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assault? Would You intervene? ye$tei
lf your neighbour's house was wa& al
try to rescue f.he tl
on firen would You
inside? What would the Pe :
the PeoPle
you do if someone needed Your
tretp in a dangerous situation? ; *ari
get involved? Iilli{-1i
Would You i
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Di::';:ilil; :iltin1,
home one night the P
when he saw a n1Y{}
house on fire. ra the
Someone inside was met]i
shouting for helP. 'l mosl
couldn't just stand a rc,
there and do ArY'
nothing,' saYs Dave' 'l broke I an1
down the door and went in' lt 1he
was extremely hot and there ;1S5IS
was smoke ever)ryvhere' But I v/as
got the old man out' Two tl]e
minutes later the whole house {am
was in flames. Yes, l'd do the allal i
same thing again'' The
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intervened to help a neighbour
when she heard a noise in the
street. Pauline exPlains what
hapPened' 'Two $rls were
throwing stones at my
neighbour's house' I shouted at them' But then they came
over to my house and threatened me' I was shocked and
really frightened. They were only about thirteen years old' I
*"r''d.'id" it again' l'cl just ignore it' ln fact last week I ln New York in 1964, a man stabbed Kitty Genovese ln
;;;;;*" bovslrandalizing an emptv shop in.the next lnurloun*unt. More than twenty people heard Kittv's
Street,butldidn,tooanytning'ljustcrossed-thestreet. ;;;; but nobodv helped her' Thev all thought that
*", i *"r'0.', get involved again' lt's not worth it'' ;;;;; else would call the police' Nobodv helped Kittv
;;;." and she died' But when Dave Greenwood tried
to help a young woman outside a pub in Wales one night'
P3i;::;:Ji;:il::ilx?5:iiil:litl3";il,Til','", n" O*.r*" the victim' The woman's attackers kiiled him'
areafraidthattheywouldlooksillyiftheywerewrong,ln He left a widow and two young children'
a farnous case in 1993 two twelve-year-old boys murdered
, fint" noy called James Bulger' Over a hundred witnesses It is because of cases like this that the pollce say: 'Don't
,u*-.,urn". with the two boyi before the murdel, The boys I il;;;. ;iar ggs and leave it to the police or the fire
*"t* Ortn'.C him and hitting him' But all the witnesses ;;;;" ' But in the heat of the moment' if someone was
;;eililile was with his brothers' so thev did not do in irouble, what wouid You do?
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