How Cool! That Dude Just Got Hit By A Car!

Late last week, there was a 78 year old man in Connecticut who got hit by a car. He was walking across a busy street when he became a victim of a hit-and-run accident.

There is video that has been released by police and audio of 911 calls of the accident. In the video, you can clearly see the man jaywalking on the busy street. Then seconds later, you see a car crossing the double yellow line and hitting the man, hurling him into the air and laying helplessly on the street. The car did not stop, as it just drove continuously and turned on a nearby street.

It is also shown in the video that it looks like some kind of chase between two cars. After the first car hits the man, you can see that there is another car that is directly following the first. It crosses the double yellow line, just like the first car and turns where the first car turns. So there clearly is another story to this between the car chase.

Now, that is just two of the only immoral acts in this video (1. hit-and-run, 2. crossing over the double yellow line and driving on the opposite side of the road and endangering oncoming traffic, including the chase). The third is the most shocking and despicable.

After the man had been hit by the car, he is shown laying there on the street as bystanders watch on the side walk. According to reports, police have been called and were on their way. What's shocking about this is that there were clearly witnesses, but no one goes up to help the man or carry him to the side walk to avoid him being hit for a second time.

There is a concept to this called the bystander effect. People are less likely to help someone in distress when they are in the presence of other bystanders than when they are alone. There are a couple of reasons why people have this effect. One could be that they do not want to look stupid in trying to help a person. Second could be that they believe someone else has already called for help or will help. Third could be that no one wants to be responsible if something fatal happens to the person they tried to help.

Good Samaritan laws are placed in the United States which protect people from being held accountable should something happen to the person they try to aid. It also protects them from being sued or prosecuted against in case death or unintentional injury results from trying to aid the victim.

It comes to my attention that people are too caught up in their selfishness or self-consciousness to help someone in need of it. Noted that people do not want to be responsible for anything that happens to the victim should they help. But couldn't anyone at least try to get him out of the road?

In the video, you can see all the people on the surrounding sidewalks just gazing at the paralyzed man. There are even people who walk up to him to see if hes alright, but then go on about their business. Seriously, are people just too caught up in their own selfishness that they can't even help others in danger? Does no one even care about helping others? Or at the very least, help them so they are out of the way of danger?

Surely, there will be someone to call 911. Anyone can do that in a cell phone-ridden age. But the act of physically helping someone? Not in this day and age. Anything out of the ordinary is just a form of entertainment to the people that just watch from the sidelines. They whip out their camera phone, send it to everyone they know, drawing out a reaction of "oh my god" or "how cool". It's all just another movie to these insensitive and immoral assholes we call human beings.

Calling 911 is something anyone with a phone can do. But just standing there, not making an effort to help someone is just cold. And just downright selfish. If someone is too concerned with looking stupid to help someone, they do not deserve to have anything good happen to them.

Watching someone get hit by a car to these bystanders means nothing to them. There is no sympathy or compassion being felt at all. It's just the excitement of witnessing something that is seen in movies. Do people know nothing about morality anymore? I know that there are no moral classes being taught in school. Morality is acquired by the individual. They know what they consider what is right and what is wrong.

Just take note of what the bystander effect shows what people really are. Conformists. Sheep. "Oh hey, they're not doing anything, they're just standing there. I will to. Because I am a fucking sheep and a selfish son of a bitch."

So next time some man flies ten feet in the air, pull up a chair, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the 45 seconds of entertainment in front of your eyes. Don't bother going out of your way to help that man. If no one does, why should you right?