I was once on a walk with Nara and Paw Paw in the city area of Portland, Oregon. I believe I wrote about it on here somewhere. Anyways, an off lead pitbull ran up on us, with his owner trailing behind screaming "NO NO NOOOOOOoooo!!!!!" No recall. No commands. Just "no!" I knew that this meant trouble was headed our way. I don't know why someone who knows his dog was troubled would EVER allow it to be off leash. I was walking right alongside one of the busier main streets in the city. Cars were buzzing by as we stopped on the sidewalk. This large pit ran right up to within 6 feet, stopped to sniff and plan, then instantly tore into Paw Paw. Not sure if he had to first determine the bigger threat, or who was the male, or who was in tact, but he chose Paw Paw's neck. I dropped both leashes, grabbed this pit around the chest so his back was pressed up against my chest, and I rolled onto the ground on my back and squeezed as tight as I could, locking him up. His head was up against mine, but he was unable to turn it to try to bite my face. This was all instinct. I did what came naturally to me, and luckily it worked. I laid there with this pit on top of me, my dogs standing next to me watching, and eventually the pit's owner came up, grabbed his dog by the collar, and dragged him away. As he was dragging him down the street and out of sight, he kept cursing at his dog while punching it in the head as hard as he could. Go figure. I had witnesses come over to check on me and my dogs and they told me they didn't know how I did what I did, and stated that they would have never known, nor could ever pull off such a thing. They were happy for me and my dogs. We were all unscathed.
However, if there would've been 2 pits attacking, this plan would not have worked. But yeah, on the video all those people approached to help and none of them really did what needed to be done to neutralize those pits. It was actually pretty sad. I remember my time living in the city, and it seemed like most of the people I knew were very VERY afraid of dogs. Sad that those brave enough to own a dog would go buy a pitbull and then not train it. They just wanted to have that intimidation factor to prove they were gangsta, like DMX the rapper who has songs about pits, videos with pits, album covers with pits, etc.