Strange incident in the woods

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It’s still playing on my mind and was just really odd.

Today, Dh and I took Dd, 5 and our dog in the woods/fields by our home. All was fine and we were heading back home, I was walking ahead keeping track of our dog and Dh was with Dd (she walks slowly, wants to stop to play/have adventures etc)
I saw a person walking behind Dh who was swaying from side to side and just seemed very odd, I felt a bit strange and started to call to Dd to run to me (as in a game-run as fast as you can/who’s the winner type thing) Dh had also noticed and started to walk more quickly, he then picked her up and started to hurry to me and we got to an open part where there were houses and cars. Dd was getting upset and shouting about why he picked her up etc and we were watching this person in the distance acting so strangely, staggering everywhere and then suddenly running.
A man came up talking on his phone (Russian I think and looking around everywhere) Dh asked him if he was looking for someone, the man didn’t speak English, so Dh started motioning towards the woods where the person had ran ( Dh says it was a woman)
Dh then went with the man to show him where she was and Dh said he saw this man find her
We explained to Dd, without trying to scare her.
As we were walking back we were discussing it and saying why did we try to run away, why didn’t we try to help them.
It was just a really really odd situation, we in these woods almost daily, nothing ever happens.

I keep wondering about this woman and what on earth had happened to her, Dh thinks she may have been drunk because of New year and wandered back and lost her way (the woods are next to the beach)

Would you have done the same thing? My initial feeling was fear and to get dd away

@MindHowYouGoes or maybe her first thought was the safety of her daughter and not worrying about whether a random woman she met was the victim of abduction or kidnap 🤷‍♀️

Not everyone immediately leaps to the worst case scenario and nobody on here could say they'd definitely react in a certain way either!

Thanks for the laugh - this thread is ridiculous! Between the OP’s repetitive replies, lack of coherent explanation and the responses of other posters it’s really made me chuckle 😂

OP, do you have comprehension/processing/memory issues? Because of your actions and also because you can’t seem to actually explain/recount the situation properly, even when people are asking you specific questions.

I hope this woman is ok.

I agree with Didimum. I'm sure there's other reading too that do. This thread is such a pile on that people probably don't want to post and disagree with the venom in case they get piled on as well (as has happened to Didmum). I did post earlier on to say that this thread was full of utter hysteria. It's absolutely bonkers.

About a week ago, I witnessed an act of extreme bravery by a younger member of my family who helped get a suicidal woman off a train track. This young person followed the directions of another person on the platform who lest onto the tracks with no thoughts for his own safety. I am immensely proud that my young relative followed suit and helped to save someone’s life. So you can imagine I’m not particularly impressed with the OP’s rationalising.

@WickDittington - that's an incredible thing to do. What an amazing person.

Your relative did an amazing thing, but everyone acts differently in an emergency, and OP also had her 5yo child and her dog to worry about.

I doubt many posters on here would actively intervene if they thought they would be putting their child at risk of harm.

I'm good. I can withstand a pile on, I just went to bed, lol.

Why gang leader? Just wondering why a few people have suggested this.

Because those sorts of people run brothels that they force women and girls to work in and keep them drugged. The women are trafficked into it and essentially kidnapped.

You don't need to worry about it. If you do it will cause anxiety, the swaying man was obviously drunk/ on drugs. It's not your concern. I live in Central London and see all sorts, you have to ignore it. You couldn't have helped the woman/ man/ whoever it was anyway. Your kid was safe, just forget it.