warpus
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Life isn't Seinfeld.
When do you get involved?
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Narz
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Depends what kind of crime. Drug related, of course I wouldn't call the cops (and its pretty pathetic to do so, I can not think of any situation where calling cops over drugs could possibly serve anyone involved, if someone's about to OD you try to stop them and/or call the paramedics, someone selling drugs, either offer them a better job or stay the hell out of their way, its not your business). Someone beating another person... still probably wouldn't call the cops, probably would try to break it up assuming both parties were smaller/weaker/older than me (last time I saw a fight between two cabbies I pulled the fat one off the skinny one).
Only situation would be if I heard a horrible beating or potential murder/rape going on near me, or if I just witnessed a theft & couldn't outrun the thief.
This is silly, there doesn't even exist an infrastructure to call paramedics outside of 911. If there's an emergency, you call 911 and they decide who to send.
Timsup2nothin
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Right...and if you say that there's a guy that collapsed and you aren't sure he's breathing what do you think they are going to decide to send you? A mailman?
They key point is "who are you calling?" not "who are they sending?"
Getting in a fist-fight or similar is really a bad choice. I mean if one has no choice at all then he of course should try to defend himself, but already is in danger.
Youtube seems to have hundreds of videos about streetfights and 'KO' moments. Pretty scary.
I recall back in school being thinking at some point that i must decide if i should actually violently confront a bully i had. In the end i did not, and was more indirect. But really in some cases there is no good way out of things. If i had chosen to be violent then it would not have been the kind of violence one can just rebound from.
Youtube seems to have hundreds of videos about streetfights and 'KO' moments. Pretty scary.
I recall back in school being thinking at some point that i must decide if i should actually violently confront a bully i had. In the end i did not, and was more indirect. But really in some cases there is no good way out of things. If i had chosen to be violent then it would not have been the kind of violence one can just rebound from.
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Hang on, hang on just a minute. How many women did you meet in jail? Never mind how many beaten wives.
I'm guessing that you, as an inmate, only ever met men. Amirite?
(Also, something, something, soap, showers and bending over. Or not.)
"My neighbour is beating his girlfriend, please send some paramedics, no cops please."
Formaldehyde
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The dispatcher determines who to send and in what order. The fire department won't even respond to some neighborhoods until the police are on the scene and notify them it is safe.
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LOL...good catch. In the heat of the moment hopefully it won't occur to the wife beater that I had no CHANCE to meet any wives. But the point is that I do have a few wife beater in jail stories that will give any man pause.
I met this one dude who was a recent ex-marine, who very believably said "If I had hit her it would have killed her." He looked like he had been stampeded by a herd of cats...I mean he didn't have a scratch on him that didn't cross at least two or three other scratches; face, neck, arms all the way up to his shoulders. When the cops got there he was holding both her wrists in one hand and drinking a beer. The story was on the TV news, because it happened in a bar and the reporters responded faster than the cops did. He was having a very hard time understanding why he was in jail.
This other dude I met in a pre sentence tank...home to an ever changing cast of about forty guys who are still in the process of fighting their case, maybe getting out on bail, maybe not...but there is a pay phone right there in the tank so you can call your lawyer or your outside support...whatever. This idiot is on the phone with his wife constantly telling her that she has to drop the charges. Of course she would hang up on him, and dude would slam the phone down. A few times guys told him he needed to calm down, because if he broke that phone it would screw us all...then one day for the protection of our phone he got beaten to pulp and shipped to the infirmary. "So just because he let his wife push his buttons he probably ended up crippled for life," can be an effective way to describe it to a wife beater.
Timsup2nothin
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Urban legend? Or unique to certain urban centers? LA had that going on...during the riots. Normal day to day? Nope. Of course in the sprawl of LA even "the bad part of town" isn't really well enough localized for that sort of thing to work.
When my grandmother died, we notified the police (didn't know how to get the paramedics there without 911). Obviously this wasn't an emergency since she was already dead.
That's ridiculous.
