How many people were on the street at the time and saw the guy? There's a social psych phenomenon called the Bystander Effect or the Genovese Syndrome. To quote Wikipedia, this is where
"where individuals do not offer any means of help in an emergency situation to the victim when other people are present. The probability of help has in the past been thought to be inversely related to the number of bystanders; in other words, the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help. The mere presence of other bystanders greatly decreases intervention. This happens because as the number of bystanders increases, any given bystander is less likely to interpret the incident as a problem, and less likely to assume responsibility for taking action." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect It may fit in this case. So if there is any rage over this, then you also need to remember its how we are constructed. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Helping a 70 year old man crawling across a parking lot and into a store, > because he is moaning and his leg is obviously broken in bad ways? > > I don't believe anyone has ever been sued, nor is afraid of being sued, for > helping in such a situation.. > > I don't but it. > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> What would have happened if they had helped him...and he turned around and >> sued them as has happened to many good samaritans in the US. >> >> I'm not saying they should NOT have, but there's a flip side of "helping" >> in the US as well. At least that's the notion quite a few people have. >> >> >> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3853395/Good-Samaritan-can-be-sued-after-pulling-friend-from-car-wreckage.html >> >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347429 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
