If you saw someone beating up another person, would you stop the attacker?

If I witness a fight, I would first try to verbally get them to stop, if they didn't I would probably try to hold them down physically and call the police.

Hi Beautyqueen26, on more than one occasion I've called the police...I live in a crime ridden area and every other day something goes down wether it be boyfriend and girlfriend or just people...they just stay angry at the world. It's been a little over a year since I bought my home and so far there have been two shootings and many, many fist fights, UGH! It seems I'm always calling the police! ~G~

I may not try to break it up but I may call the police to break it up. It depends upon who was involved and how bad the fight is.

I may not try to break it up but I may call the police to break it up. It depends upon who was involved and how bad the fight is.

I think I'd have to access the situation and fast! If it was family I'd be calling the police (provided I had the cell phone with me and it was in range) while screaming stop it or doing anything to get the attacker's attention on to me versus them. If it were my child or a child I knew I'd be damn skippy to doing all I could to protect the child and myself.

personally here in the uk knife crime is on the rise, I am no vigilante and want to be alive for my kids. I would call the police first, and monitor the fight if it was clearly one sided and the guy was in real danger only then would I drag the other person off till the police arrive. If its just hand-bags at ten paces then I would let the police sort it out, as unfortunatly in this day and age you never know what they are carrying. Which is a sorry state of the world, when you have to watch out for your own safety.

I think I would try to talk out a resolution, after calling 911. I have a tendency to do stuff like that, although I have never been in the situation you describe.

I think i would just keep on shouting for somebody to help or call the police. I actually saw once 3 guys beating somebody. People were calling for somebody to help the one being beaten and one police came and broke it up. All i remember was I keep shouting 'help! help! and stop them.

I would feel more upset if it were a family member but my actions would not change beauty honey. It has happened before and if I saw it happening again I would do the same and step in to try and protect the person being attacked! The last time it was a 6 ft 3 "man who had his petite wife up against a wall by the throat - I was terrified but couldn't just pass by or call the police and hope she would be ok til they got there - I had to step in and try to help , which I did and ended up being threatened for a long time. His wife got away and ended up escaping for good. xxx

Whoever it is that is being beaten up or whether the person being beaten up deserves to be beaten up or not, I will still intervene so that no further damage or at least a brief moment of interruption would occur to alleviate the cruelty that is happening to the person being beaten. Some attachers would flee when they get told to stop and others would cease continuing when they finally realize that others have seen what they have done.

There was a day that I would have interveened but not anymore. It is too dangerous to help anyone these days. About a year ago there was a story in the newspaper about a guy that was a good samaratian and helped a woman that was being hit by her husband or boyfriend or whatever so he jumped in to help her and he ended up getting beaten so bad that he is now in a wheelchair because he is paralized from the neck down. It happened in the town I used to live in so it felt like it hit home. They had a benefit social sunday afternoon at the bar that it happened at, to raise money for him. That is how I heard about it since I had moved away when it happened and moved back about three months later. So my daughter and I went to the benefit and it was sad. So if I were to see someone getting beaten up I would not interveen but I would call the police if I thought it was necessary.

Hi Beautyqueen, I would I have done this in the past and would do again but these days with youths carrying knives and not having any respect for human life I maybe a bit more hesitant. One occasion I stepped in was a girl was hitting another girl with a rounders bat and I went and grabbed the bat from the girl and said that if she was gona fight to fight fair. I am quite a passive person but if I see an injustice I step in. Huggles. Ellie :D

I would call the police because if someone is having a fiscal altercation it might be dangerous to intervene without the authority's epscally if its really violent and I think the police is better equipped to handle a situation like that, rather then risking bodily injury to ones self by getting in the middle of a fiscal fight.

IF I would see a person getting pounded by someone then probably I would stop the attacker. Before I do such a thing I will first call the police in case something bad happens. To me, safety is the first priority and it's not that I'm a coward.

If I thought I could stop it i would, but if I thought it was too dangerous to stop, I would call the police from a hidden place, and then hide my video camera somewhere, so that I might capture some evidence, handing over whatever I recorded to the police. I carry my camera everywhere, so it woudln't be hard to get my hands on it if I needed it.

Tough questions...if it was a family member, emotions would be involved and it would be a free for all (I'm pretty protective of my family), it wouldn't matter who it was or how big they were. If it were a stranger and the attacker was bigger than me, I'd call the police and then start yelling for help from others around me that might be big enough to stop it. I definately wouldn't just do nothing. [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]

I would be more aggressive in defending if I know the person. However, I am slow reactor... There are times, that I tend to absorb the situation and then do the most rightful thing. I hate it at times, hence there are situations that an abrupt action is needed.

The trouble is that you just don't always know who the bad guys are these days. So I guess I would only take action if I had seen the fight start and even then, maybe it was a long standing feud and the good guy just got fed up. So I guess I'd call the cops. I certianly wouldn't just walk by as if it wasn't happening.

i really dont like if ma family memeber or some person gets beating frm stanger... if i see such thing happening i'll call the police then go near them to find wat has actually happened so tat if i can save that person from getting beatings for sure i'll help him...bocause god has not created this life to get beatings from others ...

Wow, that is a good one. It would depend on who was being attacked. If someone was attacking one of my kids or family members, I may jump in and stop the attack. I am not a very brave person, but I would call the police and someone else for help if I saw another person that I did not know being attacked. If I thought I would not be hurt in the process of stopping the attack, I would try. I would help a stranger, but I probably would not put myself at risk in the process. I know that sounds cowardice but I am scared of being hurt.