Do you intervene in fights?

[riverrock]

Hello All,

If a fight broke out that had nothing got to do with you, would you intervene if you thought that one party was being badly beaten up?

Two guys were totally laying into a defenceless middle-aged man near my house a few days ago. Myself and my buddy roared at them and they ran off. The man they attacked was heavy, immobile and unable to defend himself. they were two very big and fit guys in their early 20's. He said he was attacked for no reason. He thanked us and we walked him home.

But..........not everyone would intervene in a fight that wasn't anything got to do with them, especially a dangerous fight. Would you?

 

[1_more_rep]

i don't know about the rest of the people here...but if i saw someone being badly beaten and not able to defend himself of course i'd jump in and do everything i could to talk n hold back the people hitting him and if verbal doesnt work THEN yes i would jump in and use force...

i mean...you gotta have SOME sympathy in you to make you defend someone getting really beat up...how much of a coward/jerk would someone have to be to watch a defensless person get beat up and not say or do something..

 

[plrpower]

Good question, for the most part i stay out of other people buisness. But if a I was in that same situation as you I hope I too would have the guts and clear judgement to also help out. Good job on being the good guy.

 

[monstermmf]

I've helped stop a fight in a bar before that could of just gotten rediculous.. I was partying a night in London and two big guys were going at it and there were girl bartenders in between them trying to stop them.. I got one of em pinned against a wall, while the other was trying to swing around my head at him.. ha I was getting quite pissed.. It got solved though.. hehe Anyways, fight stopped.. but in that situation, fuck yeah, I would do something.. That guy sounded like he was pretty worthles.. i mean defenseless..

 

[dgatehouse]

Good job bro! You did the right thing and I hope more people would do what you did.

And yes, I would've definitely jumped in. There is no honor in beating up someone defenseless.

 

[monstermmf]

Thanks

 

[riverrock]

There is no honor in beating up someone defenseless.

Yes. What kind of dirt-bags pick on defenceless people anyhow........The same kind of people who haven't got the guts to live normal decent lives and get what they have by bullying others.

 

[monstermmf]

They wouldn't say much to some of us on this board I imagine..

 

[Saintinistic]

I would and do jump in to even the odds. if it is an obvious gutless attack. there are not enough of us around but im sure we make a difference.

I was drinking with mates and I stopped a guy getting beaten in a bar, he was in a choke hold while another guy was kicking him. I chopped the kickers throat just hard enough for him to disengage and moved in to the choke holder, who dropped the guy and got out of range. I stopped the chase and explained to all present that everyone should go seperate ways. well, the guy I chopped was the son of the sergeant in arms at the local biker club, and was also a football player.

he phoned his mates and his team and the team they played that day turned up.

Two football teams, gang associations vs 3 of us good samaritans.

Long story short: the damage between the 3 of us were black eyes, a snapped archilles tendon, fat lips, cracked ribs, cracked check bone, amnesia, concusion, bleeding faces and noses and our lives. I laugh about it now, but redneck towns are called that for a reason.

Though I will never go through that town again, I would still stop unfair fights if I see them.

 

[1_more_rep]

I would and do jump in to even the odds. if it is an obvious gutless attack. there are not enough of us around but im sure we make a difference.

I was drinking with mates and I stopped a guy getting beaten in a bar, he was in a choke hold while another guy was kicking him. I chopped the kickers throat just hard enough for him to disengage and moved in to the choke holder, who dropped the guy and got out of range. I stopped the chase and explained to all present that everyone should go seperate ways. well, the guy I chopped was the son of the sergeant in arms at the local biker club, and was also a football player.

he phoned his mates and his team and the team they played that day turned up.

Two football teams, gang associations vs 3 of us good samaritans.

Long story short: the damage between the 3 of us were black eyes, a snapped archilles tendon, fat lips, cracked ribs, cracked check bone, amnesia, concusion, bleeding faces and noses and our lives. I laugh about it now, but redneck towns are called that for a reason.

