What would you do?
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Having previously got involved with a domestic (wife beating incident) and got the husband off with force, and nearly being arrested for my trouble - she started having a go at me once I'd forcibly got him off her!!)
I'd like to think I'd do it again, however, I would think twice with hindsight.....
I'd like to think I'd do it again, however, I would think twice with hindsight.....
I came out of a bar in the city centre a while back and I was just stood in the street waiting for friends when I saw a group of ~15 lads in track suits and baggy jeans stamping and kicking and punching a guy on the floor up the street. (This was the city centre but not on a main road / main drinking road) and I just ran down towards to help, my friends came out of the pub just after I'd started running and immediately ran to help too, I kicked a kid really ****ing hard and tried to grab another, they all ran away and one of my friends tackled one in to something but he ran away too. Guy was a state, Police turned up really, really quickly (it had been on camera I guess) and the Police refused to go after the group of young men (they were kids tbfh) despite us protesting that you could easily cut them off with a police van or car.
All of our details were taken while we waited for the ambulance for the guy, he was a state tbh, and we all gave statements.
Also; similar to your story, stepped between an abusive guy who punched his girlfriend in the smoking area of a bar, I was probably close to 2.5 times the size of him but he still tried to go through me. Friends and a couple of randoms pulled him away and as he threw punches they were thrown back, quickly subdued him and the bouncer came over to help, told us the police were on their way. Wife / Girlfriend / friend went mental (with a bust lip and bruised face) that we a) stepped in to stop her getting hit again b) police were called.
Bouncer told people to clear off as he and the other bouncer had the guy.
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I had a similar one, I was on my own and saw 2 guys punching someone who was already staggering around. Ran up to them shouting and they ran off before I even got there, but they did knock the guy out first
Stayed for the ambulance and police. Police were really dismissive of me, probably as I'd had a few.It's fight or flight as others have said. That's an instinct, not something to be proud of or ashamed of.
I've ended up doing both fight and flight in the past, depending on the situation.
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Same situation, busy town centre, guy having a real go at his women lots of screaming, pushing, shouting and she had a baby in a pram trying to get away. I'd just got dropped off from work in a mates car. I ran over and one punched him to the deck no words just dropped him, went to finish him off and She jumped on me.
I'm trying to explain to her he was going to hurt you and he's laying on the floor telling her to go to the police station. I just shook my head and walked across the road to the bus stop..she runs to police station, and he gets up and comes over giving me crap saying I'd knocked his tooth out "blood all down his face etc" Bus comes, I get on it, he starts screaming at me trying to kick me as I'm getting on, she's no where to be seen. Bus eventually drives off and I never hear anything about it again.
I'd still get involved but maybe not go in swinging if it was a domestic. OPs post I'd jump right in and save the guy, no doubt about it.Couldn't walk away I'd be ashamed too.
Good for you mate, 1000 man points. That could have ended really badly for you though.
That is one of the stupidest reality TV experiments I have ever seen, If I had been waiting for that elevator I would have seriously maimed the attacker before anybody had time to tell me it was a joke. People should think harder before doing stupid things like this :O
Indeed. Imagine if the guy with the fire extinguisher cracked him over the head with it!!