Maybe I should start reading the Daily Mail

[Pheebs]

I think the whole "you don't know til it's happening" theory here is the case.

I should imagine if it was a gang of people and I blatantly didn't stand a chance I'd be on the phone to the police. In the past a few times I have run to help out a lady being beaten up by a bloke. It was just... automatic. I've also stopped at a bus stop and told a young girl to get into my car when a small teenage gang was picking on her and about to start a fight at about 2am (I was heading back from a shift at a pub). She was eternally grateful and I dropped her home. And chased a guy who broke into a car in France (whilst people stood and watched?!?!!)

I guess it's just a reflex action. Probably one that will get me into trouble. Though after being beaten up twice myself for no reason at all (once I was just walking through a park and listening to my music and a bunch of townies decided it would be fun to thwack me... another time I was walking home from school so much younger) Both times people came to help and if they hadn't I would have probably been pulverized.