MrsCobraBubbles
Life's too short to wear pants all the time
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- Jul 24, 2013
What would you do if you witnessed this crime?
I was out shopping in a nearby town and I saw a women being held by her hair, punched, and pushed (by her hair) into a car. I was at a red light across the street from the parking lot this was happening in, by the time the light changed, the woman was in the car, the man who had been assaulting her had jumped into the rear passenger seat and the car had driven through the parking lot and was stopped at the opposing light. I had to pull into traffic first and then this car pulled behind me. I was doing my best to "follow" the car, even though I was in front. In my rear view mirror I watched them signal to make a turn and so I did too, then I drove slowly until they passed me so that I could get their license plate number. I had to pull over to look up the phone number for the police in that town, but I caught up to the car and they were parked in a shopping center, no one was in the car but I called and reported it to the police.
I feel horrible about it, and I know that I'll probably never find out what happened, it has been a few hours and the police haven't called me back, but it occurs to me now that I probably put myself and my daughter in danger. Actually it occurred to me that I could be in danger when the police officer called me back and asked for my full name. I refused to give him my last name because I didn't want it ending up in the police report.
Now I can't stop thinking about it and wondering what I could have done differently. Will it matter that I didn't give them my name? The cops seemed concerned that it was an abduction, but from what I saw it looked like plain old domestic violence. Either way, it was horrible. Ugh.
I was out shopping in a nearby town and I saw a women being held by her hair, punched, and pushed (by her hair) into a car. I was at a red light across the street from the parking lot this was happening in, by the time the light changed, the woman was in the car, the man who had been assaulting her had jumped into the rear passenger seat and the car had driven through the parking lot and was stopped at the opposing light. I had to pull into traffic first and then this car pulled behind me. I was doing my best to "follow" the car, even though I was in front. In my rear view mirror I watched them signal to make a turn and so I did too, then I drove slowly until they passed me so that I could get their license plate number. I had to pull over to look up the phone number for the police in that town, but I caught up to the car and they were parked in a shopping center, no one was in the car but I called and reported it to the police.
I feel horrible about it, and I know that I'll probably never find out what happened, it has been a few hours and the police haven't called me back, but it occurs to me now that I probably put myself and my daughter in danger. Actually it occurred to me that I could be in danger when the police officer called me back and asked for my full name. I refused to give him my last name because I didn't want it ending up in the police report.
Now I can't stop thinking about it and wondering what I could have done differently. Will it matter that I didn't give them my name? The cops seemed concerned that it was an abduction, but from what I saw it looked like plain old domestic violence. Either way, it was horrible. Ugh.