another teacher responded to the fight, Parra said. On the video, a group can be seen pulling the two girls apart.

She would not reveal the grade or name of the teacher because it could identify the students.

St. Petersburg police spokesman Mike Puetz told the Times that officers were not called to the scene.

'The (school resource officer) wasn't aware of this until well after it was over,' he said. 'It is our understanding that the school is handling it internally.'

The video of the fight was posted on Facebook and later removed - but it continued to circulate.

The student who filmed the fight, as well as the two students involved, are now both facing punishment, which could be anywhere between suspension, school reassignment and expulsion.

Board members said that Gibbs High has struggled with a poor reputation due to the number of fights on campus, and said they feared that this incident would only worsen that belief.

'I am extremely hurt because we have really been making strides and Gibbs itself has been making strides,' board member Rene Flowers said. 'Now you have this situation that sets it back.'

She added that she was stunned to see the disrespect the students showed the teacher.

Lisa Wheeler-Brown, president of the Council of Neighborhood Associations, agreed.

'Number one, I don't see how this could go on in a classroom - the students could just blatantly disrespect the teacher and the other students who want to learn,' she told the Times.

'It's a sad reality that in too many of our classrooms, teachers spend just as much time trying to keep control as they do teaching.'

Last year, Gibbs High School issued 76 out-of-school suspensions for fighting, the most of any Pinellas high school. It also had the highest rate of suspensions, with 20.5 percent of students suspended for at least one day last year.

But Parra said the number of school arrests had dropped, from 23 this time last year to 13.

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Shocking video shows teacher stuck in the middle of a classroom fight

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Cell phone footage that was shared on Facebook shows two girls arguing in a Florida classroom as their teacher stands between them As other students egg them on, the two girls launch into a fight - pushing the teacher out of the way and dragging each other by their hair