Can't say I blame the woman.

My SO is paralyzed from the chest down because someone tried to be "helpful". Being one who cares for a paraplegic, and has to watch a very able bodied man relearn how to do the every day things we take for granted, is extremely heartbreaking. It's unbearable to watch someone who was so strong become so depressed and feel so useless. Imaging needing help putting on your socks, or shaving. Then imagine having to need this help forever. It could have been avoided. But, I won't go into details here.

The trouble with cases like this is, proving not the intentions of the "helping" party, but proving no paraplegia would have occurred if the person had not intervened.

On the other side of the coin, it kind of makes you think twice about helping out in an emergency.