Comments on: Stop. Thief.

By: mig

mig — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:27:12 +0000

oh, yeah that all went through my mind: he probably has a knife; what if the first guy is not a thief, and the second guy means him harm, etc.
i was on the subway once when a guy got on who was, it seemed, itching to do someone violence. he bumped into everyone, stomped on my toes as he went past, and had a dangerous air about him. he was not very big, but no one wanted to fuck with him. then a big guy told him to behave and we all rejoiced inside. the smaller guy wrapped his leather jacket around his left arm, as i have heard one does in a knife fight, for example, then went over and punched the big guy in the nose and the guy went down on his knees and began to scream. we all got off at the next stop. i probably posted about that here, it was years ago.

By: joeri

joeri — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:16:41 +0000

I once was waiting in the car at a crossing as I witnessed a young thug snatching a womans purse. In a reflex I put the accelerator to the floor and drove after the running thief. I drove two streets and then had to stop because he turned into a one way street which I couldn’t. He just looked at me and smiled. It was over in maybe 30 seconds, afterwards I was shaking because I realised that I chased him by reflex and didn’t have a realistic plan to halt him anyway (because I would have had to run him over to stop him, or leave the car and risk it being stolen as well) or he could have had a knife or something… You won’t know how you’ll react until you witnessed an event like that I guess.

By: b

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:08:40 +0000

Or what if the guy wasn’t a thief, and the other guy was a bad guy trying to catch him and he called out ‘Stop, thief!’ to try and get people to help him catch the innocent guy who was really just running away from some Nazis. You know. Like we all do.