Posted on 06/07/2008 4:14:53 AM PDT by SLB
I was not planning to post until Monday because I have relatives visiting until Sunday.
However, after first learning of this awfully horrific accident and the callous nature in which a 78-year-old man was the victim of a hit and run and left to lay in the street like dog - I was sickened.
Not one person called 9ll. The only reason this man received help was because a passing officer was on a call for another incident. Had this officer not come by when he did, this man who is now in critical condition fighting for his life just may have died right there where he was left lying helpless.
A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back into traffic. A man on a scooter slowly circles the victim before zipping away.
The chilling scene - captured on video by a streetlight surveillance camera - has touched off a round of soul-searching in Hartford, with the capital city’s biggest newspaper blaring “SO INHUMANE” on the front page and the police chief lamenting: “We no longer have a moral compass.”
“We have no regard for each other,” said Chief Daryl Roberts, who released the video this week in hopes of making an arrest in the daylight accident last Friday that left Angel Arce Torres in critical condition.
The hit-and-run took place about 5:45 p.m. in a working-class neighborhood close to downtown in this city of 125,000.
In the video, Torres walks in the two-way street just blocks from the state Capitol after buying milk at a grocery. A tan Toyota and a dark Honda that is apparently chasing it cross the center line, and Torres is struck by the Honda. Both cars then dart down a side street.
You can read this disgusting article depicting the inhumanity of American people by clicking on the above source. The article states that one individual passing by stated that they felt UNCOMFORTABLE STOPPING TO HELP THE VICTIM.
If you missed the story on the news live, then you can view the video here. America has become a people that are self-centered, selfish, ego-centric, and cold-hearted. I am ashamed.
I bet if this was a dog everyone would have run to the animals aid calling the inhumane society for help.
Why should a society that defends as a constitutional right the murder of a child while abirthing trouble its self over a lack of human kindness toward a 78 year old?
The one is certainly consistent with the other.
Jeez. Talk about generalizing. Don’t blame the whole country for what some animals in my state did.
gnip...
That is because dogs don't have lawyers...yet!
I don’t disagree with your coinage in assessment. I’ve witnessed an alarming number of folks grow inured to being heroes in their own lives, and specifically, because they’ve been day in/day out drumbeat into learning that only Uncle Sam can do a “real good job of it - pay your taxes”. This is a costly lie. It breeds apathy. Feeds it. Grows it.
I don’t disagree with your coinage in assessment. I’ve witnessed an alarming number of folks grow inured to being heroes in their own lives, and specifically, because they’ve been day in/day out drumbeat into learning that only Uncle Sam can do a “real good job of it - pay your taxes”. This is the costly lie. It feeds it; grows it - the apathy. And with it, the fears that only individual assistance will be punished as it hasn’t been certified by the “experts” which in turn grows the lawyer boondoggles.
“Not one person called 9ll.”
Well, that’s a lie. They reported four 911 calls within a mintue of the accident.
The founding fathers also didn’t have trial lawyers. If we want to see why people are hesitant to do anything, we can look directly at the possibility of being sued for all you’re wortha dn then some.
My grammar school took us to cultural events featuring folk singers like Peter, Paul and Mary; etc. Those were my "field trips" at school, alongside museums, etc.
I would have liked to have seen that documentary, Fiji Hill. The nasty comments and barbs directed at Daly City were indeed a slap and slam at the corporate culture, but also how deadened people were becoming, and enslaved to "the man" and his "machine".
Oh, well, as they say in China, the bridge that falls makes a thousand times more noise than the one that stands.
The MSM gets attention and income from "horror" stories; not good stories. Some believe that fairy tales should not be told to children and because it draws moral distinctions vis a vis good and bad. Democrats run the MSM, and the schools, public and colleges. Kitty Genovese is their avant garde modus for advancing government confiscation of individual rights and civilities, property, and income.
That story you shared, out of Watts, I've witnessed in some of the worst parts of Oakland, California. And does not make the news. Which liberals then play as in a "you had to be there", which they then morph into whatever newest press spin they can use to benefit themselves politically.
This is the siren song I had to grow up with in Marin County. It was a constant, and grew in intensity and usage by Democrats throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Save the Wombats! Don't use DDT! If you don't act now, you are killing Kitty Genovese all over again.
Join the Vietnam Anti-War cause; make Kitty Genovese's murder have meaning.
Blah. De Blah. De Blah.
