166 people walk by a motionless dying man in DC (economy, security, town)

[The Dissenter]

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I've been over the 19 minutes of security cam video seven times now, and by my count, 166 people walked past a man who lay motionless on the sidewalk outside a busy District supermarket one afternoon last week.

I really can't pass judgement on those who just walked by. You never know what could happen when you stop for anything in Washington DC.

[LondonBoy]

No one stopped to help him because they were too busy thinking up way of how to take down the economy!!

[ottomobeale]

They probably thought he was just another drunk.

[LondonBoy]

or somebody who had lost everything and was sleeping rough.

I expect no one to help him, people nowadays are very me me me.

[saganista]

I won't put blame on any of the passers-by. That's not the greatest area of DC that this happened in, and even in the tonier downtown areas, the sight of a man lying motionless on the sidewalk is far from an unusual one. But in this case, there apparently were witnesses...people who saw the argument, who saw the punch, and who saw the man fall and strike his head on the pavement...hard enough to have caused a fatal brain injury. Maybe some of them might have been moved sufficiently to have made a simple, anonymous 911 call...that wouldn't seem like it was asking too much.

[Roaddog]

Originally Posted by Alanboy395

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I really can't pass judgement on those who just walked by. You never know what could happen when you stop for anything in Washington DC.

I can pass judgement, 166 people walk by and not one of them can be bothered enough to phone 911, such a simple thing to do but it didn't happen.
Thats sad.

[LondonBoy]

Its the American way!

[saganista]

You'd better have an unlimited minutes plan if you are going to start dialing 911 every time you come across a man lying motionless in the street. Homeless people live there. Because it can be dangerous to do so at night, they often sleep during the day. Like the shopkeepers noted in the article, you'd better also be willing to deal with having a reputation as one who makes 911-nuisance calls...

[Convert 54]

Originally Posted by LondonBoy

Its the American way!

Ah careful there mate, I seem to recall that boorish, rude, obstreperous behavior was a Brit cultural icon.

[sskkc]

You'd better have an unlimited minutes plan if you are going to start dialing 911 every time you come across a man lying motionless in the street.

911 doesn't drain your minutes... even on a cell, it's a free call. Even if you stopped paying your bill, until they actually deactivated your phone, you'd still have 911 service on it.