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Would you risk your life?

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  • #62
    flanders1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    Depends on the humour I was in since the damsel in distress was probably not minding her stuff anyway. Some junkie stealing to shoot up heroin wouldn't think twice about sticking a knife or needle into you if you cornered him or her.


  • #63
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    involve the police call them on your phone, but dont go over acting the hero worst thing anybody,could do you could end up learning a difficult lesson, if you survive it, come out alive


  • #64
    Brendog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Brendog


    I don't mind helping other people but to be honest I wouldn't go to the degree you did OP.

    Only example where I would help is if I was down the road and the scumbag was running past. I'd knock him down and hold him until the woman arrived.

    Its not a matter of bravery, more the fact that I'm not fit enought to run after anyone. :o


  • #65
    Pedro K
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Pedro K


    In response to the OP, I would like to think I would help yes. I have helped when incidents have happened on my road in the past, but maybe that's not the same, as the people I was helping were neighbours and not total strangers.

    There was one incident in Liffey Valley shopping centre though. Not one involving confrontation, but showing the bystander effect.

    I was going to the cinema and used the bathroom beforehand. As I was using the urinal I noticed there was a handicapped man in a motorised wheelchair in the door of the disabled cubicle. He was also mentally handicapped and couldn't talk properly either. He was clearly distressed though. Nearly crying at one stage. A fair amount of people just walked out the door past him.

    I finished peeing, washed my hands and went over to him. I asked him was he alright and was someone looking after him. He gestured to the control panel on the wheelchair.

    It turned out, as he was reversing into the cubicle, the cable going from the control panel to, what I assume, was the motor got caught on something and fell out.

    I reconnected it, he gestured and made a noise somewhat resembling thank you.

    I couldn't help but think though, how long was he there before I got there and had I done nothing how long could he have stayed there. It must have been hell for him. Can't talk, can't move properly and everyone just walking past the poor lad like he was a leper.

    I also couldn't believe how many people just walked past him.

    I guess I'd be a little more in tune with mentally handicapped people, as my uncle, who died quite young at 39, was mentally handicapped, and I often looked after him.

    I described some of the things my uncle went through in another post in the past. link to post


  • #66
    starviewadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Remember years ago there were two tiny female Gardai struggling to keep a fairly big african lad on the ground at the corner of Westmoreland Street in town,the lad kept trying to bite them and headbutt them when they were trying to handcuff him,it was about 9pm on a summer evening and the street was fairly busy but no one was helping them,a few of the local scumbags were actually shouting abuse and laughing at them.

    I asked if they wanted a hand and they did,so I just basically sat on the fella's back til more Guards arrived and they finally got him in the back of a van.They were very thankful for the help afterwards,and I told them I was surprised that nobody offered to help them but they siad that its fairly common for people to ignore stuff like that,even on a busy street in daylight.Crazy!


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  • #67
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Yeah a guy stealing a purse could potentially have a knife or needle, it isnt worth risking your life. Would only get involved if someone was getting assaulted.


  • #68
    Leonard Magnificent Backache
    Posts: 6,645 ✭✭✭ Leonard Magnificent Backache


    I think risking your life over a phone or a wallet is ridiculous. Wouldn't even think about doing it and make no apologies for that.

    If someone's life was in danger, I'd help but probably not risk my own life to do so unless it was a family member or close friend.


  • #69
    Warper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭Warper


    No one knows unless the occasion happens to them. We all feel brave thinking about situations.


  • #70
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Ares wrote: »
    Can anyone remember the case last year, I think it was in Ennis where some lad attacked another lad in some public place stabbing him with about 50 people watching and not one did a single thing.

    Pretty sad that its come to this.

    Edit; Found it. http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1212/clare.html



    People in groups are retarded quite simply. Cowards following the herd mentality of someone else will intervene.

    Persons are intelliegent, people are incredibly stupid.
    Needs to be sewn onto a pillow:)


  • #71
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Get an actor, dress him up rough and have him collapse outside a train station, people stay walking

    And I think I would do the same. Got a punch off a wino in Eyre Sq Galway once and that place was just full of winos.

    Then get a smartly dressed actor, hits the ground and gets help swiftly

    Interesting but not surpising
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSsPfbup0ac

    I think thats kind of stupid, its not that I wouldnt have helped those people, its just the girl didnt look ill or dead or anything, I just would have thought she was drunk and had passed out.

    Then the first guy I would have just thought he was a junkie and was gone mug me if I tried to help him,its not that I just wouldnt help him because nobody else would.The last guy, the suit I would have helped but not just because he was in a suit its just he looked least likely to be lying on a street and so itd seem most strange and I would go to help him.

    The girl looked to comfortable the way she was lying , if she was face down or something and didnt just look drunk I definitely would help her.

    And anyway I was in London just last week and this guy about 20 years old dressed sort of the same casual way as the first guy in the video fell of his bike and about 5 londoners went up to him straight away to see if he was alright.


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  • #72
    Lannigan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭Lannigan


    Frankly I think what you did was not only brave but incredibly unselfish.
    Dublin, Ireland in fact has become a country of selfish mé Feiners. As long as I am not involved id doesn't concern me.
    If we had more people like you who is prepared to stand up and say that this behaviour is unacceptable, our crime rate would be halved.
    Now don't get me wrong, I am not advocating have a go hero sort of actions. Just enough people to say no or to block the guy you chased.
    As far as I am concerned, the guys that didn't do anything are cowards and those that criticised you are even worse.
    Well done to you sir I applaud your bravery and your actions.


  • #73
    studdlymurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭studdlymurphy


    I would have ran out after him and as soon as I got out of view just casually go on about my buisness. Theres nothing better than a free meal.....


