When do you try to stop violence in public? (1 Viewer)

[IC FBGCav]

What are todays standards?

 

[PIK95]

If I see something I can stop I'm in.

 

[Thunderlips]

I'd like to think that if I were at one of those McDonalds style beat downs I'd go over, pull the fire alarm and then walk out. But I'm not jumping in.

 

[IC FBGCav]

I think a really hard thing could be video or stop fight if you are the only one there.

 

[mr roboto]

Depends. A couple drunk idiots fighting? Nope. Let em go.

A dude hitting a woman or kid? I'm gonna do something if I can. My buddy and I stopped a guy who was slapping a woman around outside a bar in Stockholm about 10 years ago. But my buddy is 6'5" 265 former amateur league hockey player so that gave me more confidence.

 

[KCitons]

Depends. A couple drunk idiots fighting? Nope. Let em go.

A dude hitting a woman or kid? I'm gonna do something if I can. My buddy and I stopped a guy who was slapping a woman around outside a bar in Stockholm about 10 years ago. But my buddy is 6'5" 265 former amateur league hockey player so that gave me more confidence.

You sat in the bar with a cold beer, while your friend went outside to deal with the guy? j/k

Being a sawed off runt, I have to pick my battles. Maybe if two midgets were going at it, maybe I'd feel the need to step in.

 

[Willie Neslon]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

 

[Jayrod]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

Falls on your knee?

 

[Willie Neslon]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

Falls on your knee?

An in-laws wife worked in special ed. Two kids start fighting, one of them goes down right into the side of her knee and she pretty much couldn't teach anymore after that moment. Knee was never the same, life changed forever. Now she had no choice, she's not going to let those kids fight but you as a stranger in a public place have a choice.

 

[Jayrod]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

Falls on your knee?

An in-laws wife worked in special ed. Two kids start fighting, one of them goes down right into the side of her knee and she pretty much couldn't teach anymore after that moment. Knee was never the same, life changed forever. Now she had no choice, she's not going to let those kids fight but you as a stranger in a public place have a choice.

This is a key word in the story.

 

[Pipes]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

No but that Walmart example there was a good minute of #### talking before the fight occurred. It would've been real easy to escort the heffer in the scooter away from the situation before she turned back around. I'm all for a good fight but just get real annoyed that now a days people's first thought is to pull out their damn phones. There's been a ton of these lately. White trash beating each other up, fine. But what about the ones where high school kids are getting the snot kicked out of them and a bunch of idiots are standing there with their cameras out? It's very disturbing.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Is it more violent than say 1990 though? I don't know the answer, but the schools I went to had a good deal of violence (no gun play though).

 

[mr roboto]

Depends. A couple drunk idiots fighting? Nope. Let em go.

A dude hitting a woman or kid? I'm gonna do something if I can. My buddy and I stopped a guy who was slapping a woman around outside a bar in Stockholm about 10 years ago. But my buddy is 6'5" 265 former amateur league hockey player so that gave me more confidence.

You sat in the bar with a cold beer, while your friend went outside to deal with the guy? j/kBeing a sawed off runt, I have to pick my battles. Maybe if two midgets were going at it, maybe I'd feel the need to step in.

We left a bar and were walking down the street - heard something in an alley outside of another bar. Looked down the alley and saw a guy and girl arguing. He hauled off and smacked her hard across the face. My buddy yelled and we started walking toward them. The ### hole looked at us (probably just at my buddy) and backed away with his hands up. The girl was bleeding from her lip. We took her into the bar and someone called a cab for her.

 

[Willie Neslon]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

Falls on your knee?

An in-laws wife worked in special ed. Two kids start fighting, one of them goes down right into the side of her knee and she pretty much couldn't teach anymore after that moment. Knee was never the same, life changed forever. Now she had no choice, she's not going to let those kids fight but you as a stranger in a public place have a choice.

This is a key word in the story.

Yeah, men never suffer knee injuries.

 

[Jayrod]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

Falls on your knee?

An in-laws wife worked in special ed. Two kids start fighting, one of them goes down right into the side of her knee and she pretty much couldn't teach anymore after that moment. Knee was never the same, life changed forever. Now she had no choice, she's not going to let those kids fight but you as a stranger in a public place have a choice.

This is a key word in the story.

