You know our country is in trouble…

kizzy821 said
There was a news story in 2007 about a woman who heard a couple fighting in the middle of the night.

She ran down the stairs of her apartment complex to see what was happening and the man chopped her arms off with a machete.

I think about her approximately once a month. I wonder if she gets hung up on that moment when she was still safe in her bed, before she went downstairs.

And I wonder how on earth I'd be able to stop myself from doing the same thing.

I cannot imagine an instance where someone is being hurt and I don't help.

I'm not watching this video, but I bet there was a chance for a smaller person to jump on his back and gouge his eyes.

That will be my go-to move in a crisis. Don't be weirded out by the squishiness of the eyes. Just squeeze until they stop what they're doing.

I have a plan of action for almost every unfortunate scenario. That's what this life has done to me.

It's always a terrible dilemma isn't it, and I'm sure many heroic people have done amazing things to save strangers but I'm not sure I'd relish another encounter like the one I had. About 15 years ago I confronted a drug addict who was going crazy in the street and had pushed my daughter over and punched her boyfriend. I went to help and was horrified by this drugged up machine punching cars with all his might and not feeling a thing. I had to talk him down for 25 mins before the Police arrived., during which time he threatened to cut my throat etc....
I used to box a bit in the 80s and thought I could handle a young man...but this guy had veins popping out of his head and eyeballs glazed over. He was like the Terminator. I could probably have shot him and not done much to stop him.

A friend of mine stepped in to help a woman who was being slapped and manhandled in a shopping centre. The guy then punched him in the face and the woman took off her shoe and started battering my friend from behind....there are crazy people out there it's best not to get involved with.