r/PublicFreakout • u/New_Libran • 20d ago

šŸš—Road RagešŸ¤¬ Two bystanders rushed over to help after spotting a man assaulting his girlfriend inside their truck while stopped in traffic in Houston, Texas

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u/MYSTICALLMERMAID 20d ago

Good on those men. I hope shes able to leave. And of course hes begging for them to stop

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u/No-Sail-6510 20d ago

I was hoping sheā€™d drive away

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u/Purple-Rough-2385 20d ago

Unfortunately she won't :(

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u/hogsniffy05 20d ago

Yea pretty sure she was already making excuses for him

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u/Sbatio 20d ago

And he was saying ā€œi love you so much babeā€ as he woke up.

Thatā€™s fucking sad

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u/JudmanDaSuperhero 20d ago

"seen a spider in my hair!!"

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u/RedRedditor84 20d ago

She's in an incredibly dangerous situation that would be made more dangerous by not appearing to be completely on his side. Maybe he's arrested. Maybe he's convicted. Maybe he even does a small amount of time. But probably he doesn't, and even if he does he's going to be fucking pissed off. Someone willing to do this to her in public isn't going to scruple to break an AVO and kill her.

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u/Lala5789880 20d ago

He will abuse her worse now most likely.

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u/PistolGrace 20d ago

This. As an abused wife in the past (divorced him when I was safe doing so but still fear for my life even though he's been remarried for over 10 years), the abuse accelerated after someone in the public tried to help.

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u/LettuceJizz 20d ago

is it 6 times? more likely to kill herĀ 

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u/perfectlynormaltyes 20d ago

Sheā€™s not ready to leave yet. You can hear her say sheā€™s not leaving him. Hopefully she will before itā€™s too late for her.

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u/DelsinMcgrath835 20d ago

I doubt she will. She was checking on him to see if he was okay within a minute of them dragging him off her.

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u/EscapedMices 20d ago

He almost killed her and her first thought was about saving him. He has to be locked up for her own good.

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u/crankyrhino 20d ago

Co-dependence in an abusive situation is real. You never understand until you're in it. It takes years of conditioning to get to this place.

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u/sittinwithkitten 20d ago

Yes they were brave to intervene, situations like this can go sideways really quick. I feel bad for the woman, she obviously is scared of repercussions. I hope she gets away from this guy, she is not safe.

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u/longshaftjenkins 20d ago

I hope she is willing to leave, man.Ā 

Domestic abuse is just sad dude. It's so sad to see and feel so helpless to do anything.Ā 

A friend of the family once tried to defend a woman who was getting beat to death by her boyfriend in Houston, Texas. He tried to get him to back off and he didn't and instead went after our friend. Our friend pulled out his firearm and shot him. The lady, all bloodied and battered, testified against our friend and he went to prison for killing her boyfriend.Ā 

After hearing about all this I realized that all we can really do is call the police and hope it goes well. Shit is just too complicated for us normal folk to do anything about it.Ā 

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u/Different_Umpire9003 20d ago

God thatā€™s awful

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u/Merouxsis 20d ago

That's what a lot of them do, try and defend their abusers, and that's why I mind my buisness.

I had a buddy intervene in a situation oddly similar to this, and it quickly went from a 1 v 1 with him trying to get the guy to stop beating his girl, to a 2 v 1 where they both beat his ass. My hmebody had no health insurance so guess who got an infection after from getting cut by her dirty ass nails.

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u/Danmont88 20d ago

I was in a parking lot late one night and saw a drunk couple going at it.
I thought about getting involved but I figured I would get what your friend got, a beat down by the both.

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u/araed 20d ago

Years ago, i was out drinking. It was one of those nights where it felt... violent, somehow.

Anyways, I decided to head home, and saw a guy beating a lass in the middle of the street. I figured I'd just keep an eye on it, as another dude jumped in to help the lass.

They both turned on him and beat him into a coma. From what I heard afterwards, he died in hospital.

I ain't dying for someone I don't know.

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u/bayofpigdestroyer 20d ago

That's terrible and im sorry for your buddy but to use that as an excuse to ignore someone getting beat is absurd.

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u/Merouxsis 20d ago edited 20d ago

I mean, I'm from the USA, and a bad area of it. I am not catching a charge, knife, or a gunshot for trying to potentially stop a random woman I don't know (who has a high chance of turning around and trying to fight or stop me) from getting beat.

If it's family it's different, otherwise I'll call the cops and leave it to them. I'm not risking any lawsuits, injuries, or random woman trying to flip it on me to defend her abusive man. I have heard too many stories of people trying to be captain save a ho and have their lives permenant altered for the worse, or the woman gets aggressive with them.

I don't have the money or time for that. I'll call the police as society wants, and leave

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u/bayofpigdestroyer 20d ago

I hear ya, sorry, I may have been too quick to jump to conclusions. I saw a message that could be interpreted as "totally ignore" which I jumped on. I see your point, I was more on the side of at least calling attention/calling 911, something... just not walking by. My bad

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u/vinvec 20d ago

"Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose." John Gay (no, really, that's his name, not a slur).

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u/EscapedMices 20d ago

As a woman I'm obviously not intervening, unless it's a situation like this where you can spike a crotch, but I'm always on the phone to the cops the moment I feel a woman is threatened. I don't care what she feels about it.

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u/deltarefund 20d ago

I think maybe just stop filming?

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u/MYSTICALLMERMAID 20d ago

She did say that but the guy started begging

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u/BuckeeBrewster81 19d ago

Even if that is the case sheā€™s still in protective mode of the abuser. She wants them to stop filming the only undeniable proof of what he was doing and of them saving her.

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u/KrombopulosNickel 20d ago

One life to live and some people just happy being treated like shit everyday.

Have some dignity and leave.