Hit & Run Accident.

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A 78-year old man was hit by a car, and left to die in the street in Connecticut. The horrifying part about this story is that there were dozens of bystanders, who did absolutely nothing but look on.

The Story:
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/bystan...9990001?icid=1615988631x1203764745x1200410117

The Discussion: How do you feel about what those bystanders did? If you were there, would you have tried to do anything to help? Do you think this is something that has become socially acceptable? Is it all right to just look in on someone else's misery, without trying to actually do anything beneficial for them? Has the world really become this full of apathy?

Please, share your thoughts on this.
 
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This story just upsets me. If I had seen someone hit by a car I would have immediately grabbed my cell phone and called 911.

I really hope this isn't what is socially acceptable. Seriously, how hard is it to dial 911 ask explain what happened? Or walk over to the man and if anything, just stand by him?

There was another story like this where a girl was brutally raped and people just stood around and watched waiting for someone else to act.

I hope that the person who hit this man spends along time in jail.

And isn't there a law against ignoring something like this? The Good Samaritan Act?
 
Quite frankly, disgusting. What sort of people don't act in such a situation? People shouldn't just wait for others to act, they should take the initiative, do the compassionate thing, and help those in trouble. It is, by no means, an isolated incident.
There was this incident where a crowd of bystanders jeered on an animal scumbag who urinated and attacked a mentally challenged woman who had collapsed. None of them realised that it was wrong, and that the woman needed help, they just joined in and laughed. The woman died on the same day. Incidents such as this are a symptom of apathy, stupidity, and ignorance, amongst other things.
 
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It's the human race...people are being brought up with the wrong thoughts, it is quite disturbing knowing that's how people would react to a situation. I persoanlly, would of got on the phone to the ambulance right away.

It is disturbing...people need to think that if they were that person, if they were in their shoes, what would there thoughts be if there would be no one helping them...just staring at them...if one of them spectators did that...and/or had any soul at all, they would of got on that phone right away.
 
As soon as I finished watching the video, I was immediately horrified about how the bystanders acted about with the hit man.
If I were there, I would've go to the pay-phone and call 911 right away and explain everything.
This type of act within the bystanders make me absolutely furious, for they did not bother to call 911 or call for help.
I also hope the hit-and-run man gets caught and spends up eternity in prison.
 
I'm not too sure, but if you don't try to help, you can't be prosecuted. But if you try to help and then decide you don't want to anymore or you can't help then you can be prosecuted. So perhaps it's self preservation.
That being said, it is still very cowardly to watch someone die, when you could be helping that person.

And to be fair to the driver, they may have been to scared to stop. It would be absolutely horrifying and I'm sure that they are devastated. They might turn themselves in to the police when he/she hears that the guy died.
 
Well, I'll tell you, right now, how it made me feel. I saw the video, on the news, and I wanted to beat the hell right out of those guys who just walked around the man and ignored him, like he was a piece of trash or something. How would they like it if someone threw them into the street and opps, they got hit? Might not feel too good. Anyway, I need to cool my rage. ;) Just enraged here, frankly. Honestly, I can't understand how people can do that. If it was me, I would've stopped immediately and at least called 911. I would've done what I could. That's someone's father, brother - out there. Stop and THINK: Would you want people to just walk by while your father / brother was lieing in the street - hurt?


The truth is: Most people are selfish, shallow cowards who won't do anything unless it benefits them. You have alot of good people ( Thank God for them! ) but then you have just as many pieces of dirt that deserve nothing better then to be stomped out of existence. If only I had a Death Note. >o
 
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My husband and I were actually discussing about this yesterday. It is very sad to see that people are not "willing" to help someone in desperate need. There have been many cases similar to this one, where someone would need help, and there would be bystanders not doing anything. Now why does this happen? Well, for many reason, most being the fact that people are idiots...and the high possibility of social conformity.

This is where it gets interesting, somewhat. Social conformity. There have been series of tests and theories about social conformity and the behavior of people in these situations and basically, there are many people who are powerfully influenced by this. The people are most likely depending on the others to make that 9-1-1 call, vice versa. They become very reluctant to engage themselves with the conflict and solve the problem because they think that the person across from them will solve the problem himself.

