i think i'd totally lose my shit if i witnessed something like this
Period.
I know I would, all logic, all possible thoughts of saving my own hide would be non-existent.
I've gotten into it over much lesser reasons with large numbers of people. Call me stupid, I just cannot sit by and watch/witness any wrong doing to another life.
Downtown Toronto, club night (Saturday) about 2-3 am, I confronted approx 20ish 'punks', literally punks for 2 reasons. First reason I saw them mis-treating their dogs and trying to get them to fight each other (the 2 dogs). And the second reason was during that confrontation a guy stepped in and got sucker punched for trying to keep them from having his dog fight another.
Nothing major occurred, a shouting fest that nearly resulted in me losing my mind on some twats, cops finally showed up, the dogs were taken from the punks and a couple were taken away for assaulting the one guy.
Seriously, I may have gotten my ass shot, stabbed, jumped. I didn't concern myself with that. There were TONS of witnesses, people in the streets everywhere, and I had my friends with me.
Either way, I just cannot see people/animals being mistreated and stand by quietly. It's just not in my make-up, I'm I guess a crazy bitch /shrugs.
Had I been passing by and figured out what is was I was seeing in some dark corner you bet your ass many many people would know about it right away by the commotion I caused.
I get there are people in the world that are not the aggressive type, meek, shy, cautious, overly-cautious, what have you. There are also others out there like myself and quite a few I know that would easily put themselves at risk for another without a second thought. ... Just seem to be less and less of them, a shame really.