Oh yes, somebody is getting there ass kicked, better just stand there and wait for somebody else to do something. I would hope that any able bodied man that was present would be willing to step in and stop a couple teenage girls.
Targeted.
I had a feeling this would pop up. :rolleyes:
So the odds are 1 (that’s me, 6’1" out-of-shape 55 y.o. male) to 4 (that’s them.)
They’ve already proven they can subdue a 22 year old woman.
Let’s assume they are all 5’6" or less and nobody weighs more than 135 lbs and no one’s flashing a blade.
You’re right. 
See where I’m going with this?
Now let’s assume the 16 or 20 y.o. are 5’11" and 135 lbs of muscle like the woman I used to sing with. We already know they’ve got attitude and are not afraid to use the muscle.
And I decide to open negotiations by breaking a bottle across someone’s head or by grabbing a mop and lunging about like a glue-sniffing samurai. (Hey, I know one person who’s gonna come out of this unscathed.) And now the police show up and everybody – but everybody – has a different take on the action of the last 10 minutes.
You gonna post my bail? :dubious:
Please say, “Yes.”
Yeah, but was it on Halloween, in response to them neither smelling your feet nor giving you something good to eat? Because that’s different.
Hey Snarky_Kong - Did you read the following from earlier in the post?
Probably missed it, right?
Or maybe a new Long Beach.
Well never mind, then.
Wait, how do fish factor in again?
I am introducing a simple future conditional continuous tense (did I get that right?) into the english language. But ssshh… it’s a secret.
to screw (v. tr. )
- screws
- screwing
- screwed
- scrod
Oddly, somewhere on the net this is being reported as late-breaking fetish news.
So, to sleep (v. intr.)
sleeps
sleeping
slept
slod?
To ride (v. tr.)
Rides
Riding
Rode
Rod
I am liking this already!
You have one really, really good witness, the person originally assaulted.
IIRC 3-1 or more odds hand to hand in many states constitutes lethal force and permits quite a bit more force on the part of bystanders to intervene. Administering a beatdown on one of these girls will at least level the playing field a bit, if they turn on you en masse, you are at least prepared for it rather than a surprise attack. Target and take down the one that looks like the biggest threat, the others will probably back down.
Not to say it would be a good thing to cripple or kill one of these girls in the process of stopping them but under the circumstances may be legally defensible.
I think the hypothetical murderous 4 year old would probably not be charged, but instead would be sent to a state mental facility.
-Oh, come on, some one had to do it (not safe for work!).
Hey, Don’t fight the hypothetical, I went ahead and added an extra NSFW warning to your link. It doesn’t break the two-click rule, but it does go to a site that could get people in trouble at work.
Don’t be too sure. Not quite four year olds but:
Seven-year-old arraigned for murder
Six-year-old charged in infant’s beating [attempted murder, scroll down]
Now, I don’t know about the outcomes of any of these cases.
No, I caught that. I also didn’t say anything about going in swinging. If you put your body between them and the victim and present an obstacle, I’d think that the attackers would back down the vast majority of the time.
Do you think that having the vague threat of some untrustworthy young girls trying to mislead the police is justification to watching a person be assaulted while functionally not helping? I have never been in that situation, but I would hope that I would feel incredibly guilty if I didn’t do anything.
No, “scrod” is long since established as the pluperfect subjunctive. 
(It’s amazing what you can find a cite for these days.)
Too bad the victim wasn’t packing.