So they wait, waiting for someone to do something, and when they see that the others (who are most likely doing the same thing - waiting for the others to do something about the problem) aren't doing anything, they are then influenced not to do anything about the damn problem either.

For instance, there was a sad story about a girl who was going up to her apartment building and right before she can go inside the building, she was attacked by a man, who stabbed her many times. People were up above, looking down through their windows but did not help her or make that call to save her. I forgot the details, but I think the man who was brutally attacking her finally stopped because he saw the people watching and thought that help was coming. So he ran and hid for awhile, leaving the girl bleeding. I believe more than 10 minutes have passed and still, no one came for her. She was still breathing...but the man figured that no one was coming to help her so he came back for her and stabbed her some more. She finally died on her way to the hospital, I think...or maybe there in front of the building...I think someone finally did call 911 but it was too late.

So yes, social conformity may be in play when situations like these happens. Is it an excuse, whatsoever? Of course not, but unfortunately it does happen.
 
Apparently people did called within minutes, 4 people in total, and I can understand people not wanting to physically move the man, fine, fair enough - you're medically trained. But noone offered that poor man ANY comfort until the police came. People just STARED - some sick fuck took a photo of the man on his phone.

I don't aim to distract attention away from this incident, but something very similar happened with another man. May not have been a hit and a run incident, but how people reacted seemed very similar.

http://timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsId=7848
 
I don't understand how people can just watch idly and do nothing. Especially in a situation where they themselves will not be endangered by helping. I really hate the whole "bystander effect" where people figure they don't need to do anything because someone else will do something. However, I don't think that the bystanders failed to act because they are inherently bad people. I think that they were probably scared and intimidated and didn't want to become personally involved.

There was a TERRIBLE case in Tokyo recently where a girl was raped on a train, and no one did anything. I was shocked and sickened.
 
I saw this on the news. I also saw the video, it was horrible. He got hit by a swerving car and was just left there to rot and die. You could see the bystanders just looking at him and not doing any thing.

It's just weird how no one would do any thing to help this poor man. Like wouldn't you notice some things wrong if his not gettings up. He was 78! like c'mon if i saw a 78 year old man laying on the ground helpless i would go to nearest payphone or go looking for someone to help. Not just sit there and wait for help.
 
I was looking for the news about this on youtube and they were interviewing people who had witnessed the case. They asked one man, "Did you call the police?" and his reply was, "No, I didn't have my phone with me at the time." -_-

I highly doubt that response, but even if he didn't have his phone, he could've at least went inside a store and call 911, or go to the man lying on the street and comfort him, or just stand there in the middle of the street to make sure that the cars driving past by don't do further damage by running over the guy...anything to help! Just a simple gesture of act of kindness...
 
Really, the thing that sickens me most about this, and about that video, is that the cycle of apathy was never ending.

It started with two cars, driving ILLEGALLY on the wrong side of the road because they didn't want to slow down, and BOTH hitting an elderly man. And after he was tossed around like some rag doll, they zip off without a second thought.

And it continued with the people who, not only did nothing to help...but blatantly rubber-necked. The biggest jackhole there is the one on the scooter, who zips around the guy to get a good look, and zips off.

When you see things like this, it really doesn't make me wonder how there were Coliseums and public executions in the past. Something like this almost goes to show that humans really do have some morbid, sick fascination with death, or those close to it.

I think the biggest issue is not that these people didn't help...but that they seemingly ENJOYED watching the man suffer. I think that, is the biggest crime of all.
 
I don't understand how someone could just, stand there.
While someone is suffering and might die?
If I was there, I don't care if no one was doing anything,
I'd be there in a flash helping whoever had got hit and getting my phone
out to call the police.

That just discusts me how selfish and terrible people can be.​
 
They stood by and did nothing? That's disgusting. At the very least, one of 'em could have called 911...or get to him and see what sort of condition he was in.

And there were dozens of people. It's not like only a few people didn't feel like being decent human beings. That's sorry...

It's reasonable if you don't want to endanger yourself or if you're someone who doesn't handle situations like that well...but you don't have to be a hero to at least call for help.
 
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