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Perception of an event is everything and there are always different views. I see alot of this here on the forum. I will tell you a story to help understand this.
A few years ago I was driving and at an intersection 2 vehicles collided. One vehicle came to rest within 4ft of me parallel with the drivers window next to mine. The female drivers side window had shattered during the impact so I had a clear view of her. I observed smoke coming from inside the vehicle. Unbeknownst to me the "smoke" was the stuff used to inflate the airbag. Being a trained career "man of action" I jumped from my vehicle, and knowing never to move a victim unless there is more danger, I made the command decision to remove the young lady from the, in my mind, burning vehicle. I smoothly deployed my serrated edged knife, practiced many times before for just such emergencies, cut the seatbelt just above the victims shoulder and grasped her firmly by her shirt at her shoulders and pulled her upwards thru the window and placed her over my shoulder and headed a safe distance from the burning vehicle within seconds as my friend called 9-11. The young lady was obviously distraught, in shock and screaming loudly from the crash and didn't calm down until after she was placed on the curb and tended to by an off duty nurse passing by.
Apparently as the responding Police Officer explained to me there was a slightly different viewpoint (perception) from the "victim".
According to her story she was blindsided, hit by an unknown and unseen vehicle and when she came to rest apparently a large, mean looking, ugly man pulled a huge combat knife from under his shirt attacked her dragging her from the vehicle until she managed to kick free from his grasp some distance away from her car and other people came to help her.
So try and look at things from both sides before jumping to conclusions about stuff. Oh and if you hold a scared 105lb 5ft2 teen girl up to you ear... you can't hear the ocean LOL
A few years ago I was driving and at an intersection 2 vehicles collided. One vehicle came to rest within 4ft of me parallel with the drivers window next to mine. The female drivers side window had shattered during the impact so I had a clear view of her. I observed smoke coming from inside the vehicle. Unbeknownst to me the "smoke" was the stuff used to inflate the airbag. Being a trained career "man of action" I jumped from my vehicle, and knowing never to move a victim unless there is more danger, I made the command decision to remove the young lady from the, in my mind, burning vehicle. I smoothly deployed my serrated edged knife, practiced many times before for just such emergencies, cut the seatbelt just above the victims shoulder and grasped her firmly by her shirt at her shoulders and pulled her upwards thru the window and placed her over my shoulder and headed a safe distance from the burning vehicle within seconds as my friend called 9-11. The young lady was obviously distraught, in shock and screaming loudly from the crash and didn't calm down until after she was placed on the curb and tended to by an off duty nurse passing by.
Apparently as the responding Police Officer explained to me there was a slightly different viewpoint (perception) from the "victim".
According to her story she was blindsided, hit by an unknown and unseen vehicle and when she came to rest apparently a large, mean looking, ugly man pulled a huge combat knife from under his shirt attacked her dragging her from the vehicle until she managed to kick free from his grasp some distance away from her car and other people came to help her.
So try and look at things from both sides before jumping to conclusions about stuff. Oh and if you hold a scared 105lb 5ft2 teen girl up to you ear... you can't hear the ocean LOL
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