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would you stop and help someone.....

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  • four men, a lone woman, night time.....you did the right thing not stopping.
    :D
  • pitkin2020
    pitkin2020 Posts: 4,029 Forumite
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    four men, a lone woman, night time.....you did the right thing not stopping.


    Might have been fun.......................:p:p:p:p
    Everyones opinion is the most important.....no wonder nothing is ever agreed on.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Nothing wrong with stereotyping.

    Now, being able to tell someone's religion from how they look..... that a risky skill!

    Especially the blokes icon7.gif
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Paradigm
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    Why not try the drive past with a smug look on your face while shouting through the open window "you should have bought a better car" routine!

    Happened to me once when I was stuck.... really cheers you up :)
    Always try to be at least half the person your dog thinks you are!
  • focae
    focae Posts: 147 Forumite
    lose = as in 'oh no, where is it?????'

    It was so lose that it fell off :D


    loose = as in 'oh no, my shoelaces!!!!!'

    How could I possibly loose them :D
  • I woulldn`t give anyone i didn`t know a jump start in this day and age.
    2 reasons:
    1. car electronics are getting more fragile and sensitive, even done properly a jump start can cause problems. a friend jump started his slk following exactly the right procedure in the handbook, to the letter, I watched, but when connecting the lead the surge damaged the instrument cluster and the sam module, £800 in parts plus £120 to get the new parts coded to his car.
    2. were becoming too like the americans, a litigious society. if that happened you leave yourself wide open to being sued.
  • hothothot_3
    hothothot_3 Posts: 4,646 Forumite
    good point petrolhead69...........I was on holiday in Cuba, and my car broke down, without asking anyone the people in the small village came and started fixing it. Gave me a coffee and in 20 minutes I was back on my way - I wanted to pay and got an odd look - it was just the way things are done there - here it is dangerous to be a good samaritan, and thats pretty sad.
  • Kirri
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    As a female, I probably would not stop as car jacking is all too common in London.. (I wouldn't expect anyone to stop for me, I'd call the breakdown services out).

    I have stopped for a stray dog at night though... and no one stopped to try and help me catch it!
  • Kirri
    Kirri Posts: 6,184 Forumite
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    Errata wrote: »
    How could you tell they were Muslims in the pitch dark ?

    Sometimes the robes and beards gives it away (I see them all going off to their local hall here) - though I know obviously a muslim can look the same as any other person, just saying, sometimes you can tell by the way they dress.
  • Fork86
    Fork86 Posts: 398 Forumite
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    hothothot wrote: »
    yes because good samaritans is a christian principle not a muslemic one.

    I'm pretty sure the four 'muslim' men would probably have denied your help if you had offered it anyway, for fear of becoming infected with your stupidity...
    Try to imagine nothing ever existed...
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