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EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-04-27 01:42
Quote from From news:
NEW YORK - The homeless man lay face down, unmoving, on the sidewalk outside an apartment building, blood from knife wounds pooling underneath his body.
One person passed by in the early morning. Then another, and another. Video footage from a surveillance camera shows at least seven people going by, some turning their heads to look, others stopping to gawk. One even lifted the homeless man's body, exposing what appeared to be blood on the sidewalk underneath him, before walking away.
It wasn't until after the 31-year-old Guatemalan immigrant had been lying there for nearly an hour that emergency workers arrived, and by then, it was too late. Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax — who police said was stabbed while intervening to help a woman being attacked — had died.
(More on site)
Homeless good Samaritan left to die on street - Life- msnbc.com
It is so much easier to judge as a 3rd person than if you were actually there.
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Laconicus wrote on 2010-04-27 01:45
Wow... this is why I plan to never go to NYC... if I saw some dude bleeding on the street, yes I'd pull out my cell phone and call 911! I don't see why anyone wouldn't! o_o
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Lonesky wrote on 2010-04-27 01:48
Owo, I wonder how hard it is to dial 911...
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Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-27 01:50
When I came out of a cinema with my friends once, it was near closing time, I see someone sitting at the entrance with blood on her arm's... She didn't say anything and I kind of got scared :/... Though at the time, I thought she has her period. :<
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-04-27 01:50
I'm not surprised D:
I heard that if someone silently died sitting in the subway, no one would notice until the end of the day when they go cart by cart telling people to get off at the last stop in case they fell asleep.
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Piko wrote on 2010-04-27 01:59
Pika pi, pikachu?
(You humans are total oblivious assholes, aren't you?)
Edit :
Pi pika. Pi pikachu pi? Pika? Pikachu.
(At least Pika would have done something, like attempt to see if Pika could lift the dude and carry him somewhere else or do first-aid treatment while calling an ambulance. And what happened to the woman? She left the dude to die? Hag.)
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Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-27 02:00
Quote from Pikablu;19749:
Pika pi, pikachu?
(You humans are total oblivious assholes, aren't you?)
In general.
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Criticalxhit wrote on 2010-04-27 02:00
*sigh, shakes head*
After reading things like this, you can say that in some ways, the Mabinogi community is nicer than communities like that...
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Time wrote on 2010-04-27 02:04
Yeah, I saw this on the news a while ago, it really sucks doesnt it....OMG its on the news right now again! they say 25 ppl went by in total! O.o
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Juno wrote on 2010-04-27 02:09
And you know what people are worried about right now?
How the rest of the world perceives us.
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Cannibal wrote on 2010-04-27 02:10
I heard about this at about 8:00 AM.
Made me sick all day.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-04-27 02:10
"I think people are just afraid to step in; they don't want to get involved; who knows what their reasons are?"
The lesson here is that MOST people actually AVOID helping another in distress. Even if they thought they would before.
Its an action taken by your subconscious mind. You'll actually refuse to acknowledge the problem to begin with, and your mind will instantaneously start coming up with hundreds of excuses to not get involved, but only in the back of your mind so you don't consciously think it.
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Piko wrote on 2010-04-27 02:13
Quote from Juno;19774:
And you know what people are worried about right now?
How the rest of the world perceives us.
Pika pi pikachu.
(This one time my Aunt from Vienna, no she's not German nor Australian, still asian, came here for vacation. She told our family how her taxi driver reacted to her saying she was catching a flight to the United States. I forgot what he said, but it was pretty funny and insulting xD).
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Cookies wrote on 2010-04-27 02:15
Easier said than done, the police would've taken you in for questioning, making you miss the day's work.
There have also been other cases where people who help out get blamed for whatever bad happened to the person afterward, I personally know a friend who got sued by an old man after helping him get up from the ground.
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Phunkie wrote on 2010-04-27 02:38
It's no excuse, however. There is never an excuse to not help someone in need.
My Mom one time was taking the subway home (we live in Manhattan) and there were these two guys beating up this OLD MAN up. Now, she didn't know the reasons... whether the old guy was the actual prick in the situation or not. But NO ONE did anything. NO ONE. They just stood around waiting for their train while this man was screaming for help.
The police officers eventually arrived and the guys started running away. One of the guys was running by my Mom's direction, so she put a foot in and tripped him so the cops would catch him. :) She told me the guy looked back to see her face (he knew she tripped him), but she turned away so he couldn't see her.
I cheered her on for that.
Even if she couldn't have jumped in and pull those two guys off the old guy, she intervened and helped the police arrest these two criminals.
I think they caught the other guy outside too. Or his friend told on him or something.
It's easy to pick up the phone and dial 911. My friend has done it before when she's heard her neighbors fight... like physically. The husband gets violent apparently and one time she heard the wife telling him to STOP and to STOP, and CALM DOWN.
You would have to have SOME heart to ignore such a situation.
I don't care if you're late for work or for school. You're gonna leave someone who is visibly in danger out there to die? I'm not telling you to jump in and be the hero/heroine. I'm telling you pick up the damn phone and dial 911.
Do your part as a citizen and as a human being.