Walking home from university campus at 3-4 am on Halloween, drunk a bit, but not wasted. Get to the section where campus ends and into middle class suburban area, some of which have students renting them. Car in front opens up and a big nigga (6 something, built like a rugby player) jumps out running to me shouting. Alcohol courage kicks in, drop my bag, "let's go you fag, I'll rip your cock off and shove it's down your throat" and other such expletives and start walking towards him ready to fight. Lights start turning on in the houses around us, guy changes his mind, jumps back into the car with his mate and takes off.
No, I don't think it was that he was scared of me, but likely it was the lights in the houses turning on and peoples coming out to check what the noise was happening. Picked a bad spot and shit method of trying to mug someone. Good thing it wasn't shitheap London where this took place or some other big city, else I would probably ended up on the end of a knife.
Seemed during university I had the talent of almost getting into drunk fights by accident, but then being bailed out or the other guy having second opinions. Could have been anything from drunkenly staring at someone for too long or opening my mouth about someone's looks, or worse their mother.