Yeah, men never suffer knee injuries.

Sorry, Nancy. I wasn't challenging your manhood......yet.

 

[Willie Neslon]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

No but that Walmart example there was a good minute of #### talking before the fight occurred. It would've been real easy to escort the heffer in the scooter away from the situation before she turned back around. I'm all for a good fight but just get real annoyed that now a days people's first thought is to pull out their damn phones. There's been a ton of these lately. White trash beating each other up, fine. But what about the ones where high school kids are getting the snot kicked out of them and a bunch of idiots are standing there with their cameras out? It's very disturbing.

I just don't understand how anyone would even have the thought cross their mind that they need to "break up" two complete strangers having a smack talking conversation. Can you see the future or something? What would you say to them? "Hey, don't talk to her like that"? Again, people watch the whole video and then are 100% sure what they would have done if they were right there at the very beginning of the situation. I simply don't believe anyone would do anything other than stare in disbelief. If you go around physically getting in the middle of every verbal altercation you see then you're just asking for trouble.

 

[KCitons]

Depends. A couple drunk idiots fighting? Nope. Let em go.

A dude hitting a woman or kid? I'm gonna do something if I can. My buddy and I stopped a guy who was slapping a woman around outside a bar in Stockholm about 10 years ago. But my buddy is 6'5" 265 former amateur league hockey player so that gave me more confidence.

You sat in the bar with a cold beer, while your friend went outside to deal with the guy? j/kBeing a sawed off runt, I have to pick my battles. Maybe if two midgets were going at it, maybe I'd feel the need to step in.

We left a bar and were walking down the street - heard something in an alley outside of another bar. Looked down the alley and saw a guy and girl arguing. He hauled off and smacked her hard across the face. My buddy yelled and we started walking toward them. The ### hole looked at us (probably just at my buddy) and backed away with his hands up. The girl was bleeding from her lip. We took her into the bar and someone called a cab for her.

I liked my version better.

 

[Willie Neslon]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

Falls on your knee?

An in-laws wife worked in special ed. Two kids start fighting, one of them goes down right into the side of her knee and she pretty much couldn't teach anymore after that moment. Knee was never the same, life changed forever. Now she had no choice, she's not going to let those kids fight but you as a stranger in a public place have a choice.

This is a key word in the story.

Yeah, men never suffer knee injuries.

Sorry, Nancy. I wasn't challenging your manhood......yet.

I'm guessing you're drunk?

 

[Jayrod]

Maybe as bad as Internet tough guy is the guy who insists everyone is a weak unatheltic old dude who can't handle anything physical.

 

[Pipes]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

No but that Walmart example there was a good minute of #### talking before the fight occurred. It would've been real easy to escort the heffer in the scooter away from the situation before she turned back around. I'm all for a good fight but just get real annoyed that now a days people's first thought is to pull out their damn phones. There's been a ton of these lately. White trash beating each other up, fine. But what about the ones where high school kids are getting the snot kicked out of them and a bunch of idiots are standing there with their cameras out? It's very disturbing.

I just don't understand how anyone would even have the thought cross their mind that they need to "break up" two complete strangers having a smack talking conversation. Can you see the future or something? What would you say to them? "Hey, don't talk to her like that"? Again, people watch the whole video and then are 100% sure what they would have done if they were right there at the very beginning of the situation. I simply don't believe anyone would do anything other than stare in disbelief. If you go around physically getting in the middle of every verbal altercation you see then you're just asking for trouble.

I can't recall that last time I've seen a heated verbal altercation like this so I'm pretty sure I'm not asking for trouble.

 

[Jayrod]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

Falls on your knee?

An in-laws wife worked in special ed. Two kids start fighting, one of them goes down right into the side of her knee and she pretty much couldn't teach anymore after that moment. Knee was never the same, life changed forever. Now she had no choice, she's not going to let those kids fight but you as a stranger in a public place have a choice.

This is a key word in the story.

Yeah, men never suffer knee injuries.

Sorry, Nancy. I wasn't challenging your manhood......yet.

I'm guessing you're drunk?

Actually, no. Just think your insistence that everyone stay out of every fight ever is stupid.

 

[AAABatteries]

Maybe if two midgets were going at it

 

[Willie Neslon]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

Falls on your knee?

