I need to help coming up with some good life scenarios?

Question

I am trying to prepare for my research project and have to come up with ten one-sentence scenarios. These scenarios may involve witnessing criminal events, experiencing natural disasters, running into accidents (i.e. burning car or drowning person), or encountering potential harm to another (i.e. child / adult severely injured by another in a fight, etc.). It could be situations in which you encounter that you did not know how to respond.

I have came up with some scenarios, but it sounds a little shaky so I am asking for you help.

Ex: You're walking down the street and saw a couple arguing
intensely what would you do?

Answer 1

Well, one possible "idea jolter" might be to grab some first aid and safety books and look at quiz questions....ditto for social science books or anything you can find on "living together with other people" (have no idea what they're calling that sort of class in schools nowadays). But here's a couple misc. ones---


A car without handicap plates (and no temporary placard) pulls up into a marked handicapped parking space at the mall and an apparently healthy person gets out. Do you say anything?

A child is throwing a noisy and prolonged tantrum ("I WANNA GO BACK FOR THAT!" at a store; the adult nearby scolds the child, then finally spanks the child's buttocks five or six times. Your reaction?

A 12 year old who's made you a confidant (and who has begged you for secrecy, beforehand) finally manages to say that he/she is being sexually abused at home. (You had no idea "don't say anything" was going to be THIS edgy.)

You're in a fairly nice, respectable hotel, and hear what sounds like a fight (slapping/punching sounds, moans, an occasional whimper) from the next room. What do you do?