Tim Dower: Where was their parental instinct?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Dec 6, 2023 · 2m

True story, abbreviated for time.

San Francisco, about 15 years back now, coming out of the subway following my two teenage daughters.

A group of tatty half-drunk, half-baked beggars hanging around with their paws out for money.

And I hear some leering, grubby, smutty comments being directed at my children.

I sense danger, move a little closer to them.

And the leerers embolden one another. It gets a bit grubbier, I feel the anger boiling up inside me.

Then out of nowhere comes this guttural, aggressive, very loud, and very threatening voice.

It sounds like a lion, and it roars, it truly…