I tried helping two American women in the UK once, they were stopped on a three lane main roundabout with a flat tyre, now over here you limp the vehicle off of the roundabout, at worste some one will help push it out of the way, because it’s pritty dangerous sitting there with cars wizzing past at 50mph plus negotiating the roundabout and other audi drivers.
ermm ouch! they were very insistent i go copulate with myself in some other area because i was going to mug them. The look my face must have been priceless!
Helping woman needs caution, helping children needs a truck load of caution.
Country side road and as drove by, there is a woman sitting in her car. Stopped, asked if she needs help, showed her my licence and told her it’s okay to take a picture is she is concerned. She said her car just stopped. was waiting for her father to help her. I said fine and drove away.
Never needed to help a child, but oh man, unless there is imminent danger, I would call 911 and keep 50 feet away. Cell camera running all the way.
It’s sad that in our society, man have now become dangerous if not predatory animals that have to be looked at with caution. heck, there have been instances where the reward of a good deed was a lawsuit.
I’m not so sure giving a stranger a photo of your license info is such a good idea… but I guess it’s better than her large male accomplice that jumps out of the bushes when you get out of your car to help, and…. well, you’d better hope he’s afraid of bright lights.
I’d just offer to call a tow truck… if I had a mobile phone, which I don’t. So, I guess I’d just honk and laugh and drive on.
Here’s exactly what I do. I go to Home Cheapo regularly for work. Every 3 months or so I buy a 3-pack of Defiant flashlights. They’re OK, with an OP reflector that masks the horrendous LED. I swap them out with my go-to emitter, XP-L HI, which seem to work in most everything I can find to put them in. I keep one as a spare EDC because you never know. When I whip out my hot rod S2+ with XHP 50.2 and freak someone out on turbo, that starts the conversation about flashlighs. I then proceed to give the person the Defiant light. No problems teaching them the dangers of Li-Ion, not bright enough to cause eye damage right away, yet bright to impress. And maybe I made the world a slightly better place because of it.
I’m not sure that some of those tow truck drivers are trustworthy. The instructions to my wife is to keep her phone in her hands, make sure the folding knife blade is full lock and wait for me. If 4 or 5 cars stop, then it’s safe to come out.
When I stopped, she was physically ok and had the same reaction my wife would have and that was fine by me.
BTW…I remember a local accident that I also stopped among several cars. Mainly to put a safety net around his overturned Jeep SUV. I remember him screaming who hit him. Nobody hit him. He went so fast around the corner, he flipped his SUV. This was Canada. In the US, I would have second thoughts mainly because there is a chance the guy comes out with a gun and wants to get even.
I’m a member of both electric and acoustic guitar forums. Same thing there - if it doesn’t say Gibson or Fender or Martin, the general public has absolutely no clue. Which is unfortunate because they buy glorified production line guitars sold as custom shop, when they could have a bespoke guitar made to their very own specs fitted like a suit for the same price or even less, from one person who really cares, not an assembly line of specialists who each have one task, and probably don’t play.
Same thing with CNC. I’m also a CNC Zone member of about 10 years. I see every nrwb go out and buy steppers with the largest torque rating. Which is probably the hugest mistake in the DIY CNC community. But many also see videos on YouTube, think it’s cool, and have absolutely no clue how to use the machine or have no projects to run - that’s the second biggest mistake. I was probably the first DIY CNC guy to successfully mill aluminum at high speed full depth on a home made machine, using a router as a spindle, at a time when everyone was running super slow making dust not chips. I didn’t hide the secrets. In fact, I showed those on the forum how I did it, what speeds and feeds, what tools, what lubricant, how to adjust for machine rigidity… Now everyone and their mother cuts aluminum on Chinese CNC routers.
I’d only joined here recently, but I feel I’ve already amassed a wealth of knowledge. There are so many talented, bright, and helpful people here. I was at another forum but I feel I like the atmosphere here better and am grateful for all those that share their wealth of knowledge. And hopefully I can contribute a small piece someday.
