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Maybe you are young and innocent....You zealous compassion can be thrown back into your face if you attempt to assist one who is injured and they think you did further injury while being compassionate. Lots of people have been taken to court and sued for such. Due to the risk of being sued, most people will let police and EMTs take care of things.
Sad but true.
I'm old and not so innocent. Help doesn't mean you start dragging bodies out of the car. I came upon a crash and held the young ladies hand and talked to her calmly while removing shards of glass closest to her eyes until help came. Otherwise she would have been sitting alone in her car on a lonely side street, probably wondering if the hit and run driver was going to return.
This isn't that hard, folks. All you have to do is ask yourself how you would want a stranger reacting to your child or other loved one in the same situation. You know, Golden Rule, and all.
Then again, if you are the type who would open the car door following a crash, take videos and call those in the car idiots, you're going to find nothing wrong with that.
According to police, Pelton called the two boys in the car “idiots” while recording and opened the vehicle’s back door to get inside footage of the car. He then went to the window to get a shot of Goodin and continued filming after the car caught fire.
While Pelton was filming, neighbors came to help pull Goodin out of the vehicle. The passenger, Cameron Friend, 17, was unconscious and later died at the hospital.
The Lorain Police Department discovered that Pelton posted the video to Facebook and tried to sell it to local news stations. He was arrested Wednesday on charges of vehicle trespass.
Denise White, a neighbor who tried to help the boys, watched in horror as Pelton held a cellphone to the car.
“To take that video and put it on Facebook, it just shows you have no principles,” White told Fox 19 in Cincinnati. “It’s disgusting. That guy’s mom probably had to see that. It made us relive it.”
In a Facebook post, the Lorain Police Department reminded people they are permitted and encouraged to help others during emergencies.
“Persons are not, however, allowed to trespass into a person’s vehicle criminally and without permission for the seemingly singular cause of filming, a young man’s dying moments, for profit,” Captain Roger Watkins wrote.
Maybe you are young and innocent....Your zealous compassion can be thrown back into your face if you attempt to assist one who is injured and they think you did further injury while being compassionate. Lots of people have been taken to court and sued for such. Due to the risk of being sued, most people will let police and EMTs take care of things.
Sad but true.
thats not true at all. There are "good sam" laws across the country to protect those that help. That said, after a severe collision, the best advice is often to just (call for help) & stay with the victims until trained help arrives. It's almost never advised to yank anyone out of a car unless it's actively on fire (leaking doesn't count, cars dont explode in real life like they do in the movies).
Arjay, I agree with you. Morality doesn't differ from one person to the next, based on their perception. This isn't the first time I've seen this opinion floated here, and it's frightening to think adults want to give a buy to self-centered idiots.
Here's another story of a group of people filming a car on fire at a gas station. None of them did anything but film. Thank God a 19 year old man broke the window of the car and pulled her out.
The good samaritan law in the series finale of Seinfeld sound good right now about now. Sick and tired of seeing so many articles of people just standing to the side and recording people who might be dying. Sad that there needs to be laws to get 'some people' to be human.
If they were drunk/drugged driving, then they got what they deserved.
If the driver was texting while driving, they got what they deserved.
One is only obligated to help righteous people, not every POS walking the face of the Earth.
Darwin works....
Mircea
Haven't seen you for a while!!
I agree to a certain extent with you. No matter what caused the accident, the fact that some Ahole just sat there and filmed it and did not try to help at all was BS. If that was your child who was drunk/texting, etc wouldn't you at least want someone to help them or let them lie there and suffer?? After they are alright, let them pay for the cause after if they were the one to cause the accident. Not during..
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