frommycolddeadhands
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A while back I was in a classroom and we were given a hypothetical situation based upon a real life attack. (Sorry, no link) Basically a high school girl was at the prom, and afterward went out to the parking lot to meet up with friends. Long and short is that alcohol was involved and things got bad real quick. The girl was forced to the ground and raped by 3 different men, each taking turns. A crowd of onlookers actually gathered around (picture the big cirle of people who gather around a schoolyard fight), but instead of helping the young woman they decided to flip out their cell phones and record it, snap photos and do prettymuch anything EXCEPT help her. There were school chaparones inside that were supposedly oblivious to what was happening in the parking lot. When everything was said and done the girl was left beaten and raped in the parking lot long after everyone went home. It wasn't until six hours later that someone called the cops and they found her, alive but unconscious, in the grass a few hundred yards from the parking lot.
Our hypothetical was this: If you were walking out into a parking lot and discovered this sort of thing going on, what would you do?
A couple of guys stated that they would have fought through the crowd, fists, elbows and whatever else necessary, and rescued the girl by force. (IMO there would be overwhelming odds for failure considering the size of the crowd, but at least they were willing to do something)
Others said that they would have flipped out the handy-dandy cell phone and called the cops.
Another popular answer was to go get the chaperones inside and let them handle it.
One idea I thought was sorta clever, one guy said that he would have shouted "Oh SH*T, the COPS are coming!!" and then watched everyone scatter.
Anyway, I thought a lot about this situation after class was over. I'm 5'6, so fighting my way through the madness to get into a fight with 3 rapists....the odds are stacked against me on that one.
Flipping out the cell phone and calling the cops is always a good idea. Get 5-0 on the way, but really this poor girl needs help NOW, not five or ten minutes from now, so some intervention is definately called for.
Getting the chaperones invovled isn't a bad idea. More numbers to fight for the good, as long as they are WILLING to intervene and not stand ildy by like everyone else.
Shouting "Cops are coming" I thought was a pretty clever idea, as long as it actually worked. If not, could be hot water.
Anyway, I'm open for thoughts. The girl obviously needs immediate help, but overwhelming numbers and violence could make this horrible situation even worse. What would you do? Any 'outside the box' ideas? What would you do if you were armed, and what would you do differently/same if you were unarmed for some reason?
A while back I was in a classroom and we were given a hypothetical situation based upon a real life attack. (Sorry, no link) Basically a high school girl was at the prom, and afterward went out to the parking lot to meet up with friends. Long and short is that alcohol was involved and things got bad real quick. The girl was forced to the ground and raped by 3 different men, each taking turns. A crowd of onlookers actually gathered around (picture the big cirle of people who gather around a schoolyard fight), but instead of helping the young woman they decided to flip out their cell phones and record it, snap photos and do prettymuch anything EXCEPT help her. There were school chaparones inside that were supposedly oblivious to what was happening in the parking lot. When everything was said and done the girl was left beaten and raped in the parking lot long after everyone went home. It wasn't until six hours later that someone called the cops and they found her, alive but unconscious, in the grass a few hundred yards from the parking lot.
Our hypothetical was this: If you were walking out into a parking lot and discovered this sort of thing going on, what would you do?
A couple of guys stated that they would have fought through the crowd, fists, elbows and whatever else necessary, and rescued the girl by force. (IMO there would be overwhelming odds for failure considering the size of the crowd, but at least they were willing to do something)
Others said that they would have flipped out the handy-dandy cell phone and called the cops.
Another popular answer was to go get the chaperones inside and let them handle it.
One idea I thought was sorta clever, one guy said that he would have shouted "Oh SH*T, the COPS are coming!!" and then watched everyone scatter.
Anyway, I thought a lot about this situation after class was over. I'm 5'6, so fighting my way through the madness to get into a fight with 3 rapists....the odds are stacked against me on that one.
Flipping out the cell phone and calling the cops is always a good idea. Get 5-0 on the way, but really this poor girl needs help NOW, not five or ten minutes from now, so some intervention is definately called for.
Getting the chaperones invovled isn't a bad idea. More numbers to fight for the good, as long as they are WILLING to intervene and not stand ildy by like everyone else.
Shouting "Cops are coming" I thought was a pretty clever idea, as long as it actually worked. If not, could be hot water.
Anyway, I'm open for thoughts. The girl obviously needs immediate help, but overwhelming numbers and violence could make this horrible situation even worse. What would you do? Any 'outside the box' ideas? What would you do if you were armed, and what would you do differently/same if you were unarmed for some reason?