Last summer, a little gril from up the block was riding her bike up’n’down the sidewalk, no helmet, and fell sideways trying to negotiate a 0.1mph U-turn on the driveway between my and my neighbor’s house. Must’ve bonked her head on the sidewalk, as she was bleeding slightly from around her temple where you could see the blood between her wispy blonde hairs.
A few mothers were up the block yakking on the stoop, I waved trying to get their attention, keeping a nice safe distance between me and the kid. Nothing. Again. Nothing. Yet again. Nothing. Had to do one of those 2-finger shriek whistles and then get their attention when they looked. No one moved even though I was waving that “come here!” signal. Gaaaah…
Finally, I cautiously came within 3’ or so of the kid, “You okay?”, then walked her up the block and told the kid’s mum what happened. :person_facepalming:
You feel bad for the kid, want to at least come close and check out her head, maybe even (gasp!) hold her hand while walking her and her bike up the block. Instead, you gotta treat her like she’s got Marburg and you don’t want to get any on you.
Imagine if the kid said……mommy the man touched me. The kid may be so “fear conditioned” that “touching” is nothing more than lifting her up.
Try sitting there on the mother’s porch trying to describe what “touching” went on. Wait for the cops and…good luck.
We are at the point where one has to weigh the life of the kid versus repercussions. Where that indecision can be a life and death.
I’m not happy with where we have come as a society. The tiny fraction of crazy has triggered overprotective parents into a frenzy of fear. Top it off with media horrid need for sensational headlines and we have reached……maybe I should walk away….not my problem.
i typed in huge lucid rant on this, and desided nehhh talk about political suicide lol.
the problems obvious, the answers not so obvious, bar a bit of a gandy protest thing… the only thing that made gandi’s stuff work was the no violence.(yu cant give a terorist anything, else they’ll all want one yet a politician throws a tantrum and gets even more)
can you imagine if the whole of washinton just sat there and said no? now we know in china they open fire on their students and holy men, but….can you imagine the cival war that would brake out if they started shooting thousands of peaceful sat down people?
you could make trump pay for the wall? ahh yeah…bankrupt again lol. sorry.(isnt he a lobbyist? like did he even get a vote or is it just a matter a sales and entertainment these days).
what can yu say ?i would buy more than one gun in america…just out of fear.
i’m not against any particular churchs or religion, without it we’d all be happily fighting in small tribes and dying shitty orable deaths.(oh we still do but yeh but no but)
but………………
pay no taxs and bugger yu kids? YOU STILL GIVE THEM MONEY FFS!
draw the line peeps. yu gotta get educated in the feild your sitting in.
edit…if you educated the underprivolidges they’d figure out whats going on? well they sussed any way, even the thickest cotton feild slave had a really good idia what was going on.
and back on track, if you need a semi auto to nip down to wall mart to buy more bullets? isnt there something up? lol. sorry but…yu know.
when you cant throw a dog a bone? ffs…you might get sued? hu?
the american bill of rights, i read it… fair do’s my interpretasion arnt going to be the same as some one who was born and bread to it but heres how i summerised.
1. its strawberry flavour, with a great advert, you buyy it from me.
2.is chocolate flavour, you buy from him (whome i also own)
3. if you dont like it then lets see who dares say so.
4. fight amongst yourself so ‘we’ can enjoy our wealth at your cost
5. hey be careful out there some starving citizen of a the democracy might pop a cap in your ass.
6. shut up and give me more.
7.shut up or i’ll pop a cap in your ass and give me more
8…yeahhh freedom of speech to say as your told.
UK version.
shut up and work more i need it so i can enjoy laughing at you.(i.e. even the united nations wont help because yu just havent got enough oil sorry…)
can anybody define why you cant even help some one in need yet?
fffffffffff.
edit in, just in case its seen that i’m am just taking the rip or beyond it, ermmm, the bill of rights if adhered to properly (and not perverted) does work.
religion if adhered to correctly…does work…
infact pick any nation of any time, the ethics of the idealisms actually worked for them in their own feild….
the corruption fubared it in every language and every history.
du dahhhh…dont give um the money? and dont sell um guns? ahh poo it’s to late.