Though I will never go through that town again, I would still stop unfair fights if I see them.

you are what i call a decent human being...K to you for being a man and if your 2 friends were members of this site i'd K them up too

 

[Judo Tom]

if i didnt know people most likely not unless it was so severe.. but you never know what someone did to deserve a beating.. even then i would only try to distrupt or distract.. nothing else..

if im friends with someone and they get into a fight unless they did something crazy to deserve it im in from the start.. i dont let my friends/family get hurt if im around

i dont care about the typical macho thing about letting fights stay 1 on 1 bs imo if you start a fight with a buddy of mine i dont know what you plan. i dont know who you are with and i dont know if you have a weapon. so im not gonna watch. knives can be pulled and used within 2 seconds.

i have when i was a bit younger watch my friend duke it out during a mutually agreed fight thing. that was fine he had some buddies we had some friends they stepped outside brawled in a parking lot.. no one jumped in and then we all went back to boozing it up..

 

[Kane Fan]

Hello All,

If a fight broke out that had nothing got to do with you, would you intervene if you thought that one party was being badly beaten up?

Two guys were totally laying into a defenceless middle-aged man near my house a few days ago. Myself and my buddy roared at them and they ran off. The man they attacked was heavy, immobile and unable to defend himself. they were two very big and fit guys in their early 20's. He said he was attacked for no reason. He thanked us and we walked him home.

But..........not everyone would intervene in a fight that wasn't anything got to do with them, especially a dangerous fight. Would you?

I cannot honestly say how I would react unless actually in the situation
and even then I've reacted differently to different situations before so I can't honestly say
but I'd like to think that I would

 

[Yarg!]

if 2 guys are duking it out, no. cuz its entertaining! then if one of the guys gets KOd and the winner is still hitting him, maybe ill hold him back, but other than that i will just point and laugh. if someone is being mugged/raped, then ill see what i can do. if someone is out numbered then ill see what i can do (unless they have it coming! like a neighborhood lynching of a rapist!). i know aguy who trains at my school who rushed to the aid of a woman who was getting beaten down by 4 guys (he takes bjj). he managed to get them of her , but as you all know bjj is almost useless against multiple opponents and though he managed to hurt one of them, he got beaten pretty severly. this was featured on the news and he got many congratulatory letters. the owner of the school also gave him a free lifetime membership. he got some pretty SEVERE head injuries stemming from that incident, but atleast he lived. btw the cunt still has yet to thank him.

 

[riverrock]

btw the cunt still has yet to thank him.

Typical..........

 

[Saintinistic]

truly typical.. the first to leave the scene is the first victim.

Another friend of mine went to the aid of a women getting beaten in a busy street in town. the guy was punching her in the face, she was bleeding and everyone did the typical walk on by so my mate ran over and kicked the guy through the kneecap with a stomp, actually breaking his leg.

The aggressor feel to the ground screaming and the women turned on my mate yelling at him. apparently the guy was her husband and she started yelling out for someone to call the cops..

My mate left the scene pretty fast. you just never can tell how mentally dependent some fucked up people are on abusive relationships.

 

[Kane Fan]

Typical..........

that is typical actually : o (
I stopped a guy from taking advantage of a drunk girl and she was, less then appreciative is how I will put it
her friends were really great about it tho
so that helped

 

[IronFist]

I would and I have...I was watching a fight downtown involving 2 cowboys, probably about 40 yrs old. They had a group of guys in their early 20's beating on them. There turned out to be like 9 of the younger guys so I stepped in to break it up and got blind-sided from one of his buddies. My boys buddies they jumped and started throwing with me. the 2 Hicks got up and fucking ran, yup straight left us...We walked away with minor injuries, nothing compared to the 3 guys left out cold on the side walk. There's definately something to be said about being trained, knowing how to slip punches, and staying on your feet...

 

[theoak01]

I most def do,when I was bouncing we had two regulars,brothers in their early 40's,always out for a good time,tipped us bouncers and our wait staff very very well,and never caused a issue, well as change would have it the bar became a university bar and one night about 4 younger guys tried to fight them in the parking lot when they were leaving,I also assume they were trying to roll them for $$.

anyway I was the only door guy left at the bar and I jumped in to help,once the odds evened up a little the younger guys fucked off,but not until the older gents got a lil bloody.

I hate the fucking strength in numbers bullshit,and I feel bad for the poor fuckers who pull that shit with me,I wont play I fucking swear Ill shoot them.

 

[Djimbe]

I do it all the time . Its just funny the look on ppls face when a 400 lb man walks up on them and asks them to try to bully ME for a change !

