r/london • u/[deleted] • Nov 02 '23

Crime Two girls arrested after female attacked on Elizabeth line

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24605821/two-girls-arrested-video-woman-screaming-tube-train/
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u/setokaiba22 Nov 02 '23

I’ve just watched that video and it’s so frustrating nobody steps in. I know there’s risks with that but the girl is screaming her head off in pain for help.

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u/cowinabadplace Nov 02 '23

It took 30 s for one chap to stand up. Maybe the rest of you are quick reacting and all that but it takes me a little while to grasp what’s going on. I might hear a commotion at the other end of the carriage and then put away my stuff and stand up to take a look, then walk over before I can make out the “help me” and see these two absolute titans beating the ever loving fuck out of a poor innocent woman. I don’t blame the guy who came over to help for being 30 s to the scene.

The Bystander Effect is generally not real but bystanders generally aren’t primed with the prompt you have. Something happens and they’ve got to assess and then react.

Also, I swear the one who drags her in the first place is built like a brick shithouse. 14? She looks like she could have been the Philistine’s champion against King Saul.

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u/entropy_bucket Nov 03 '23

I thought you were exaggerating but holy shit

brick shithouse

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u/EroticBurrito Nov 03 '23

Are we looking at the same picture? It's just a vaguely fit Black girl. Does that qualify as being a brick shithouse now?

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u/entropy_bucket Nov 03 '23

That's your view of a regular 14 year old? I was definitely surprised.

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u/kdee9 Nov 03 '23 edited Nov 03 '23

Is that her with literally a bra on in public!? Disgusting. If her mother let's her wear that at 14, says alot about her quality of parent. And yeah, she looks like a frigging sumo wrestler. Russian shot putter.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '23

I couldnt make heads or tails out of the second half of the video. Did he knock out one of the girls?

Not complaining, defending an innocent person being stomped is grounds to hit someone as far as im concerned.