Real simple. Guy did the right thing.
Could also have called the cops. Then again, we know how that often turns out: you wait around for around half an hour waiting for them to show up.
I was once in this situation. During New York’s darkest days, I saw about five black kids in a Korean-owned dress shop on Third Avenue. They had cornered the young retail clerk in the back of the store. I stood at the door - basically, on the street - and asked the girl if she was “alright.” Clearly, she was not, and she stood there, completely mute. I then asked her to come to the door. I wanted to talk to her. At that point, the men turned on ME and moved in my direction. I ran into the shoe store next store, where I found a guy at the register. He was black. It quickly went through my mind - this guy is not going to help me because he’ll think I’m a racist. But after I told him what was happening, he grabbed a baseball bat from under the counter, went out onto the street, and went after those bastards. I’ve never forgotten that guy or my initial reaction to his skin color.
The guy did the right thing.
Guy did the right thing.
He and his wife did a wonderful thing. However, they should not press their luck by repeating those same reactions. He is right, one of the guys could easily have jammed a knife into his guts as revenge for interrupting the momentum. They could stay within earshot, but at a certain point, those young women made a previous choice to go to Fisherman’s Wharf unescorted, and I presume weapon free. Those guys could have grabbed his wife and made a spectacle of that harassment. If the girls are so easily frightened, it’s up to them to make sure they are at home by dusk.
A .38 Spl S&W model 60 in your pocket can be comforting indeed.
“Course today’s “flash mobs” might indicate something with more than 5-shot capacity.
YMMV.
They did the right thing the wrong way.
She should not have ‘got in that guys face’ and he should never have used a form like ‘why don’t you go...’ (or what ever he said).
I was in this situation once, but it was a setup. At a New Years event at out door venue Tens of thousands revelers. I ran into a young lady I just recently met. As we were talking I saw a young man being overly aggressive with a girl and she was telling him to stop and leave her alone. I spun around and asked the girl is everything alright. Two other men moved in behind me to sucker punch me , as it was a planned attack. To my shock a mass of large men surrounded them and the girl I was talking to told them forcefully to leave and they did. The large men was her big brothers.
Ah the days when the intoxicated were only the Otis type.