If the police were chasing someone and he ran right by you...
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Right! They're being chased after because they're suspected of wrong-doing, or are able to help the police with thier investigation etc. The police are ordinarily not going to summarily mete out punishment, and it's not the police's job or yours to decide who's guilty or not.RaffB said:
For the record, I'd do whatever I could to assist the police.
Well I live in the city ... so by the time I actually saw him as I was moving past people it would probably be too late anyways.
But theoretically; if i could actually see the guy, and I wouldn't end up tripping over a little old grandma in my efforts to intercept, and assuming he doesn't have something that forcefully injects lead into your body ... or performs unwarranted exploratory surgery inside yuor various organs, *and* assuming theat the police were right behind him so I wouldn't be alone with the guy for more than a second or two before they caught up ..... then we I guess I might ty to trip him over, or push him into a wall or tree as they ran by.
I'm not going to do anything else though because that would be being too much of a hero ... and heroes get shot alot.
But theoretically; if i could actually see the guy, and I wouldn't end up tripping over a little old grandma in my efforts to intercept, and assuming he doesn't have something that forcefully injects lead into your body ... or performs unwarranted exploratory surgery inside yuor various organs, *and* assuming theat the police were right behind him so I wouldn't be alone with the guy for more than a second or two before they caught up ..... then we I guess I might ty to trip him over, or push him into a wall or tree as they ran by.
I'm not going to do anything else though because that would be being too much of a hero ... and heroes get shot alot.
That happened to me before. My thought process was 'oh hey, there's something happening up ahead, I wonder who they're chasing?'
'oh, that guy who just ran past me'. In retrospect, given that people were yelling at him and he was running away, that should have been obvious. So yeah. I'd just kinda let him run past. I don't do well under pressure.
'oh, that guy who just ran past me'. In retrospect, given that people were yelling at him and he was running away, that should have been obvious. So yeah. I'd just kinda let him run past. I don't do well under pressure.
I'd be willing to throw a foot out to trip them, but I'm not going to try to outright tackle them.
You know, interesting point, it used to be a civic and lawful duty for every citizen to participate in the capture of a criminal or prevention of a crime. Maybe we should all get to wear guns again, 'cause this no guns for anyone shit doesn't seem to work.
Funnily A scenario like this actually happened to me, A group of youths rampaging through a park late at night surrounded my brother and I, but through the gloom and their own drunkeness they saw that we weren't easy pickings, we both are props that play club rugby. They soon ran off and hid behind a fountain, out of the shadows 2 constables with batons drawn, then proceeded to confront me and my brother and asked us where the group of teenagers had gone, I asked what they had done and the constable explained that they had just beaten and robbed a young couple out for an evening stroll. I immediately turned around and fingered the group behind the fountain and proceeded to enjoy watching the police tear into them lol.
Some years later I was walking alone from my local pub in the same area, and a guy with no warning ran up on me from 20 meters out and attempted to plant an elbow on my nose, I dodged this so that he caught me a glancing blow, When I turned to confront my assailant low and behold it was one of the youths that had been arrested for the mugging, seems some people just don't learn their lesson on what polite society is all about and he obviously blamed me for arrest rather than his own actions.
I then proceeded to kick his ass, at which point when I had him restrained in a head lock and was driving his face into a pole (much to my shame) his dog mates then jumped me from behind, as people of this moral ilk are want to do they were in a pack. Unfortunately for them this was right out the front of my local pub of whose patrons I was on first a first name basis with. Most of whom had witnessed the initial assault and had enjoyed watching me hand out some street justice. They had started to pile out of the pub when they soon saw what was going on. Ironically it was me who prevented it from further escalating by telling everyone to go back inside and telling the dick wits to piss off, something I'm sure these fools would never do if the shoe was on the other foot.
Some years later I was walking alone from my local pub in the same area, and a guy with no warning ran up on me from 20 meters out and attempted to plant an elbow on my nose, I dodged this so that he caught me a glancing blow, When I turned to confront my assailant low and behold it was one of the youths that had been arrested for the mugging, seems some people just don't learn their lesson on what polite society is all about and he obviously blamed me for arrest rather than his own actions.
I then proceeded to kick his ass, at which point when I had him restrained in a head lock and was driving his face into a pole (much to my shame) his dog mates then jumped me from behind, as people of this moral ilk are want to do they were in a pack. Unfortunately for them this was right out the front of my local pub of whose patrons I was on first a first name basis with. Most of whom had witnessed the initial assault and had enjoyed watching me hand out some street justice. They had started to pile out of the pub when they soon saw what was going on. Ironically it was me who prevented it from further escalating by telling everyone to go back inside and telling the dick wits to piss off, something I'm sure these fools would never do if the shoe was on the other foot.
Stop him? No. But if he ducked around a corner, I'd tell the police "he went that-a-way". Unless the cop was this asshole pig I've seen around town harassing teenagers just for (and I've witnessed this) standing around doing nothing committing no crime beyond crimes of the Fashion Police variety. He can go suck a fat one, so I'd misdirect him.
I guess I would try tripping the person if I saw the police behind the guy, then I would do it. If not, then I wouldn't because I would not know if he is being chased.
