Posted on 04/09/2017 5:21:27 PM PDT by BBell
New Orleans Police said a man who was apparently acting as a good Samaritan on Saturday afternoon (April 8) was robbed at gunpoint in Algiers after he responded to someone who asked for help jump-starting their vehicle.
Police said the 38-year-old male victim was flagged down by someone in the 3700 block of Gen. De Gaulle Drive who was asking for help jump-starting their car.
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This is why good people are apprehensive to help stranded strangers.
That’s why Stage Coaches had someone riding “Shotgun”.
The old parable of the naïve Samaritan.
If they don’t have AAA it’s their tough luck.
Want to help, make a phone call to sheriffs dept. Keep driving.
They now stage them with women thugs, with guy thugs hiding nearby.
Odds are the thugs were black and the victim was white. No description of the thugs despite the eye witness who was robbed is a dead give away that the perps were black.
Liberalism has killed journalism.
>This is why good people are apprehensive to help stranded strangers.
Yep. I always look over the people asking for help and if they seem low class I don’t help.
That ruse has been used since the dawn of man
There ya go...the latest scam.
Jumped while jumping.
Actually, this is one of the pertinent points of the “Good Samaritan” story. If you think it’s scary now helping a stranger on the side of the road, imagine how much worse it was 2,000 years ago. Today we have street lights to light our way and the Highway Patrol to protect us, but back then you were on your own and never knew if you were walking into a trap with bandits waiting to rob and kill you (which is what happened to the man the Good Samaritan helped).
No matter how old and outdated we may believe the parables of the Bible to be, they are every bit as pertinent today as they were when first written.
With good reason. Fact is, you can not be that naive any more.
When it comes to human behavior, there is nothing new under the sun.
Mr. niteowl77
Buddhists believe that in particular, taking advantage of people’s goodness to do evil earns one extra time in the lowest levels of hell
Yes, good point. But the Good Samaritan in the Bible saw that the other man was beaten and half dead, not just trying to fix a wheel on his cart or something. There’s nothing wrong with helping either one, of course. But the latter carries more risk because you know the former isn’t going to suddenly rob you.
The local paper is usually pretty good about giving descriptions. My guess is that the police know who did it but do not want the paper to put out too many details so the suspect will feel comfortable in that he got away with it. I don’t know how many times I’ve read articles where the police say they have no leads and in the next day or so they make an arrest.
Agreed. But I think you failed to see that I already acknowledged that the man he stopped to help had been robbed and beaten near death. There was no way for the Good Samaritan to know if the robbers were not laying in wait to rob the next poor soul that stopped to help.
To wit, it is inferred in the original texts that this is the very reason the people who passed by previously refused to render assistance (fear of being robbed, beaten and murdered). Yet, the lowly Samaritan (Gentile, non-Jew) was the only person to stop and render aid. Those that passed by and ignored the dying man (a Jew) were also Jews.
At least that is what I was taught in New Testament studies in college.
I never stop. All responsible people have a cell phone. Anyone flagging down strangers is already a suspect.
And don’t get taken by the little old lady. Her thug accomplices are hiding in the bushes.
I still stop and offer assistance. Now that I have a Family, I evaluate the situation carefully, first and being armed (me) is a big factor.
No description of the perp is description enough.
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