Man hit by car, nobody cares

[GuilewasNK]

[quote name='unforeseen']That old man was jaywalking. What else do you expect?
That was the risk he took.

Sad that no one helped him though.[/quote]


As harsh as that sounds, that was the first thing I was thinking too. The old guy didn't deserve a hospital trip, but walking in a road like he did was plain stupid. Even so, the driver should have stopped and helped.

 

[dmaul1114]

It looked like he was doing the "there's nothing coming in this lane, so I'll start walking and cross the other lane after these couple of cars pass" thing.

It is jaywalking, but I bet most of us have done it several times. I do it pretty often when I stop off at the post office down the street on my way to work. You just don't expect cars to swerve clear over the double yellow line illegal and splatter you.

 

[The Crotch]

[quote name='ITDEFX']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.
[/quote]You were told correctly. It's pretty much impossible to up with an AED. The machine - or at least the one that I've seen - has both voice-guidance and easy-to-follow pictures on the back of the "paddles", and even if you try to it up, the machine will bitch you out and refuse to function until you've corrected it.

 

[level1online]

here's the worst Hit & Run I've ever seen. Poor child...

http://www.univision.com/content/videoplayer.jhtml?cid=1556718

 

[ITDEFX]

[quote name='The Crotch']You were told correctly. It's pretty much impossible to up with an AED. The machine - or at least the one that I've seen - has both voice-guidance and easy-to-follow pictures on the back of the "paddles", and even if you try to it up, the machine will bitch you out and refuse to function until you've corrected it.[/quote]

That is also true...the trainer last year demonstrated what the thing did if you ed up.

 

[Koggit]

[quote name='dmaul1114']It looked like he was doing the "there's nothing coming in this lane, so I'll start walking and cross the other lane after these couple of cars pass" thing.

It is jaywalking, but I bet most of us have done it several times. I do it pretty often when I stop off at the post office down the street on my way to work. You just don't expect cars to swerve clear over the double yellow line illegal and splatter you.[/QUOTE]

I only jaywalk when there are absolutely no cars anywhere nearby from either direction. There's nothing wrong with crossing an empty road, but it's pretty obvious the 78 year old guy was crossing a busy street.

I'm willing to bet most of us have not done what the old man did. It's just selfish -- it shows selfishness.

 

[ITDEFX]

people need to stop saying "it's the guy's fault."

The two bastards tried to hit him on purpose. The video makes it clear.


An update on the guy.

From what I just heard on the news, the guy is now paralyzed from the neck down and needs a breathing machine to keep alive. It's been what 2 or 3 weeks and they haven't caught the bastards!?!?!?

 

[dmaul1114]

[quote name='Koggit']I only jaywalk when there are absolutely no cars anywhere nearby from either direction. There's nothing wrong with crossing an empty road, but it's pretty obvious the 78 year old guy was crossing a busy street.

I'm willing to bet most of us have not done what the old man did. It's just selfish -- it shows selfishness.[/QUOTE]

You don't know that. There was nothing coming in the first lane, and maybe there were just 3 or 4 cars coming in the right lane and he was going to walk and wait in the middle of the first lane for them to pass then finish crossing the road.

I've done that several times, and I'm expect most of us have done that rather than wait on the curb until it was totally clear in both directions. It's probably not the smartest thing to do, but I can't blame it on the guy when the car illegally crossed the double yellow line and hit him when he was in the middle of the other lane.

As for the selfishness point, we'll have to agree to disagree there as from your post posts I know you have a much stricter standard of what selfish behavior is (i.e. bashing people for wanting to live in the suburbs in a huge instead of paying more to live in a small condo in the city closer to work etc). I'm not as judgmental of how others choose to live their life, and less don't call people selfish as freely as you do.