Spring Break Rape - Witnessed by Hundreds

[Sigmund]

I would need more info. People might not even have realized what was happening.

I agree.

The clip I saw...I had no idea what was going on.

 

[Sigmund]

Some did. Article says police have received video from people's cell phones. If even ONE saw, they could have started yelling and kicked up a fuss.

Sorry. That doesn't happen.

In psychology and sociology the Bystander effect kicks in.

I tell my kids, family, friends...well, everyone I talk to, "If you are in a world of chit and getting beaten...DO NOT call out, 'Help! Help!" Or even, "I'm being beaten/killed!!"

Instead, yell, scream, "FIRE! Fire!" People tend to go and see/watch a fire. Few, very few people will pick up their cell to report an assault/mugging/ murder.

Read the Genovese syndrome.

Peace.

 

[Sigmund]

They not only stood there, laughed and whoo-hoo'ed arms in the air.

Hi, Nottie!

I missed the video. All I saw was a beach with a gazillion young people.

(Maybe I should shut the frick up until I read all the posts. Ha!)

 

[Lepplady]

Sorry. That doesn't happen.

In psychology and sociology the Bystander effect kicks in.

I tell my kids, family, friends...well, everyone I talk to, "If you are in a world of chit and getting beaten...DO NOT call out, 'Help! Help!" Or even, "I'm being beaten/killed!!"

Instead, yell, scream, "FIRE! Fire!" People tend to go and see/watch a fire. Few, very few people will pick up their cell to report an assault/mugging/ murder.

Read the Genovese syndrome.

Peace.

Very true. Well said.

Doesn't make it any less wrong that nobody helped.

 

[staropeace]

Here is a man who DID step up to the plate to help someone else. I find Albertans have a lot of good people that way. The pic is hard to look at. God bless him and I hope he does not die.
Alta. Good Samaritan beaten for standing up for stranger in dispute | Canada | N

 

[Lepplady]

Here is a man who DID step up to the plate to help someone else. I find Albertans have a lot of good people that way. The pic is hard to look at. God bless him and I hope he does not die.
Alta. Good Samaritan beaten for standing up for stranger in dispute | Canada | N

That's a stinking shame. Too bad there weren't a bunch of other potential good Samaritans that might have stepped in if just one brave soul had shown them that, yes, you can help, by bravely being the first to act like a human being and try to help.
That's what gets me. The sheer number of people who stood by and just watched. I understand the group bystander mentality and all that. But nobody? Not ONE person in that many has a moral compass? None? That's shocking and saddening.