Reply to: I saw a guy beating up his girlfriend ...

[MaryPoppins]

WHS - same with old people - very few men would consider hitting an octogenarian, so if you see a bloke giving an old person a kicking, it must be because the old person is a ****.

+1

Kids, too - the really little ones. Don't often see an adult pummelling a small child in public - if I did, I'd be comforted by the thought that they almost definitely will have deserved it.

[scooterscot]

I recall a chap in Southampton I used to work with intervening with the local teens causing no-end of disruption in the neighbourhood, keying cars usual etc behaviour. And the day he did get involved (it wasnae me honest) one of them comes up to him full of rage all threatening, a mild altercation where I come, and laid my fist true and square into his neck just at he nerve bundle under the ear. (don't waste time with throws into the stomach), he went down like a sack of potatoes. The next day the police were knocking on the door and this chaps SC was at risk for having a criminal record.

Why get involved doing a good deed when the law attacks you for trying?

[Wanderer]

I cannot help being a little disappointed at how many people just seemed to be standing there doing nothing.

I think you now know why they stood there and did nothing. Lesson learnt is that you NEVER get involved in domestic disputes or blokes beating up women, it's just not worth it. All too often the good Samaritan gets beaten up by the bloke and then the woman joins in too. It later transpires that the bloke routinely beats his missus and she isn't willing to press charges or they are junkies or whatever.

Domestic violence is shocking and abhorrent but the sad fact of the situation is that many women have a misguided loyalty to the scum bag who beats them and they can't remove themselves from the situation, nor are they aren't willing to press charges. As an outsider you have little or no control over this, even family can't do much. The best thing you can do is act as a witness and video it so the Police have independent evidence of the assault for when the woman refuses to give evidence against the man so that way she can appear outwardly loyal to her man but he may still be prosecuted without her needing to go through the trauma of giving evidence.

[vwdan]

I did this once - stood between the bloke and the girl and then realised that, despite me being over 6' I was head height with his chest. Fortunately his mates weren't so impressed either and got him out of there.

My brother was put in hospital last year after intervening - nothing serious fortunately, but it can go wrong so easily Domestics are such a funny beast, too - there's so much complicated psychology and in many cases the victim will side with the defendant. It's a real no win situation.

[NotAllThere]

Receptionist at client site and her daughter intervened when a middle aged woman was being beaten up by a couple of chavettes. When the police arrived, the receptionist had her hands around one chavette's throat, her daughter was busy breaking the arm of the other. In their statements, the heroines both said (after some coaching) "I was in fear of my life...". Chavettes got sent down, receptionist and daughter praised by the judge.

Sometimes justice is done.

[vetran]

Hopefully they have stuck it on YouTube and shared the link with the police!

they will be around to arrest you shortly!

[MyUserName]

The problem today is when people see someone getting in a fight the first thing the do is get there camera phone out!

Hopefully they have stuck it on YouTube and shared the link with the police!

[CloudWalker]

The problem today is when people see someone getting in a fight the first thing the do is get there camera phone out!

[cailin maith]

A couple of years ago my sister and I were walking home from town and saw two chavs mugging a little chinese couple.

We ran at them and I whacked one of them around the head with my handbag - I don't do little bags so it was no mean feat and must have hurt. My sister pushed the other fella off his bike.

The chinese couple were really shaken up and couldn't speak much English. The police gave them a lift home though.

Amazing the courage a few Vodkas can give you!

[original PM]

WHS - same with old people - very few men would consider hitting an octogenarian, so if you see a bloke giving an old person a kicking, it must be because the old person is a ****.

Indeed these old codgers can really wind you up eh!

[MyUserName]

Thats true - very very few men would ever consider violence against a woman so you have to say some women must be complete fu<kers for a bloke to want to punch them...

and yes often after woman has been saved she then tries to press charges on bloke who beat up her attacker...

:sigh:

I walked passed them just previously and she was giving him a right mouthing. I am not saying that the assault was justified (for a start when he first punched her it was in the back as she was walking away), merely making an observation.

[MyUserName]

are things of the past, most neds need a 3/1 advantage and a blade or weapon of some kind.

Why did you not give them a pasting.?

The funny thing was that at one point the woman beater was shouting that he wanted me to 'come on'. I told him to back off, he threw a punch and missed. I was going to throw a punch and suddenly I was looking at someone's feet which were at 90 degrees to my head. Out of reflex I tangled his legs so he could not kick me (I found out later he already had kicked me in the head a few times) and got up and was facing two of them.

The conclusion came to me that it was at least 2 against 1 and they were both bigger than me and Sherlock Holmes 2 flashed through my mind where Holmes and Moriarty are fighting and Holmes says "Prognosis: increasingly negative" - they advanced and I screamed "get back" and they stopped (martial art training from old fashioned night club bouncers is good stuff), the victim was still there so I was not going to leave and only then I realised that there were people next to me lending verbal assistance and also just being more people. The chavs shouted a bit but whenever they stepped forward I stepped forward and shouted "get back" and either pointed or shoved them depending on how close they were. Eventually they walked off.

It is funny how addled your brain gets in tense situations. I have no idea where the Sherlock Holmes thing came from, I don't even remember the scene that well.

[mudskipper]

Thats true - very very few men would ever consider violence against a woman so you have to say some women must be complete fu<kers for a bloke to want to punch them...


:sigh:

WHS - same with old people - very few men would consider hitting an octogenarian, so if you see a bloke giving an old person a kicking, it must be because the old person is a ****.

[KentPhilip]

I haven't seen anything like that in years, since I moved to London. Used to see it sometimes in Edinburgh and invariably when someone stepped in to stop it, the girl would turn on them and they'd end up getting attacked by the couple who suddenly forgot their differences.

+1

I'm currently watching a murder trial where the deceased was the father of the guy towards whom the main aggression was being vented.
The father told the guy to go home - stabbed

[speling bee]

Well done.

The only time I ever intervened was when a drunk Celtic fan started beating up and racially abusing an Asian couple (aged about 17 and both very small) who were sat down on a busy tube carriage. His mates were standing behind him but not throwing the punches. I stood in the way and told him he was behaving like a Rangers fan, and after a few hairy moments he backed off enough for the couple and me to scarper at the next tube stop. Obviously everyone else in the carriage looked the other way.