Would You Save a Stranger?

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1. I would & have stopped to help on several occasions. Usually your bellowing distracts & diverts for long enough for these maniacs to think again. TELL THEM THE POLICE ARE ON THEIR WAY!!! The 2 incidences on the buses, there were enough people there that if shouting their objections would have caused the situations to stop. Howard had the right idea. He verbally challenged them causing distraction & difusion. No one wants a witness who will testify against them. The more people who challenge this behaviour when they see it these scum bags will have to stop. Nowhere to run or hide when there are too many willing wittnesses. The law doesn't help either. If in order to intervene you have to assault the attacker or attackers YOU ARE IN BREACH OF THE LAW & WOEBETIDE THAT THE ATTACKER(S) ARE MINORS!!!!!!! One thing that stands out is that only 50% of the cases studied did the police find the culprits despite all the witnesses & the CCTV footage of that & surrounding areas that must have existed. INCREDIBLE IN THIS DAY & AGE OF CCTV!!!!! HUUMMM! What is this telling us? The police don't care or worse that the Thugs know that they have a 50 -50 chance of getting away with it. So what is to be done? Everyone should intervene disturb & disrupt. You don't have to be big or male. I'm 5'5" & 7 stone & female. The Law needs to be changed. If you assault a minor in the protection of another individual that is being attacked you are immune from prosecution & those that persist in these crimes & sucessfully prosecuted should be presumed to have comitted this type of offence previously & the courts should therefore multiply their sentence by 5 and let them run consecutively - without remission. Therefore the girl in the bus incident who got 10 months would have served 50 months, (which would still not repay the debt to the victim who will suffer all her life)or in the Case of Liam 11 years becomes 55 years - SERVED. He took Liam's life his shoUld be taken as well. NOTHING QUITE LIKE HUGE DETERRENTS IS THERE?

   Posted by Zoe De Luca on 13/06/2009 22:14:33

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2. I would too help a stranger to a certain extent. If there were a group of people I would most probably call the police straight away however if there were only few of them I would certainlystep in to difuse the situation. Percides the police are useless as I was in an incident where I was attacked on the trainstation platform by a drunk guy at the age of 24 and I hadonly just turned 18. The police were called on my behalf and when we went through the procedures he was fined for running across the tracks however not for attacking me as the CCTV was scewered by the flood lights. The police are useless and I would never put another situation in their hands again. I feel that people who do these types of things should not be communicating with society and should get put on a programme where they have to learn to behave and if this happens frequently they should be sentenced for a long time. The bullies/suspects themselves should get their own medicine and get intimidated and bullied themselves. A typical bully will only pick on people when in a large group or when they are bigger either physically or mentally. I class these people as cowards and spit on them.

   Posted by DANIEL BROWNE on 09/06/2009 11:12:55

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3. i would help a stranger, probably due to my utilitarian manners i rule me deep down. you see from the stories that just by one person intervening, many other people are affected absolutely positively. and then when people are being hassled and no one helps it breaks not only the people not helping - they may begin to believe no one would help them - and also of course the person specifically not being helped. basically what im trying to say is INTERVENE if the situation is really bad probably whatever you do will only make it better, but only when there is human life at steak - dont do it for money or materials (people do even more violent things for these things)

   Posted by thomas on 07/06/2009 21:53:17

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4. After watching this documentary I was completely outraged. I felt particularly sorry for the young girl who was attacked on the bus by the group of animals, and sincerly hope that the people out there watching this programme who were on that bus feel utterly ashamed of themselves, let's hope it doesn't ever happen to them or their loved ones...as the saying goes, what goes around comes around, and perhaps like them, other members of the public will not help out them or their loved ones. I had a similar thing happen to me about 5 years ago, I was out swimming with a friend when a group of about 10 girls and boys came to stand at the pool gallery and began shouting things directed at me. When I'd left the swimming pool centre they were outside waiting for me where they carried on taunting me and one of the girls stubbed a cigarette out on my head, then a boy from this same group slapped me round the face. I carried on walking and tried to ignore them, but they followed and eventually met with another group of older girls...one of these grils made me get down on my hands and knees in the centre of town and beg her for forgiveness for looking at her so called 'superior' friend. I had to for fear of being beaten up by the now 15 strong group. I was 14 years old and no-one in the town centre stopped to even try and help me. I felt completely degraded and humiliated. Like the young girl on the bus I have completely lost faith in the British public and feel they have failed me as a fellow citizen. Thank goodness the girl was ok. Things get easier as time goes on, it eventually made me a stronger person and I certainly wouldn't let it happen to anyone else, even if they let it happen to me. Best wishes for the future to all of the people who were in the film, especially the young girl, Jasmine, I sort of know how she feels.

   Posted by tinkerbabybell01 on 25/05/2009 21:50:58

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5. i am truly shocked, disgusted and devastated after watching this documentary. thats real life, that is what happens for real, every day and night, what we arent aware of untill its shown on tv, we hear of it or worse, it happens to us! thats bad. i can`t believe how ignorant and heartless people are! i just cant believe! and i dont mean those thugs and psychos, because they exist and they always will, but im talking about people that are witnessing their crime and dont react! specialy the 12 year old girl beaten up in a bus by some hugly depraved and horrible young kids! thats blown me away! come on! how many adult people was there!!! i still cant believe what i saw! i am very sure that i would never ever just leave it and i would react to this situation. and those people that was there that allowed to happen what we saw happening to the girl and what was her state like after, should be very ashamed of themselves and realy think about their existence in this world. for me they are no different to those doing the crime... horrfying and heartbreaking all stories, i feel for the victims.

   Posted by Kate on 25/05/2009 00:20:57

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6. It was with a heavy hart i looked at your program tonight, it was a very sad show but, I am lost for words - To Liam's Mam, Liam is luckey to have a Mum like you. Well done to everybody involved Liam in Ireland

   Posted by Liam on 24/05/2009 23:18:56

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7. I just saw this show and I cannot believe how amazing it was. I was watching in disgust how bystanders could just watch 12 year old Jasmin get beaten up on the bus. This show has definitely raised my awareness about these occurences in London and I would do my best to "get involved" and save a stranger in need Inshallah. I look forward to seeing more of this show.

   Posted by Adam on 24/05/2009 23:15:45

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