Homeless good Samaritan left to die on NYC street

[McWatt]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100427/ap_on_re_us/us_dying_and_ignored

 

[StageLeft]

Some probably thought he was drunk, others simply fell prey to the weakness that has affected many others in history, a variation on bystander syndrome. When presented with a novel situation you basically freeze up and do nothing about it because you lack the imagination to think something truly important is happening and/or you assume somebody else has acted appropriately so why would you, after all it's a crowded street, if that guy wasn't supposed to be there lying in a pool of blood he wouldn't be, right?

 

[Moonbeam]

Some probably thought he was drunk, others simply fell prey to the weakness that has affected many others in history, a variation on bystander syndrome. When presented with a novel situation you basically freeze up and do nothing about it because you lack the imagination to think something truly important is happening and/or you assume somebody else has acted appropriately so why would you, after all it's a crowded street, if that guy wasn't supposed to be there lying in a pool of blood he wouldn't be, right?

It's called the Zombie Somnambulism of the emotionally dead, self-hating.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

It's called the Zombie Somnambulism of the emotionally dead, self-hating.

Or maybe, just maybe, everyone isn't as lost as you think; they just get use to the antics of the homeless.

 

[theflyingpig]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100427/ap_on_re_us/us_dying_and_ignored

I'm looking. I'm looking for something in this post, but I just don't see it.

 

[bamacre]

Hey, they pay taxes, maybe they were just waiting for the government to help the guy.

FYI, the $1 trillion we spend overseas every year could buy a $100,000 house for each of 10 million people. Every year.

 

[halik]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100427/ap_on_re_us/us_dying_and_ignored

Jamaica, Queens...