  • #74
    dave3004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dave3004


    That was a brave thing you did.

    You are a hero.

    A genuine hero.

    :D


  • #75
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,646 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Would of chased them too tbh. But my GF would of killed me afterwards


  • #76
    December2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    I think you were really stupid to be honest. It's a effing purse, not a baby. Material items do not matter, the safest thing to do was to forget about it.

    It reminds me of the time my boyfriend (as he then was) and me were walking home in Dublin city centre and we saw a guy "bounce" his girlfriends head off the closed shutters on the shops on the street. When my boyfriend and his mates intervened the girl started having a go at them and attacking them.

    So it's not a case of being ignorant or selfish, it's about safety and preservation.

    We went to a place that was safe and the rang the cops to report the domestic assault, which she probably denied anyway.


  • #77
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    I think it's only right to do something
    I remember 5 year ago was in nightclub with bout ten of me mates and this young lad we didn't know kept buying drink for us and was left by his mates so we put up with him he was actually sound lad but after club closed we were at the chipper and some lad out of nowhere just swung at him and I grabbed the bloke and threw him against the wall of the chipper and hit him a few digs
    the lad that got hit his mates turned up and gave me all sorts of praise sayin they had lost him during the night and were lookin for him and thankin me sayin not many would've stood in
    Unfortunately the lad that swung at him also had a few mates and big brawl happened with one lad pullin out a blade he didn get to use it as my mate floored him suppose you could say there are consequences with one ir two of us lookin a bit banged up and it could've gotten worse but wouldn't of felt right to not help the young lad out


  • #78
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    It seems they beat the punctuation out of you :rolleyes:


  • #79
    Memory Of 98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭Memory Of 98


    Some interesting views here. There is not much middle ground it seems, either definately yes, or definately no.

    I have to say, some of the stories were very moving, some of the people who posted deserve a round of applause. From dragging people from burning cars to drop kicking drug addicted scanger's into alleyways to save women.

    I hope that everyone who said "ignore" will have some interveners nearby to help them if they ever get into trouble, and not just some fellow ignorer's.


  • #80
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    If I was near and aware enough ,yes I would try and help.


  • #81
    John37
    Site Banned Posts: 161 ✭✭John37


    Leonard Magnificent Backache wrote: »
    I think risking your life over a phone or a wallet is ridiculous. Wouldn't even think about doing it and make no apologies for that.

    If someone's life was in danger, I'd help but probably not risk my own life to do so unless it was a family member or close friend.


    True

    Would only risk my life for a close family member bot no way a friend or stranger. Blood is thicker then water;)


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  • #82
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    opinion guy wrote: »
    It seems they beat the punctuation out of you :rolleyes:

    Gramma Nazi's are a total pain in the hole!


  • #83
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    RachaelVO wrote: »
    Gramma Nazi's are a total pain in the hole!

    Grammar =/= punctuation

    I don't care if people grammar errors like spelling the word 'grammar' wrong. ;)
    However I do care when people post walls of text with no fullstops commas or capital letters because its difficutl and anooying to read and decipher


  • #84
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I often physically try to stop people fighting (drunk people usually) on the streets/in clubs. It's something that I've instinctively done for years. Which is weird because I'm a girl. It often shocks people and I get given out to about it a lot...don't know why I do it really.


  • #85
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Did ye get the ride?


  • #86
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    RachaelVO wrote: »
    Gramma Nazi's are a total pain in the hole!
    superflous apostrophe


  • #87
    laoch na mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    id help


  • #88
    Private Piles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭Private Piles


    Yep, I'd have done the same OP.

    Not too sure if it's a good thing though... I always just react instantly, no thought, nothing, just a reflex action!
    Afterwards it's all a blur!

    Once years ago, walking on Baggot St, a bus stopped at the junction where I was crossing. In the corner of my eye I saw a girl leaning against the bus window with a back pack on. There was an guy standing REALLY close behind her, he was very slowly opening the zip of her back pack.
    He was doing it in such a way that I instinctively knew he was up to no good.

    This would have been hidden from view of the rest of the passengers, you could only see it from the street. Next thing I know I'm standing in the middle of the road banging and pounding on the bus window, half mouthing/half screaming ''He's trying to rob you,...ROB YOU...'' and pointing at her bag and the guy.

    Then I just turned around and walked off as if nothing had happened. :confused:

    Like that's what I think is slightly alarming, that you can just react to something whether you want to or not!!


  • #89
    Vicar in a tutu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    Lia_lia wrote: »
    I often physically try to stop people fighting (drunk people usually) on the streets/in clubs. It's something that I've instinctively done for years. Which is weird because I'm a girl. It often shocks people and I get given out to about it a lot...don't know why I do it really.


    I have a friend that does the exact same thing, we give out to her alot because you just dont know if things could turn really nasty and she would end up worse for wear, especially drunk people! they'd just turn on ya!:eek:


  • #90
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Fair play to you OP...decent thing for you to do.


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  • #91
    IsMiseLisa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭IsMiseLisa


    I'd help.

    I was chilling in my house one day when I heard screams for help. At first I thought I was hearing things, and it was night time so I was kinda scared, but she only screamed louder so I went to them, barefoot and all. I found a domestic, wherein a lad was trying to strangle his pregnant girlfriend. Stuck myself right in the middle of it, which was stupid, I guess. He could have really hurt me, but if I'd have left it I'm sure he'd have killed her and their baby. Sick f-ck.

    The sad thing is she didn't want me to call the guards.

    I've never felt adrenaline like it.

    That said, if a task involved me chasing someone down, I wouldn't do it as I'm lazy and unfit. Likewise, if there was more than one attacker, I don't know how I'd react.


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