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Originally posted by LXAAlum
Friends of my family, when their kids were in high school, witnessed a fight, but did nothing to stop it. The loser ended up in the hospital, and the parents of the witnesses ended up in court - they were sued for not stopping the fight for 25,000 each (I think there were five or six families, this was back in 1981-2) - and the family of the losing fighter WON.
There are more than simple criminal damages - the civil damage fallout from this should be very interesting indeed....
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If the parents that witnessed the fight were doing things like cheering them on or something like that, then maybe, but to simply take them to court because they didn't stop the fight is bull-ish.
I would not be comfortable stepping in and stopping a fight simply because I could get hurt, stabbed, knocked out, etc. in the process
I know of too many instances where people who have tried to break up fights end up hurt or killed themselves.
Now if we talking a bout 2 little kids, then yes, but high school kids and older? Ummm, nope. I would just call the police on them.