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apostate wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:By the way... I am getting the new IPad today. This makes me cool!

Cool? Perhaps the opposite.

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I heard about that. I have had mine on for several hours now and it isn't any warmer than my laptop gets. Maybe I got lucky.

RoyGBiv wrote:Those women were definitely NOT prostitutes. No way.
Not only was the attire wrong, but, prostitutes are smarter than to bring a yappy mouth to a fist fight.

Funny thing, perception.

Yep....it sure can affect how we react.

Oldgringo wrote:

RoyGBiv wrote:Here's another example for the "WWYD" question...
It's a current topic of discussion on another forum.

This is a video of a drunk walking the street looking for trouble. He finds it in the form of two ladies that walk past him, out of danger, then decide to come back and verbally engage the drunk. It gets physical, so, be warned there is some violence. At 0:15 it appears the offender is spitting at the women, but, it's hard to tell if that's the case, or whether he hits his target.

WWYD if you were a passerby?

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I probably would have missed it as I would have probably walked on by the apparent drunk as the two streetwalkers should have done. AFAIK, the female was his wife or SO and shouldn't have turned to upbraid him while she was out peddling her wares.

I dunno'. WWYD?

IOW, you just never know.

I didn't think about it but maybe your right and she was a prostitute. This makes beating that punk down even sweeter...LOL. His royal pimpness should not be cold cocking females.

"Maybe he should have armed himself before he decorated his saloon with my friend".... One of my favorite movies.

RoyGBiv wrote:Here's another example for the "WWYD" question...
It's a current topic of discussion on another forum.

This is a video of a drunk walking the street looking for trouble. He finds it in the form of two ladies that walk past him, out of danger, then decide to come back and verbally engage the drunk. It gets physical, so, be warned there is some violence. At 0:15 it appears the offender is spitting at the women, but, it's hard to tell if that's the case, or whether he hits his target.

WWYD if you were a passerby?

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I hate to admit this but I would beat hell out of that punk! Then I would try to find his daddy so I could choke him out. YEP... I would have been wrong... that is what lawyers are for.

pbwalker wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:By the way... I am getting the new IPad today. This makes me cool!

It does...I sold my iPad last year and haven't been cool since.

You can still get into heaven, but you won't be allowed to hang out with us cool people. Just say ten "steve jobs" and splash holy water on the hand that accepted the payment for your Ipad.

By the way... I am getting the new IPad today. This makes me cool!

It seems like we are all saying the same thing. We know it is not our responsibility... but in some cases would intervene anyway. In certain situations I might feel it is my "moral obligation" to intervene, while in others I might think only a fool would intervene. These would usually be situations where I believed that my intervening would cause escalation.

I think most of us here would intervene if we saw a person being physically attacked. I know I would in some situations and not other situations. I watched two ghetto women beating each other in the Walgreen's parking lot by my house. Their kids were all standing around them screaming fight advice. I got in my truck laughing at what welfare has done for our society and drove off thinking we would all benefit if someone would just firebomb the parking lot.

Every situation will have nuances that determine my reaction. I won't sit by and watch a woman get raped for instance. I won't sit by as a child is kidnapped. I won't sit by and watch while a thug beats a person in a wheelchair. There may be others and probably are. I will decide at the time, my actions will be determined by how I size up the risk of escalation. For instance... I would watch a guy rob Walmart and do nothing unless said robber started shooting people. I am not going to chase down a purse snatcher. I wouldn't stop a person from breaking into a car. I would call the cops.

All situations are different.... who really knows what they are going to do. It is easy to talk big on the internet and fantasize about how brave we all are. Heck... you might just wet yourself and lock up. Unless you have "been there,done that"... you really don't know.

RoyGBiv wrote:

sugar land dave wrote:That story is so badly written that I am still not sure what went down.

Yep... I had a little trouble knowing what happened also. I have the visual that the two ladies heard noise in the apartment below them. they scream at the guy to go away... he then came upstairs and attacked them??? Afterward, he jumped out their window?

LOL... maybe he was on crack!

It seems calling the police first would have been the better move in this situation. It sounded like the BG ran into their apartment after they yelled at him. That is pretty unusual behavior for a bad guy. In that scenario, I am not sure I would call, hollering at him, a bad move. It turned out bad, but simply hollering at the guy from a different location does not seem risky on the surface. I don't think they went downstairs and confronted him. Calling the cops should have been first move in any case.