Comments on: Gawkers Idle After Grisly Hit-And-Run

"Bystander Syndrome" Causes Witnesses To Ignore Emergencies, Psychologist Says

[lorinkundert]

What can one expect? as liberalism has eaten away at the moral core of this country, people are too self absorbed and afraid of litigation to do anything at all.

If anyone had helped they would have been sued for that man''s death or been charged with practicing medicine without a license.

[l8c6]

This is how the story goes.

Social pathology abounds from lack of moral ethical leadership as Joe Lieberman, senator form Connecticut ignores the people of the United States that he lobbys to send to his special interest war on behalf of his constituency he claims are the people of Connecticut when in fact he doesn''t care that his state under his non-leadership is creating a culture of anti-social behavior illustrated by the callous drivers who ran a 78 year old man down in the street and drove on.

[lewiston14]

A very short time ago I was thaking a afterneeon walk and an older person fell in front of me about 50 feet. I called 911 and they ask me questions.
Is the person awake yes
Can the person talk yes
Is the person in pain small amount
is there any bleading no not that I can see
Response from 911 was stay with the person till help comes. Do NOT move the person. Call again if something should change. EMT''s and police where there in less then 5 minutes. The police ask me what I saw and asked for my name and address if they needed anymore information. Im not a hero I just did what I thought I should have done. White black yellow purple it did not matter.

[Latrocinor]

A man on a scooter slowly circles the victim and also drives away when told his help is not required before leaving the scene.
.. .. ..
I should have wrote:

"The camera shows a driver on a scooter slows down, and turns around. As they circle the crowd and victim it is clear their help is not needed and rather than be a gawker and add to congestion they leave."

[Latrocinor]

Here is how the story would be accurately reported but it doesn''t make (CBS/AP) any money:

A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street after being hit by reckless drivers insanely racing after each other.
Pedestrians gather near him but wisely do not move him. One driver stops briefly but rather than being a gawker pulls back into traffic when they learn help is on the way. A man on a scooter slowly circles the victim and also drives away when told his help is not required before leaving the scene.
Some critics complain the crowd and drivers seem to not be helping but the American Red Cross states clearly in their First Aid Rules to "Do not move victim unless further danger is imminent". The camera clearly shows in the distance that the traffic is avoiding the scene of the accident.
In what seems like they were just around the corner a Police Cruiser zips up to take charge of the situation.

[oreoweb678]

Has anyone realized this is a person, who could have been your relative, that has been hit and almost killed??? The old saying is true...never will happen to me..what everyone keeps in mind. If this did not happen to them...no big deal..watch the other guy suffer. Seems to be a alarming pattern going on. They did not think that on 9/11...Just cause a building was not hit does it mean your not able to assist even though you are told not to move someone seriously huer or risk making it worse. But still They can divert traffic. Its so easy to make excuses but if it were your own son, daughter, mother, etc. you be raising hell. Another old saying lost..Treat others way you want to be treated. I hope guy makes it and heart goes out to the family and hope the guy who hit him gets his karma coming to him.

[popstom1]

This is just sorry

[l8c6]

18c6. he''''s got an axe to grind and he (or maybe she) get his jollies getting other, more reasonable people to get down to his level to fight. let him continue to post his disconnected nonsense in a vacuum...just like cartwheel1, who seems to have a problem with the publish button.

ta all.

Posted by justsane

The last words of wisdom and sanity have been written. All is now well with the world.

[justsane-2009]

bhoogren: ok, last post, got better things to do with my day...i have no idea where you come up with "people hating fool", but the more you try to defend the bystanders here, the more it appears that you either were one of them, or you know one of them. be that as it may, i don''t "hate" them. i do feel sorry for them, because they could have offered comfort and aid to a seriously infured person, and they chose not to.

and love4all2--ignore 18c6. he''s got an axe to grind and he (or maybe she) get his jollies getting other, more reasonable people to get down to his level to fight. let him continue to post his disconnected nonsense in a vacuum...just like cartwheel1, who seems to have a problem with the publish button.

ta all.

[l8c6]

How could you expect them to remember a number as long and as complex as "911"? I mean, c''''mon people!

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