Would You Save a Stranger?

[GiantMidget]

I'm watching "Would You Save a Stranger" on channel 4 atm. Quite a good program actually, plus shows the fucked up state of this country. It does raise an interesting question though, Would any of you actually help a stranger in need? especially in this day and age where you'd most likely end up being stabbed or worse.

I have helped strangers in the past but these days it's too fucking dangerous to intervene unless you have backup, A reason why i wanna learn kung fu, need skills these days to defend yourself and others.

Anyone watching this program? :love:

[rachus]

Fuck! I really wanted to watch that, are they repeating it on e4??

[GiantMidget]

Fuck! I really wanted to watch that, are they repeating it on e4??

It'll be on channel 4 plus one now :wink:

[greenelf]

have helped people but tend to um and err a moment first.

[joshd96320]

i will if asked for help and if i have help to offer - quite happily, and if somebody turns around and stabs me for it thats grand, i dont want to live in a world where people stab you for helping - thats my theory!

though help does come first to those i love! :love::group_hug

[p0ly]

id like to think id help a stranger...... i reckon i would but... u never know =(

[process]

that situation where that girl was getting beaten on the bus id like to think i would have stood up and said something. fucking wrong that no-one said anything and some woman told her to shhhh. :hopeless: :you_crazy:

So cliffy you training up to be the new batman then with you kung fu skills :wink:

[Holeydel]

Hmmm, hard to say on this one - I guess you'd have to be there. If the beating appeared to be something personal then I's stay way clear, the fella getting a kicking might deserve it.

That said, if I say someone in an unfair situation I'd like to think I'd tear my shirt off to reveal my Superman vest and help solve the situation with some diplomacy speaking (was that word spelt right? Was it even a word??)

[pixiegirl]

I very much doubt it. When people can get stabbed and killed on buses for asking someone to stop throwing chips it makes you think twice. I'd be more likely to call the police if I thought someone really needed help, realistically that is how I'm most able to assist them.

[p0ly]

that situation where that girl was getting beaten on the bus id like to think i would have stood up and said something. fucking wrong that no-one said anything and some woman told her to shhhh. :hopeless: :you_crazy:

So cliffy you training up to be the new batman then with you kung fu skills :wink:

same. but a group of 10 boys with belts n sticks :hopeless:

[Sini]

You know what, i would. I'm going to watch that programme on 4OD later.
I have saved strangers lives before and it's an amazing thing to do, fuck the consequences, i'm not going to stand by and watch someone die knowing full well i can attempt to do something.

[O-D]

I will if I can, no question and always will.

However I haven't been able to not notice the lack of help from others when others or myself are in trouble.
I've been in plenty of fights in school and out where a gang of kiddies would start on me and then proceed to beat the shite out of me with my 'mates' or random people who just happened to be there would be just gawping on and keeping out of the way.
Some people are cowards and just don't want to get hurt and others are literally rooted to the ground and can't move (which I do sometimes).

Anyone ever encountered the type that shouts to everyone else to help the person they don't know? haha, cheeky sods.

You know what, i would. I'm going to watch that programme on 4OD later.
I have saved strangers lives before and it's an amazing thing to do, fuck the consequences, i'm not going to stand by and watch someone die knowing full well i can attempt to do something.

My kind of person :love: raaa

4OD (It's for me! :crazy_dru)

[GiantMidget]

So cliffy you training up to be the new batman then with you kung fu skills :wink:

I'd say probably the new Robin, Too skint for Batman's fancy gadgets! :laugh_at:

[joshd96320]

nobody said anything about saving somebody getting stabbed or w/e just a strangeri n need

but if thats the case, i still would!

[Sini]

My kind of person :love: raaa

4OD (It's for me! :crazy_dru)

Ah, never knew i've been watching your channel all this time :wink:

[rachus]

Shitface, iv missed it again. I should really buy a tv guide.

Iv helped strangers I gave a woman 30p to get into the toilets at paddington on weds

raaa

[Dom_sufc]

I'd like to think so. But it all depends on the situation. If 10 blokes are hammering someone I'd do something (probably call the OB lol).

