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A sign of the times we live in?
BillieTheBot
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"SHAMEFUL BRITAIN"
"Security cameras have captured scores of drivers ignoring a woman laying injured by the side of the road.
The shameful scenes show a series of cars passing by the woman as she lay face down."
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Were all the people who drove past just selfish, heartless people? Or is it a sign of the times now that people believe it might be all a trick to get them to stop so they can be robbed/attacked?
Or perhaps the sign of our times is that we've become all selfish and don't care any more for our fellow man (or woman).
Would you have stopped?
"Security cameras have captured scores of drivers ignoring a woman laying injured by the side of the road.
The shameful scenes show a series of cars passing by the woman as she lay face down."
Full story
Were all the people who drove past just selfish, heartless people? Or is it a sign of the times now that people believe it might be all a trick to get them to stop so they can be robbed/attacked?
Or perhaps the sign of our times is that we've become all selfish and don't care any more for our fellow man (or woman).
Would you have stopped?
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But i have been in a lot of situations similar and it is hard to know what to do, I was in Brixton once, at about 4am, and this girl can up to me crying, claming she had been raped and attacked, and needed money to get home, I offered to help get to the police station, but she said she had already been there and they sent her home with nothing. I didn't have much on me anyway, so i didn't give her anything as it really didn't she genuine, but sometimes i think what if it was.
The worst thing i faced was when a gang of rude boys beat up this one guy on a tram in Croydon, no one did anything although the tram was very full with men and women, when the gang ran off, the guy just sat there shaking and bleeding and got off at the next stop, i asked if he was ok on the journey, he just nodded.
I am too scared to help sometimes, not because i don't care, but because i know no one will back me up.
Is it because when we see people lying face down on movies they always turn round and stab the Good Samaritan? I'm thinking of Silence of the Lambs and Terminator 2, but there are plenty of others.
I think people dont stop because they dont care, its more that they are afraid for their own safety. You just never know if its a set up......we just dont trust people no more.
Although there are some scammers, there is a (crusty looking) woman in Brixton who begs money by pretending she's been attacked. She's quite convincing, but I can't believe she gets attacked every week, although she is obviously very desperate.
I hope that was the same woman who came up to me, then i can stop wondering.
several years ago when i was driving home on a country road late one night and came round the corner and swerved round what looked like log. on stopping it was a pair of legs. So we woke him up and told him there was probably a better place to sleep, he stunk of alcohol but was in such a state we put him the car and drove him home - meant going about 3 mils out of are way, but, if you can't stop and help someone then its a pretty sad state of affairs
Shame on those drivers!
If one driver had already stopped, what would be the point of others stopping?
If the road had come to a standstill we'd be accusing them of rubbernecking.
A good reminder that we should know all the facts before making judgement.
People on the whole will ignore serious events like this. There are a whole host of reasons for it, varying from fear of being hurt to the idea that someone else will.
It's quite common that once one person joins into help a load of other people will as well, and apparently it's quite normal.
Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the study, but it was done on a subway train in the USA for those who do pyschology.
The study was prompted when a woman was viciously attacked and raped in New York, most of the attack was in full view of hundreds of people but noone lifted a finger.
Kitty Genivive? She was attacked outside a block of flats...
And I remember the attack on a train too. I think maybe people assume somebody else is going to jump in and play superman.