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A knife was brandished and a car window smashed when two men got into a fight at a Mountain View gas station early Tuesday morning, according to police.

One of the men involved in the fight, a 53-year-old Palo Altan, was driving with his girlfriend when the two pulled into the Coast gas station, located at 101 E. El Camino Real, at about 1 a.m. on May 21, according to Sgt. Sean Thompson, spokesman for the Mountain View Police Department.

While the Palo Alto man was inside paying for his gas, a 55-year-old San Jose man approached the car to talk to the woman — who happened to be his ex-girlfriend, Thompson said.

When the younger man returned to his car he became angry, because, as he later told police, the ex-boyfriend was bothering his girlfriend.

Some words were exchanged and the two got into a fist-fight. The fight went to the ground for a bit, then both men got back up and the 53-year-old allegedly reached into his car and pulled out a kitchen knife, brandishing the blade and telling the other man that he “didn’t want any more trouble,” according to Thompson.

At that point, the 53-year-old got into the car with his girlfriend and the two started to drive away, Thompson said. Before they got far, however, a window of the car shattered. The man from San Jose had thrown something at them.

The couple called 911, and both parties remained on the scene until police arrived, Thompson said.

No one was arrested, as both men said they didn’t desire prosecution, Thompson said. The San Jose man said he would pay for the broken window.

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  1. When the younger man returned to his car he became angry…
    I assume this is referring to the 53-year-old Palo-Altan?

  2. Oh brother! adolescent 50-somethings who still think it’s macho to fight over a woman as if she “belonged” to either of them???

    What a crock!

    Please someone explain to me how we can fix the male brain.

  3. Oh Katydid41: Think of the woman who is attracted to either of these two men.

    That’s where the fixing needs to happen. If this kind of behavior didn’t attract ladies, men wouldn’t do it.

    God I wish that gas station would release video of this event. You should see the loonies who hang out at ECR and Grant Road at 1 in the morning.

    I think the 24 hour Walgreens attracts all the crazies being released by the area’s emergency rooms.

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  5. I see no fault whatsoever with either of the men or with the woman in this story. If you are male and you would not fight over your woman, then you are a coward. You are not a man at all; you are a BOY. If it weren’t for your fat nerd wallet, no woman would have anything to do with you.

    The order in human society is created by males using deadly force to establish control over territory. From a male perspective, the females are indeed possessions. This is a natural and inevitable consequence of the physiology of copulation and reproduction; social scientists call it “sperm competition”.

    Modern, urban society has codified and institutionalized the social order with so many levels of indirect violent force that the basic reality is no longer plainly visible. But it is still the reality beneath the “civilized” charade. IOW, it is still, and always will be, “a man’s world”. A few men and women understand this. Most are clueless and will live their entire lives without ever comprehending their true situation.

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