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- From: dolan@XENON.BERKELEY.EDU (Kent Paul Dolan)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: different braveries
- Message-ID: <9209021740.AA00379@helium>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 17:45:17 GMT
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- The newer grendel, and rigler, are swapping tales about coming or not
- coming to the aid of a person in distress.
-
- In one of my less brave moments, I let a friend, built like a brick,
- run to the aid of a cop whose handcuffed prisoner (before the days of
- wire mesh barriers between front and back seat) had come over the back
- seat of the squad car and started choking him. We noticed the squad car
- squeal to a halt half a block away. Broomstraw thin me, 183 cm and 66
- kg, just stood and watched. My friend later told me he'd never have
- gone if he'd not thought me right behind him. He grappled the guys's
- arm off the cop's throat until the cop got the prisoner back under
- control, then came back to chew me out. Fair enough.
-
- But it was him who was scared to show up in court to testify against
- the prisoner for assaulting the cop, and me who insisted, and called
- the cops to provide names and numbers, and _did_ show up and did put
- the prisoner away for five to ten.
-
- Lots of us are scared of different things. Contrariwise, physical
- bravery is not the only kind. Find ways you can be brave in the aid
- of the social fabric, and exercise them.
-
- Kent, the man from xanth.
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