Right Place, Right Time

[EvianBaby]

Just saw on Twitter the local police appealing for witnesses to an assault.

It took place in a car park in town last Thursday at 6.30pm. I was in that car park at that time. Although I was busy buying a KFC on the opposite side.

Not that I would have been any use had I actually seen anything but I feel a little sorry that I didn't notice anything.

Have you ever had anything like that happen to you? Or even witnessed something unpleasant while you were casually minding your own business.

[Greedyfly]

Dangerous but admirable Headwreck - I think I would so the same

[Greedyfly]

I guess we never really know what we are capable of until in that situation. I like to think that I would confront someone mugging someone or attacking someone but you just never know I suppose. I don't think I could forgive myself for not trying though.

[Greedyfly]

But I don't have children or anyone really depending on me so I guess that changes things for most.

[Greedyfly]

Maybe that's what I am now lol

[Greedyfly]

Yeah. I guess. You know that quote 'we are all afraid of the darkness inside ourselves' I think that true of others also - you NEVER know what someone is capable of.

[Eve]

Some nasty assaults and a young lad lying dead in the road after being thrown off his bike in a car accident. There was a shooting outside an old place I worked too when two rival gangs bumped into each other and the start of the Manchester riots when trying to get out of town.

I was also there when police came looking for a neighbour and next door but one and breaking in to their houses and finding them both dead inside in completely separate incidents and the charred remains of somewhere I decided not to spend the night last minute (my ex's - we went to mine instead) after it burnt to the ground that night.

I also remember hearing the most horrific bang and the building I was working in shaking and it going white outside. A neighbouring demolition job had gone wrong and a large part of the building collapsed from a height (multiple storeys up) onto a man working underneath in a little digger. After a horrible wait and everyone thinking the worse he walked out, I honestly don't know how.

[mrs_overall]

This is the absolute truth.
Back in the 1980's in the space of 2 years, SEVEN people collapsed in the street near me and I had to resuscitate them all. Only two survived and one of them was a vagrant who gave me scabies.
The other one was an elderly lady who had fainted. Another bystander who had obviously watched one episode of Casualty leaped into action and started mouth to mouth. He did it so violently he forced her dentures down her throat and stopped her breathing. That was the point I had to wrestle him out of the way.

[parkie]

Back in the 1980's I was a sales rep and parked up in a park in East London to eat my lunch. I suddenly saw a three wheler invalid carraige careering across the grass with a woman underneath it. It jammed and I ran over and lifted the front wheel to allow the woman to get out. Apparently the woman driver of the 'carriage was the other woman's landlady and they'd had a row. She, the driver, was ranting and raving. I went to a nearby house to call an ambulance and as I did so the invalid carriage burst into flames. There was nothing anyone could do and the driver burnt to death.
It really was bizarre. Strange thing is I was not called to the inquest as a witness.