[quote name='Liquid 2']
off. It's not your business to tell
anyone what to do.[/quote]
Liquid, despite you being a dbag , if I saw you in that same situation, I would still try to help any way I could, whether it was to apply basic first aid or call 911.
[quote name='guinaevere']I've been on the local Grand Jury for the past five months (this is my last month serving) and everytime we have a witness who chases down a criminal, we all get pretty vocal in support of him. Sadly, there's only about one of these instances for every 100 or so cases.
That sort of behavior is so repulsive. Someone needs help, go help. If you can't go get help, and move along.
A house in my neighborhood burned down a couple years ago, all the neighbors were out there taking pictures and gawking. I just don't get that "let's stare at another person's misfortune" attitude at all.[/quote]
Some people preferred to stare and say "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD!!!" (the cloverfield effect) and give you the SoL look.
[quote name='BigT']I'm not so sure that we were all that different 10 years ago. Many of the studies investigating the bystander effect, pluralistic ignorance, and diffusion of responsibility in such cases were done in the 1960s and 70s. Kitty Genovese was killed in the 60s and has been a staple of social psychology textbooks ever since.
People should learn compression only CPR! The old stupid classic CPR in which lay people were taught to blow into the person's mouth periodically is relatively useless and gross (making it much less likely to be used). Plus it's unnecessarily complicated for a novice to remember some arbitrary ratio of compressions to breaths, etc. Unless you have an O2 tank and Ambu bag handy, just stick to chest compressions at a relatively high rate ~100/sec...[/quote]
10 years ago we didn't have cell phones with cameras, nor did the media offer ways to send them pics of events unfolding to their servers so they can report it. I agree on the CPR part, however from what I remembered last year there are a number of first aid kits with the mouth protector. Heck even those deflibulator machines are 90% voice guidance or give you extremely easy to follow directions to use the machine. From what I was told, even someone with NO CPR training or training on the machine can use them fairly easily.
Now that I think about it with the old lady who fell in the bathroom and cut herself, well no one brought the first aid kit!!! You would think that someone would have gone to the main office and gotten one.
Anyways it all depends on where you live. I guess if this happened in NYC, you bet your ass there would have been help in seconds.