Re: Would/should people get 'involved' if they see people being attacked on the stree
Here's a story from Derren Browne
“I was coming back from this gig in Wales and this guy walked past. He was really drunk, and I’m wearing a velvet suit, not looking good. And he was like, ‘What the are you looking at?’ and he came up close, really nasty. So I said to him ‘Well, the wall outside my house isn’t four feet high.’ And he was like, ‘What?’ And I said, ‘When I was in Spain, the walls were really tall, but over here they’re really way down here.’ And then he just looked at me and went, ‘Aargh!’ and broke down in tears.
“I was completely calm and in control. What I said made sense, but his brain was going: ‘Have I? Is it? What if…?’ and the rug was completely pulled from under him. It’s all about bending and pushing a situation without making it seem like you’re doing anything at all. It’s these weird states of mind we get in where we become massively suggestible.”