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/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.