Would you have stopped?

Honestly, no. I did that shit trying to get away from my dad all the time when I was a kid. I would assume she was throwing a bitch fit. Probably not the best thing to do, but I'm just being honest.
 
I'd probably get the shit beat out of me, but yeah, I'd stop.
But then I used to be a firefighter/EMT and commonly stop to help people on the road who've broken down or been in an accident.
 
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I would stop and I have. A little girl in Target being led by an older women; the girl was screaming, "you're not my mommy". The lady wasn't her mother but her grandmother. I didn't leave until mom showed up to verify that.

They weren't happy but I didn't care.
 
I always have and always will stop to help someone who seems to be in deep shit to the best of my ability.
 
Probably not, my nephews used to do stuff like that all the time when they were little.
 
There are so many people saying yes that I feel like a bad person.

But I still wouldn't. I guess I just have to accept that I'm a douchebag.
 
Yes. Even if the little girl was just acting up, and the man in question WAS her father, at that age explaining to a police officer who she is and yes that man was her dad, would have left an impression.
 
Rakes and shovels.

Obviously, you've never been there.

Ahh see...that's where you are wrong. I drove through once....even stopped for gas, but considering the only reason they probably didn't lynch me was the military tag's on my car and the fact that there wasn't a fucking thing to see I kept cruising and didn't look back.
 
I am hyper sensitive to the plight of children in need/danger. I know I would stop, I would stop to make sure it wasn't a father abusing his child just as much as I would stop to make sure it wasn't someone trying to abduct the child. I'm not certain that I would stop if it were an adult, though. I like to think I would, and I probably would anonymously call the police to let them deal with it, but I really can't be sure I would physically stop and get involved if it were an adult being abused or possibly abducted.
 
Yes, I would have stopped to see what was going on. My real job is in law enforcement and I used to be a volunteer firefighter/emt. In my VERY rural area, shit like that tends to get attention and people stopping the adult.

Now if you recognize the kid as one of the adult's family, people around here probably would offer to beat that kid's ass for him.
 
Most of the time I probably would not have stopped. My reasoning goes like this: most child abductors probably do not wish to commit their crime in broad daylight in a heavily pedestrian trafficked area, and certainly not if there is a chance that a disruptive scene will occur. That logic, therefore, favors the "relative and bratty child" scenario.

The problem with that conclusion is that we still have not eliminated an illegal abduction taking place since a high percentage of abductions involve relatives.

The most I would do if I suspected something untoward would be to continue to watch the scene play out from a more distant vantage point and try to get a license number if the guy started to drive away.

If I saw a cop, I would definitely inform him of what was taking place.

I'm not a youngster full of piss and vinegar anymore. There are few people I am going to physically intimidate. But I learned something back then that may have some application here. When I took Red Cross Lifeguard and Water Safety Instructor courses, the first thing they taught us was "reach, throw, row, go." The rhyme was essentially the order of rescue efforts that should be tried, from the easiest and least dangerous to the rescuer to the most risky for victim and rescuer alike.

The philosophy was that you don't help a victim if all you do is die with him. In the type of criminal environments we see around us today, I give a great deal of the benefit of the doubt to people who may be reticent to initiate an "intervention" they may not be able to finish or may actually turn against them legally because of some oddball quirk in the law.
 
I would be saying something and my wife would definetly be all over it...she doesn't walk away from stuff like that
 
Most of the time I probably would not have stopped. My reasoning goes like this: most child abductors probably do not wish to commit their crime in broad daylight in a heavily pedestrian trafficked area, and certainly not if there is a chance that a disruptive scene will occur. That logic, therefore, favors the "relative and bratty child" scenario.

The problem with that conclusion is that we still have not eliminated an illegal abduction taking place since a high percentage of abductions involve relatives.

The most I would do if I suspected something untoward would be to continue to watch the scene play out from a more distant vantage point and try to get a license number if the guy started to drive away.

If I saw a cop, I would definitely inform him of what was taking place.

I'm not a youngster full of piss and vinegar anymore. There are few people I am going to physically intimidate. But I learned something back then that may have some application here. When I took Red Cross Lifeguard and Water Safety Instructor courses, the first thing they taught us was "reach, throw, row, go." The rhyme was essentially the order of rescue efforts that should be tried, from the easiest and least dangerous to the rescuer to the most risky for victim and rescuer alike.

The philosophy was that you don't help a victim if all you do is die with him. In the type of criminal environments we see around us today, I give a great deal of the benefit of the doubt to people who may be reticent to initiate an "intervention" they may not be able to finish or may actually turn against them legally because of some oddball quirk in the law.

The video shows them they can.:cool:
 
i would have stopped. i've stopped to help children before, and i would do it again. the little girl is doing exactly what kids are taught in self defense classes. children are abducted in broad daylight. they are abducted in crowded areas. once that little girl is put into a car, the chances of getting her back alive decrease drastically.
 
i would have stopped. i've stopped to help children before, and i would do it again. the little girl is doing exactly what kids are taught in self defense classes. children are abducted in broad daylight. they are abducted in crowded areas. once that little girl is put into a car, the chances of getting her back alive decrease drastically.
I totally would have, and I know all my friends would have.

Even if that is her dad... clearly something's wrong.

This could only happen in New York City.
 
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