Last Thursday night I attended a meeting of my local Community Association.
Around 9pm, I was walking home about ten yards behind two men and a woman who had attended the same meeting when, on the corner of my road, a young woman ran past crying and in considerable distress. She was pursued a few moments later by an obviously angry young man who grabbed her and was clearly about to assault her.
I was not about to allow this to happen in broad daylight so, from some yards away, I yelled at the man to stop what he was doing. He gave me a brief mouthful. I told him again to cool it and the situation calmed down.
So why am I telling you this? Am I trying to blow my own trumpet? No. Far from it.
I am not a young man and I was on my own. My neighbours who are known to me all turned a blind eye and walked away. Both these men are younger than me, one considerably so. But did they stop and help? No.
And what makes it worse is that these two so-called community minded individuals are both committee members of the aforementioned community association. I will not name them here, but they know who they are.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
Around 9pm, I was walking home about ten yards behind two men and a woman who had attended the same meeting when, on the corner of my road, a young woman ran past crying and in considerable distress. She was pursued a few moments later by an obviously angry young man who grabbed her and was clearly about to assault her.
I was not about to allow this to happen in broad daylight so, from some yards away, I yelled at the man to stop what he was doing. He gave me a brief mouthful. I told him again to cool it and the situation calmed down.
So why am I telling you this? Am I trying to blow my own trumpet? No. Far from it.
I am not a young man and I was on my own. My neighbours who are known to me all turned a blind eye and walked away. Both these men are younger than me, one considerably so. But did they stop and help? No.
And what makes it worse is that these two so-called community minded individuals are both committee members of the aforementioned community association. I will not name them here, but they know who they are.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
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