Bystander effect, innit?
Some homeless guy was murdered in America recently. It's on CCTV, shitloads of people saw him being stabbed up and did nothing.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 20:53, archived)

Yeah, but he was only a tramp.
They don't count as people.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:00, archived)

That seems to be people's thinking.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:04, archived)

i suspect i'd be the same in the circumstance.
i'd be thinking "holy fuck he's got a knife and oh my god he's stabbing him and i should do something but the knife the knife and that could be me holy fuck oh my shoes need polishing yes very much and look at those laces."

this does, effectively, make me a bad person.
( spacefish bong!, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:04, archived)

I'd like to think I'd at least ring the cops.
But then, you can never really know until it happens to you.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:07, archived)

One time I was walking down the street and there was an old guy collapsed on the pavement,
everyone was just walking past like they didn't even notice. He didn't respond when I tried to speak to him, I didn't know what to do so I went round the corner to the police station and told them.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:11, archived)

yeah, i'd definitely do that
but other than that i'm soft pathetic manchild number one
( spacefish bong!, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:26, archived)

I know this sort of thing happens all the time,
but I really can't understand how you could blank something out like that.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:04, archived)

Neither do I.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:07, archived)

I've never stood by. Phone police discreetly and maintain a little distance, before making sure people are ok.
It's how its done.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:11, archived)

This.
You don't have to be a hero, just give some semblance of a fuck for a fellow human being.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:16, archived)

the number of fights i have charged into to break up is phenomenal.
it probably helps that i worked in quite a rough pub, but not all the fights i've broken up were there.
of course, it helps being the biggest person in wales.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:36, archived)

SUPER SSG

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:38, archived)

it's only like someone five and a bit foot tall dealing with children really.

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:39, archived)

Oh Gobbo.
I want to go with you into the hardest pub, sepporatly, start a fight on someone, then you can come to my rescue. We'll act like strangers until you break up the fight, where I buy you a drink. By the end of the night you can hold me in your arms, we'll propper queer it up, I'd feel so safe in your arms, yet so frightened, at the same time.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 21:42, archived)