People Suck
Thansal
The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">aka, what happens when I come home</div> So I get home around 8:30 tonight, as soon as I take off my headphones b/c I am going in side, I hear a female screaming Help Help at the top of her lungs.
I then hear a male scream back.
Ok, so it is probably just a domestic squable, but still, I call 911 (what happens if some one gets ticked and tosses a knife?).
I am then out side walking my dog (just got home, shee needs to pee), and the cops roll up, I explain what happened (screaming had stoped now), and they say they had my call and a call of a boyfriend getting cut by his girl friend. As it turns out my call was about the same people.
Yah, that's right, I live in a co op (about 40+ appartments) and there were TWO FRIKEN CALLS TO 911, and one was from the friken people themselfs!
I am now sitting in my room with the window open, about 5 mins ago I heard people start coming out and shouting acrosse the parking lot "any one wana let me know what is going on?"
So no one heard this lady screaming top of her lungs? When I can hear anytihng my neighbors do?
and this lady had neighboors HOME atleast on both sides, as well as probably top and bottom.....
It now seems that the entire comunity is interested, now that the cops have shown up......
I hate people.
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there are now like 10 cops leading one guy away.......
/me shakes his head
I then hear a male scream back.
Ok, so it is probably just a domestic squable, but still, I call 911 (what happens if some one gets ticked and tosses a knife?).
I am then out side walking my dog (just got home, shee needs to pee), and the cops roll up, I explain what happened (screaming had stoped now), and they say they had my call and a call of a boyfriend getting cut by his girl friend. As it turns out my call was about the same people.
Yah, that's right, I live in a co op (about 40+ appartments) and there were TWO FRIKEN CALLS TO 911, and one was from the friken people themselfs!
I am now sitting in my room with the window open, about 5 mins ago I heard people start coming out and shouting acrosse the parking lot "any one wana let me know what is going on?"
So no one heard this lady screaming top of her lungs? When I can hear anytihng my neighbors do?
and this lady had neighboors HOME atleast on both sides, as well as probably top and bottom.....
It now seems that the entire comunity is interested, now that the cops have shown up......
I hate people.
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there are now like 10 cops leading one guy away.......
/me shakes his head
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Basically, what happens is most people hear the person, but think "oh well, there's tons of other people, I'm sure one of them will call 911" and then no one ends up calling. I think they called it Dissolution of Responsibility or something like that.
One of the main cases they study is back in I think the 60's (this is a wild guess, I'm probably wrong) in New York or some equally large urban area a woman was stabbed and she laid bleeding on the ground screaming for help. Like 90 people heard her, nobody called the police. She died when several hours later the attacker came back to finish her off. Again, everyone heard it, nobody did a damn thing. Pretty sad stuff.
Crowd mentality. (I am also an ex psych student).
It still just sucks to see it head on.
/me wishes he had been there for all those famous cases where no one did anything.
Bah!
Yet again I fall back to MIB For philosophy
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Sad, eh.
I just said that people Suck.
I also don't know what ACTUALY went down, I just have what the 2 cops who responded first knew (aka jack and squat)
Objects in motion stay in motion.
Well, it launched me forward and i slid against the road for a while. Since I was 8 or 9, I was yelling a bit (i didnt have my immunity to pain) and this old lady (probably 45-50) came out to check her mail. I asked for some help, she just looked at me, and walked back in. Lucky me, my dad was ridin his bike to, and he helped me out.
On that same road, I was stayin the night at my friends. I rode my bike there the night before, and I was riding back. Well, this motorcycle whizzed by me and in the confusion, I fell over and busted up my knee. Luckly, after I patched up my knee, my friends mom came out.
Yes, people do suck.
Objects in motion stay in motion.
Well, it launched me forward and i slid against the road for a while. Since I was 8 or 9, I was yelling a bit (i didnt have my immunity to pain) and this old lady (probably 45-50) came out to check her mail. I asked for some help, she just looked at me, and walked back in. Lucky me, my dad was ridin his bike to, and he helped me out.
On that same road, I was stayin the night at my friends. I rode my bike there the night before, and I was riding back. Well, this motorcycle whizzed by me and in the confusion, I fell over and busted up my knee. Luckly, after I patched up my knee, my friends mom came out.
Yes, people do suck. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
If people are shouting help I don't do anything because lots of people play pranks on eachother and some of them do stuff like that to be funny.
If you see someone bleeding in the middle of the road though, then you're supposed to stop and help them <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> (or ask, at least) . Unlike you people, I live in a decent city. I was riding my bike (which has been beat to hell and back, front tire wobbles a bit from falling down a hill (with me on, and then later (on the same fall) off it), the chain is prone to falling off after being bent and the back brake doesn't touch the back wheel tightly, anyway...
