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In reply to the discussion: Passengers watched killing on Metro car. Should they have intervened? [View all]randys1
(16,286 posts)decide to intervene, doing it alone would be suicidal unless you were young, tough, trained etc.
But it saddens me to think that if I wanted to help that others wouldnt help me help.
My son and I (he was 8 at the time, long time ago) were driving down the main street of out town and we saw an old man fall down, so I pulled over and we helped him up and into my car. He was old, very poor and pretty heavy.
Getting him to his SRO (tiny one room apartment type place) was really tough and the whole time my son was scared and asking me why were we doing this.
I said because it was the right thing to do.
We werent in danger, but it was inconvenient and physically very hard to get him into and out of the car, up his stairs, etc.
It was disappointing to see that during the 3-4 minutes it took me to get to where he was, pull over, park, get out of my car, NOBODY tried to help him.