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To help or not to?
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Shooting this morning 50 meters from work, getting close to home… It is a sad state of affairs that these things happen but should we help? If we do leap in and render aid be prepared to face the consequences. See article below. http://www.news.com.au/hera... Personally I do think we should help, but with two small kids at home I can’t help but feel this would be the wrong choice. Now there are two good Samaritans who won’t be going home to thier families. Get the guns and drugs off the streets, it’s something I think we can all do without.
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Understand where you’re coming from Brett. My wife is from the country and we’re making a good living in the city. One day we’ll pack it all in and move up to the country. I’m city born and bred and never thought that would be an option for me, but I can’t wait for the day we make the decision. If something like this was to happen anywhere near either of us, our bags are packed.
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I think it would be a gut reaction. Until you are in that situation, you really wouldn’t know what you would do.
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I hope this never happens near you or the miththith, fithy as it would mean you would be waaaaaaaaaaaay to close to QLD.
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Going on the way the population is dispersed, you are just as big a chance of being shot in a massacre or this type of event out in a rural area. So many of these things seem to happen in small communities. At least in a big town, you are less a chance of being involved or directly affected. Brett, helping someone is a must if it doesn’t endanger you. If it would like today, then your job is to make it home tonight.
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Statistically, there are more idiots in the city. There are idiots in the country, but the chances are you know them. Deethee – you are a thertifiable idiot.
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Statistically, there are more idiots in the city. There are idiots in the country, but the chances are you know them. Yeah, but 99.5 out of 100 city incidents won’t involve you or anyone close and you’ll be exposed to it on TV like everyone else who lives elsewhere. Every small town one hits almost everyone there hard. The percentage of incidents in the country versus city per head of population are enormously disparate and make a regional massacre death about 15 times more likely. Even if you know the idiot, the bullets still kill!
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And there are far more guns per head in the sticks. Mick
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Whereas in some parts of Australia, there are just twice as many heads … :)
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have you guys seen this pricks wrap sheet,WTF is a moron like him taking oxygen away from good folk,hope he gets taken out,sooner the better PRICK
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oh boy….. take care man…. MElb??
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Tithers, not sure I agree with you there mate. I fully understand where you are coming from and I have a young family myself, and the thought of them growing up without their dad makes me sick to the stomach. BUT, if it were my wife that was dragged out of a cab and she was being beaten senseless, I’d hope someone would step in and try to help. You can never be 100% certain that by doing so you are not putting yourself in mortal danger, but surely we can’t all just step back and look after ourselves can we? People have to take a stand or we run the risk of the place being overrun by vermon like this Christopher Hudson.
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Heard on the news last night that the two guys who came to help only asked if everything was ok, hardly a reason to be shot over and the murderer was involved in another shooting in Qld, why wasn’t he already in prison??? Golf rules are much more simple, if you get caught cheating or not following the rules properly your disqualified or loose the hole, end of story. That’s what I’d like to see, one punishment for each type of crime, none of this special circumstance or good behaviour etc. If your guilty of murder 25yrs, or selling drugs no matter the qty 10yrs so on and so forth. I think it would make you think harder about committing a crime if you knew getting caught would cost a set amount of your life instead of it might…
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Huh, what? Did I miss something?
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Did you bother reading the entire thread including references to the incident you dork?
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I’m a lazy dumb redneck American, do you think I read it?
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where do they have redneck americans in australia
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Like most people said it is a time and place thing and you can’t make that sort of decision before it happens. In times of experiencing a tragedy like this or any tragedy for that matter adrenalin always will kick in and 9 times out of 10 people will always assist and not worry about the personal safety and i think if you are in a position to help you should do your best to help in anyway.
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Understand where you’re coming from Brett. My wife is from the country and we’re making a good living in the city. One day we’ll pack it all in and move up to the country. I’m city born and bred and never thought that would be an option for me, but I can’t wait for the day we make the decision. If something like this was to happen anywhere near either of us, our bags are packed.Having moved to a rural area 30 years ago after 25 years in the city, I generally feel safer (I certainly enjoy the lack of traffic). But I still think about instances where being a Good Samaritan might be risky. Do you stop for someone lying by the side of an isolated road? Would you give a lift into town for a hitchhiker? If someone knocks on your door late at night saying their car has broken down, do you let them in to make a phone call? Years ago there would have been few issues in doing any of these, but now even people in the country are more uncertain. Remember that Peter Falconio died in the middle of nowhere, thousands of kilometres from the city. Also, if something happens in the country, the police or ambulance could be half an hour away. And if your house catches fire at 2 a.m., it’ll be well gone by the time the volunteer fire brigade rouses itself, gets to the fire station, starts up the truck and gets to your place. You just have to accept that possibility.
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I would like to think that I would help but now I would think twice. If it was someone I knew I think I would react instinctively. I have in the past ‘stepped in’ to help and been part of a peaceful resolution but these days you never know what’s going to happen, to many wild drugged up no hopers who follow in the footsteps of some of the filth in the States.
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Thank god we banned auto guns here, now it`s only the bikies that have them…..... I only feel a little better. We may need more people to be actively decent, so to speak. Because this kind of crime only gets worse if everybody has a gun, it could have been far worse if there was one mad guy with a gun and three scared people with guns. Why does doing the right thing have to be so hard? I’m thinking too much now….. better go play some golf…...
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