"Would you help a man being beaten?"

Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2/5/07 | Jeremy Vine

[kiriath_jearim]

The rest of the article is on the Telegraph website.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Mr. Vine did exactly what his government has ordered him to do.

[Malacoda]

Between the sexual harrassment of the young woman on the train, and the obnoxious hand gesture, it sounds like the guy got a much-deserved ass-beating.

Why didn't Mr. High-and-Mighty step in when the "gentleman" was feeling up his seatmate?

[tarnak]

I've been on NYC subways all my life. If some guy was pulling this crap, he would be dealt with my others.

[ArrogantBustard]

Mr. Vine

did exactly what most "police spokespersons" in these United States recommend.

Dial 911.

And die.

[Wolfie]

You got it wrong. The "feeler upper", when flipped off by a fellow rider for doing the "feeling", came back and beat up the fellow rider.

[To Hell With Poverty]

"A 650-page biography of Oscar Wilde"

LOL! Well there ya go!

[CholeraJoe]

The man who was beaten was not the molester. The one who did the beating was.

[Malacoda]

Ah! I did misunderstand.

I still don't understand why the feeler-upper didn't get his ass handed to him, though.

I saw a guy get thrashed righteously on a Philly SEPTA train for that once. The whole car cheered.

[FateAmenableToChange]

My brother and I had a similar incident in a Metro station while visiting D.C. A guy was attempting to throw a woman off the platform into the tracks. My brother and I stepped in and stopped him and separated the two. We then got on a train just as security arrived.

A passenger who got on the train with us informed us that the guy had been beating up the woman because she had sold drugs to his 12 year old kid.

What a great day.

[robertpaulsen]

Guy A was feeling up the girl. Guy B gave Guy A the finger. Guy C wonders what he should have done.

If Guy B would have stepped in right away, I think he might have gotten more support from those around him. As it was, he got beat up for flipping someone off, not for defending the girl. Different set of circumstances there.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Too true. Typically liberal. Do nothing, depend on the government. Our govt espouses that sort of nonsense as well.

[Red Badger]

650-page biography of Oscar Wilde? Okay, now we know why HE didn't react.......to the woman........

[timpad]

To paraphrase the Bard: "Socialism doth make cowards of us all."

When you depend on the government for your livelihood, you depend on the government for you manhood, too. Poor blighter...

[Dustbunny]

The only thing I could do would be to use a cell phone to call the police while taking pictures of all that I could.

[Sloth]

650-page biography of Oscar Wilde? Okay, now we know why HE didn't react.......to the woman........

Indeed, the only way this writer could come off as more of a sissy would be to add, "Oh, and I was wearing a flowery sundress."

[Lazamataz]

Guy A was feeling up the girl. Guy B gave Guy A the finger. Guy C wonders what he should have done.

Guy D (Laz) whips out his Glock Model 27 and orders Guy A to drop to Platform E or bullets F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M and O will penetrate skull P.

[pikachu]

The author, Mr. Vine, mistakes being passive for a pacifist. Many liberals will gladly tell you how morally superior they are because they are 'passive'. But ask them what they would do if something, like the grope in the article, happened to one of their loved ones, and they nearly leap out their skin protesting their rights. Sadly they will saddle society with heinous rules to saddle their own sense of their self worth while letting those how need to be punished go with a stern check from the government. Notice how the article ends up centered on the problem Mr. Vine had from HIS having to see the grope/beating and not on the woman or the man. How dare they inflict their problems on him; Probably put him right off his Oscar Wilde.

[The Blitherer]

lol! Thanks for the smile!