The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
every person that was on that bus needs found - and if any one of them is a doctor or has any first aid training (surely one of them did) they need charged with failure to act when they had some sort of a moral fiduciary duty - the guy might have lived if someone who had such training had helped.
I don't think you can blame people for passive crowd behaviour, its awful but it happens all the time. People are scared.
On a much lesser scale (and I apologise if this trivialises the post), I saw a girl 'collapse' at a gig and rushed to her rescue... I put her in the recovery position, had located the nearest security peeps and was barking commands at people to alert them when she came round, stared at me and said:
'Erm. What are you doing?'
She then got up, dusted down her jeans and muttered something about her spilled pint.
I returned to my friends, sheepishly, who were by now in fits of laughter.
Last year some ned was hassling a guy and his girlfriend at th bus sop behind st enoch centre (glasgow), the bus stop was busy but no one even looked thier way, even when the ned started pushing and punching the other guy.
I was standing next to a business-type with a suit on, an older guy, I was just about to intervene when the business guy whalloped the ned with a traffic cone!
Damo_daly wrote: Last year some ned was hassling a guy and his girlfriend at th bus sop behind st enoch centre (glasgow), the bus stop was busy but no one even looked thier way, even when the ned started pushing and punching the other guy. I was standing next to a business-type with a suit on, an older guy, I was just about to intervene when the business guy whalloped the ned with a traffic cone! what a site!
An all to common sight in Glasgow, Neds are the scum of the earth and will stick a rusty stanly knife down your face sooner than you could say what was that. It's a real problem and who would walk into a fight between a group of yobs and anyone you just put yourself at risk.
Having said that you would like to think that if you were in need of help someone would come to your assistance, but then we live in a world where yob culture is out of control.
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i dont blame people for not jumping inbetween the murderer's knife and the victim, but when the guy had obviously run off and it was just a dying man on the floor, then people should WANT to help..
I have absolutely no idea how I would react in that sutuation. As Katie and Halo say, You'd have to be a pretty brave person to actually intervene in a knife incident - knife wounds can be really nasty - but after the incident, with a guy lying on the floor, I'm pretty certain I'd be doing everything I could for the guy.
Even if I was completely useless & too shocked to do anything I'd certainly not walk away & I wouldn't think twice about handing over clothing. I do tend to be more of a do-er though, not that I've been in that scary a situation.
Can't believe anyone who just walked away, but most of them were strangers, I realise his girlfriend would have been in shock, but does that excuse getting off the bus & leaving him?
There have been studies done on this kind of behaviour. If something happens to you - you're better off that it happens in front of one or two people than a large group. Reasons for this vary.
- Everyone assumes somseone else will take control. - Some people assume that they'd just muck it up - they don't know what to do - so they don't do anything. - Some people are worried about lawsuits (at least here). If someone is choking, and you give them the heimlich,or their heart stops and you give them CPR - and in either case you break a rib or something - they can sue you. - Lets face it blood = scary. There's a reason paramedics wear gloves. It's not to protect you.
In that type of situation - you never know how people are going to react. I'm not even sure I would know how to react. I would like to think I'd be super heroic and put to use all of the information I have gathered from Trauma: Life in the ER, but then again, I don't really know how to do anything beyond putting on a bandaid - I'd be more worried that I would do something to make the situation worse. I really don't know what I would do.
