WTF Is Wrong With People
Rockadelic
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Not even the woman he saved gave a damn???.........smhhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hugo_wouldn_have_done_that_family_FKNTR0IUj3tsYhB5uSzfELTale-Yax, 32, was fatally stabbed several times in the chest at 5:40 a.m. Sunday while saving a woman from a knife-wielding thug on 144th Street and 88th Road in Jamaica, according to police.Video footage from a surveillance camera shows dozens of passers-by walk past him as he lay on the ground.One indifferent stroller snapped a photo of the victim on his cellphone. Another even lifted an unresponsive Tale-Yax, saw a pool of blood below his body and then walked off. Firefighters didn?t receive a 911 call until 7:23 a.m.
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There were some good points in the comments:
"Unfortunately many non-villainous people still figure that "getting involved" can lead only to trouble. Trust in government today is at such a low ebb that people are afraid even to call 911 anonymously. They assume, with some justification, that no good deed will go unpunished.
Something else to consider: how many people in NYC routinely, every day, walk right past some guy lying in a cardboard box? Well, how do you know there isn't a pool of blood under that guy? Do you ask him if he's OK or needs anything? Do you call 911? New Yorkers are accosted constantly by parasites with stories about how their wallet was just stolen and they have to get back to wherever. When you live in New York, you can't help but become defensive and callous."
I'm not so sure about the last sentence since I have never been there, but the "reasoning" of the people who walked by makes sense...somewhat. Plus, I'm sure people who saw blood immediately thought "Bloody homeless person = OMG! DISEASES! Don't touch!" Ignorant, but understandable.
Not really...why you trying to play apologist?
To piss you off.
I can't imagine the horror of needing help in a crowd of people and no one stepping forward.
Walking away from someone, anyone, lying in a pool of blood is not in any way understandable to me.
Breeze is pretty much on point. It really sucks but such is life, especially in a big city like New York. If you see a homeless man lying on the street most of the time you're going to walk right past them.
And I saw this on the news last night. The pool of blood wasn't visible until the paramedics turned him over hours after the fact.
Still pretty terrible. Dude did a noble act and paid for it with his life.
i saw a girl running away in tears from a BIG dude a month ago...he catches up to her and she screams let me go you are hurting me...
this was late at night near a metro station in a semi shady avenue...
there were cops right in front of the station and i was on the other side of the street...
the cops left in their car...passers by were on some
she storms into the metro... the guy was quite behind her (letting her go)
then he finally bolts for the metro
i left my girl's hands and ran in pulled the guy's coat and told him to calm down
he shoves me and jumps the rail..the metro employee just looks to the ground...
i had to run down stairs and stop dude to make sure the girl got in the metro and he did not
thanks god for the good timing minor bruises.... no one was goint to help and thank god i got involved
you can't count on anyone to do the right thing... its depressing
and with the lederly it's disheartening
The last real ass whuppin i took was the result of stepping in to help a train driver who had just been sucker punched by some fuckin wannabe thug back in Sydney in 1999.
a full subway car full of people watched the whole thing go down, as did THREE uniformed train security guys.
tough guy's friend cracked me with a bottle from behind as i was calmly and non confrontationally trying to diffuse the situation and get the driver out of danger. 4 of them stomped me out while a good 100 people sat in their seats and watched.
when i stubled back onto the train, some fuckin cunt actually had the nerve to say "that was fuckin stupid mate".
there is something in me that just cannot bare to see someone being hurt, its always been that way. Victimization/Bullying in any form turns my fuckin stomach.
I have had to work hard on keeping my impulses in check since becoming a father,and know that there is more than one way to win a fight, but if someone needs help, i think we all have a duty to step in.
i am as guilty as any city-dweller of turning away from panhandlers and junkies, but i have lost friends to junk, and been homeless and alone in a big city myself, so i do try and help where i can, seeing kids begging (knowing they are the victims of an organised scam) breaks my heart.
Maybe im a big softy, but i can live with some bruises, what i cant live with is knowing i had the chance to help someone but instead turned a blind eye.
This.
I still feel like shit for not doing anything years ago as a guy just yelled and yelled at who I guess was his girl for everyone on the subway platform to hear. He grabbed her a couple of times, too, which made my heart jump because I didn't know if he was going to shove her on the tracks. It was ugly and meant to humiliate her. She kept walking away, he followed her and I followed them. But I never said a anything, which I should have just to distract him or diffuse it.
I didn't know how to deal with the way she was dealing with it. It was so hard to tell what she may have wanted to happen; to be left alone by everyone and to mind their own business or to be rescued from this guy. I feel like I should have just taken a chance of getting yelled at by both if it was the former rather than leaving her stranded on the latter.
They were going a different direction than me, they got on their train and I felt sick to my stomach.
Maybe I should have learned a lesson from that but I would do the same exact thing if I saw it again, only this time I'd duck.
Pathetic and sadly, all too typical. "But-but-but...he looooooves me!"
Not to toot my own horn because I'm an asshole, but I actually do check on unconscious/semi-conscious homeless people.
But letting people bleed to death on your street is not cool.
At one point a huge fight broke out upstairs and this woman getting beaten up started shrieking. people downstairs froze to listen and people upstairs were watching it like entertainment. The bystander effect is real: i froze too - but then shook it off and ran up the stairs from the foyer to save her.
when i got to the landing i realized it was a skinny dude getting his ass kicked screaming in a high-pitched falsetto. i caught a lot of ribbing for that one.
a good friend of mine, tired of seeing parents scream on kids and bully them in public decided that when he saw that shit, he'd walk up to the parent,point in their face and say "shut up". i told him to prepare to get punched in the face.
huh, yeah, same thing with me, last beating I caught was when I tried to help a kid getting the shit kicked out of him at a hardcore show. I thought I was going to be OK, I calmly stepped to dude who was literally holding an unconscious kid up with one hand while punching him in the face with the other and just sort of said "he's had enough, man" and he let go of the kid and seemed to chill ... then his boy went "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU??" and suddenly I had 6 dudes on me throwing punches and kicking while I turtled. The dude that was on-stage singing for the band (and my friend) actually came down and pushed to the back of the club and pulled dudes off of me one-by-one. I was spitting blood and had a good shiner, but honestly a few bruises were better than idly watching somebody get put in a coma just to satisfy some sadistic jock urges.
FSU-related?