The gangs are always meaner on the other side, or so went the thinking of two crews of teens who got in a brawl after slinging insults across a capital street on Saturday.

Set up on opposite edges of a Sen Sok district boulevard, the rivals lobbed insults at each other before turning to sticks, stones and an alleged knife, but no one was seriously injured and after cops came to arrest the miscreants they were given a lecture about proper use of public spaces before being set free.

Koh Santepheap