An in-laws wife worked in special ed. Two kids start fighting, one of them goes down right into the side of her knee and she pretty much couldn't teach anymore after that moment. Knee was never the same, life changed forever. Now she had no choice, she's not going to let those kids fight but you as a stranger in a public place have a choice.

This is a key word in the story.

Yeah, men never suffer knee injuries.

Sorry, Nancy. I wasn't challenging your manhood......yet.

I'm guessing you're drunk?

Actually, no. Just think your insistence that everyone stay out of every fight ever is stupid.

I never said that. I pick and choose my battles. i don't need to prove my manhood by mixing it up every chance I get.

 

[Pipes]

Depends. A couple drunk idiots fighting? Nope. Let em go.

A dude hitting a woman or kid? I'm gonna do something if I can. My buddy and I stopped a guy who was slapping a woman around outside a bar in Stockholm about 10 years ago. But my buddy is 6'5" 265 former amateur league hockey player so that gave me more confidence.

You sat in the bar with a cold beer, while your friend went outside to deal with the guy? j/kBeing a sawed off runt, I have to pick my battles. Maybe if two midgets were going at it, maybe I'd feel the need to step in.

We left a bar and were walking down the street - heard something in an alley outside of another bar. Looked down the alley and saw a guy and girl arguing. He hauled off and smacked her hard across the face. My buddy yelled and we started walking toward them. The ### hole looked at us (probably just at my buddy) and backed away with his hands up. The girl was bleeding from her lip. We took her into the bar and someone called a cab for her.

I'm surprised you lived to tell about it.

 

[Willie Neslon]

Maybe as bad as Internet tough guy is the guy who insists everyone is a weak unatheltic old dude who can't handle anything physical.

I ran 4 miles today at a 7:20 pace six weeks after breaking my elbow. You're barking up the wrong tree chubs.

 

[Jayrod]

Maybe as bad as Internet tough guy is the guy who insists everyone is a weak unatheltic old dude who can't handle anything physical.

I ran 4 miles today at a 7:20 pace six weeks after breaking my elbow. You're barking up the wrong tree chubs.

Wow, "only" six weeks, huh. Running, huh?

 

[Willie Neslon]

Maybe as bad as Internet tough guy is the guy who insists everyone is a weak unatheltic old dude who can't handle anything physical.

I ran 4 miles today at a 7:20 pace six weeks after breaking my elbow. You're barking up the wrong tree chubs.

Wow, "only" six weeks, huh. Running, huh?

Yes, running. It's that thing you can't do. And yes, "only" six weeks. It's a long term injury.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

WTF are you guys talking about?

Thought the subject was interesting, do you not have anything data-related I can consume?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Take it to the running thread, jerkoffs

 

[Fennis]

Take it the What would happen if I fought a featherweight boxer? thread, jerkoffs

 

[Jayrod]

Maybe as bad as Internet tough guy is the guy who insists everyone is a weak unatheltic old dude who can't handle anything physical.

I ran 4 miles today at a 7:20 pace six weeks after breaking my elbow. You're barking up the wrong tree chubs.

Wow, "only" six weeks, huh. Running, huh?

Yes, running. It's that thing you can't do. And yes, "only" six weeks. It's a long term injury.

How do you know what I can and can't do?

 

[FUBAR]

Take it to the running thread, jerkoffs

No, don't.

 

[FUBAR]

What are todays standards?

Big disparity of power like an adult beating on a kid and an obvious assault, I'll break it up.

Adult threatening a kid or smaller person, it usually just takes a look or letting the guy know you're around, without threatening him directly.

But I haven't been in a bar in a long time, drunks are different. For those I'm probably just calling the bouncer or cops.

 

[Gary Coal Man]

Seems like a good place to leave this timely article....

June 9, 2015

Victim of brutal Metro attack wants justice

WASHINGTON - A man who was badly beaten after he says he tried to break up a fight on the Metro is sharing his story with FOX 5. Anthony Thomas, 46, was hit over and over early Sunday morning on the Green Line. He says he was trying to stop an altercation between two teenagers and a 54-year-old man. Video of the fight posted to Facebook went viral.

“I remember when he hit me the first time, but don't remember much after that,” said Thomas.

Thomas says a man started cursing at the teenagers after they put their feet up on the seat behind him. Words turned into a physical fight.

