Jennifer Lawrence Helps Unconscious Girl: Have You Ever Helped a Stranger?

I was on vacation at a resort, in the pool, and I saw a little girl flailing and spluttering in the water, obviously unable to swim. I got to her as quickly as I could, lifted her up and got her out of the pool. Her arm may have accidentally scraped against the inside of the pool, but a scrape on her arm was a lot better than what could have happened if no one had helped her. This was years ago, and I hope she's doing fine today :)

Often. In car accidents and when ever asked or when I see the problem, I volunteer to help.

As a trauma nurse I help strangers everyday. But, back in April I was unloading my groceries to pay when an 11 year old girl with her grandmother (in line paying) collapsed and stopped breathing. She was blue but had a weak pulse, I gave her a few breathes and a hard sternal rub. She started breathing again and was talking by the time EMTs got there.

My friend has helped in the work

When you owned a bar/nightclub for more than 8 years, you help A LOT of strangers!!

Despite the potential liabilities, I sometimes help strangers. It occasionally bites me in the ass, but the times when someone truly needs help make it worth the risk.

It gives me great feelings to help others who really desrve the HELP

little things in daily life all add up

My husband and I were at a bar when we heard something going on outside, so I got up and went out to see. When I got out there, a man was on the ground passed out...apparent heart attack, [ people were standing around ] and I immediatly started working on his heart. One woman told me I was going to break his ribs, but I didn't pay attention to her, as I'd rather had broken his ribs, then him die. Finally the ambulence got there and I went back in. A few moments later, someone came in and told me I saved his life. I was just glad I was there at the time.

Everyone needing help is a stranger! It is inconceivable to help anyone without the predisposition of being 'estranged', otherwise, the 'help' is merely accommodating a friend or loved one.

a number of times and I've been helped myself as well. Theres no really a whole lot of story to them. Taking bags out to the car for someone in a wheelchair, my old roommate worked in a bar and I helped a girl who had taken something ( i wouldnt say overdosed but she got sick), some other stuff, I knit hats for an orphanage in botswana africa.

I don't stop when I whiteness car accidents anymore tho. I did that once, when I gave a police officer my phone number as a whiteness and the guilty party (who had no license) overheard and harassed me via phone for almost a year acting like i was involved.
what i find funny is a girl has collapsed, 2 people are over there trying to help her and this douchebag is running around snapping pictures of them.

All the time.

I use to, all the time. But now a days, with everybody looking to sue, you have to be really acreful.

Being a volunteer fireman in a small town I helped alot of strangers. That was 30 years ago. It was quite an experience.

yes

A friend and I saw a car that had just hit a bridge abutment . It was 3:00 in the morning. My friend ran to try and find a house to call an ambulance. The two people in the car were trapped. The car was smoking and there was gasoline everywhere. It was well below zero. There was alot of blood. The driver was pinned down by the steering wheel and unconscious, but had a good pulse and no heavy bleeding. I put my coat over him. There was a person in the backseat who was conscious but shivering almost convulsively and kept saying don't leave me. There was no way to get them out of the wreckage. I was terrified that the car was going to explode, but I couldn't give in to that. I crawled through the window on the other side and managed to get next to her and I wrapped my arms around her and tried to give her my body heat. I forgot to be afraid for awhile. The ambulance showed up a little while later, although it felt like many hours. After they were cut out of the car, loaded into the ambulance and on their way, I pretty much fell apart and couldn't stop shaking for hours. I was surprised that I had climbed in the car because of how terrified I am of fire. Bravery has nothing to do with not being afraid. It's when you're so afraid you could pee your pants, but you do something anyway. I never knew who the two people were, but they were both okay after a few weeks. I was really glad that we were there, inshallah.

Not on the same scale as Jennifer Lawrence, but on a smaller scale such as; helping my dad pay for his meds because he is flat broke, giving someone anti-freeze/coolant for their car, helping someone get a hotel room for their friend and giving that person & his dog some food (and, it turns out he is a famous, yet out of work actor :D )

Lots of times, changing tires, I've given a few hitchhikers rides, bought a few meals for people, recently I made a friend just by dialing my phone. 911, his house was on fire and he was asleep inside. Sheriff kicked in the door and saved him. He thanked me for days... Still thinks of me as a hero when all I did is what anyone would have done, or at least, should have done. I just did what was right.

meant to say yes! sry!

