Helping Strangers

[Sanchin-J]

In this day and age, its a crap shoot as to what you could really be getting yourself into if you "come to the rescue" so to speak. I've been known to jump in while people are trying to break up a fight and help get the two combatants seperated, but that's about the extent of what I would be willing to do for them short of calling the police and having them come out.

Short story here, I had a friend named Rob who had just received his assignment to the police academy, 5 days before he was supposed to report, he got involved in a domestic assault situation between two men and a young woman. Apparantly the two men were fighting over this girl and things got out of hand. Rob decided to try and break them up and a gun was pulled, he got shot in the back twice and is now confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life.

I think the best thing you can do is call the police in those situations, if it were a life and death situation involving a rescue or something of that nature it may have been different, if I had confidence that my efforts would help instead of hinder, damn right I'd get involved, but when it comes down to domestic situations, 911 is your friend.

 

[chinto]

my advice is to trust your instincts, be very careful, and remember that the cops will almost always end up involved, and you will provably be doing at least one night in jail in many jurisdictions till they sort it all out. that Time in the jail will be expensive for lawyers fees provably if there are any injury's, and also if you detain some one you could be facing felony charges depending again on the jurisdiction and country you are in... so trust your gut and remember that the consequences could be really very serious!

unfortunately the old saw is true, no good dead does tend to go unpunished at least to some extent. and like the man said, if you are really wrong in reading the situation, you may not survive! If you fight, you may die.

 

[Guardian]

I have helped some people out, sometimes just merely by being there, other times by interceding on the victims behalf depending on the circumstances, the situation around us and factors that I can't account for.

I never rush head on into anything, size up the situation and take appropriate action whether that's as advocated calling the police, making noise, alerting them to me being there, sometimes the smallest thing can prevent the biggest incident.

Whatever you do, be smart about it and don't take uncessary chances that could get you hurt or killed and thus no purpose was served.