[dTal]

>If the attacker was actually stabbing Kristen then it would be a different story but that's not what happened

"suddenly we were brawling, she swinging at me with a knife in one hand"

"I felt blood flowing down my face. 'SOMEBODY HELP ME!' People stare and watch."

"Please, she’s got a knife, she’s trying to stab me, please! ANYONE!"

Seems to me that it was pretty clear that actual knife attacking was taking place. She's got blood streaming down her face crying blue murder about a girl with a knife - you wouldn't help because she hadn't actually been stabbed yet?

How would you live with yourself?

[joshstrange]

I'm sorry I misread that as "blood rushing to my face" which is obviously wrong. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume it was small cut and not a gash (we really would need pictures to know for sure but this story is VERY light on any evidence, I'm going further out on that limb and assume the picture was not included because it wasn't a bad cut and didn't make the story seem as bad). Two women fighting can scratch each other's face and I still wouldn't get involved. When I wrote that I was imagining more of a "stabbing" and not a cut on her face. Regardless I stand by my TL;DR of: A phone and purse are not worth the victims or a potential rescuers life (both immediate and long term). This would have been avoided if Kristen had simply handed over her phone and purse.