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I just thought I'd share something that this made me think of. There was this one time in some big city, like New York or something, where this woman came running out of an apt. building half-naked and screaming for help. Then a larger man came out, grabbed her, and forced her back into the apt. with her screaming the whole time. There were lots of people standing around to witness the whole thing. Despite this however, none of them did anything to help or called the police. The reason for this is because when lots of people are around, we automatically tend to shift responsibility to someone else. IE, we say "Shouldn't someone do something?" since there are so many "someones" around. If a similar situation happened when there were fewer witnesses however, that sociological phenomenon doesn't occur as often, because people realize there is no one else to shift the responsibility to.
Anyway, the woman ended up being raped and killed. There's a little sociological fact for you to ponder on.
If it were me, I'd call the police and at least bluff to the guy that they were called awhile ago and try to distract/scare him.
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