Would You Intervene?

[ladybirder]

Charles Saatchi has got his wife, Nigella Lawson by the throat in a restaurant in London. Criticism is being levelled at onlookers who didn't intervene. Would you intervene between man and wife in this situation?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigella-lawson-attacked-husband-see-1955564

[ladybirder]

Many years ago my father intervened when a man was beating his wife. They both turned on my father.

[anotheoldgit]

I have heard of cases where a person has intervened in a domestic dispute between a couple, only to be attacked by the female for coming between her and her partner.

[tonyav]

The difficulty would be making a difficult but controllable situation into an even uglier and uncontrollable event.

sqad, I think that quite a few people would just act on instinct to what they are witnessing and probably not think of that it may become even uglier than it already is.

[ChillDoubt]

ANY form of intervention would be better than none.

In that scenario, I'd walk over and say something like:
"Excuse me, hope you don't mind me approaching you but I'm just a little perturbed at what I just saw. Do you mind if I ask if everything is alright?"
I'd then ask the lady if she was comfortable with the situation and invite her to leave if she so wished, without fear of intervention from anyone else.

If matters escalate form there so be it, but I certainly wouldn't stand idly by and watch. If it's horseplay then I'm sure both parties would understand my concerns.

[ladybirder]

I don't think Saatchi is humiliating her, he is humiliating himself.

[Sqad]

AOG/ladybirder.
My mate was an Orthopaedic surgeon and everything (well almost everything) he touched went wrong so much so that they nicknamed him The "Frank Spencer of orthopaedic surgery"...LOL

One night in the summer, he was taking his dog for a walk in the park, when a car came to a screeching halt on the road and a woman got out, ran across the park chased by the driver who caught her, dragged her to the ground and started to molest her.
Frank Spencer ran to her aid and was about to drag the assailant off her when she looked up and said to him in a broad scouse accent..."Fck off will yer"

[ladybirder]

Haha, how funny. Nowt as queer as folk.

[Sqad]

ladybirder......no! no! apparently being sexually violated in differing situations is a huge turn on for some women and "role play" is quite exciting........

[humbersloop]

sqad, I'm trying to envisage a situation where being apparently half-throttled in a fish restaurant fits that bill, and failing miserably ;)

[Sqad]

humber....yepp!.....not easy is it?.......;-)

[ladybirder]

yes I got that sqad. Whatever turns you on. Prefer to keep my activity indoors, ending up on top of an ants nest once put paid to my more adventurous side:-)

[boxtops]

I too don't think this one fits that criterion, sqad :-)

[Sqad]

OK! OK!.....just a point...........;-)

[Ric.ror]

Normally I would but the awful thing about this situation is that b@stard is a billionaire and I don't think he would be inclined to forget a thing like that

[tonyav]

sqad, so your mate 'Frank Spencer' was the original 'dogger' then.

[Sqad]

tony...LOL.

[ELVIS68]

Ric ror, what difference does it make because he's a billionaire?

[tonyav]

Wasn't he ( Charles Saatchi ) one of those that used to bung the Tory party millions in Thatchers era ?.

[slaney]

Maybe Saatchi was following his (apparent) philosophy?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Be-Worst-You-Can-Patience/dp/1419703730

[humbersloop]

he certainly was tony, but I don't think even that currently extends him alleged throttling rights over the daughter of the then Chancellor.