[Smokin' Joe]

I think you confuse a sense of responsibility to my family and community and those who protect it with those who would save us all from the eeevillls of left-handed nosepicking or some such.

For instance, the do-gooders in my tagline would immediately demand a law that you put the seat down, if you are male, when done, just to prevent the crippling trauma of sitting on the cold bowl for a female who used the facility after you and who did not notice the seat was up--even if the restroom was designated as a Men's Room.

I do not need anyone to save me from myself, thank you very much!

Nor do I think the guy should be charged with a crime for not helping the policeman, he has a right to be a sniveling pu$$y if he wants to. But by the same token, when his neighborhood goes to hell in a handbasket, he will have himself to thank for not helping stand up to the criminal element there.

[T.Smith]

I don't think not running to tackle a guy in an altercation with a cop makes one a "pu$$y". You have to consider the issue by degrees and only act if the situation is black and white. If there is any room for doubt, don't act. As others have pointed out, the risks to yourself are too great. In the heat of the moment the officer could easily consider you an additional threat and cause you great bodily harm. That would be my take on the situation.