Liberals trivialized, and commercially and politically USED the murder of Kitty Genovese to promote their causes. It made me sick to my stomach, as a girl.
I thought it was hateful of them to do that. Mean and low down.
Now for what happened in re Kitty Genovese via Wicki.
What happened in the ensuing years, as I beat my Tin Drum, folks became personally effrontive to others: Stop Smoking; Tune in, drop out, turn on; consciousness raising events. EST. Michael Warner. Buddhism.
What happened was people began getting into other people's faces based upon a Kitty Genovese/Political Ideology. "Buy this product, and the proceeds will lift a poor black boy out of poverty". You say, sorry, can't do it. The promoter says: You are condemning a black boy to certain death.
That was in the late 60s, and early 70s.
The individual care and concern for others was not tempered, it wasn't reasonable. Good Samaritans were being ignored while Political Operatives doing "group" things were hailed as Little Saviors -- all acting out of the Kitty Genovese "we won't forget" fan club.
Egads, during my highschool days, I'll never forget the day two so-called girlfriends came to my home to confront me. One of them liked a guy who liked me. These chicks told me that I was being predatory, that I needed to slow down my head tripping because it was out of synch with my heart; that I needed to do some active visualizations, get grounded, so that conflict resolution (of the one chick's trip) could be mediated. That they cared SOOO much about me, they knew they had to take action, for my benefit.
In plain speak; these chicks were threatening me, and I was supposed to melt and fall apart and cry because they used such GROOVY linguistics.
I told them to get the hell out of my house. They harumphed off, giving me the finger and telling me how uncool I was.
My parents had overheard the whole thing happening in my bedroom. Imagine my shock when I walked back into the house to have my parents praise and applaud me (and I had used some bad words!). They called me their beloved hard-headed Hannah, who saw bones, not falling for the flesh.
We learned this type of "dialog" during Junior High and Highschool.
These chicks were operating on the Kitty Genovese political linguistic platform of trying to save me from myself.
When in fact, they were bull*** artists in linguistics.
When I say May Kitty Genovese REST IN PEACE. I mean it.
Liberals have never let her rest in peace.
Before I went to the video, I assumed it was a dangerous part of town and everyhone feared it was a trap, where the victims would be jumped and mugged.
I don’t get it. I am sure any of the Scouts in my Boy Scout troop would have aided the man at once.
Maybe this is a result of the preaching that we should let government handle everything. Don’t defend yourself against attackers. Don’t walk out of New Orleans if the levy breaks. Don’t figure out a way to pay for your house if the payment goes up. Don’t do anything if Islamic nutcases try to disrupt your airplane flight. Teach your kids to go to the teacher if they are attacked at school.
Let the government take care of any need. It is wrong to take charge of situations yourself.
I remember an evangelist who went to a village in Africa that had been isolated for years after the bridge was washed out. The village’s economy had collapsed. The evangelist led a group of men to the old bridge site, and they rebuilt the bridge. The village was saved. He asked why they hadn’t rebuilt the bridge, and the elders replied that no one had ever told them to.
Good point. It IS the same behavior.
God bless you.
I'd never thought about it. I went to ASK.COM and found that my state (NC) does have Good Samaritan laws. Everyone ought to check their own states and start bugging their legislators if they do not have such laws.
I’ve seen that clip on Fox at least a dozen times. Today they released some 911 calls. But, it appears the man just walked out into oncoming traffic in the middle of the street. His getting hit shouldn’t have surprised, but the reaction of the drivers and bystanders surely does.
Thank you for posting that link!
Of course, it was several decades before the world at large knew what the locals did about the 'family' ties that she had.
I’ve seen those Daly City neighborhoods many times while driving into “the City” from the south. Rows upon rows of small houses climbing the hillsides are quite an impressive site to a Southern Californian like myself.
Pete Seeger and The Womenfolk both scored with their recordings of “Little Boxes,” which peaked at #70 and #83, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1964, although these acts were hardly a threat to the Beatles, the Beach Boys, or Louis Armstrong, whose recordings were taking turns at #1.
Actually, he was walking into a lane where nothing in front of him should have been coming. It was a two-way street. The cars that hit him were not supposed to be in that lane, passing a car ahead of them. There was an unbroken double line in the middle of the street: no passing.
And if you watch closely you can see that he looked before he started crossing; he looked in the direction the traffic should have been coming from.
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