When I was thirteen I was walking down a sreaat in my home town when I was frozen to the sidewalk by the most horrific scream I had ever heard up until that time in my life. It was flight or fight reaction and I just stood there. Within a second came another scream just as bad or worse than the first and the front door to a house slammed open and a young woman came running out of the house with a naked, limp infant in her outstretched hands. She ran down the steps and held the baby out to me, wild terror in her eyes. I'm sure I matched the look in her eyes and I had not one answer. Other people were starting to come out of there houses and I yelled for someone to call an ambulance. I don't know if CPR had been invented yet (this was in '62) but I knew nothing of it. I just stood there as did everyone else 'til the ambulance arrived. The baby couldn 't be saved.

The mother had been giving the infant (about 18 months) a bath and she got a phone call. Gone for a second: gone forever. I have since learned CPR and have used the same a couple of times, once on my own son who aspirated liquid vitamins that my wife had given hime. My wife was an RN with a BSN and SHE froze!!! It can happen to anyone. That incident at age thirteen had a profound effect on me. I later realized that the baby was already gone and there probably wasn't anything I could do and certainly no one faulted a thriteen year old boy for not doing anything but shout "Call an ambulance" but I knew that I should have been able to do something more than just stand there. And to that end I determined that I would never be flatfooted in any crisis again.

PS I'll take the forest too. Whether city or forest, Man is the most dangerous creature on the planet and in most forests you don't need a permit to pack heat (not concealed).