Who Cares!
@nanette64 (20364)
Fairfield, Texas
April 22, 2016 10:23am CST
Apparently our society doesn't give two hoots and a holler anymore about their fellow man. Remember a time when if you saw something that was wrong that you stepped in OR at least said something? It must be a rarity today.
On February 7th, in Chicago, Illinois, a gentleman named Marques Gaines went to the local 7/11 at 4:30 in the morning. As he was leaving, a man approached him and knocked him unconscious and he fell into the street.
Instead of passersby helping the man, people were coming up and robbing him as others just 'kept on walking'. Not a minute later, a Globe taxi came around the corner and ran the man over killing him. The security guard at 7/11 did absolutely nothing to help this man; during the altercation or after.
The family of Mr. Gaines is suing 7/11, the cab company and it's driver and the security guard should be fired.
Do we as a society just don't care anymore? "I don't want to get involved" or "It's not my place to intervene." How can we call ourselves "humans" when we have no "humanity".
Surveillance video released Thursday shows the troubling moments before a popular Chicago bartender was run over by a taxi cab after being beaten unconscious in a downtown crosswalk.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
22 Apr 16
Everything has just gotten so bad @vandana7 .
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@vandana7 (100297)
• India
23 Apr 16
@fedupjane .. In general, my observation is...more children, mothers tend to get harried. Father has to earn for more children and snaps when children ask him for something which he can't afford. Something the child does not understand, by the time he or she understands it is too late, he or she has already fallen in bad company. In India homes are quite close by. So there is more exposure to things in one one another's places. They bought an LCD tv? We should also have one. They bought a two wheeler, we should also have one kind. It begins with simple things.
With smaller families desires are more easily fulfilled, and parents have more time to spare for their children.
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@fedupjane (191)
• United States
23 Apr 16
I"m not sure how this has anything to do with overpopulation. We have certain demographics in our country that are responsible for 50% of the crime that happens in the US and they fall in our minority ethnic group.
We can blame society all day long but we have poor people that do not steal, and screw over their fellow man. It really boils down to a lack of values.
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@LadyDuck (471421)
• Switzerland
23 Apr 16
Did we care before? I remember when I was a child that I was walking with my mom. A man had a heart attack just in front of us. My mother rushed to help, she called people asking for help and nobody went to help. We were glad that finally a cop heard and came and called an ambulance... this happened in the 50's.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
1 Aug 16
thats so awful but again
people will be looklie
lous at an accident and
not try to'help the
person they are all
staring at.
darn. a few years back
I went to my favorite
restaurant to eat
breakfast as
I was celebrating
being retired. I stepped
up on a rise for some
reason and fell
hard on my left shoulder.
a crowd gathered just
standing there
gawping at me. but
grandparents and
their grandson came
to my rescueI
could not get up as
I could not use
my left arm.I was in
extreme pain
and they called the
para medics as
a hospital was just
seconds away
I was soon at
the hospital being
x rayed and they
found I had shattered
my left shoulder joint
so they did surgery
and put in a steel
andplastic shoulder
joint. I did get to
thank that
elderlypair who cared.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
2 Aug 16
Now see...the elderly couple were raised correctly @Hatley and that's the point. It seems like anyone under the age of 50 weren't taught right.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
22 Apr 16
The topic made me think of a "what if " what if the man in trouble was a loved one? And you found out later on that nobody helped and even took advantage, I wonder if this would change your perspective of your fellow human being, just a thought.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
22 Apr 16
@nanette64 times are really changing Nanette, it happens here sometimes because people do not want to be implicated or be questioned, but to rob is a different thing and the guard has a responsibility to the establishment as well as the customers.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
22 Apr 16
The family is absolutely devastated @louievill and that's why they are suing. I can't believe that nobody stepped in and tried to help the man.
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@Daljinder (23236)
• Bangalore, India
4 May 16
Indifference such as this is awful and pretty common. Not a good thing.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
4 May 16
This world is no longer a good place to live in @Daljinder .
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@CoolPeace (1566)
• Miami, Florida
11 Oct 16
It is sad that some people don't try to help someone. You can call the police if you don't want to ask if they're ok. As for the cab running the man over that is just wrong. The man who ran him over did he know that he ran over a person?
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
11 Oct 16
The cab driver knew it and just kept going @CoolPeace .
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@CoolPeace (1566)
• Miami, Florida
11 Oct 16
@nanette64. That is one of the cities that don't care about humanity.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
24 Apr 16
OMG!! sometimes you just can hardly believe how horrible our society has become. I hope they catch the guy also that hit him and there should be a law about not even trying to help and just walking on. maybe some that didn't see what happened might have thought he was passed out but they should have watched for traffic till police got there
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
23 Apr 16
sadly, such occurrin' in chicago don't shock me much. i don wonder what's wrong with many folks these days though. they jest seem numb to human sufferin' 'nless tis their own. my heart goes out to the family/friends'f that fella.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
22 Apr 16
So awful and shameful. At the very least drag him out of the street and call the police.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
22 Apr 16
Exactly @fishtiger58 , that would have been my first response.
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@sgbrown (1638)
• United States
23 Apr 16
This is so sad! It is hard to imagine that no one would step in and help this poor man. I think many people are just too afraid to help. Our nation is becoming a nation of chickens and I use the word chicken instead of a another, not so nice word!
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@quantum2020 (12041)
• Ciudad De Mexico, Mexico
22 Apr 16
It´s very common to see this kind of behaviors in societies, especially when people are only looking to make their daily life. I once witnessed how a woman who was suffering from an epilepsy seizure was ignored by passers and by two security guards. An ambulance came half of an hour later and took this woman to the hospital.
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@hostessman (11871)
• Tucson, Arizona
23 Apr 16
@Nanette64 I agree with you, people just don't seem to care any more and it just keeps getting worse
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@CRK109 (14556)
• United States
22 Apr 16
Unfortunately, one of the reasons this has happened in our society is because people get law suit happy. Even if you step in to help someone, if anything goes wrong they can sue you! And so many people want that money "just because". So a lot of people have given up helping anyone else. And now our whole world suffers :(
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@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
26 Feb 18
That is very sad. We do have people here that still do care and help you up if you fall or in my case if my scooter gets stuck there were people that want to help pull me out and get my scooter back on track.
