I need some opinions from my fellow carriers.
You are with you significant other driving back home later in the night after a get-together with some friends. Your significant other is driving for whatever reason (you drank a few more than you feel comfortable driving after, they are a better driver at night, take your pick). You are pulling up to a light and you see two vehicles stopped at the cross street to your right. From your passenger seat vantage point, you see what appears to be an accident with the trailing car (again, both stopped at the light) practically touching the bumper of the lead car. You see two individuals exit the trailing car and approach the driver's side of the lead... This is where it turns sketchy.
Instead of exchanging insurance information or even yelling at each other, you see the two males from the trail car open the driver's door and forcefully remove the female from the lead car. She resists as much as possible, but she is up against the force of two larger men. Your significant other sees the same thing and asks what to do...
My question is, what do you do? I know what I did. I know what I had my wife do. I'll post the end results down below if you want to read the conclusion before or after answering.
My wife was the one with the clear head on this one... After I had her block the lead car from leaving (now containing the two males that forcibly removed the female), I was ready to engage with what I thought were two hostile criminals. In the tense moment, the mind of a counselor stayed strong. She asked me to be sure that the female was safe before we did anything further. My focus was, of course, on the potential threat(s), but her's was on the most important factor in this scenario, the victim's safety. Once she said this, I checked the area and realized that she was nowhere to be found. Suddenly, she barrels out of the trail car and slams, what we believe to be, her purse on the roof of the lead car and voluntarily storms back to the trail car. Once we realized that she was safe, and that there was probably much more to the story than what we experienced for a few nerve racking, adrenaline filled seconds, we left the scene. In that moment, she was safe. She was obviously upset with one of the two men that pulled her from her original vehicle, but her life was no longer in danger. Ultimately, we left the scene with no shots fired, no injuries to man or machine, and we stayed up for several hours after to thoroughly discuss the situation.
You are with you significant other driving back home later in the night after a get-together with some friends. Your significant other is driving for whatever reason (you drank a few more than you feel comfortable driving after, they are a better driver at night, take your pick). You are pulling up to a light and you see two vehicles stopped at the cross street to your right. From your passenger seat vantage point, you see what appears to be an accident with the trailing car (again, both stopped at the light) practically touching the bumper of the lead car. You see two individuals exit the trailing car and approach the driver's side of the lead... This is where it turns sketchy.
Instead of exchanging insurance information or even yelling at each other, you see the two males from the trail car open the driver's door and forcefully remove the female from the lead car. She resists as much as possible, but she is up against the force of two larger men. Your significant other sees the same thing and asks what to do...
My question is, what do you do? I know what I did. I know what I had my wife do. I'll post the end results down below if you want to read the conclusion before or after answering.
My wife was the one with the clear head on this one... After I had her block the lead car from leaving (now containing the two males that forcibly removed the female), I was ready to engage with what I thought were two hostile criminals. In the tense moment, the mind of a counselor stayed strong. She asked me to be sure that the female was safe before we did anything further. My focus was, of course, on the potential threat(s), but her's was on the most important factor in this scenario, the victim's safety. Once she said this, I checked the area and realized that she was nowhere to be found. Suddenly, she barrels out of the trail car and slams, what we believe to be, her purse on the roof of the lead car and voluntarily storms back to the trail car. Once we realized that she was safe, and that there was probably much more to the story than what we experienced for a few nerve racking, adrenaline filled seconds, we left the scene. In that moment, she was safe. She was obviously upset with one of the two men that pulled her from her original vehicle, but her life was no longer in danger. Ultimately, we left the scene with no shots fired, no injuries to man or machine, and we stayed up for several hours after to thoroughly discuss the situation.