Here's an example of why it doesn't always pay to be a Good Samaritan.
Haris Masood was on the subway Thursday night when he saw a woman carrying a baby, and she was yelling and cursing at another woman.
He says he decided to step and ask the woman to calm down and that is when things got violent.
"She threw her baby in a stroller. I thought she was going to yell at me, but she grabbed me by my shirt and punched me in my face," he said on The Motts on NEWSTALK 1010 Sunday morning. "I was punched three or four times."
According to Masood, the woman's friend also started punching and kicking him and he heard racial slurs.
"She said, 'Go back to India.Then I heard something like 'terrorist.'"
The two women took off but other passengers stepped in and stayed with Masood stayed with him to validate his story.
The 24-year-old says he's been left with a sore face, back and hand.
But he had to do what was right.
Surveillance footage of the incident has been handed over to Toronto police and they are now investigating.