[hooray for stories!]:
I was riding down a busy road and my tire decided to start scraping the bikes frame so it jerks me to the right and I hit the curb going about 15 mph (skidded the bike along the curb, I was going around 30 at first - right off a hill). So, eventually I stop skidding along the curb and actually fall off my bike, scratch my arm up rolling across the sidewalk for a few feet (along with my knee). Anyway, I pull my bike out of any traffic and then try to force my tire back into being straight (...POS tire <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ).
So I'm sitting there for a second waiting for my arm to stop bleeding. A few people look as they go by, but there was one lady who yells out and asks if I'm okay. I say sure, and wave her along. She asked if I was sure I didn't want help and eventually continued on her way.
So, some people are genuinely concerned when you're sitting their bleeding - they're not all bad. Plus I get to have a disfiguring scar on my arm - woot, chicks dig the scars.
...or something.
[This was about 5 miles from home, so I get to fix my bike and ride home...plus I lost a water bottle on that street...pffft.]
that makes a lot of sense D:
oh, I forgot to mention
I Live in NYC
rather quite neighborhood (sirens are an oddity)
yet still
oh, and this lady was obviously not a prank <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> (as it sounded like bloody murder)
oh, I forgot to mention
I Live in NYC
rather quite neighborhood (sirens are an oddity)
yet still
oh, and this lady was obviously not a prank <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> (as it sounded like bloody murder) <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I remember staying in NYC for a few weeks (woot for being in the WTC, got a steel...trinket, that's marked WTC '93 ). We stayed at a friend's in Queens. Not too much traffic around...plus this guy was an oddity, since he owned his own car. Then we decided to drive through some of the other parts of NYC, like the Brooklyn (woot, graffiti) and the Bronx.
Not too many sirens were around in Queens or Manhattan...suprisingly uneventful trip on the subway too <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
I think if you live in a really big city (like London, NYC, LA, etc.) you'll find people care a lot less about other people, but when it's a rarer people will go out of their way to make sure people are okay. I know people in Milwaukee would be a little wary helping someone out like that, but they'd get around to it...not sure if you get much larger than that (500,000 urban; 1,000,000-3,000,000 metropolitan - for reference).
Or you'll get lucky and get one of the nice people to actually pass by you.
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that makes a lot of sense D: <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I bet they beat the crap out of him too <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Very sad, but very true.
And yes, people suck. I learned the hard way.
Actualy NYC is one of the safest cities on earth <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
As for people caring less? It realy isn't true, most of the people in NYC are rather good and WILL do something, I just hapen to hate my neighborhood.....
yah, the subway is safe, manhattan is nice, and most people in queens own cars (as there is no way to get around queens with out one, same for the other buroghs exept manhattan)
This one time is was walking down the street after getting of the bus and these 3 kids started shouting Goth and sh*t like that at me, (i was wearing a slipknot t-shirt). I just ignored them and walked towards my street. After that they started running after, 1 jumped on my back and pulled me to the ground while the other beat the **** out of me. It didn't really hurt (no im not trying to act tough) and got my composuer together quickly incase they were still around. BUT the thing that really fukt me off is that when i put my glasses pack on there were 3 people around 50 years old just chatting 3 feet away from me. I turned round at the people and shouted "WHAT THE FU*K!! WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP!!" and they ignored me!
so yeah people suck <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Still, i'm not quite sure why she was shouting help, and he was dead ._.
I remember a very sad, representative situation that happend a couple years ago... somewhere north of Vancouver. A young woman was attacked and killed at night; she screamed for good long while, but not one single person called the police or went to help.
I was walking back from university on my way to my usual Game visit when I noticed this really old homeless guy stumbling along. He'd step a few feet and then crumble to the ground making no effort to cushion the fall and smacking his head off the floor because of it. His forehead was oozing blood and people just walked by, barely even looking at him!
I was filled with fury and pity and stormed over to help the old guy to a nearby step to sit him down. Ok so he stank but jeeees. Nobody helped the poor thing until I'd stepped in, then all of a sudden 2 and then 3 guys come over and help me make sure the old man is ok.
I didn't leave until I made the waiter who came out of the restraunt who owned the step promise to call an ambulance =P
I've never felt so angry at others as that day though. I've come close a couple of times but that took the biscuit ><
and nobody did **** all to AT LEAST move me to the wall out of the way.
*takes off glasses*
*looks like dearanged killer without glasses*
they will pay...