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Video shows bystanders ignoring hit-and-run victim
Yahoo News ^ | 6.5.2008 | STEPHEN SINGER, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 06/05/2008 1:05:45 PM PDT by TexasNative2000

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To: vietvet67
Something was going on with those two cars. Maybe road rage involved with one chasing the other.

More likely that they view these streets as their own personal race track. Thank you "The Fast & The Furious".

81 posted on 06/05/2008 2:54:24 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Is this tagline governed by McCain-Feingold?)
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To: DryFly

That’s it, thanks, Genovese syndrome. It has something to do with others being around and thinking they’ll probably help. The same person might actually help if he’s the only one there.


82 posted on 06/05/2008 2:56:50 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: TexasBarak
Within a minute, there must have been twenty people there!

The flip side of the syndrome where nobody in a crowd helps is that if one does help then the rest flock to follow. It's a bunch of interactions of crowd dynamics.

83 posted on 06/05/2008 3:00:20 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Bobalu

 

So Liberty City is really Hartford, CT?

 

85 posted on 06/05/2008 3:40:02 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: MrLee

I only recognize one Savior and it ain’t some dork named pimping empty “hope”.

*Mine* can come back tomorrow and I’m cool with it.


86 posted on 06/05/2008 8:04:37 PM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: efs111

Much of the world has become heartless, souless and pitiless.

I’m sure *Somebody* is taking notes.

Cain [infamously] asked “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Well, yeah, actually.

So much for “good Samaritans”.


87 posted on 06/05/2008 8:08:16 PM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: Snurple

If given a choice between being sued for helping and having to live with my conscience for the rest of my life for *not* helping, I think I’d take my chances with a jury.

As an example, animals eyes still glow after they’ve been killed by a car.
I -can’t- pass one with glowing eyes without stopping to make sure it’s not still alive.

I ~have~ tried to do so, simply to spare myself the mental anguish of finding an irreparably broken critter that I cannot help [except with a merciful bullet] and wound up turning around and going back, anyway.

How much *more* should we try to help an injured person?

I just don’t get it.


88 posted on 06/05/2008 8:20:44 PM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: TexasNative2000

Isn’t Hartford a “sanctuary city”? Where illegals are assured they will not be prosecuted for being illegal if they simply report a crime?

Seems to be working out well.


89 posted on 06/05/2008 10:09:19 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Save the Earth! Kill a tree.)
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To: momincombatboots

Hartford is a blue city in a blue state. Liberals have no compassion for people, that is what they hire public servants to do.


90 posted on 06/06/2008 6:07:11 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: TexasNative2000
"Hard to believe"

Easy to believe.. What is hard to believe are the BS words. Easy to believe it is the way people are because seeing is believing. Hard to believe the BS words because inactions speak louder than words.

Everyone is a good Samaritan.. in theory when sanctimony feels good. In practice they are too busy.. blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah.


91 posted on 06/16/2008 4:57:33 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: TexasNative2000; potlatch; devolve; PhilDragoo; Fiddlstix; y'all

booooooooommmmmp !!!


92 posted on 06/17/2008 7:46:25 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: MeekOneGOP; devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; Fiddlstix; Lady Jag; TexasNative2000

Hi Meek. This is awful. There was another thread about it that I posted on when it first was shown on TV. I was appalled at the people walking on by and just glancing over at him. They have lost their humanity.

I also wrote about a similar experience of mine when I was in Cozumel. The island was full of tourists from the cruise ships and I was rushing around trying to buy souvenirs for the kids and family.

Crossing a busy street I tripped on the curb and fell. My purse, many gift bags, Ray Bans, etc, all scattered into the street.

I had injured my knee quite badly and not one, of the dozens of tourists passing by, stopped to help me!! Finally a Black man, native of Cozumel, walked over and asked me if I was alright, and then he went and picked up all of my things and brought them to me.

I had to limp down the street and way out on the pier to wait for a shuttle back to the cruise ship. It made quite an impression on me.

What’s wrong with people?? I would be the first to stop and help!


93 posted on 06/17/2008 8:10:24 AM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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