Posted by:
mahana
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Date: April 15, 2019 03:16AM
In the craziest F&T thread mel brought up some interesting points about how people respond in emergencies. I didn't want to hijack the other thread and thought others might like to add their experiences as well. ;)
mel Wrote:
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> Those studies of bystander inaction during emergencies are
> fascinating. Reasons why no one does anything. Some research,
> you are worse off in a large group because responsibility to
> act is diffused, everyone waiting for the other guy to “do
> something”.
> If you feel like writing, what was the situation
> where you found out you are not a “freezer”?
I've had several scary incidents but have couple that stand out..
When I was probably about 5 or so, my younger brother (around 4-ish), sister (around 2 1/2-ish) and I were playing in the front yard. My mom was in the back yard weeding. This old brown station wagon pulled up with a lady & man in it. We lived on the outskirts of town so I was leery of weird people showing up, but figured they might need directions.
As soon as their car came to a stop the lady jumped out and started running towards my younger siblings. I started screaming for them to run and started running away. When I looked back to make sure they were coming I was horrified to see them both just standing there frozen stiff. I don't blame them though, especially for their age.
I wasn't about to let that lady get her hands on them so I started running back towards her and screaming at the top of my lungs. I knew I was no match and she could probably just pick me up and carry me off. I was beyond terrified and my mind was racing like mad thinking about all the horrible things you hear of kidnappers doing. But I thought if I fought hard enough maybe I'd slow her down and at least buy enough time for my mom to come help.
Thankfully my mom heard the car pull up and heard me screaming. About the same time I stared running towards the lady my mom came running around the corner of the house and saw what was going on. The lady paused for second and you knew she was trying to gauge if she could make it to one of them first or not. She was closer and started make mad dash but change her mind. She rand back to her car and they sped away.
I honestly think I reacted that way because of growing up on a farm. You learn early on that you have to stand up to animals. Whether its a cow, a rooster, or a pissed off goose.. lol
2nd incident.. (sorry for the length, I'd try to keep it short!)
We had a big family get together for the 4th of July. Some of the extra intelligent family members decided it would be a grand idea to set off a bunch of illegal aerial fireworks.
Being the extra bright snowflakes they are, they put them on a flat board, but put the board on the slanted side of the road. As soon as they lit them they tipped over and started pummeling us with exploding balls of fire. Without even thinking my very first instinct was to run for the kids and get them out of the way. My cute nephew grabbed his new wife and shielded her with his body. But all the other adults present sat there like a bump on a log for far too long while it pummeled the houses, the cars and everything else in the way and burned streaks across my front lawn. We were all lucky no one was seriously injured & nothing caught fire that we couldn't put out.