There was a hit and run in Hartford, CT yesterday last week, where a 78 year old man was hit by a car crossing a double yellow line. Sad for the individual involved, but not normally noteworthy. Except there’s a video that illustrates something much worse than the accident itself. Nobody did a goddamn thing to help him. Watch, if you can:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_E3ldpFbjo[/youtube]
Jesus christ. And keep this in mind the next time someone needs help, but you think that someone else will step in.
Vivian J. Paige
Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.
Carla
The woman who walks out toward him and then walks back again seems dismayed, just as a few other people seem to be reacting with some shock, but what’s bizarre is that no one seems to know what to do or even to recognize that they SHOULD do something. The woman who walks out and then goes back seems to be seeking some kind of inspiration – gee, if only there were a way, perhaps electronic, to alert the authorities to an emergency involving life or limb – but is otherwise clueless.
MB
I think of myself (perhaps wrongly, but I do) as someone with a pretty decent sense of empathy. But I simply cannot fathom what it is that had these people walking and driving by this man.
When I was a teen, a man in a truck in front of me on the freeway slammed into a (very large) truck parked on the side of the freeway and his truck caught on fire. Long story short, I stopped to try and help, including pulling him from the truck. Eventually (and after two more cars hit the first two trucks), the man was loaded into the ambulance and taken off to the hospital. Found out later on that he died. I wondered, for years, if I could have done more.
I do not understand these people. At all.
Peej
I don’t understand these people at all, either. Just today I posted about an incident from a few months ago (nothing anywhere as dire as this or your experience), where there was a young girl, a food service employee, getting horribly verbally abused by a customer. Other than me and L., no one stepped up to interfere and stop it. Some people kept staring at the wall. It was unbelievable. Like if they didn’t look and couldn’t see it, it wouldn’t be happening.
I don’t understand these people at all, either.