It's not real. Part-case in point 😉
**** idiots
Too kind by far.
You did good though. That's all that matters.
Along the same lines as Princess up there, another moron-shaming site: http://yolocaust.de/
Riding along the river near Irwell Vale we came across a group of riders one of whom had had an off and was lying on the path .We ascertained that all was well and services were on their way before carrying on [ there was nothing to be done that wasn't being sorted ].
Riding back later I met a policeman who was searching the roadside , the rider's wife , a nurse had arrived in her car.While she was with him and the paramedics her car was broken into + needles and medicines stolen - ended up with me riding up and down the road picking stuff up and the woman panicking that she get disciplined in the work in the morning .
That sounds awful OP, think i'd be pretty narked off at that too.
Twice I've seen people knocked over by cars, (someone on a scooter outside my office, and a friend on a bicycle), both times the driver just slowed down, looked, then drove off 🙁
But there's good stuff too. I saw a guy collapse as he got out of a taxi, and several strangers and I helped him up, and then waited with him for 30-45 minutes or so until an ambulance arrived (rush hour in London). I remember holding him in a chair and he gradually went weak and got heavier in my hands until he lost consciousness. Never found out what happened to him.
And i know it's a small thing, but i couldn't find change for the car park a while ago and a stranger just gave it to me 🙂
Just to put some of the comments/judgements you might make into context,
1) There are all sorts of reasons people do this. People plan what they're going to do and don't know what to do in an emergency, well done for doing the right thing OP, but it's just common idiocy that makes people walk past/through etc.
2) A while back me and a mate were out riding, a car came past us, then a few metres up the road clipped something on the verge and ended up on its roof (it can't have been doing more than about 40mph). Me and mate put bikes by the side of the road, stop traffic, and with a few others get the police called and car back on its wheels and out of the way. Police arrive just after the car's been safely pushed into a layby and traffic starts to move again, and have a go at us for leaving our bikes "in the way". It's easy to make judgements that when you don't know the full facts!
[quote=burchill ]Along the same lines as Princess up there, another moron-shaming site: http://yolocaust.de/
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I work as a Senior Adjuster in the overseas team of an insurance company, so basically deal with personal injury claims on behalf of other European insurers, often involving Polish and other Eastern European HGV drivers or our insured having had an accident abroad.
The amount of casual racism i hear is shocking, i've tried taking statements from people who have witnessed an accident where a foreign national may have died in the accident, but where the witness starts the call with "i'm not racist, but...."
Or the number of horrific accidents where you are trying to piece together what has happened in an accident only to be told that there are no witnesses as no-one stopped to help, or where i had one recently where the lady was trapped inside her car for 50 minutes, but the two drivers behind has pushed her car off the road into a verge, so they could get past, then buggered off!
And don't get me started on those that stage accidents for profit....
TV reality shows having made it OK to intrude on people's shock and stress. The cellphone culture means bystanders hope to catch that cash-earning shot
This is bloody depressing.
The accident I helped out at just before Christmas, was thnkafully nowhere near as bad as described by the OP - no-one injured, no-one tried to squeeze past or get the video, but equally no other bugger got out of their car to help! Until I waved some young bloke over the only person in the road was the driver of the car that hit the other one saying "Did you see that?!"
Yeah, like I said, I can't blame people for freezing and not helping as the shock of seeing an accident often overwhelms individuals into inaction. I've trained over 300 soldiers in the past and you put every one under increasing pressure to ensure that they develop the ability to continue to work under challenging/dangerous circumstances. For some it's natural, for most it needs to be developed.
It's when individuals carry on regardless, unaware that in doing so they are hampering efforts to get a grip of the situation, help casualties, link in with emergency services, control traffic etc etc...that's what I just cannot get my head around.
The amount of casual racism i hear is shocking, i've tried taking statements from people who have witnessed an accident where a foreign national may have died in the accident, but where the witness starts the call with "i'm not racist, but...."
I had a similar experience on a motorway slip-road, old guy cuts across the roundabout to make the exit and clips the wing of a 4x4.
He completely lost it, his only rational for being right was a) he was older, b) they were (at a guess) SE Asian (although he wasn't quite so polite).
Anyway I left them my details and filled in the witness form when it arrived.
Then I started getting the ambulance chasers asking for statements, by the 3rd phone-call I think my response was "sod off, they lost a headlamp, no one suffered an injury, and you can write that down as my statement".
Everyone (apart from me, I'm awesome) failed to meet the "don't be a dick" rule.
burchill - Member
Along the same lines as Princess up there, another moron-shaming site: http://yolocaust.de/
The 'please remove my picture' e-mail address is genius
"I'm on one of the pictures and suddenly regret having uploaded it to the internet. Can you remove it?"
Yes. Just send an email to undouche.me@yolocaust.de
...and don't know what to do in an emergency...
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I carry a high-vis vest in the car for this very reason. I see so many near misses and aftermaths of accidents on my daily commute that I suspect that sadly I will have to deploy it one day. It is surprising how much better a response you get if you are wearing one of those !
Also, people do respond quite strangely sometimes to traumatic events. I had a call an ambulance once at an event where we had a VERY serious incident. I dialled 111, the New Zealand emergency services number. I haven't lived in EnZed for more than 20 years. This was a long way from the first ambulance I have called in this country and a very long way from the first event I have managed. (for the record, I figured out what I had done very quickly when I got a voice telling me I had called NHS 24 to read the internet first !)
Ambulance moved as it was blocking a parking space!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-38568000
Oh my God! What a prick!
Ambulance moved as it was blocking a parking space!
How come they can't find the car/owner with the details they have? Can't be many red minis with plates starting like that?
How come they can't find the car/owner with the details they have? Can't be many red minis with plates starting like that?
And video evidence - AIUI ambulances are littered with cameras
While it's tempting to believe that we're approaching the end of days, this:
I think most people are decent.
is the salient point. We only notice the idiots because they're conspicuous.
It's easy to blame technology, or the Internet, or "the youth of today," but I think there's a couple of other factors at play too.
The first is that crowds get a type of "group think." If you shouted "someone call an ambulance!" everyone will assume someone else will do it. If you single someone out, "YOU call an ambulance," they'll do it without question.
The second I think is a more uniquely British problem, that of not wanting to get involved. It's almost an extension of the "great British reserve." I see it all the time at supermarkets, people will stand and wait watching someone take an empty trolley back and park it up in the bay with the others, then walk over and take the same trolley straight back out again for themselves; the first won't offer and the second won't ask. This silliness would simply never happen in somewhere like the US, "hey bro, you done with that?" In the case of an accident, people won't offer help for fear that it's not wanted, or that they might do something wrong, or they read the Daily Mail and think it's an elaborate ruse by foreigners to steal their wallet, or any one of a million other excuses to avoid interacting with strangers.
And i know it's a small thing, but i couldn't find change for the car park a while ago and a stranger just gave it to me
Were weren't late for a Wedding in Lichfield were you ?
If so, that was me. 😉