Im saying yes but it was more than that my partner and i were on a bus traveling home, it was rather packed and a hot day also, wailst standing as there were no free seats i noticed a woman who looked a little uneasy she had antother lady leaning on her sholder when i asked if she was ok she explaind that the lady who was next to her would not wake so i shoke her gently and removed her headphone to talk to her but there was no response, as a rusult i got the driver to phone an ambulance he did and the bus cleared of i lifted the lady carfully to alow the lady she had past out on to leave her seat and my partner toke her place at that point the crowded bus had change to just the driver my partner the lady that had past out and myself a few minutes later a guy phoned my phone to advise us intill the ambulace arrived as the driver had given them my number i stayed on the line with them intill the paramedics came then my partner and i waited intill she was conces and walked into the ambulance as our two children were asleep and we were in no rush it was some thing i would defanitly do again and have done befor.

Nothing life saving/changing just small things, I haven't really seen anything like that happen but if I did I probably would have done the same.

But that's only beacause I have never had the opportunity

It is with extreme confidence to refute your assertion and suspect that you have, indeed, helped strangers without knowing the influence perhaps of your passive manner. It would seem probable that whether we know it or not, our actions or inaction have positive results of influence to help one another!

You are 1000% right' thank you for spreading words of wisdom to others.

A little lesson I learned from George Orwell is that you never know what you think you'd do until you're in the moment--for the individuals who claim they would have done the same, regardless of however passionate about the move they claim to be. Personally, out of experience, I have helped strangers; I help strangers; an example that I'm proud of is when I buy then hand meals to the homeless merely out of the possibility [and probability] that they'd be hungry. Literally caught off guard with a serious incident, however, I have yet to witness myself in action with the simple exceptions of someone tripping or having a stalled vehicle. Call me cocky, hyped, or whatever, but seeing how the selfless-ness of this world is dwindling, how else am I to inspire the selfish?

I try to help a stranger out if I can. In Lawrence's case, I would have done the same thing.

One that happened just this week a woman's child knocked over a bunch of items on a shelf in the store, I watched several people walk pass her as I made my way over to her, as she scrambled to gather the spilled things, her high-energy child, and another that was sitting in her cart. I started helping and then I guess that inclined the guy who had be standing by to do the same. Eventually an employee came and cleaned the rest up.

It kind of shocks me how many people don't have nice to do things for others. That should be a natural reaction for people, to help. If you have the means or the power then help and if you don't find someone who can.

One time it wasn't a stranger, but no one else knew what to do...I helped a girl from my dance studio to dislodge a piece of food she was choking on.

Another time, there was a girl at school who started having a seizure. None of the other students knew what to do, I did, so I helped while another student went to the office to have someone call 911.

If I know what to do, I'll do it. I don't care who the person is or if I know them. It's just the right thing to do.

On three different occasions, my brother and I saw those lost pet ads on telephone poles. Those same days, we saw that dog wandering around, and we called the number on the tags. One time humane society had to scan the dog for a chip on it, but nonetheless, all owners got the dogs back. We took no reward. "Treat others as you wish to be treated." I would expect anybody else to do that for me. :)

Nothing as serious as Lawrence did, but I've helped out when I can.

I can't pass by someone if they need help, it's not in my nature.

If possible, you should help others in distress, that is the definition of a Good Samaritan. Just don't think it can be a bragging point, or a boasting story...it doesn't work that way. This works for animals, too....one time I was eating my lunch, and a big pitbull came running over, and before I knew what he was doing, he jumped up and grabbed a chicken leg right out of my hand. He bit down and bit down hard, and both ends off the leg bone popped off, but the center part got sharply and tightly wedged between his upper front teeth. Without thinking, I reached down, grabbed his jaw, pulled it open wide, reached in and jerked the bone out. It took a lot of strength, 'cause it was wedged really tight! He stood and looked at me, then wagged his tail and ran off. I didn't even have time to be scared, just reacted...

I never had the opportunity, ie, never the destiny showed an occasion like this in my life, except for abandoned/stray animals.

Its why we are here, to help each other.

Numerous times, in various situations from simply stopping to help a lady who ran out of gas on a busy highway to stepping in when a girl was being assaulted in a parking lot. It's simply how I was raised.

I don't love stranger only, i love all.

Give directions... money to help purchase a product... walk elderly across the street

Never got a chance to......I love J-Law! ♥♥

This nation was built and freed by "volunteers" who either became soldiers and sailors, or found ways to aid strangers trying to escape oppression.

These days we either become "organized" Volunteers to help others in thousands of ways, while others go their merry ways until they see someone in need.

There is a well kept field surrounded with low brush, nearby that attracts Soccer players, mostly immigrants. Looking at the calendar and with medical knowledge of ticks, I have gone over several times to inform the group of the approaching Lyme Disease season. Now we are in the prime danger period and whether they find me a friend or not, I won't let then forget the dangers in the low brush or the known ways to protect themselves. Its just being a good neighbor.