I have a fun hunting anecdote too
I didn't exactly had a fist fight but I remember once that an old lady was trying to talk me out of buying a Turtles figure.
I was about 7 or 8 at the time and almost every Saturday I had to tag along with my mother and grandmother to the local town to go shopping. Luckily there were 2 toystores there so I could do some hunting.
So I finally found a Bebop, in the back of the shelf, I had to pull out 10 other figures or so to get to him and all of a sudden there's this old lady and her husband.
She starts talking all sad about her grandson who had his birthday the day before and who got some Turtle figures but he didn't get Bebop and that was his favorite. She said he was upset about it and that made her upset. She didn't exactly ask for it, but she tried to psychologically manipulate me in to giving it to her.
Well, that didn't work
I figured that kid just had a bunch of Turtles for his birthday and still wanted more, so he was probably a spoiled brat who didn't deserve this one. So I said something like: "Well, yeah though luck" ( I wasn't exactly good at witty remarks back then) and I walked away
But now lately I kinda miss the hunt. There are almost no 1/6 figs available in stores so online shopping is the only option.
I do let my figs arrive in a local store though, so I don't have to pay shipping costs and I can see the figure in hand before actually paying for it.
So that brings back the hunting feeling a bit
I've had that happen to me before. At Christmas time too you had to watch your cart because people would steal stuff right out of it.