EXCLUSIVE: Fight NEARLY Breaks Out on Santa Monica Boulevard

EXCLUSIVE: For some reason there was a lot of violence last night, as shown here in this clip where a hooded individual driving on Santa Monica Boulevard -- with passengers in the car, no less -- pulls over to start some sh*t with a pedestrian.

As the dude gets out of his car and approaches, the pedestrian seems to indicate that he doesn't desire altercation and, wisely, the rear passenger gets out and hauls his friend back into the car.

Another fight averted. Whew! But this video should serve as a good lesson that one never knows when one is being filmed out there, and that one should behave accordingly. In this video, it's pretty apparent that the driver goes out of his way -- even making a U-turn -- to become the aggressor in this situation, not realizing that both he and his license plate number are being filmed. Had some sh*t gone down, his case would not have looked very good in court.

In the words of the great Mr. King: "Can't we all just get along?"