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Did anyone watch Paula Zahn last night? (pg. 5)
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
well i bitched at some lady for talking to her kid like a piece of one time.
obviously that's not the same thing lol but i'm certainly the type to do something about that i dont find to be right.
but yea, u have a point. maybe i would freeze, maybe i wouldn't...but i think my natural reaction would have been to do something.
the first thing that came to my mind when i was watching that video was that i would have told someone near by to get in their car and be ready to run that ****** over after i taunted him to come after me and leave the area where the old man was pinned down. |
ive seen some gruesome things after the fact and it doesnt bother me, but i have yet to see those things happen right in front of my eyes. in all honesty i hope i never do but if i did i hope that i would have the selflessness to try to stop something. |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| quote: | Originally posted by metalgearsolid
I've been in a situation where "I" should have stepped in but didn't b/c I didn't care. Anyways, I later find out on the news that the couple went back home and the husband killed his wife. But oh well that is life. |
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| Slylee |
yea and not to mention, when i was 10 and living in the ghetto, a family downstairs was having problems and the guy was beating the out of his wife, and i ran downstairs and grabbed the 2 little boys and brought them up to our apt until the police came. obviously i wasn't gonna step in and try to break up the adults fighting, but i sure as hell just reacted without even thinking. the first thing i thought of was the boys getting hurt. they were like 3 and 5.
so yea, i'm pretty confident that i'd be one of the doers in a situation like that, rather than a . |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie
Well, if youre asking me specifically, a girl got carjacked at 530 in the morning in front of my apartment two weeks ago. She was delivering the paper. The guy pulled a gun on her.
Not necessarily the same kind of situation, obviously. |
well its similar in a sense but were you there WATCHING it happen? if so why didnt you do anything? |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| The whole story is that her screams woke me up so I ran my shoes and by the time I got outside he had driven away. So my roommate and I stayed with her until the cops came. She was terrified. |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| And like I said before, I have a certain sense of responsibility in these situations. I dont just watch. |
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| igottaknow |
| i don't thing you can chalk it up to being just selfish. when something like this happens our survival instincts take over. you don't see antelope gunning back to help the one who's been caught by the lion. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
yea and not to mention, when i was 10 and living in the ghetto, a family downstairs was having problems and the guy was beating the out of his wife, and i ran downstairs and grabbed the 2 little boys and brought them up to our apt until the police came. obviously i wasn't gonna step in and try to break up the adults fighting, but i sure as hell just reacted without even thinking. the first thing i thought of was the boys getting hurt. they were like 3 and 5.
so yea, i'm pretty confident that i'd be one of the doers in a situation like that, rather than a . |
well its good to know! there arent many people that can just do it. its a rare trait.
ang: see so really you just saw the end result. very different than seeing it happen. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Not really, I live in a sensible land :p
There was this one time, actually, when an old man saw a rapist attacking a girl, grabbed a metal bar that was laying somewhere on the ground and hit the rapist so hard the rapist went into a deep coma.
The guy wasn't convicted. |
well this is the "good ole" US of A...where a murderer can sue because someone beat his ass for murdering someone. |
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| metalgearsolid |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie
What? |
A friend and I were smoking outside a restaurant, taking a break from work. A couple comes out and they are fighting. The women is just trying to leave but the male keeps on pulling her towards the car. He eventually slaps her several times in the head and she looks at my friend and I and asks for help. We didn't reply to her or anything because it wasn't our business.
My friend read the paper and showed me that the women who needed our help was killed by her husband. The very same man who was slapping her and pulling her outside the restaurant. |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
well its good to know! there arent many people that can just do it. its a rare trait.
ang: see so really you just saw the end result. very different than seeing it happen. |
So when I looked out my window to see what was going on I didnt see it happen?
Im confused, I dont understand how this is relating. |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| quote: | Originally posted by metalgearsolid
A friend and I were smoking outside a restaurant, taking a break from work. A couple comes out and they are fighting. The women is just trying to leave but the male keeps on pulling her towards the car. He eventually slaps her several times in the head and she looks at my friend and I and asks for help. We didn't reply to her or anything because it wasn't our business.
My friend read the paper and showed me that the women who needed our help was killed by her husband. The very same man who was slapping her and pulling her outside the restaurant. |
Youre a bunch of bull. |
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