Im not gonna start doing backflips for someone getting a slap, but if it's obvious they are taking severe damage then it's necessary to take some action, even if just 999, shout some boucners/other people whatever.

Another thing that always crosses my mind is if I could save someone's life in an accident or some other injury situation. Im a trained First Aider, but I even found it pressurising to perform the right Aid when I was in a classroom doing the course.

Sometimes I wonder if the skill is a burden, especially if I could have used it (But forgot, or didn't feel confident) and someone died, it'd be horrible. Hopefully nothing ever happens though and if it does i hope I muster the balls from somewhere!

[Tank Girl]

I didnt see the program, what was the general concensus?

I have done so in the past quite a few times,
not thinking of my own saftey and on reflection often put myself in very vulnerable positions (of either getting assaulted myself, covered in someone elses blood and not thinking of bbv's etc)

I've been verbally and physically assaulted quite a few times (particularily on public transport for some reason) and only twice did someone interviene but this was when it had got to the stage of me physically hitting out to defend myself and I felt very let down by the general public,

but I guess it is understandable, esp with the media coverage of incidents where people have been attacked and killed trying to help others, but a very sorry state of affairs

[MisterDuck]

i don't know

some would say your own safety comes first and foremost
others would say thats selfish

i'd say in depends on the certain circumstances. i'm not altogether convinced i'd stand there and take a bullet for someone i didn't know, however i would intervene with someone getting a beating with just fists and feet.

[DiGence]

The people that just "pretend to read their upside down newspapers", the "i'm looking out the window because there is something more interesting" are the sheep of society, spineless "people"(in inverted commas to state that the term people has a human relationship).

As was said in the programme, our ability to relate and interact with strangers is part of what makes us human.

I have, and always will step in no matter what.

If I was to get stabbed to death then so be it, at least I would die knowing that I did the right thing.

[killahertz]

Have done before and was paid for it (was my job)
So qualified to some extent to do so
However the world does not need have a go heroes

:wink:

[JonnyQuest]

the amount of times iv seen somone getting there head caved in and done nothing. if its a gang you cant simple as that cause you will end up in hospital or dead call the police maybe but if i see a gang of kids beating somone up i am not getting involved hard enough to look out for yourself round here let alone somone else, and that is a horrible shame but its the truth

[chilmaxin]

The people that just "pretend to read their upside down newspapers", the "i'm looking out the window because there is something more interesting" are the sheep of society, spineless "people"(in inverted commas to state that the term people has a human relationship).

As was said in the programme, our ability to relate and interact with strangers is part of what makes us human.

I have, and always will step in no matter what.

If I was to get stabbed to death then so be it, at least I would die knowing that I did the right thing.

truth

back in 03 a couple of friends & i were running home in the rain and we saw a guy in a ditch with his wheelchair yelling for help so we got him out of the ditch, placed him on his wheelchair & kept on running.

when it comes to gang/fight related situations, you have no idea whether the person getting beat on did something fucked up & the consequences caught up to him/her or if he/she was an unlucky victim of assault. you could be saving a rapist or a philosopher.

:bounce_fl

[MisterDuck]

+1

back in 03 a couple of friends & i were running home in the rain and we saw a guy in a ditch with his wheelchair yelling for help so we got him out of the ditch, placed him on his wheelchair & kept on running.

:bounce_fl
to be fair that's not really the sorta thing people are debating here

im fairly sure 99% of people would help someone out of a ditch like that

it's when helping out could mean threatening your own life that it gets more complicated... would you still do it?

[Sketchy]

just the uva day a matey was laying into a girl out front my house
i ran out there with a baseball bat n he soon ran away .. didnt tlk to the girl though i jus went bak in the house i didnt want to get too involved

but yeah i spose i would help someone but depends on the situation really ..... ive been in alot of situations were nobody would help me so really it jus depends on how serious it was ... like if a geeza hittin a girl then ya gotto step in init