“I said, ‘I was like damn, why did you hit those kids?' He came at me. I got kind of smart with him too. He came at me and started beating me for no reason,” said Thomas.

The victim's injuries are extensive. It starts with a broken jaw and a fractured cheekbone. His lip needed seven stitches. He is taking painkillers and antibiotics and has surgery scheduled for Friday.

“They're going to put a plate in and I'll be drinking through a straw for the whole entire time. I know I'm going to lose a lot of weight,” he said.

Thomas says he didn't want to press charges until he saw his face and then the video. Despite the pain, Thomas says he doesn't regret stepping in to help, but now he wants justice.

“I think he needs to go to jail for this and I think Metro needs to put some more security on these trains,” said Thomas.

The mother of one of the teens involved wants to press charges. Metro says this is an active investigation. They are working in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney's Office at this point. No arrests have been made.

 

[rockaction]

The one time I tried to defend a woman I didn't know her assailant and his three friends beat the crap out of me. I have two fake teeth to show for my chivalry.

I have a lovely and incredibly expensive bridge to show for the time I objected to a mugging. I can only hope that it lasts, or I'm out another ten grand plus.

Also, I can specifically remember jumping up to break up a violent assault of a woman in Adams Morgan, D.C., only to have a very wise girlfriend grab me and tell me it wasn't my fight.

Dude was at least 6'4 or 6'5" and jacked to all hell. I wasn't helping her anyway. One punch and she was out cold.

He was arrested rather quickly, IIRC.

 

[acarey50]

Unless my wife or kids is at risk, I would avoid getting involved as much as possible. Now, if it is an adult beating a kid or some other extreme example, I may jump in, but I'd be hesitant to if I am with my kids. Two drunks or Walmart Rednecks going at it, let em go - call cops or security.

Too much risk of someone having a gun, etc. and nowadays if you were to get involved physically to help someone you'd likely be looking at getting sued yourself.

 

[Capella]

Woman or a kid. That's it. Two grown men could be about to kill each other and I wouldn't bother.

 

[Jayrod]

Seems like a good place to leave this timely article....

June 9, 2015

Victim of brutal Metro attack wants justice

WASHINGTON - A man who was badly beaten after he says he tried to break up a fight on the Metro is sharing his story with FOX 5. Anthony Thomas, 46, was hit over and over early Sunday morning on the Green Line. He says he was trying to stop an altercation between two teenagers and a 54-year-old man. Video of the fight posted to Facebook went viral.

I remember when he hit me the first time, but don't remember much after that, said Thomas.

Thomas says a man started cursing at the teenagers after they put their feet up on the seat behind him. Words turned into a physical fight.

I said, I was like damn, why did you hit those kids?' He came at me. I got kind of smart with him too. He came at me and started beating me for no reason, said Thomas.

The victim's injuries are extensive. It starts with a broken jaw and a fractured cheekbone. His lip needed seven stitches. He is taking painkillers and antibiotics and has surgery scheduled for Friday.

They're going to put a plate in and I'll be drinking through a straw for the whole entire time. I know I'm going to lose a lot of weight, he said.

Thomas says he didn't want to press charges until he saw his face and then the video. Despite the pain, Thomas says he doesn't regret stepping in to help, but now he wants justice.

I think he needs to go to jail for this and I think Metro needs to put some more security on these trains, said Thomas.

The mother of one of the teens involved wants to press charges. Metro says this is an active investigation. They are working in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney's Office at this point. No arrests have been made.

If the dude hasn't been arrested yet, how do they his exact age? So, they have caught him but didn't arrest him? That seems odd.

 

[sbonomo]

The one time I tried to defend a woman I didn't know her assailant and his three friends beat the crap out of me. I have two fake teeth to show for my chivalry.

I was jumped by four guys ended up in the middle of the street getting the crap kicked out of me....girls waived goodbye and smiled as they jumped in a cab and left. Not sure I would do that again. Ruined my favorite shirt and I got to walk around with two eyes swollen shut for a few days....

 

[rockaction]

The one time I tried to defend a woman I didn't know her assailant and his three friends beat the crap out of me. I have two fake teeth to show for my chivalry.

