One time when I was with my brother and my aunt in Chicago, her wallet was stolen from her purse by a thin, shady looking man. A few people standing around witnessed him steal her wallet.Immediately following the theft, nobody did anything. It wasn't until the man had already started to leave the scene that someone finally stepped in. A man bigger than the thief confronted him and demanded he give the wallet back to my aunt. After the thief returned it and made a quick exit, a few people came up to my aunt and told her they were about to step in but the man beat them to the punch.

This is an example of "will the kindness of strangers stop theft." The kindness of the one man saved my aunt from getting her wallet stolen from her. He may have stepped in because he was not threatened by a man smaller than him or simply because it was the right thing to do. If the thief had been bigger than the man, maybe he would have gotten away with the theft. The other people who came up to my aunt and said they were about to step in may have been telling the truth or just trying to look like good Samaritans. This shows that people may say they'd help but act in the opposite manner.