Devlin

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574...6-1243,00.html

Why didn't more people intervene? Hundreds of people just watch.

What a bloody disgrace.

Cant rain all the time2

They're all big and brave behind the wheel of their car,take that away and they don't want to get involved I for one could NOT have stood and watched!

Petals

The last time people in Melbourne intervened one good Samaritan ended up dead and the other fighting for his life in intensive care.

Its sad but true they carry guns and knives these days.

Geelong Gent

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10554602

Need a few Kiwi backpackers???

pumpkin blossom

Notice they say charges probably won't be bought due to the large amount of suspects.
People can slag off the UK having cameras everywhere, but had that been in the UK they would have had all the evidence they needed.

MartinLuther

I thought they were saying that they were not laying charges immediately rather than not laying them at all.

pumpkin blossom

Yep, you are right, I totally missed the 'overnight' bit. Dohhh.

bourbon-biscuit

Disbelief I imagine. Search youtube and you'll find footage of when the Mongrel Mob clashed with Black Power on the streets of Christchurch, NZ, and a man was set upon with an axe. It was so sudden and violent that people afterwards said they thought it was street theatre. Also a man recently intervened when a woman was being attacked on the streets of Auckland and was stabbed to death. Violence is just par the course for some people

Geelong Gent

Tongan versus Samoan battles in Otara can be very brutal. The blood stain from a decapitation is still there last time I visited - outside the McDonalds.

northerner

You'd have been the first one in there with your fist out no doubt? What an armchair hero.

Graham

MrXnotMrY

IMHO the real courage will be shown by those witnesses who are prepared to stand up and be counted when the police need statements. Too many times people just don't want to get involved in the one area they really can do some good.

MrX

Devlin

I would have rounded up a couple of dozen people and confronted them, with enough people they would most likely back down before any physical action is required.

Your kind of (a)pathetic attitude is why these sort of things happen.

northerner

You are my hero. No really.

bourbon-biscuit

Devlin- you might not have had time to react. The posters attitude is not at all to blame for this sort of thing. The first time you meet such unexpected violence you sort of freeze. I like to think I'd *do* something- that my first reaction would be to protest and try to stop it but it's one of those scenarios where no one knows how they'll react before the event.

Deutschmaster

Ooooh a different bashing

I saw a bloke being bashed at 8am Sunday morning in Flinders station a couple of weeks back. There were six feral youths crowding around another fella shoving him and the odd punch was thrown.

I pressed the emergency button on the intercom unit on the platform - but annoyingly it didn't work! There was another guy standing next to me who phoned the cops on his mobile. One of the youths saw me playing around with the intercom and yelled at his mates that the police were coming better run for it.

Three of them did but three stayed behind, although only one of the three wanted to carry on - the other two were trying to push him away.

Then the cops arrived after a few minutes. They had the three youths up against one of the vending machines. One cop told them to sit down but the youths refused protesting their innocence (apparently the bashed bloke had said something rude about one's mother). One of the cops pulled out a giant can of pepper spray and waved it around a bit. The youths suddenly sat down and were quiet from then on.

It is intimidating when something like that kicks off. Especially too when it's on the platform of a train station. Nobody wants anybody falling off the platform and being squished by an oncoming train!