I was jumped by four guys ended up in the middle of the street getting the crap kicked out of me....girls waived goodbye and smiled as they jumped in a cab and left. Not sure I would do that again. Ruined my favorite shirt and I got to walk around with two eyes swollen shut for a few days....

That sounds extra evil. Glad I've given up any pretense of chivalry or worry about the whole antiquated notion of sex roles. Seems like this stuff happens more often than not, and meddling just leads to your ### kicked and unappreciated.

 

[ghostguy123]

Every situation is 100% unique.

In one situation in a crowded place I can easily see stepping in.

Same situation with no bystanders, hell no.

Throw out some specific examples and maybe we get somewhere here.

Oh, and the running talk is hilarious here. Please dont stop that

 

[In The Zone]

My answer is

When I'm about to get my ### kicked.

 

[xulf]

An injury to my brain, hands, eyes, face, or arms would dramatically impact my ability to do my job...and my pay. No chance based on potential injury or being sued...unless its a super severe.

 

[ILUVBEER99]

never unless it involved family or friends. just not worth it.

 

[boots11234]

If I see someone swinging a bat at someone's head, I'd pull out the pistol, otherwise not a chance unless it was A family member.

 

[Jayrod]

If I see someone swinging a bat at someone's head, I'd pull out the pistol, otherwise not a chance unless it was A family member.

But what about B family member or C family member?

 

[sbonomo]

The one time I tried to defend a woman I didn't know her assailant and his three friends beat the crap out of me. I have two fake teeth to show for my chivalry.

I was jumped by four guys ended up in the middle of the street getting the crap kicked out of me....girls waived goodbye and smiled as they jumped in a cab and left. Not sure I would do that again. Ruined my favorite shirt and I got to walk around with two eyes swollen shut for a few days....

That sounds extra evil. Glad I've given up any pretense of chivalry or worry about the whole antiquated notion of sex roles. Seems like this stuff happens more often than not, and meddling just leads to your ### kicked and unappreciated.

they were following me and a few buddies to after hours....guy started giving them a hard time....I basically just asked them nicely to leave them alone....next thing I know i getting killed by four peolle that came from across the street...will never do that again...after being kicked for the 20th time I finally lost it and just started windmilling (think of randomly throwing haymakers at empty space)....luckily caught two of them and engaged with the biggest guy. At that point I couldn't feel anything feel anything so I ate a stiff jab and caught him with a two punch combo that knocked him down....they all ran after that....I can't imagine what everyone on the street thought of that whole encounter....

 

[kentric]

Depends. A couple drunk idiots fighting? Nope. Let em go.

A dude hitting a woman or kid? I'm gonna do something if I can. My buddy and I stopped a guy who was slapping a woman around outside a bar in Stockholm about 10 years ago. But my buddy is 6'5" 265 former amateur league hockey player so that gave me more confidence.

You sat in the bar with a cold beer, while your friend went outside to deal with the guy? j/kBeing a sawed off runt, I have to pick my battles. Maybe if two midgets were going at it, maybe I'd feel the need to step in.

How about a battle royale with 5 year olds?

 

[kentric]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

I for one would be willing to step into a two woman fight. My intervention would be conditional though. The two woman would need to be totally hot and they would have to fight in a vat of Jello.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

If someone was being assaulted against their will, if someone was injured, if a security guard was breaking something up and specifically ask me for help then I wouldn't hesitate to lend a hand. If it is like the two women fighting in the Walmart there is no way I do anything and I highly, highly doubt anyone else here would. Two idiots want to roll around on the floor and pull each others hair, good for them. No way I'm getting down on the floor and rolling around with them just so i can put an end to it. i was in the supermarket tonight and thought what if two people were wrestling around in the cereal aisle, would I get in there and try to break it up? Not a chance. You get in the middle, one of them falls on your knee and you never walk the same again. When people ask why you walk with a limp you can tell them it was because you're tried and true red-blooded man who absolutely had to stop a fight in the supermarket. Everyone will be so impressed.

I for one would be willing to step into a two woman fight. My intervention would be conditional though. The two woman would need to be totally hot and they would have to fight in a vat of Jello.

I think your conditions are too limiting. I am going to try to convince you to change your position. Won't you at least consider intervening if, instead of a vat, the two hotties are in a pool or on a large tarp, and couldn't you at least consider adding pudding, whip crème, or frosting to the list of acceptable food stuffs.