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What would you do? (....IF your closest friend killed someone?) - Read 1st Post

MazDan

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Your in the front garden when just out of view you hear a guy and a girl screaming at each other.
You take a peek and see him starting to push her. She falls over and he moves over her still abusing.
The situation is escalating but at this stage your not sure to what extent.

Would you do anything?

Could you do anything?

Should you do anything?

How would you handle a situation like this?


Maybe something similar has happenned for real in your life. What did you do?

THE WHAT WOULD YOU DO THREAD

This thread presents the users of Aus Social and Events with a moral dilemma that they are free to debate until a new dilemma is put forward.

The issue will change regularly so check this post regularly to see what is up for discussion

THIS WEEKS DILEMMA....

Before reading, in order to answer this one accurately you need to imagine that it truly is your very bestest closest most loved and cherished friend or relative that is the person talking to you.


Your most loved friend, soul mate, relative, bf, gf or whatever speaks to you in confidence over a cup of coffee.

"Ten years ago to the day, I killed xxxxxxx in a fit rage" your told.

You knew xxxxxxx and have always wondered what happenned.



What would you do?
 
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Fuck this is a really hard question to answer....!

My instinct tells me that I would call the cops and immediately step in myself, to try and defuse the situation.

But then, the more I think about it, would it really be worth placing myself in a potentially violent situation like that? If my boyfriend was home at the time he would not let me go out there to intervene, and he would definitely step in (while I call the cops, go team!)
 
Record for 5 minutes for legal aid/purposes + youtube. Then call cop's and step in.
 
^^ Ahh, good idea re: recording it.

But I think I'd do it this way:
1. call cops
2. record for 5 minutes
3. step in

Hopefully I never have to find out what I'd do!!
 
Get mates if possible!

Call police!

Then step in if it escalates! (If hes smaller than me )

If bigger just yell from a safe distance that the cops are on the way and hopefully that quells the situation!
 
1. Call cops.
2. Yell out that the cops will be there in 5 mins.
2. If he is physically hurting her step in regardless.
 
I all honesty I'd just call the cops. It's sad but there is no benefit in stepping in these days. You either run the risk of getting your lights punched out, or if you inflict justice even without a weapon, you are likely to get into more trouble with the law than the bloke who hit his girlfriend :\
 
^Sad but true. Plus, too many times have heroes been killed when trying to help someone being attacked. It's not worth it im afraid. Calling the cops and staying away is the best thing you can do.

I do feel calling the cops is doing plenty, as well. I now if i was being beaten i would be grateful that someone took the time to call the cops for me.
 
If it was violent I would call the cops and probably step in. Personal physical harm's not an issue, you never feel it 'til afterwards anyway. If it was rape I wouldn't hesitate to put a knife in the guy's throat.
 
stepping in isn't about justice. it's about subduing the threat and minimising the damage. seriously, it would be a favour to both of them.

the youtube suggestion is fuckin horrible. you don't post shit like that.
 
^^ No no! Not record it for youtube!! Heavens no.
Record it for potential legal evidence later.

To be honest, recording it would never even enter my mind at the time though. I'm not sure what Gurner Josh meant by putting it up on youtube...
 
I've been in a similar situation, and I stepped in immediately. Fortunately managed to talk the guy down before he started swinging at anyone, but I was ready to roll. If the cops wanna charge me for defending myself/someone else, I will make it my ambition in life to bring down the system.*

*At least until I get home and start playing Modern Warfare 2, that is.
 
I'd probably ask her if she's alright, with the hope that addressing her would provoke him less but still give him the message that someone thinks he's doing the wrong thing.

If necessary, say I'm calling the cops (and do) while scampering inside.
 
Recording is a good idea, I dunno if that would occur to me to be honest at the time...

I would ask the chick if everything's okay, and even if she says it is but I don't think it is, I would call the cops if I thought they were actually gonna get there in time to do anything (eg: the people who live across the road from me are constantly having yelling matches, this one time the woman really sounded like she was in fear of her life; the whole street could hear her screaming, so I called the cops and they came out with teh quickness to check it out....but there's not that much point doing that if it's two peeps on a suburban street who don't give any indication they're not gonna be there long enough for the cops to arrive..)

Whenever I see anything that looks like it might be leading to a confrontation as Maz described, I generally keep a discrete distance to keep an eye on it just in case someone does need help, but you have to be really careful with this stuff because it can be really easy for them both to turn on you so you wanna make sure you're sure you're doing the right thing by interrupting, and don't go barging in like Superman as noble as that might sound, cuz it doesn't help a lot of the time...
 
Society is in a bad way when we need to even consider whether to step in or not.

However, having said that, I was with a friend walking along the street when we heard screaming coming from the other side of the street, where there was a guy dragging a woman along the ground, by her hair while she was screaming at him. Before I had even registered what was going on, my friend had run across the road, grabbed the guy by the throat and pushed him against the wall. Then while I was walking across the road to catch up to him, the woman that was initially being dragged along the ground by her hair had gotten up and was wacking my friend on the back, yelling "let my boyfriend go, you bastard!". I was stunned and stopped in my tracks. My buddy simply let the bloke go and said "Sorry mate, please carry on, and give her one for me".

I still believe we should step in to help, though.
 
Yes well some of us don't want some random freak knifing us. I think that's a perfectly justifiable position.
 
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