meiteoh
Well-Known Member
...call the cops if you heard your neighbours screaming and shouting, and see two guys fighting?
Am asking because just moments ago, the cops came to our apartment. About 20 minutes earlier, we were happily watching TV when I heard some fighting going on. At first I ignored it because it sounded like any normal fight and then it got really loud and mind you, the apartment door was closed. Then I heard their door open and the shouting got louder and a woman was screaming. Now, I don't speak Mandarin so I had no idea what they were saying but the tone was disturbing me and hubs so I went to take a peek. I opened the apartment door a little and saw two men having a go at each other and a woman's arm trying to stop them.
I turned around and had this look :err: on my face. That was when the women screamed even louder and louder - it was as if she was the one who was going to get hit or something. So hubs and I called the police.
Here's the kicker - the moment he hung up, all went dead quiet next door. They closed the door and it was as if nothing happened. When the police came, I felt so mortified at having called them for nothing but part of me had this naggy feeling that it was right of me to call them anyway because of gut instinct.
I had the same experience before in Switzerland - my neighbours upstairs were fighting at 3am and a woman was screaming, a man was shouting and things were getting thrown around; it was all going on in Spanish and we called the police. When they arrived, the couple was still having a go at each other. And you could hear them from the entrance of the apartment block. :S
My hubby kept going on and on about how he shouldn't have called the cops but I keep telling him that we should have...who knows what it could have escalated into?
But still...I guess the Asian part of me is wondering whether it was right/appropriate to get involved in such a situation considering that I live next door!!!!! :/
What do you guys think?
ps: I was even telling the police that I should have recorded the whole darn thing on my phone. Guess I wasn't thinking all that quick then. :/
Am asking because just moments ago, the cops came to our apartment. About 20 minutes earlier, we were happily watching TV when I heard some fighting going on. At first I ignored it because it sounded like any normal fight and then it got really loud and mind you, the apartment door was closed. Then I heard their door open and the shouting got louder and a woman was screaming. Now, I don't speak Mandarin so I had no idea what they were saying but the tone was disturbing me and hubs so I went to take a peek. I opened the apartment door a little and saw two men having a go at each other and a woman's arm trying to stop them.
I turned around and had this look :err: on my face. That was when the women screamed even louder and louder - it was as if she was the one who was going to get hit or something. So hubs and I called the police.
Here's the kicker - the moment he hung up, all went dead quiet next door. They closed the door and it was as if nothing happened. When the police came, I felt so mortified at having called them for nothing but part of me had this naggy feeling that it was right of me to call them anyway because of gut instinct.
I had the same experience before in Switzerland - my neighbours upstairs were fighting at 3am and a woman was screaming, a man was shouting and things were getting thrown around; it was all going on in Spanish and we called the police. When they arrived, the couple was still having a go at each other. And you could hear them from the entrance of the apartment block. :S
My hubby kept going on and on about how he shouldn't have called the cops but I keep telling him that we should have...who knows what it could have escalated into?
But still...I guess the Asian part of me is wondering whether it was right/appropriate to get involved in such a situation considering that I live next door!!!!! :/
What do you guys think?
ps: I was even telling the police that I should have recorded the whole darn thing on my phone. Guess I wasn't thinking all that quick then. :/