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Thanks for the comments and support! Good or bad that is fine, many people have different views and there all welcome on this.
First off I will tell you a bit about myself, some of this I just learned last night of all nights and it had nothing to do with this incident, I learned of most of this info about 2 hours prior. I was given a stack of legal documents and witness statements from my parents last night. Feburary 29th 1980(I never new the date) I was attacked by an Alaskan Malamute in the parking lot of an apartment that I lived on with my family on Casino Road in Everett, not to far from where this happened. The dog attacked me and bit my face, it wasn't a bite, it was a grab and never let go. The Dog grabbed me by the face and started to do the death shake, this I remember but allot of the rest I have not known for 28 years.
Sad ehh? But thanks to a man I do not know and have never again seen, my Dad has never even met him, I am alive. This man was changing a tire across the street from where I was attacked, when it happened he did not know what to do so he picked up his tire iron and ran to my aid beating the dog in the head till he would let go of me and the dog ran off. I have a scar above my eye, my entire nose has a nice little squiggly line down it as it was ripped open and under my beard on my left cheak is a nasty scar from where my entire cheak was ripped open, 109 stitches later not many people even notice this.
The 2 men who owned the dog were never brought to trial as they skipped town and were never located 3 years later, this I just found out yesterday. I do know the dog was tracked down and put down. This has never affected me though, till now, now that I have learned more info on it and it is bringing back memeroies of the accident I never remembered.
But all of that is moot, I got bit and shit happens. This gal was being beat, I saw she was doing nothing but trying to get away from him and she like that little boy 28 years ago needed help. Last night I did what a man did for me, saved a complete stranger. If nothing else I owed it to that man with the tire iron not to sit by and wait for the police, they responded and did the best they could do but it was 4-5 minutes before they had arrived. If that man with the tire iron only called the police I would not be here today that dog wanted me dead, I cannot say the same for this Gal as we do not know this guys intentions. If that was my Mom, sister, my children or my wife or hell even my EX-wife I hope someone picks up that tire iron instead of just being a good witness.
In 2001 I had an on the job injury, one that could have left me far more disabled then I am now. over 2000 pounds of sheetmetal tipped over on me and crushed me. I now have a pretty good limp and a partial disability in my leg and a crushed vertebre. You wouldn't know this from a casual meet on the street as I do not put out my issues for others(stateing this to show people helping actualy helps) If it was not for guys on my crew who went into action to get all 52 sheets off of me I probably would have lost at least one leg. It took almost a full 10 minutes from the time I was crushed till the fire dept arrived. Some higher ups wanted my guys to leave it on me, thankfuly they listened to me and got the shit off me. Over a year later I was back on the job, and after a few months realized I could not do the job anymore and called it quits, I now work for myself.
What I know of this Gal, I talked her down into a more common state, yes she was a reluctant witness but she was more embarrassed for putting herself into that situation. She is an aprentice in the construction field, has known the guy off and on for 3 months and said he was just a booty call or whatever, they were at a bar and left and when they did he became agressive in the car, she thinks because she had flirted with other guys. Is this true? no idea but what she told me and how embarrassed she felt about it. No reason for someone to be beating her. Thankfully last night she was placed in our hands and not driven to some dark lit alley as we do not know what he planned.
This Gal could have been a Daughter of someone on this board, who knows. I do know if it wasn't for the fact that we are night owls and happened to be at my parents at that momment, 2 minutes later and we would have been gone this could have went down much worse. of that entire apartment complex only one person came out of there door to see what was going on and that was only because of my yelling that woke him.
I would do this again, I assessed what was going on, my main concern was to get the Gal away from him and to stop what was happening, why it happened and the events that led up to it is not my place to point blame. The situation ended and no one else was getting hurt so I think I did the right thing.
If I had gotten into trouble or worse last night that was my choice but I was not going to be an inocent looky lou if I had the means to do anything. If I get in hot water later over my action, they were my actions and I will be held acountable, I have no issue with that at all...
Last night I was that man with the tire iron, and I hope he would aprove
