This is ridiculous... What is wrong with people?

It reminded me of the news in Calgary this week. A lady was run over then run over again and lay there dying and people drove around her. Makes me sad stuff like this!

Experiment?

I read it was done to promote a movie.

Not a fight but chased down a guy that pinched a ladies purse in a restaurant then did a runner. Hauled the guy and purse back to the restaurant to the waiting cops who then proceeded to give me shit (along with my then wife) saying I may have been stabbed or worse. To top it off, the couple didn't even give a "thank-you".

In retrospect, I didn't give it much thought, just reacted. Would I do it again, probably as I think (actually you don't think) you just react and do what is the right thing.

You would probably intervene again too.

When I was a security guard at a hotel in California and doing my patrol of the floors around 3am, I heard a lady screaming, and was not the kind of scream I had ever heard before so I followed the scream to try and locate the room that it was coming from, had radioed the front desk to call the police so they would be one the way atleast as it was clear based on the screams something was up.

I figured out what room it was, knocked and identified myself no answer but could hear a muffled scream, knocked once more and announced if there was no answer I would be entering the room, this time she screamed help help, so I used the master key to override the dead bolt to enter the room, and her boyfriend was on top of her in the process of strangling her.

I'll just say didn't think of anything, just found myself grabbing the guy and throwing him against the wall and told the women to lock herself in the bathroom cause who knows what this guy was planning next.

He tried to run but because we had called the cops, as he ran down the hall with me at one end, the elevators opened and he walked right into the cops.

Being placed into that situation, I didn't really think, just acted. All my training was to not intervene, call the police, and be a witness, but when someone is screaming for help, its hard to just ignore it.

I could be a handbag wielding old lady, I see my future!

After the thumping do I was at work and one of the doctors took me to oneside to ask how I got the bruises and did I need any help. My bruises were typical of assault on a woman, ribs,sternum, forearms. That pleased me to find someone helpful. Not sure he believed me though.

I gave chase to a thief who grabbed my mum's handbag when we were in Nice. Given he ran along a street and straight across another without looking and I stopped to wait for a gap in cars, I was surprise he didn't get too far ahead.

Then some other guy saw me chasing, tripped him up and he dropped the bag and ran off. That saved a problem in the event I did catch up.