"You don't know what you would do in the same situation."
This is similar to the "Everybody does it!" defense used by Dumbocrats back in `98-`99 when Slick William was caught with his pants down. Again.
Nope, sorry. Not everyone is a looter or serial adulterer. (The Dums don't give their fellow Americans much credit . . .)
Me, I would have walked or tried swimming my way about by now