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Man dies after beating

Started by glorybebe , Jan 01 2013 09:53 PM

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#16 glorybebe

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Posted 02 January 2013 - 10:45 PM

ouija ouija, on 02 January 2013 - 10:20 PM, said:

My understanding from the article is that the passengers were expecting the police to get on as they got off, because the driver had been told what was going on, was watching it on cctv and had wired ahead to the next station for police help.

Even so, I really don't understand why no one intervened. If we all waited for police or emergency services, how many people would be dead now from situations like this and accidents?

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Posted 02 January 2013 - 10:51 PM

glorybebe, on 02 January 2013 - 10:45 PM, said:

Even so, I really don't understand why no one intervened. If we all waited for police or emergency services, how many people would be dead now from situations like this and accidents?

*shrugs* I just repeat my original comment that you probably had to be there to understand why it happened as it did.

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#18 glorybebe

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Posted 02 January 2013 - 11:20 PM

ouija ouija, on 02 January 2013 - 10:51 PM, said:

*shrugs* I just repeat my original comment that you probably had to be there to understand why it happened as it did.

I guess, but, I couldn't stand by and not do anything, even if it was to be on the phone with the cops and tell the guy I was.

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Posted 03 January 2013 - 05:01 AM

This happens to often around the world people turn there heads to this.this happen in new york city a few times.people should get the cops

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Posted 04 January 2013 - 12:38 AM

Unfortunately what happened was the bystander effect, everyone on the carriage was expecting everyone else on the carriage to do something about it, when no-one did anything, they interpreted the beating as not being serious enough to intervene.

The scariest aspect is that a lot of the passengers wouldn't have noticed it going on at all, it isn't polite to stare or watch other people, so in a packed carriage everyone's going to keep themselves to themselves and not look. The amount of times I've been in a pub and a fight breaks out between two people, every time I've heard someone scold another for watching.

Of course, this doesn't happen every time an event such as this takes place, but it happens enough for it to become a phenomenon.

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