What Would You Do...?

While driving to work - a bit late, and a touch faster than the speed limit - you reach down to adjust your stereo, when all of a sudden your car hits something solid. You spin to a stop, but not before several more cars have run into you and each other in an attempt to avoid the accident.

As you look up and out of your car, you can see that you hit a person, and you are sure that they are dead. You shakily get out of your car, and look around at the damage that has been caused. Several cars have been badly smashed up, but more importantly you have killed someone with your careless driving.

Just then a distraught woman comes up to you, tears running down her face. You ask her what is wrong and she explains that she just ran over someone. You ask her where this person is, and she points towards the person that you ran over! You know whoever accepts the blame is likely to be placed in jail for a very long time. If you let the woman take the blame, there's a very good chance you will get away with it all.

What would you do? Why?

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Always be honest and let the investigation decide the facts.

I would have to fess up.......I could kid myself and say that I would let the woman take the blame.......but it is something that would eat and eat at me.

Also.....if someone else believed that they did it....there might be more that went on than I was aware of.....since I obviously wasn't paying attention anyway.

mm...well, that's the thing isn't it. You could save your life, and reason that the woman was old and already had hers, and doesn't have kids still growing etc.. You could even start actually believing all you'd hit was the dead body of the person the old lady had killed.

But mostly, would you lie to save your life? Would you condemn someone else, to do so?

I like to think I'm more moral than most, more decent. Don't know that I actually am, but it's what I want to be at least. Yet...I can't say I know I'd own up in this situation. I probably would start thinking how the old lady had already lived, and maybe she did run the guy over before I got there? And time would go by and I'd convince myself. Probably. You want honest? Probably would. *shrug*

And you know what, maybe everyone that says they wouldnt would too, and they just dont want to admit it. You see it's easy to be noble when you're not really confronted by such a situation. But if it happened, and you knew you'd be put in a cage with rapists for the rest of your life....really, you wouldnt just shut up and go home?

It is difficult to say what I'd do, but I might not confess to driving too fast or adjusting my stereo. I hit someone in the road; who is to say I could have avoided it?

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This is pretty standard, but I've been in this type of situation and would like to know how you would have handled it. You find out your best friend's partner is cheating on, let's say 'him'. He loves her and believes they will spend the rest of their lives together and this happens. His girlfriend knows that you know and contacts you and begs for your silence, saying it was because of medicine she took too much of that this happened. She cries that their relationship means everything to her and this would never happen again and it would just needlessly crush him if he were to be told. Like a perfect patsy you keep her secret.

It eats at you. Every time you see your friend, you have to live with not having given him a fair heads up. Finally, you're drinking at the bar one night and drink just enough to start complaining of how this makes you feel to the guy next to you. He says, "Wait, are we talking about Debbie?" "Oh", he says, "she'd screw the paperboy for a tip. She's done half the guys in this bar!"

You feel a perfect fool now and surely NOW you should tell him. But it's a year later and they have now broken up ( because of her guilt and lack of commitment, as you can imagine. She drove him away, and he loved her, he is heartbroken.) You feel you did wrong not telling him right away, but surely you should tell him now? Ah but if you do, he may just not be able to forgive you, and this could cost him his best friend, on top of already having lost his girl. You clam up tight, and decide it's too late to say something, so you should never say anything.

Did you do the right thing?
Should you have told him in the first place?
Should you have told him after they broke up?
What would you do?



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There is no reason for a friend to enter into the freys of a personal relationship. It's more important you be availible to assist in picking up the pieces.

Why?

Wouldn't you expect your friend to watch your back, to tell you?

No. Maybe I'm life's proverbial ostrich, but so long as things were fine at home I could live quite happily never knowing.

Just then a distraught woman comes up to you, tears running down her face. You ask her what is wrong and she explains that she just ran over someone. You ask her where this person is, and she points towards the person that you ran over! You know whoever accepts the blame is likely to be placed in jail for a very long time. If you let the woman take the blame, there's a very good chance you will get away with it all.


What would you do? Why?




Toby comments.;- I would let her take the rap and the reason is , one Woman Driver less.
That's good enough for me.

Well....I realize I would probably feel differently if it was one of my loved ones that got chunked over the side......but I would be against even bringing charges against the Captain. So absolutely not guilty.

Sometimes the choices in severe situations aren't pretty but they have to be made.