Would you save a stranger? (TV programme)

Wow, there are some moving stories. Its quite scary really.

I cant believe people do stand by and let things happen. The bus one for example... WTF!?

Would you help?

I know its not a simple question, some situations are plain scary! I think if I knew how to handle myself (self defence) then id be more willing to help people in these situations... Problem being that in those situations its normally a group.

The trouble is in this country you would end up getting done for assault for trying to help someone. Scary to think the way this country is going!!

I can't really comment on the given situations as I haven't seen the programme. When/what channel was it on??

If it's a medical situation, I'm generally there ready to jump in (and have done so in the past). Fighting, well, it depends TBH.

[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by Baph

I can't really comment on the given situations as I haven't seen the programme. When/what channel was it on??

If it's a medical situation, I'm generally there ready to jump in (and have done so in the past). Fighting, well, it depends TBH.

IT@LL BE ON Ch4 +1 now if you wanna atch it. Pretty heavy stories tho.

Sadly ive both been on the attacked side and theby standers side so i can see it from both sides and you know what....neither is pretty.

Crime and punishment is a joke in this country in this day and age. That scumbag animal who punched a guy in a supermarket queue and killed him, the wrong guy at that, only gets 4 yrs. The sick biatch who put him up to it only gets 18months. For killing a man for gods sake.

I really do despair.

Im watching it on channel 4 +1. Its only just started, but id like to think i WOULD help a stranger. Id put my life on the line to help someone.
That said, in a dangerous situation you may be in a different mind set.

Originally Posted by Spiderman

IT@LL BE ON Ch4 +1 now if you wanna atch it. Pretty heavy stories tho.

Sadly ive both been on the attacked side and theby standers side so i can see it from both sides and you know what....neither is pretty.

Crime and punishment is a joke in this country in this day and age. That scumbag animal who punched a guy in a supermarket queue and killed him, the wrong guy at that, only gets 4 yrs. The sick biatch who put him up to it only gets 18months. For killing a man for gods sake.

I really do despair.

Aye... Its shocking!!!! What about the fact that speeding now gets you in not far off as much trouble!?

Originally Posted by Magnum

Im watching it on channel 4 +1. Its only just started, but id like to think i WOULD help a stranger. Id put my life on the line to help someone.
That said, in a dangerous situation you may be in a different mind set.

I've worked in a few pubs, so from that mindset (I was pretty much in charge of security when we had no doorstaff - it was my job to keep order when things got rough), I'm confident I'd step in.

I agree with Spiderman though, neither side is pretty. In the pubs, I just used to get stuck in because that's what needed to be done. But I wouldn't advise anyone else ever consider it.

Typical example, a fight up the top of the front stairs of a pub I worked in. I was carrying plates at the time. So I put the plates on a table with customers on it, apologised to them, then sprinted over.

By this point, one guy was in a headlock & a couple of guys laying into him. I prized him free, only for him to stand up & smack me square in the chops. He then ran around pub, hitting a few other random people, and left. I went to the doors to see where he'd gone, only to see him coming back. So I stepped through the door, blocked & hit back, just in time for the cops to arrive.

It was only after (a couple of days after), I found out this guy was high as a kite & had killed someone in a pub around the corner.

Point is, from the outside of the situation, you can't tell what's happening, all you can do is split everyone up & then talk to them, if they'll talk to you.

Originally Posted by Baph

It was only after (a couple of days after), I found out this guy was high as a kite & had killed someone in a pub around the corner.

Point is, from the outside of the situation, you can't tell what's happening, all you can do is split everyone up & then talk to them, if they'll talk to you.

DAMN! That sucks bad

Good example thought that you cant be sure what the crack is

I saw the end of it. It was quite nice to see the bald guy talking to the people that I assumed helped him. I'd like to think that i would help but for a stranger I don't know if i would. I did see a CCTV video in court while on work experience of a guy beating the absolute crapola out of some one in the street, in the middle of the day. the guy who got the beatings family were gutted when they saw it. And every one walked past and round it was fairly disgusting. I wasn't there for sentencing but im guessing he got next to nothing

All comes down to how brave u feel really, id worry would i get more seriously hurt than the person they are attacking