As a stabbing victim lay dying on the floor of a Kansas convenience store, five shoppers, including one who stopped to take a picture of her with a cell phone, stepped over the woman. What are your thoughts?
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Kansas needs 5 more stabbing victims.
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Disgusting
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Was the store full of priests and levites? You needed a Samaritan.
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I would say it is the sign of the times.Non caring of fellow human beings even in death.
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Is that true? That's incredible. I don't have enough disgust in my vocabulary to describe how that makes me feel.
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That's sickening to think about.
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People like that are why this country is going down the toilet. Where has all the common sense and love for your fellow human gone. We are all part of the same race, human.
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On one occasion I was on a rail station platform when someone began having an epileptic fit. Nearby was a priest, resplendant in dog collar - and he quickly moved away down the platform so that he didn't have to get involved. I called an ambulance and made sure the patient didn't fall onto the tracks or bang themselves more than necessary. After the ambulance crew had been and taken him away, the priest came back and asked "Was he alright?" I felt like shouting "No thanks to you!". So I'm afraid it doesn't surprise me at all. It should, but it doesn't.
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Well I find it very hard to believe that 5 people wouldn't help and one stopped to take a picture. Do you have a link to this story? Surely there are more details. This just sounds too inhumane.
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That these people need to be charged with depraved indefrence. I just can't understand the total lack of commpasion we have for our fellow human beings. And the one with the nerve to take a cell phone picture needs to go to jail just for being that ignorant.
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Unfortunately, the only people legally responsible to help are medical professionals. Also, on an accident scene the first person there is legally responsible to render aid. The lookyloos can do anything they want. It is a sign of the times (not a good one) that nobody cared other than to view it as a spectator sport. If it had been ONE person, rather than five, it would have been more likely the one would have acted. With five, the herd mentality kicks in... "its not MY responsibility to act, there are FOUR other people here". That way they shrug off any personal responsibility and go home with a clear conscience. Assuming, that is, that they would give a d*mned in the first place. The one with the cell-phone is the one I would most like to punch. I am often embarrassed to be human. This sort of behaviour is why. Oh, the situation is cleared and I am back... obviously.
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Morbid we as people should try and help not just look and stare and take pictures it's called HELP what would you want someone else to do if you were in those shoes?
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It doesn't surprise me in the least. I can only hope that those same 5 people find themselves on the receiving end of similar treatment. It makes my stomach turn to think that people could be so uncaring. That's the world we live in, unfortunately.
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Those five people, where not people at all, they were sheeple, theres a fine line between being a people and a sheeple. All five of those sheeple should be prosecuted for failure to render aid, I don't know if it's a criminal offense in Kansas, but here in Texas if you fail to render aid you can get into serious trouble.
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That I'm sad to call myself an American and a human. I can't BELIEVE that someone lay dieing on the floor and all anyone could think to do was to take a picture with a cell phone! A cell phone in fact that should have been in use for calling 911! Wow. I'm just blown away. :( Some people are only alive because it's illegal to kill them. :(
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My thoughts are disgust which then turned to anger and then to sadness for the poor woman dying. Did nobody think to hold her hand and at least try and comfort her or did they just wish she would smile for the camera?
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They should all be stabbed and placed in public areas surrounded by people with a large sign over their body saying: "I WATCHED SOMEONE WHO WAS STABBED BLEED ON THE GROUND AND DID NOTHING AT ALL TO HELP THEM!" The person who took a picture should have a camera crew filming every moment of her suffering and do nothing whatsoever to aid her. Then at the VERY LAST possible moment, they should receive medical aid and be sent on their way. No, seriously. People like that are worse than the people who did the stabbing. 1) They weren't in danger 2) The stabbed person was dying in front of them 3) Helping that person would have taken only seconds of their time 4) There were 5 of them Gah, people like that SICKEN ME, very literally >: ( I have nothing but contempt for them, and fervently hope the same thing happens to all of them.
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I find it very hard to believe that, out of 5 people, no one had the common decency to offer help. That they just went on with "business as usual". I am a firm believer in 'what comes around, goes around' and I am fairly certain that these people will eventually find themselves in a situation needing help and not find it. How can they face themselves after ignoring someone in such desperate need? And don't even get me started on the idiot with the cell phone.
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Wow....Where did this happen at In Ks?
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Unfortunately, it's a well documented psychological phenomenon. It's not even necessarily that the people didn't want to help, it's that they were in a crowd, so each assumed someone else would help. The thing is, it's a stressful situation and most people are afraid they're not sure 100% what should be done, so they wait for someone more qualified to take charge. Had the woman been stumbled across by ONE person, she would have actually been more likely to receive help. While things like this are certainly inexcusable, we can learn from it. You may think you'd never do something like that, but statistics say otherwise. However, if you understand the psychology behind it, maybe someday if you find yourself in a similar situation, you'll realize that even if you aren't the best qualified to help, everyone's waiting for someone to make a move, so it may as well be you. And too much help is almost always better than none at all.
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I was horrified when I heard of a similar incident happening here - a woman was lying dying of a condition she had, in a shop doorway, this bloke sprayed her with shaving foam, urinated over her and took pictures on his mobile phone saying they'd be good for YouTube. No-one stopped to help her or to stop him. She died of suffocation.
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Fact from fiction, truth from diction. Sadly he probably tried to peddle the pics to the local news. Seems more than not people are facinated by reality Tv especially if it is shocking. A by product of today's society. Throw in the fact no one wants to get involved because they will be seen as either a Buttinsky or if they do, and something goes wrong and someone get harmed worse they can be sued, causing them a lot of money even if they win. That is why I figure people who might get involed shy away from it. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1771990
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We're going to hell in a hand basket faster that I thought.
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At least they did not step on her like the New York wally world crowd did last year. Running a special one time seasonal sale wally world had hired some extra employees to help with the crowd. As soon as the doors slid open the crowd raced to the electronics section at the back of the store. On the way they spied an elderly wally world employee in front of them which they quickly knocked him down then trampled him to death. The lady that was stabbed & laying on the convenience store floor was fortunate that the five shoppers did not role her for clothes, shoes, smokes, money & anything else she had on her of value. Ahhh, the changing times within the good ole USA!
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Gutless... heartless... lowlife scum all of them!!!, I hope their time on this earth comes very soon and I would just love to come across the fool with the cell phone ...ggggrrrr
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