He died doing what he loved to do!
The good Samaritan side of people has been curtailed by lawsuits.
It disappeared when ambulance chasers became abundant.
What would the Obama’s have done in this case?
Probably kick and walk over Him!
People are terrified of lawsuits—one part of the problem, the other is simply greed.
May God bless the two who did try to help.
If people read the article, they would see that a nurse and a paramedic assisted the gentleman, to the extent they could, and someone obviously called 911. Would a mob of untrained people yelling, “OMG, OMG!” have produced a better outcome?
Actually, if you read this story with care, it’s hard to tell whether people were much to blame or not. Someone did give him emergency care, and someone called an ambulance? Others, not being able to help, stood by or stayed back, which seems sensible.
What the story does not say is how long help was delayed? Did they ignore him for 15 minutes? Half an hour? Or did someone call 911 fairly quickly? It’s really unclear.
Maybe there was neglect. Or maybe the reporter just wanted a good story. It’s uncertain, because the story leaves out key details.
Well in defense of the shoppers, if you see a man down on the floor and a nurse is administering CPR as the story says. It doesn’t really help, and it could actually hurt for 500 people to crowd around looking concerned and trying to help, (too many cooks in the kitchen so to speak). Sometimes the best thing you can do in such as situation is whisper a prayer and continue walking.
The news reporting on so-called “Black Friday” is getting to be too much to bear. I suspect people die in stores every day of the year with varying amounts of subsequent aid from passers-by.
Story didn’t say , but most large stores have a defib nowadays
However I have never nor will I ever go shopping like these people do. I blame the stores for instigating this crap. There are more civilized ways to get people to think they're saving money.
Humans are becoming more and more unbearable.
I'm glad I'm in my 70's.
I cannot imagine why anyone would go shopping the day after thanksgiving...Read about one woman that bite a guy reaching for the same waffle iron she wanted..these people are crazy...good time to stay home...
A few months back, I came across an older lady who had fallen in Wal-Mart. I looked at my mom, and went to help. No one had witnessed whether she had hit her head, and the assist managers who had came up wanted to put her into a chair. Oh heck no!
I stayed with her until the MFD EMT's and Paramedics got there where I could turn her over to them.
The funniest part of it all was that, when I was there trying to keep her from getting up - she was complaining just a little of her shoulder hurting, or how much it was going to cost for a doctor's visit, once those Paramedics got there, she was being slightly more melodramatic. She was most pleased to let them do anything they wanted - where lil ole me, she was being downright hostile. Go Figure.
I won't hesitate to stop and help, even if I don't have anything. I'm not concerned because I stay within the scope of my learning. I would also be willing to step back away from the scene if an ER Nurse and Paramedic was on scene, since they are more qualified than I am. I would offer to communicate to the Dispatchers her condition, or anything else they needed. I have done that before too.
In the grand scheme of things, having 100 people standing there "helping" probably would have been worse than 2 who knew what the heck they were doing.
To quote Moe Sizlack (after getting run over in a department store for a Funzo doll)
“OW, OW, OW!!!!! Who would wear golf cleats in a store!!!”
These people went to save a buck on a waffle iron, not tend to the sick.
Shoppers unfazed. Media in a tizzy. What to do? Has no one else ever died on Black Friday while shopping? What are customers supposed to do? Scan the body through personal check out? “Sorry, no bar code on that unit.”
I don’t know that I can really fault the shoppers, and there were two who jumped right in to help anyway.
I was in a hospital cafeteria when a woman collapsed nearby. The response was quick. People near her in line caught her as she was falling so she landed softly. While I was still wondering if I needed to run over and do CPR, the crash team came running in. So, all I ended up doing was telling my friend that we needed to stay out of the way. Less than five minutes after her collapse, the crash team had whisked her away. And everyone else continued to get lunch.
"Man Dies on Black Friday; Shoppers Unfazed"
He didn't die in the store, he died after he had been taken to the hospital.
This is how "journalism" became a four letter word.
The hype of these sales is awful. My email box has been full of them all week.
Missed being a "unit" by a few years.