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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Why not walk them home?
Message-ID: <2414@mit-hermes.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 13:46:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 13:46:54 1985
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Perhaps the woman who wanted to be rescued should have told the two men who
tried to save her that her captors had a gun? Or just have shouted "Call the
police"?

A few years ago a man was beating his wife on a busy street in Cambridge 
(outside Dunkin Donuts in Porter Square, for you locals). A passer-by tried
to stop this, and the man uttered the memorable line "So you want to be a
hero?", pulled a knife and fatally stabbed the would-be rescuer. The wife
refused to talk to the police, but there were other witnesses and the 
husband got a life sentence. Moral: think twice before you get involved in
other people's troubles.

John Purbrick					jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA
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