"If I hadn't kicked him twice in the balls..."

Wifey looks a bit perturbed.

Also, why would you open your car door when there's a guy in a trench coat and a hood standing there?

 

Marion Barry said, "What, you have a problem with that?"

 

In August. In Alabama.

I expect he didn't see him before he opened the door, though.

 

Yeah, but ...

Here is the story Barton tells:

"I pulled up to the barbershop and there was a guy in a hood and trench coat standing there," he said. "I opened the door and he started pounding me with a baseball bat."

 

That's what Barton gets for pounding the dude's wife with his baseball bat.