What they say, what they do

[WildWest.]

KOTF, never get mixed up in a domestic.

[kingoftheforest]

You have to asses a situation like this carefully.

I was at a 7-11 one morning 3am to be exact. I had just got off of work at a eatery I worked at (Subway). I was 19 at the time.

I came out of the 7-11 to find a guy beating the crap out of a woman in the parking lot, From all his yelling I could tell it was his girlfriend.

I stepped in grabbed him by the back of the shirt and attempted to restrain him. While I was busy with Mr. Manners his old lady grabbed a pallet board from the ground and begins to beat the crap out of ME with it.

The whole time this crazy chick is yelling at me to stop hurting her man. I shoved him off me and created some distance between me and her.

I then sprinted back into the 7-11 and the attendant had called 9-11.

I am not saying to just let someone get beat but make sure you know whats going on before you do it. In the case of this video I don't the bartender would have been upset if someone would have subdued or knocked the crap out of this guy.

But like several people have pointed out it's easy to say what you would do, but until your there........?

[Sagacious Lu]

It's easy to talk about how tough you would have been after it's all over, and no one wants to admit they'd crap their pants and do nothing even if it's true. I like to think I'd have dented the guy's skull with a bar stool, but then again everyone's a quarterback on monday morning.

[DickHardman]

you have to keep in mind, watching that story and voting on the poll on your laptop while you sit on your couch eating pizza and drinking coca cola while your gf rubs your shoulders is way different then actually being there in that coffee shop and seeing a cop go nuts(who could have been armed as well, and maybe the people didnt interfere for fear of being shot) and pummel a waitress.

[gregimotis]

I first saw this video on CNN last week. It shows an off-duty cop beating the crap out of a female bartender.
While showing the video, CNN flashed a poll they had taken asking whether the respondent would get involved or not. The poll had come back 93% yes, 8% no.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=b5RI8_1BSiY

Yet here in the video, one person at the bar walks around doing (?), the other steps back and maybe calls 911 or something on his cell: Both doing nothing to actually help while the attacker hauls off pounding the woman on the floor. Eventually two people come out from the back but even they don't do much - Looks like the attacker leaves of his own accord.


So 90% of people say they would help, 50% actually do, and of those the 'help' is the minimum possible.