What would you do? Witness a POTENTIAL kidnapping!

[spleify]

Last year right after that little girl Emily went missing in Westminster(so everyones senses were heightened) I was out messing around with things in my garage and I notice a blue BMW 3 series pull up outside with two Spanish men inside and I hear Spanish speaking. I look up and see then calling to or talking to a small girl, maybe 10 years old if I had to guess. I see them motioning to her to come over to the car. There was absolutely no time to think and definitely not time to call the police and wait for them to arrive, honestly I didnt even think about calling the cops that never even crossed my mind. No one else was around as my neighborhood is very quiet. Anyway I see them talking to her and motioning her to the car, I dont speak Spanish so I have no idea what they are saying(the little girl was Spanish also), she(what seemed to me reluctantly) heads over to the drivers side of the vehicle, which was opposite of where I was, and they motion to her to go to the other side(passenger side)as she walks over to the passenger side I race down my drive way and put myself between the little girl and the vehicle and the two men. I ask the little girl if she knows the two men in the car? You can tell she is visually mixed up and/or confused. I ask her again, "do you know these two men"? The guy in the font seat says "yes" I look to him and point and say "shut up" my adrenaline is running and I am not about to allow a "possible" abduction. I ask the little girl again and finally she replies and says "yes" I asked her 5 or 6 more times "are you sure"? "are you positive"? "you definitely for sure know them"? She says "yes they are my uncles" I still have my hand on the passenger door preventing it from opening and I ask the two men up front what they are doing, and he says "we are just on our way home and she is on her way home from school so we are picking her up so she doesnt have to walk" I ask the little girl one more time, "you absolutely for sure know these men, right"? She nods her head and says "yes".

This entire incident from when I first spotted the BMW to final acknowledgment from the little girl was about 20 seconds, so clearly there was no time to call anyone. I look at the guy in the front seat and just say, "hey you never know these days, and especially right now after the little girl in Westminster went missing" You could see the sincerity in his eyes and he said "thank you" probably 10 times. He just kept shaking his head and saying thank you, thank you, thank you. You could see how appreciative he was of what I just did to try and protect his little niece.

Looking back I wouldnt do anything different. I would react the exact same way and do the exact same thing. Is what I did possibly dangerous and stupid, some might think so, but I ask those people that would think what I did was stupid how they would live with themselves if they saw a report that night on the news like the one for Emily in Westminster. And, I also ask those people to grow some balls. I was not carrying at the time and still did not hesitate or think twice about what I was doing.

[wctriumph]

If I see a man being aggressive with a woman or a child that doesn't feel right to me, I will step in to see what is going on and stop possible abuse. I've done it before and will do it again.