Quote: (04-12-2014 04:54 PM)scorpion Wrote:
Just based on what you saw, I wouldn't have done anything. Like others have said, you don't know the story. You don't even know that he hit her, as Fisto pointed out. You just think you know something. To insert yourself into two strangers' lives just based on your assumptions is a bad idea.
If the situation was a little different, say you were walking by a parked car and saw a guy actively beating on a woman inside, that would trigger a different response. I'd probably walk up while calling the police and tell the guy he needs to cut it out and that cops are on the way. Hopefully he doesn't pull a gun on me. I wouldn't intervene physically unless he attacked me or if he didn't stop beating the woman and she was unconscious and at risk for permanent injury/death.
Basically, I'm not going to white knight in that situation unless I'm seeing hard evidence with my own eyes, and I'm not going to physically intervene unless I think it's going to save someone's life. It's just too risky to insert yourself into the middle of a fighting couple otherwise, they are both likely to be completely crazy at that moment and capable of anything.
At my last job working in a strip club, the former general manager went out the back door one night, and there were two guys beating up a girl.
He ran over and white knighted physically intervening.
Well, it was the girls boyfriend, and her brother. Not only did the two guys beat his ass but so did the girl.
I think it's fucked up to call the cops based on the above story, but if someone was viciously attacking another person, then it's more than appropriate.