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Lysander
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This morning I woke up to a very disturbing story from my parents. Apparently at 2 am in the morning my parents woke up and heard a man beating a woman while they walk down our street. Apparently she was screaming at him to please stop hurting hurt, while he was just screaming at her to shut up. My parents at first thought it was some drunks (we get drunks on our street a bit) and it took them awhile to register what was going on (my mum uses earplugs and my dad snores). They then bolted up, but didn't do much. They where to scared that if they intervened that it might endanger the rest of the family. My sister woke up, but was to scared to do anything, but go to my parents. I was dead asleep with out dog, because we both had stayed awake till around 1 am. I didn't hear any of this or anything; I just heard the story this morning. My mum apparently got enough courage to go outside and peek around some bushes she didn't have anything because the only thing on hand was kitchen knives and a sledgehammer that she couldn't really use. They had moved down the street by then and she was just whimpering and he was getting quieter. My mum forgot to grab her phone so she didn't know what to do. They both then stayed up for a few hours worrying over what to do. Apparently they didn't call the cops, because they thought that what little info they had wouldn't be helpful and would just make them frustrated with my parents. My mums now trying to figure out if she calls the crime stoppers hotline.
Anyways I know that if I had been up I would have grabbed the sledgehammer and ran after the dude yelling at him to leave her alone. I would also tell my parents to call the cops. And tell him that the cops where coming I would try to talk him down, but if he didn't I would react violently to protect her. Fuck the danger, when someone else is in trouble I don't give a shit. Now I'm really pissed at myself for not being able to help.
My question is what would you do in that situation? Have you ever had crime around you that you felt you could have stopped? If so did you stop it? Do you wish you could have?
Edit: I now realise that this doesn't really fit the whole "positivity month" >.>
Anyways I know that if I had been up I would have grabbed the sledgehammer and ran after the dude yelling at him to leave her alone. I would also tell my parents to call the cops. And tell him that the cops where coming I would try to talk him down, but if he didn't I would react violently to protect her. Fuck the danger, when someone else is in trouble I don't give a shit. Now I'm really pissed at myself for not being able to help.
My question is what would you do in that situation? Have you ever had crime around you that you felt you could have stopped? If so did you stop it? Do you wish you could have?
Edit: I now realise that this doesn't really fit the whole "positivity month" >.>