kickstartt
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yea life's cheap in china
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what the **** is wrong with people?
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CruiserGoneSport
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+1e999
invictus43
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No Country for Old Men..
the parents should be looked into, but accidents do happen. As for the rest of your post, I couldn't agree more.
EngineerJoe
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You've got to be kidding me! Really?
unfortunately yes, really.
now i wasn't screaming in pain or wailing in tears, but still, i was sprawled out on the ground in obvious pain and asking for help.
people can be terribly apathetic in out of the ordinary, emergency situations. knowing that this is a potential knee jerk reaction everyone is capable of should motivate us to fight it.
case in point closer to home: how many people actually stopped on the 401 when that poor woman fell off the back of the fleeing motorcycle? how many people picked their way through (and some over) her body parts and just kept going? it's shocking.
rmemedic
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I had no idea that incident was so bad! I knew she died, but I didn't know it was that bad.
I will never understand this, no matter where in the world it is... If someone really needs help, they will get it from me. I stop at accidents all the time, even if they look minor to be sure people are ok. People are just weak and it's sickening!
It's a city thing. I find that people out of the city are a lot nicer/care more. ie: I'm de-sensitized to homeless people, but my buddy to niagara would actually feel bad for all of them.
weird. works for me still
Bob: sad you had to deal with that. I've called 911 for people before in car accidents and other situations before. I've been fortunate in that i've have not needed to use my first aid training past minimal use (protect some one's head while they were having a seizure, tell some one that hurt their back in a fall not to move - fortunately there was a paramedic on hand who took over from there).
No..not even. Its not as worst as girls in africa getting raped by 60+ men, or people eating their own children because of starvation (yes, it happened!). I just call what we see on that video "normal human way to act". Nothing else.
My first question would be "What did the first driver see?". Was there a visual distraction ahead? a blinding light, sun in his face or a cell phone.
Once he hit the kid he felt the bump and stopped but probably couldn't see anything in his mirrors so continued on.
Did the second driver have the same visual distraction?
As far as the people leaving the kid lying there.........
I was coming down Hwy 15 late one night and hit a bump. It was an up bump not a pothole. You can tell the difference. I turned around and found out that I had run over a big black dog. I suspect that I wasn't the first to hit it.
I also once saw a German Sheppard get hit by an 18 wheeler. The trucker pulled over because I think he felt the bump.
In another post someone commented that some rural people in China are still thinking donkey cart when they walk or drive but don't realize that they have moved from the village to the city and aren't aware of the dangers.
Once he hit the kid he felt the bump and stopped but probably couldn't see anything in his mirrors so continued on.
Did the second driver have the same visual distraction?
As far as the people leaving the kid lying there.........
I was coming down Hwy 15 late one night and hit a bump. It was an up bump not a pothole. You can tell the difference. I turned around and found out that I had run over a big black dog. I suspect that I wasn't the first to hit it.
I also once saw a German Sheppard get hit by an 18 wheeler. The trucker pulled over because I think he felt the bump.
In another post someone commented that some rural people in China are still thinking donkey cart when they walk or drive but don't realize that they have moved from the village to the city and aren't aware of the dangers.
The driver of one of the vehicles was quoted as saying that if the child died it would cost him X amount of money to compensate the family, but if he stayed to help the child and she lived, he would be on the hook for X times many times over for the ongoing costs of medical care for a probably permanently-disabled child.
Simple economics at work for this guy explains why he left the child as is.
China supposedly has a compulsory liability insurance requirement for drivers, but who knows how effective enforcement is or how much insurance a driver has to carry. It makes you wondoer, given how many people here whine that they should have a choice on how much liability insurance they should have to carry.
The first driver actually stated that after realizing he had hit the child, he then backed up over her AGAIN, to make sure that she wouldn't survive. This, because of the financial considerations. There was a time when that would have earned him a bullet, in China.
stormcat
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So I read an article in the Globe and Mail about this incident the other day. Some of the people who walked past the injured toddler were found and interviewed. The consistently given reason for their lack of willingness to become involved stemmed from fear. Apparently people who have helped others in the past had become implicated somehow in the injuries the person they had helped sustained. The writer cited one particular case where a man had helped an elderly woman who had fallen and broken her pelvis (or something along that line). The woman ended up telling authorities that her helper was the person who caused her injuries and successfully sued him for a large sum of money. The court decided that it wasn't normal to help a stranger, and sided with the elderly woman. Because of cases such as that, people are leery of helping others now.
invictus43
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I believe in that Globe article they talked about a woman jumping into a reservoir to save someone from drowning and the Chinese people at the dam were saying "Only a foreigner would do something like that.." That place is going to blow-up one day..
SXE MX6
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Yep, I agree! 100%
I live out in Niagara myself. Out in the country at that.
Now as much as I simpathize for them, and feel bad for them, I also think there are options for them.
I won't give them money to buy beer, but if they wanted something to eat or drink, I would be happy to help if I could. (thats part to do with religion, and just being a good person)
But, I can see where these things would be lost in a big city.....kind of fend for yourself attitude.
I'm from Toronto but I've been raised by old school religous parents and I help out where and when ever I can. I'm not able to turn my back. As for the homeless, I know they have all the resorces out there for them(whether or not they chose to use them is an other story) and even get checks and tokens from the government. I would never give them money as they are already getting our tax money. I will however give them food or drink or try to get them some shelter when it's cold out. Have the Street Help # programed in my phone.
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