There was this one time when I got out of school and I was sitting at the bus stop waiting for my ride home. All of a sudden I see a boy about 17 years of age or older pulling on some girl. I thought to myself, "this can't be good."
There were a lot of people around including the principle of the school, but it didn't seem like nobody was about to do anything about the problem. So I stood up then immediately the other people around me started to react to the situation. Finally the principle decided intervene. I was glad that the principle interfered, because I don't know what I or the group would have done. I think this was a good example of the bystander effect because it took me to stand up for the other people to try to do something. The fact that it took one persons reaction for the other people to start to react have many things to do with the bystander effect. Moreover, the bystander effect states that people at differently in certain situations, so in the situation I decided to do what I thought was right. It turned out to help the girl.
