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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5653611" data-attributes="member: 54707"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/14/stage-collapse-idUSN1E77D03220110814" target="_blank">Stage Disaster</a>This is to me a very good example of a real  tragedy where a well trained Vigilante (and other trained Volunteers) would have  been of enormous benefit (and I'm sure were of enormous benefit, for I expect  many crowd responders were trained to some degree) in saving lives and in rescue  work, both individually and as a member of an ad hoc team, long before paid  professionals could have arrived. Assuming of course one or more were in the  audience. And it looks like, from many of the stories I've read on it, that  several such people were very helpful in immediate triage and rescue  operations.   This isn't the only thing a well trained Vigilante  would be good for, but it would be one type of thing that a good Vigilante  should definitely be good at. Rescue operations and emergency  life-saving.   I think Vigilantes (as I mean the term) should  have a wide range of useful skills that they can volunteer to others when  needed, and employ individually when they desire to work a particular problem or  fix something because they want to improve or protect their community, or  whatever else they are interested in protecting or improving.</blockquote>