 

[Big Rick Rock]

Hmmmm... Not really, if people choose to be idiots and fight, I say let them go at it. I guess if I see a guy on the ground KOed that is still getting hit or stomped I would step in to difuse the situation. I mean the dude already got KTFO (deserved or not) No need to keep hitting him, I would hope that if I was ever unlucky enough to be in a situation like that, somebody would step in for me.

Also, when I'm working at a bar I'm expect to step in, that becomes my job and I'm getting paid to do it.



-BRR

 

[pendit]

Typical..........

Two of my buddies were at a strip club one night. There were a few drunk army guys sitting around the main stage getting rowdy. One of the guys finally climbed up onto the stage with one of the dancers. The bouncers tried to intervine and before you know it the whole place breaks out into a big brawl. Everyone in the place is fighting except my two friends. They just sat at their table and watched the carnage. When the police showed up, the fucking strippers started complaining to them that my friends didn't help protect them!! Out of all the shit that happened during that fight, the first thing they do is get mad at the only two people that weren't involved. Bitches are bitches

 

[Snypr]

I've broken up fights between my friends, but have discontinued that practice. Usually, both parties think I'm a pussy, which makes ME want to fight. Fuck'em.
If I saw a stranger getting jumped, I would probably call the authorities, as much as it would pain me to not physically help. If I jump in and get destroyed while the original victim left me, I'd be looking for that fucker when(or if) I healed. I've been jumped before, I'm not looking forward to it happening again.
Besides, as selfish as it sounds, nobody helped ME.

 

[foobar]

I would like to think that I'm smart enough to assess the situation before deciding whether to break up the fight or not but I'd probably jump in on instinct. Even seeing someone in a movie get an ass kicking they don't deserve gets my heart rate up.

The flip side of the coin is that I know two people who were the neutral third party trying to break up fights who ended up loosing their life. The first in high school when one person pulled a .380 out of his pocket and shot the guy in the neck. He bled to death in the back of my friend's pickup en route to the hospital. The other was a classmate in college who got stabbed in the thigh and bled to death at some shit hole house party.

 

[Big Rick Rock]

I would like to think that I'm smart enough to assess the situation before deciding whether to break up the fight or not but I'd probably jump in on instinct. Even seeing someone in a movie get an ass kicking they don't deserve gets my heart rate up.

The flip side of the coin is that I know two people who were the neutral third party trying to break up fights who ended up loosing their life. The first in high school when one person pulled a .380 out of his pocket and shot the guy in the neck. He bled to death in the back of my friend's pickup en route to the hospital. The other was a classmate in college who got stabbed in the thigh and bled to death at some shit hole house party.

Stabbed on the inner thigh? There is a major vein or artery that runs right along the inner thigh, you cut it and the person will bleed out in a couple of minutes.



-BRR

 

[foobar]

I wasn't there but that'd have to be the case. The person relating the story said there was blood everywhere immediately.

 

[Area5150]

The flip side of the coin is that I know two people who were the neutral third party trying to break up fights who ended up loosing their life. The first in high school when one person pulled a .380 out of his pocket and shot the guy in the neck. He bled to death in the back of my friend's pickup en route to the hospital. The other was a classmate in college who got stabbed in the thigh and bled to death at some shit hole house party.

This is one reason why I have a standing policy of not intervening. I've seen too many reports of guys who tried to do what was right and came away severely injured. Reading those reports made me adopt my hands off policy. It ain't ironclad, meaning there might be an exception. But from what I've learned stepping in to intervene a fight can be a dangerous thing to do.

 

[imagine]

truly depends on the situation and also my mood. however if its one of those blatantly wrong situations where someone definately needs a helping hand then i'll most likely step in.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

ive intervened in several brawls. i was thanked for one by a guy who then betrayed me terribly, threatened by the guy i helped in another, and heard no word of thanks from the rest.

wait, i lie. i stepped in a few weeks ago, there wasnt a fight becasue i did, and the guy said thanks.

as much as it isnt worth it, ive watched too many disney movies and still havnt been burnt enough to so cold as to let someone get beat down badly in front of me....so it could go either way. depends.

 

[Kane Fan]

Disney hit me to man