What would you do?

[winnie_the_pooh]

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[farook]

The most courageous of the lot is the 78 year old, at his age with shivering hands he hits the car with the stick....

[zaheer.bakshi]

I think the reaction shown in the video is normal. Its because people do not care. It is we the people who have to be responsible for each other.If its not the case then no one will come forward and show the courage. If I would have been there, I would have definitely helped the victim and punished the culprit badly. She might be someone's daughter, sistermother and it can happen to your loved ones too.
So guys please help people in need and show respect to women. Together we can and we will make a difference.

[brihacharan]

I think the reaction shown in the video is normal. Its because people do not care. It is we the people who have to be responsible for each other.If its not the case then no one will come forward and show the courage. If I would have been there, I would have definitely helped the victim and punished the culprit badly. She might be someone's daughter, sister or mother and it can happen to your loved ones too.
So guys please help people in need and show respect to women. Together we can and we will make a difference.

Hear! Hear!
Its a crying shame that most citizens shy away from being chivalrous....Maybe because the law will look at it differently & implicate the do-gooder
Yes! Let's together make "The Difference"....
Briha

[essdee1972]

Honestly speaking, after taking an accident victim to hospital once, and having to answer silly questions from the coppers, plus miss half a day at work, some chivalry has leaked out of me!

The victim was crossing a road (his fault, headphones on and all that) when a car hit him, and immediately took off at high speed. I was 2 cars behind and stopped and took the guy to hospital. Till the chap's family came in, I paid for his MRI and X-ray. The hospital was Fortis, so those tests were not very cheap, either (had to pull out cash from the ATM)!! Fortunately the guy was relatively unhurt, and his family paid me back.

And then the khakis came in. "What was the car? Honda City. What colour? Light grey or blue. Light grey or blue, be specific. Why don't you remember?(about 20 times). What was the license number? Didn't see. Why not? (another 20 times)." And so on, including calling the HR at my workplace to find out if I really worked for them! Plus it somehow was my fault the copper hadn't heard of the organisation I work for!! After half an hour, I felt like I was Osama caught by the US SF!! Even after the victim vouched for me, the coppers wouldn't let me off.

Maybe if I see a crime being committed, or an accident, I'll rubber-neck a bit and take pics from my cellphone and put them up on Facebook.........just like everyone else does!

[brihacharan]

Its a crying shame that most citizens shy away from being chivalrous....Maybe because the law will look at it differently & implicate the do-gooder

And essdee has proved it by his personal experience....
It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime
Rudy Giuliani
(Ex-Mayor of New York)

[airgun_novice]

The most courageous of the lot is the 78 year old, at his age with shivering hands he hits the car with the stick....

Thank you WTP for the eye-opener.

[airgun_novice]

[SNIP]
It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime
Rudy Giuliani
(Ex-Mayor of New York)

... and as disciplined and (believe it or not) as faithful and committed to their job ! Also the "social scientists" were lucky that none of the "heroes" were lethally armed !!! Or it would have been the unlucky "hero" who would have been implicated in the khaki hassle.

[winnie_the_pooh]

Only 5 people responded.......in keeping with the trend visible on the video.The rest probably thought the difference between MarkIII and MarkIV IOF cr*p is more important than this.........the indifference of a vast majority of people to, what appears to be, a woman being raped.

[farook]

Honestly speaking, after taking an accident victim to hospital once, and having to answer silly questions from the coppers...............

How long back was this essdee, don't let one incident shake you off. There have been orders from supreme court recently stating no harassment be done to anyone helping victims of hit and run cases...Here is something that happened in Bangalore a few days back....

http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalor ... 120816.cms

[Vikram]

I hope I have it in me to do the right thing if I find myself in that kind of situation.

Esdee,

The extent of your kindness is simply astounding.Not many would go to such lengths to help a stranger.

Best-
Vikram

[essdee1972]

Vikram and Farook, thanks for your encouragement! This was about 3 years back. And the cops didn't take me to the station, just questioned me at the hospital itself. About an hour or so. Done by a 3-striper (dunno what Mumbai police calls them, Havaldar or Junior Inspector??) and a constable. No star wallahs around. I might have asked to speak to a senior, and got away, but I was initially shaking in my boots!

And if you take someone to hospital and the doc says you need an immediate MRI, it takes a lot of guts to say "no". I don't have that kinda guts! And I didn't want to scarper, because I had given my name and contacts to the hospital, and didn't know what the implications would be!

But yes, I like to think that if it was a case of attempted rape or similar, I would step in. Every male has some kind of "knight in shining armour" fantasy!!

[farook]

Another one, There Should be a Law for this

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