Harrowing social experiment

[Jazzy]

A harrowing social experiment has shown that 85 per cent of people ignored the cries of a girl getting raped in a car.

Not Quite So Normal TV conducted the experiment in Sweden to highlight the importance of reporting such crime around the world.

The duo parked a suspicious-looking car in a number of public places at night.



One window was blacked out with a bin-liner and sickening audio was played of a man hitting a screaming woman. One of the men was hidden inside the car.

‘Help!’ she cries, as a man’s voice can be heard saying: ‘Shut up!’

The men claimed 85 percent of people who walked by and acknowledged something was not right, ignored it anyway.

But the second half of the video shows the 15 per cent who sprung into action.

Many tapped on the car window and confronted the man, ordering him to step out of the vehicle before they called the police.

And a small minority even got physical – for which they were praised.

Question: What would you have done?

 

[DrLeftover]

Depends on what town I was in.

In New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, or Chicago, you expect this, and, not wanting to get shot by either the people in the car (and yes, there have been cases where the woman being assaulted then turns on her would be rescuers to defend her abuser), or the arriving officers, I'd get the vehicles tag number and, as I walked away, called the authorities. Then watch the proceedings from about a block away.

In my home town, I'd beat on the roof of the car and tell them the police were on the way.

 

[mrldii]

Depends on the actual situation, but I would at the very least call the police and wait at a safe distance until they arrived.

There have been numerous cases where I've intervened in quickly escalated domestic violence situations; I've never had the victim turn on me. Go back to the guy after it's all over? Absolutely. But never has one turned on ME for coming to her aid.

 

[Jazzy]

Not knowing if anyone in the car has a firearm, I would take down the license plate. I would then drive a safe distance away and call the authorities. Or, if the police station was close, I would drive over there and give them the information.