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Today, my neighbour, who is an alcoholic (he was drunk at the time), fell, two people walked right by him, didn't even seem to notice.

Nathalie saw him and went to get me, I got there and started trying to help him up, an old lady came by, she apparently knew him.

Then a nurse, an educated nurse, came by, she helped us get him up, so he sat on the stairs, instead of lying in the bushes.

Then she left.


3 more people came, and left, didn't even ask, they just wanted in, saw the door was blocked (by the man, bleeding) so they went to another entrance... to get a shirt.. then they came out, and went off.


So, I called around, trying to find someone who could help me get him inside (Nathalie and the old lady wasnt much help, sadly, and I'm a computer geek, not a body builder )


But noone was available, finally I called the ambulance, roughly 15 minutes after we found him (He didn't want us to call, but we did anyways when he passed out)

It took the ambulance over 25 minutes to get here (it's 10 minute drive if you follow legal speed)



So...


How many of you would help a random person in need?


And why does humanity suck so damn freakin much!

Fusk you all who didn't help!

*grr*

Can and have...last time was in 2000, when my ex-friend Francis and I helped out a guy who was involved in a head-on collision right in front of us. The guy's head was busted wide open, and he was frantic. We had to calm him down and try to stabilize him enough so that he wouldn't cause further harm to himself. My gf at the time called an ambulance, which arrived in under 5 minutes. Without our assistance at the scene, the guy would likely have been far worse off (ths is what the EMTs told us). He suffered a minor concussion and received a few stitches for the large gash in his head. Same day release from the hospital.

Helping people in need feels great. It's too bad most people are "too busy" to be bothered...

some of the decent people will help but the stuck up people won't.


my friend has an anger problem and people wind him up, so we have constantly calm him down and stuff. [/code]

That's a classic psychological experiment. Very few people randomly help strangers unless they were taught to.

well my dad is a first aider so that might have been where i got the will to help random people

I've never had to help in a life threatening or injurying position. But I helped a guy push his car out of a deep ditch, and I was on my way to work and was going to be late.

I've found people are more friendly/helpful in more rural areas/less populated places.

Yup...

Noone ever taught me to help someone, it's just what you do, you help people in need.


I think it's the other way around, people in cities, are taught NOT to help:
"Mum, what's wrong with that man?"
"Don't go near him dear, he's just a homeless sick, dying person, we just ignore him, he does not exist, now move along, get in the car with dad"
:barf:

Its good to have both sides in on the argument, and seeing as I'm the sorta guy who would walk on past, and does, here's my reasons:

Fear

Thats basically it. I'm terrified of people, I've walked past an old woman who fell, I've seen an 18/19 year old try to steal (presumably his) kid from its mother and she was screaming for people to call the gards, I didn't do fuck. A week ago this blind guy was trying to cross the road infront of my school, he had a cane, but no dog, and the traffic was slow but constant, so he couldn't hear a break, but he could have weaved himself through. He waited beside the road for 25 minuits (at least, after that school started and I had to go inside) and wasn't able to cross. I knew I could help him accross and it would take 15 seconds, but I couldn't. I watched him for ages but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

And thats how I treat people I don't know, I'm a certified bastard to my friends.

I mean, I'm not proud, I fucking hate myself for what I am, but I'm so afraid I can't do anything, so I'm gonna refute the suggestion that stuck up people walk past. I know stuck up people, they would never associate with me, so I'm gonna call myself un-stuck up by association... where was I going with this?

matt