New Year revelers pack a punch in Peru

The New Year is traditionally about purging the sins of the year and starting afresh. But in Peru, there is a novel way of doing that - an annual fighting festival. The tradition dates back hundreds of years and serves as a kind of justice system. Al Jazeera's Erica Wood reports.

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[Questionauthority chawasa]

Peruvian Fight Club

[boxermaf]

i didnt see them killing women and kids m8, they fought man to man, like real men!

[3rni3PL]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YA MOTHERFUCKER THAT'S BECAUSE MY KEYBOARD HAS A CAPS LOCK BIAATCHHH!

[yes4me]

I would feel better if they wear gloves...

Still better than shooting your enemies...

[devilpyro420]

its all shits and giggles... until some one giggles and shits... O_o

[luftwaffe789456123]

whoa whoa whoa,typical American Idiot coming out of the blue ranting in Capslock,that escalated quickly.

[luftwaffe789456123]

he was talking about how they use violence to deal justice.

[3rni3PL]

AMERICA WILL SOON BOMB THEM ALL INTO OBLIVION. SUCK MY NUTS MOTHERFUCKERS!

[Jahon Gir]

it is so sick

[llcasanova]

Last time I checked it was crazy lil suburban boys with enabling mothers running into elementary schools and massacring 20 children. Facts matter. Take your prejudice elsewhere.

[ikweetnietook]

AMEN!

[boxermaf]

this was old skool american and british culture too, until hip hop and garage turned em all into pansies doing drive by's using guns and knives to shank ppl in dark allies.