Hello friends
Today, I witnessed an horrific attack by a young man upon another, in the middle of a public road.
A car had swerved across the head of a junction onto a main road and four men started arguing. Suddenly, the smaller guy who had been dragged out of the car rushed around to the boot and grabbed a crow bar. He ran after the man and beat him until they both ended up on the floor. I have no idea what happened to the man who was beaten, because I did not see him get back up. There were four of them all fighting in a lump, even if two had thought to try and stop it.
Not one of the people that were around, except silly old me, shouted at them to stop or raised any alarm. They just stood and perhaps watched in fear of the road rage being turned in their direction.
I was terrified because I was the one who was shouting at them to 'stop-it!' and they might thump me with that big black crowbar. I became very frightened, and I also thought that if people were so enraged as to try and kill each other, would they really take any notice of someone shouting stop?
A crowd drew from the shops along the road, but still, no-one was stopping anything, and I had foolishly left my mobile phone at home. I was shouting at all the people for someone to call the police, but people seemed more interested in watching a nasty fight that involved a heavy bar.
The road became blocked with people and cars, and I was unable to stop anything, or help anyone and no-one wanted to hear me shouting my head off.
The blunt instrument seems to be the intellect of mankind.
I guess that I have not finished shouting, but it still feels as if I am silenced by fear, and not just my own. What on earth are we (mankind) doing?
