Heroines of the Week

Hannah Bridgeman-Oxley and Karri Cormican, the two bar workers who not only caught a guy slipping drugs into his date's drink--twice!--but were smart enough to swap out the first drink before the intended victim had touched it, follow her when she stepped out for a smoke to warn her, and keep the two drinks for the police to examine, thereby not only saving a woman from date rape but also ensuring that the failed rapist would be convicted.

Which he was this week.

This is how people can prevent rape; not by leaving the short skirts in the closet, but by intervening when something looks funny. It doesn't have to be drugs in a drink. It can just be a woman who's drunk at a party, a guy who's pushing drinks on a girl, or a situation where someone looks uncomfortable while someone else horns in on their personal space or doesn't take no for an answer. And you don't have to make a federal case out of it, either--just intervene with some excuse or other, and then check with the person in private, or call her a cab.

As Cormican (above right) says,

It's just the kind of place where everybody looks out for everybody. . . . I mean, people look out for me. I hope.