Where are the good Samaritans?

[muskieman]

It is almost unthinkable but it happened.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/bystanders ... 1200410134

[Mr. Neutral]

A very sad story which doesn't exactly reflect well on the locals.

[CarlosTheJackal]

This isnt exactly Kitty Genovese time (60+ neighbors heard pleas for help for hours and NO ONE called the police). Two calls almost immediately in this case, the Chief was distorting the facts for a headline. Hit/run, bad. Failure to stop, bad. But Im not quite ready for total community loss of moral compass.

[muskieman]

This isnt exactly Kitty Genovese time (60+ neighbors heard pleas for help for hours and NO ONE called the police). Two calls almost immediately in this case, the Chief was distorting the facts for a headline. Hit/run, bad. Failure to stop, bad. But Im not quite ready for total community loss of moral compass.

!st I would not compare or condone the two except to say the moral compass is not a total community in either. The people in both situations showed no heart and the persons on/in the scooter and cars that circled or drove by slow but did not stop should have some soul searching to do. Like the Samaritan story most people passed and did nothing to help.

2nd, this man is the tip of the iceberg of people that are passed over daily and not helped, that is the loss of community morals.

I remember Kitty Genovese as a young person(14) I was intrigued and horrified that people could do this to a another human being...not just the killing but the callus ignoring of her plight. Actually, police were called in Kitty's case but they were not considered clear and the police with little information did not consider it a top priority. Luckily in this recent case a squad car did come down the street as seen in the camera later and some calls did come in but this was broad daylight with hundreds of people in the area.

[ct_x_fan]

Downtown Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport = Over the Rhine. enough said.