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Homeless man left to die after saving woman from attack

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I find it absolutely disgusting.. at the very least alerting the police - or someone. Fucking sickos.
 
loki8481 said:
where do you live and when was the last time you took a walk through an urban area with a relatively high homeless population?
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I live in NZ - I walk past a couple of areas daily that are heavily populated with homeless people. One of them being on a parrallel street of where I work where there is a homeless shelter - and there are always crowds of homeless people who congregate there. I can honestly say, that although they scare me - I would not hesitate to call the Police if one them was lying in a pool of blood. To see that - and walk past it is disgusting. I would like to think if I were lying on a road somewhere full of stab wounds that someone would scare a minute and call the police.
 
This is what we have come to? And the woman he saved didn't even turn around..... sad what some have become!

Yes I would have called.
 
You see people lying in the sidewalks/streets all the time. I'm not gonna call the cops on every homeless person. You guys can but I won't. Obviously that one guy who moved the body should have but I wouldn't even go up to a homeless person on the street. I don't wanna die.
 
MAKENITO said:
I live in NZ - I walk past a couple of areas daily that are heavily populated with homeless people. One of them being on a parrallel street of where I work where there is a homeless shelter - and there are always crowds of homeless people who congregate there. I can honestly say, that although they scare me - I would not hesitate to call the Police if one them was lying in a pool of blood. To see that - and walk past it is disgusting. I would like to think if I were lying on a road somewhere full of stab wounds that someone would scare a minute and call the police.
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the pool of blood was not visible.

the average NY'er probably walks past half a dozen sleeping homeless people during their daily commute. would you stop and call the cops for every single one, every single day?
 
loki8481 said:
the pool of blood was not visible.

the average NY'er probably walks past half a dozen sleeping homeless people during their daily commute. would you stop and call the cops for every single one, every single day?
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No, I wouldnt call the police every single day for every single homeless person I see who looks like he is sleeping on the street.

But if I had balls enough to up to the guy, turn him over, see he was lying in a pool of blood - then yes, I would have the balls enough to call the cops. If I had seen someone turn his body over and then walk away - and goodness knows there would have been people watching - I would call the Police.

I repeat - fucking sickos.

Though: Just to clarify - no way am I going near a homeless person if he is sleeping on the street. Im not going to go from homeless person to homeless person checking their pulses and whatnot, but if there is something visibly wrong with them - ie lying in a pool of blood that I can see, then you bet your ass Im going to call someone.
 
MAKENITO said:
No, I wouldnt call the police every single day for every single homeless person I see who looks like he is sleeping on the street.

But if I had balls enough to up to the guy, turn him over, see he was lying in a pool of blood - then yes, I would have the balls enough to call the cops. If I had seen someone turn his body over and then walk away - and goodness knows there would have been people watching - I would call the Police.

I repeat - fucking sickos.

Though: Just to clarify - no way am I going near a homeless person if he is sleeping on the street. Im not going to go from homeless person to homeless person checking their pulses and whatnot, but if there is something visibly wrong with them - ie lying in a pool of blood that I can see, then you bet your ass Im going to call someone.
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I agree completely.
 
After reading the first few sentences of the OP I immediately figured this happened somewhere up north where all the enlightened live. Then I read the article and confirmed what I already knew.
 
loki8481 said:
where do you live and when was the last time you took a walk through an urban area with a relatively high homeless population?
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I live in north jersey and have seen plenty of homeless people (especially commuting through Newark subway into NYC) and I cant think of a time when a dude was laid out like this. What is the excuse for the guy who lifted him up, saw the blood and did not call?
 
people can die getting involved, unfortunately. Yes I meant this guy.

I've never been in a situation where someone was being mugged/attacked/raped, so I don't know how I'd react but I'd at the very least 911 it.
 
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Also, this is why I replied the way I did in that thread where people were calling the guy a sissy for not stopping the purse stealer. He could have been stabbed, then abandoned by the girl and spit on by onlookers. I wouldn't want that to happen to me.
 
Fuck that. But it happens all the time. In situations like that, people usually assume that someone else will take care of it, or wait for others to do so. It's a sad sociological effect. And I agree that it probably isn't even the reason a lot of those people didn't help. They just didn't give a shit about anyone but themselves.

UGGHHH. So angry.
 
It is sad that incidents like these proves that America is a shit hole just like every other countries in the world.
 
Lummex said:
Fuck that. But it happens all the time. In situations like that, people usually assume that someone else will take care of it, or wait for others to do so. It's a sad sociological effect. And I agree that it probably isn't even the reason a lot of those people didn't help. They just didn't give a shit about anyone but themselves.

UGGHHH. So angry.
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Welcome to the me! me! me! generation, where the average people are too good to help others beside themselves .
 
iGas said:
Welcome to the me! me! me! generation, where the average people are too good to help others beside themselves .
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It's fine if you want to waste your day calling the cops for every homeless person that's lying on the street but I won't. I wouldn't even get close enough to a homeless person to know if they were dead or not.
 
MAKENITO said:
if there is something visibly wrong with them - ie lying in a pool of blood that I can see, then you bet your ass Im going to call someone.
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what about the homeless person lying in a pool of their own vomit... or their own piss... or their own shit.... IE: most of the homeless in midtown.

do you really think the cops dont have anything better to do that a homeless check?


Sorry your business got robbed... we were doing a welfare check on the bums on 9th street.
 
Mike Gayner said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Homicides per 100,000 of population:
USA 5.4
Australia 1.2

So yeah, it is much less likely to happen in Australia.
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put everything into persepctive then.

Country / Territory.......Population........ % of World Population
United States ..............309,147,000................ 4.53%
Australia........................22,323,695................ 0.33%
New Zealand....................4,365,900................0.064%
 
guyver01 said:
put everything into persepctive then.

Country / Territory.......Population........ % of World Population
United States ..............309,147,000................ 4.53%
Australia........................22,323,695................ 0.33%
New Zealand....................4,365,900................0.064%
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You do know how per capita measurements work, right? Per individual citizen, NZ and Australia are safer countries than USA by a huge margin. If you want to turn it into something it isn't, you're just making yourself look like a fool.

My post was simply in response to a false rebuttal. Prove me wrong if you can.
 
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