Edinburgh Evening News, the men — understood to be a married couple — were talking to a woman when four men approached them and started to punch, kick, and spit on them in an “unprovoked” attack.“The gay men did not fight back, they only tried to defend themselves,” the witness said. “The boys were laughing, egging each other on and calling the victims poofs,” a British slur for gay men.Not only did no one step in to try and stop the attack, the witness said, but cars continued to drive past — even after one of the victims was pushed into the street — and onlookers stopped to watch, laugh, and record the attack on their phones.The men eventually stopped their attack by grabbing a bag from one of the victims and running away from the.