06-01-2021, 09:28 PM
Jason Jones is a 72-year-old white man from northwest Missouri who now looks like this after attempting to aid a black couple who blew a tire on Interstate 75.
Jones says he was driving toward Kansas City when he spotted 19-year-old Choyce Davis and a young black female stranded at the roadside and made the near-fatal decision to help them. He drove the pair to two separate salvage businesses before finding a suitable replacement tire. But as he was driving them back to their car, Jones says, “something hit me on the top of the head.” Apparently, the unnamed black female began cracking him in the skull with a metal rod. While attempting to stop her, Jones said his van drove off the road and into a ditch, whereupon Jones jumped from his car, only to be set upon by Choyce Davis, who began choking him and punching him in the face.
Police showed up almost instantly and arrested the pair of reputed black assailants, who had tried to escape in Jones’s van but got stuck in the mud.
“There was nothing I could do,” Jones said. “I’m 72 years old. My energy was gone. There was nothing I could do but take it. . . . In today’s world, nobody does that and that was my thing. I’ve always stopped to help people. They’ve always appreciated it — until now. Now at my age, maybe I’ll think twice next time before I do it again.”
But many people won’t get a chance to think twice. Rather than attempting to be a Good Samaritan, it’s best to do nothing and join all the other Bad Samaritans.
Jones says he was driving toward Kansas City when he spotted 19-year-old Choyce Davis and a young black female stranded at the roadside and made the near-fatal decision to help them. He drove the pair to two separate salvage businesses before finding a suitable replacement tire. But as he was driving them back to their car, Jones says, “something hit me on the top of the head.” Apparently, the unnamed black female began cracking him in the skull with a metal rod. While attempting to stop her, Jones said his van drove off the road and into a ditch, whereupon Jones jumped from his car, only to be set upon by Choyce Davis, who began choking him and punching him in the face.
Police showed up almost instantly and arrested the pair of reputed black assailants, who had tried to escape in Jones’s van but got stuck in the mud.
“There was nothing I could do,” Jones said. “I’m 72 years old. My energy was gone. There was nothing I could do but take it. . . . In today’s world, nobody does that and that was my thing. I’ve always stopped to help people. They’ve always appreciated it — until now. Now at my age, maybe I’ll think twice next time before I do it again.”
But many people won’t get a chance to think twice. Rather than attempting to be a Good Samaritan, it’s best to do nothing and join all the other Bad Samaritans.