If someone was being kicked and hit in the middle of your street

If I saw someone being physically beaten, yes, I would try to help. It'd probably be a group of big guys...and I'm jyst a 'tin' girl lol. But I would probably jump on ones back and wrap my arms around this throats, like they do in movies =p lol. Hopely by the niose and ruckus I'm making someone else will be able to call 911 quickly. I'd be like a cat in that group. Going from guy to guy, slapping and punching them! lol.

If I saw someone being beaten, I would call for help for sure. Im also the type of person that will stand up for someone that is being made fun of. I know what its like to be made fun of and I wish that someone had taken up for me. It feels terrible.

When I was more physically able, I might have tried to help, but being a woman...probably not a good idea. At the least I would call 911! As for the gossips...I'd probably say something. I'm a product of hurtful things said in my childhood I still remember...it's pretty bad when adults do it also!

If anyone I knew was gossiping, I'd put a stop to it yes. "Hey, you don't really know that. You don't know them. Drop the subject." As for the first scenerio, I'd jump in and fight them off. Hopefully I'd have something injury-inflicting at hand, but even if I didn't I'd go and try to wipe the concrete with them anyway. It's not really smart, no. But it's what's right. And since when have I ever ignored what's right anyways? Trouble follows me regardless..so no worries.

I would surely try to help him by calling the police. I cannot see anybody being beaten be it human being or animals. Regarding the second case, I will try to support the victim by taking the person away from the scene. I will also try to get help from others. some things cannot be handled alone. So take the maximum help if needed.

If it was possible to stop and help the person being attacked i would do it.I think it is a natural response. If it was a group of thugs though as you say,trying to intervene would probably result in them beating the hell out of me too!So the best thing would be to call for some help in that situation(something which i have done). In the situation of people gossiping about someone behind their backs i would try to find out if the gossips were based on facts.If they turned out to be lies i would try to stop the gossips for sure.

I would be right there trying to help the person. You haven't seen me when I get mad. I can really scream. No need to call the police, if there is any more than a block away they can hear me. Mind you I will be shouting "Call the police!" In the second case, I would stop the creeps who are gossiping, "Haven't you anything better to do?" I have stopped kids doing that, the loud HARUMph does work, but have not had the opportunity to stop adults.

if i see someone being abused physically in the streets i wont go and help that person. i'll just call for help and i'll call the police to stop them. since im a girl i might not be able to do anything so it'd better be bunch of cops or bunch of good guys. ^__^ for the second scenario, i wouldn't join conversations like that because its just a waste of time. but if i were already in the group and that kind of topic came up, i might have something to say if the person we're talking about is a common pain in the azz for us. LOL

If I were a big, strong man I'd probably step in to stop the thugs in the first scenario but since I'm a rather small-built woman I'd probably call 9-1-1. As for the second scenario, been there, done that many times. I'd defend the person that was being bad-mouthed and tell the others to mind their own damn business! Annie

Well if someone were being beat by a bunch of thugs, I do know I'd stop and do something as I have before. Last year a young man got beaten by a group of young girls with bats. Being a man who would never hit a woman, he suffered the beating. I pulled over and got the kid in my car and then followed the girls and confronted them. I knew one of them and did report her to the police who got the names of the others involved. As far as someone slinging dirt...no , i never ever join in . I always take the side of the underdog and yes, I do have pity on those that are so mean....quite obviously they too have had some pretty rough backgrounds.

If its a group of thugs I'd try to call for help. Being armed has its limits so physical intervention would be a problem. Plus depending on where you are, sympathy will be handed to the thugs and the good samaritan(s) would be treated like criminals by the law. Its not totally like that but there have been some instances of it. For the gossip one I'd try to screw up the gossipers. I hate crude gossipers.

I was at a shopping mall & saw this poor guy got hit by another guy. I was shocked (seeing as it was in a shopping mall & a lot of people were watching this so called abusive thug in action). I mean, wasn't he afraid of being caught? Doesn't he feel any sort of remote upon seeing a person's face covered in blood? The poor guy who received a flying kick and several punches from his attacker fell to the ground, picked himself up and started giggling sheepishly. Then to my disbelief, he walked over to his rival and patted him on his back, trying to calm him down. Hmmm??? That was when I realized that these two guys were friends. The abusive thug brushed his victim's hand off, shoved him to the ground, & then kicked him some more. I was appalled. I wanted to intervene, but I was merely a girl with not much physical strength. The other passer-bys weren't doing anything either. But security came after 5 minutes & arrested the thug who clearly needed to be put into an anger-management program. The injured guy (who by now sported a bleeding nose & a cut on his upper lip) was attended to. I never realized how much I felt for that injured guy until I felt my eyes water. But it truly was a disturbing scene. As for hearing other people being made fun of or gossiped over, I suppose it depends on how serious the rumors are. I believe that there is a limit to making fun of people, though. A friend told me, "what they don't know won't hurt them," & this is true if you could keep a secret. But for those who can't, think about what it would do to that certain individual. Will it hurt them? Think about the consequences. What if it was you who was being made fun of? Some people make fun of other people to make themselves feel better. Others do it out of spite. Perhaps a friend of yours was making fun of a certain someone because he or she was hurt by that someone, & the only way to relieve themselves was by bad-mouthing their rival to other people. So you never know. Human beings are pretty complicated & I've long ago given up trying to figure everyone out. I say, accept people for who they are & feel free to tell them your opinions, with the option of pointing out if they've crossed the line in certain topics. Not everyone is a saint. Except maybe Mother theressa - and - you know what I mean.

hi there littlefranciscan if that happened in my street i would call the poilce because i could not do it because i am a small build and i am a single mother the kids need me but i would call police. thanks for this discussion

Yes of course I would save that person. First, i will take a baseball bat and knock them all in the head. Then I'll pick up the kid, run to a safe spot, and call his house. Then if somebody is being messed up, I'll go kick who ever was doing anything bad to them so hard, they'll start crying! I would just hope none of this has to happen. Ah, let my imagination flow through...

i certainly would stop to help them.if it looked really dangerous i would call the police and get them there as fast as possible.as far as someone being made fun of.i would say something to those who were hurling the insults.i would do it a way that they would hang their heads in shame hopefully.cheers sue

to be honest, its very hard for a single person to save a person being beaten n hit by a group of thugs. obviously, if i go to save him i will also be banged by them. rather then this, i will prefer to call for help by informing the security and till they arrive i will try to accumulate some people enough to form a group so that we can fight back to those thugs in favour of that person!! and in second case................ ofcourse, i will try to shut those mouths uttering such types of things!!

First id pull my blade(wakizachi) and tell them that if they would not stop id turn pure evil and cut them down, showing no mercy to any on the thugs. its not that i hate all humans, i just dont have anything for spineless cowards, God is merciful but im not always that. When it comes to gossip, i try and tend to avoid spreading it. Talking about a friend with others is no problem to me, it gets a problem when they would start to make fun of him/her and treat the person like garbage. If id feel its bad id probably sit down and have a good talk with them (no violence/screaming/bad language here) and hopefully they get the thing and stop.