Dixie said:
Ponytail - I honestly mean NO disrespect with this question - this situation and situations like this puzzle me also - but what would you do if you saw the same thing? What would any of us do? What should you do? The reason I ask - do you remember a few weeks ago when an old man was having his car hijacked and getting beaten senseless while a group of people just stood and watched. No one stepped up to the plate. And I wondered why - a big group of people like that - surely they could have taken him collectively. Here's another one that bugs me - a few years ago in Alexandria (I think) this high school kid was attacked by two other high school kids and either beaten or stabbed to death while a really large crowd stood by. And did NOTHING. A friend of mine was in the crowd that just stood there. I asked her why. She shrugged and said what do you do. I would think scream, shout, shove, act like a crazy person, do anything but nothing. I mean the results are three families without their kids and two kids who are ruined for life. For what? High school crap?
Well - there's my rant for the day. I hope you didn't take this offensively Ponytail - the fact that you even questioned it tells me you think its wrong too which means you'd probably do SOMETHING. And that's a start.
On the forums, in the mall, at work, wherever, there is a "pack mentality" amongst humans. Where you feel powerless as one, even in a group but somewhere inside, where your morals are, you know what is right and wrong but may not be able to find that "switch" that gets you to act on those feelings. It only takes ONE person in a group to start, a leader, to get the pack to follow.
I was a the Fastop in Lusby a couple of years ago filling up the truck, when I noticed a lone bicyclist ride in and was trying to pull his bike inside the store. Two car loads of kids, 6 kids in all, were chasing him. They grabbed his bike and dragged the bike and the bicyclist outside and started beating on him. I ran over with the guy that was pumping gas next to me and that seemed to prompt several other folks that were getting gas, to help the guy out. I dunno what prompted the altercation, but 6 on 1 is unnecessary odds, regardless of what may have happened before. The idiots working inside refused to call the police because they were afraid to get busted themselves. Apparantly, a couple of them had drugs in their cars and they were worried about that, even though they had nothing to do with the altercation. I heard that conversation with my own ears.
So I called the police with my cell phone, had description of the cars, and license plate numbers of both vehicles written down.
Anyway, that is a perfect example of one or two people getting a bunch of others to act. Many folks DON'T know what to do. But many will be willing to help someone else that is trying to do SOMETHING. In this day and age, it's scary to get physically involved. There's a good chance that you could get hurt or killed. You never know what someone is on or what they are carrying anymore. I just can't help it sometimes. Too many years as a bouncer I guess. :shrug:
If you don't want to get physically involved, get a license plate, note physical descriptions (what they are wearing, hair color), locations and call the police. Let them check it out. Follow the car while on the phone with police if you feel that someone is in danger. ANYTHING is better than nothing.
Your ole lady put you to work already this a.m., I know what it is... 
