I am not really sure how to really describe this video. Crazy dude beating a fat women with a flashlight that for some reason is in the back of the truck in a parking lot. Bunch of people confront the guy and it goes downhill from there. Some serious Jerry Springer type stuff.
As a matter of principle I will never involve myself when a man is beating up a woman.
As soon as you step in to help, she’ll turn on you.
Then both attack you.
Domestic nuttiness is something to stay FAR FAR away from…
Ask any cop.
As bad as I feel for the women in cases like this, it comes down to they have to decide to leave those guys. You’re not going to go in and fix this in 30 seconds. It’s a crappy world and I have a wife I actually want to get home to.
Call the cops but I’m not going to get involved in the most uncivil of civil wars.
I’ve seen it go both ways. But one memory sticks.
Walking through a hotel, saw a man pulling a young woman out of a bar against her will right as a friend and I walked by. She was pulling, struggling to go back in and verbally objecting. My friend sidestepped directly between them and walked the man back a few steps and suggested strongly he turn and walk away. I took her by the elbow a few steps and suggested she make a phone call for someone to escort her to her room. This may not have been as civil a resolution, had not two marines on leave and acquaintances stumble through the door with much merriment clap us on the back, ask how we were and who was this guy? The gentleman said he thought she needed help, but was ok, and left.
It was the most bizarre, brazen, thing I ever saw someone do in public.
Seems to me there is a story like this involving George Patton…
It was talked about in the movie bearing his name but had factual backing.
Getting in on something like that is what Cops get paid to do.
I would be hard pressed to get involved or between these two on a bet. I can imagine this was something very trivial that escalated and could be measured by the liquid ounces of alcohol consumed by the two of them.
Well that, or perhaps the last corn muffin at the Golden Corral Buffet.
Those Mag lights may be old school, but they leave a heck of a mark.
I think that it is funny how everyone here says that you must be able to protect yourself and your because the police will never make it in time to do anything but a homicide report.
I find this very interesting.
Why the change in mind set when it APPEARS to be a DV? I watched the video and for all we know he was Buffalo Bill looking for a new skin suit.
There are times when I’ll hang my ass out in the wind for a complete stranger and there are times when I won’t. Most DV issues tend to be in the “won’t” category. Too many unknowns for me.
Well, it would have been a very large skin suit.
‘You and yours’ sums it up all very well. Pretty obvious it’s a DV case and why should I risk my life because she’s made bad decisons? DV is horrible, but she’s the only one that can fix the situation. Call the cops, tell the guy the cops are on the way.
It seems to me that those guys are in pretty loose legal authority to go after the guy when he’s in his cab, or jumping I the back to break the window. You aren’t defending anyone at that point. Sure, it would be fun and do a soul good to tune that fat bastard up.
One of the worst ass kickins I ever got… Pulling a man off of a women!
Now that made me laugh… :lol:
Hmm. I give you guys credit, you are honest about not being good citizens. Our perceptions of civic duty differ.
Buffalo Bill wasn’t a small guy.
Holy cankles Batman! :eek:
Yeah, I wouldn’t have thrown down with tubs. Call 911, document on phone cam, etc. Once he got into the cab the guys began hitting him. The assault was over at that point, the victim was breathing and conscious. Let the pros do their work. It would be different if she was unresponsive and he was smashing her skull into paste with the mag light. What would those guys have done had he started in hitting them in the head with his light or pulled out a shotgun from the cab of his pickup? Risk vs. reward and all that.
Never get involved. No matter what, you’re the bad guy.
Some people deserve each other.
Hard won experience has shown me that these ‘battered wives’ get off on it on some level. Be it drama, or thinking they ‘gots a real man’.
It’s like cats and trees. Mittens got herself up there, she can get herself down.
Man the harpoons.
Seriously? OK, so what happens when you go Captain America and discover the “fight” was because she smoked all their meth? What happens you step in to save the day and the guy is still holding so she stabs you because she thinks you are after their drugs?
That chick was nowhere near hot enough for the risk…
But seriously, especially if you are CCWing, you are going to get in the middle of that CF? My life and everything Ive worked for risked for that chick?
Nobody said anything about going all Captain America. Also, as a fun fact I also noticed that no one commented on the fact that the red-blooded American citizens who did take action seemed to be English as a second language.
But back on topic - you see an apparently defenseless woman, being assaulted by a man using a metal object, she is asking for help and is obviously pretty much at the mercy of her assailant. You think the answer is do nothing. You live with your decisions, I’ll live with mine.