Friday, January 26, 2007
Innocent Question 26
Why are some Singaporeans so apathetic?The extent?
When I reached home today, Piggy Mummy told me that someone (an Indian man, she said) jumped to his death at my block yesterday, 6 p.m. My dad was at the lift lobby when the man landed metres away from him.
Bad luck? Not so. Another woman was a step from where the man landed. Had she walked a little faster, she would be squashed by the man.
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I just realised I should use victim instead of man. Sounded kinda rude... and heartless (Cute QQ, stop nodding your head!)
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My dad was shocked. He walked in a daze back home and told my mum about it. They decided to call the police. I was like "What? You mean up till then, nobody called the police?!"
Piggy Mummy said she looked out of the window and saw people walking past the bloody body (pun unintended) without so much of a glance. Despite the brain matter spilling out and blood splattered everywhere, there were a few kids looking on.
Yucks. If such a thing happened to me, I'll definitely call the police and pull the kids away from the scene, provided I'm not too much of a shock.
Someone tell me why those people didn't inform the relevant authorities! What would you do if you saw an accident/suicide/emergency?
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posted by QueenPig @ 10:00 PM
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At 6:07 PM ,
said...I think the best we can do is to inform the police, taking note of time, position, eye witnesses present and any screams heard. Given the injuries sustained by the victim, there would be little first responders can do, even with first aid training. Probably administer CPR, if there's an AED avaliable, hook him up with it and monitor his lifeline.
This is not an isolated case, some weeks back, I remember someone taking a video of an assult and posted it on the web, many onlookers were watching the stabbing as if it was a film, it went on for several minutes before a man grabbed a motorcycle helmet and came to the victim's rescue.
Remember the gang "punishment" of the secondary school girl being recorded and posted online?
I can almost imagine a heart attack victim dying right in the taxi queue of a hospital because noone bothered to carry him into A&E 10 meters away. -
The gang incident is different, 'cos if I remember correctly, weapons are involved.
It's not so much of what they can do to the victim. It's the fact that they didn't even bother to call the relevant authorities (hello, walking away as if nothing happened? Don't think they are suffering from shock). How hard can keying "999" be? -
At 11:06 PM ,
said...the gang incident was a bunch of secondary school girls kicking and stripping a schoolmate because she gave a condom as birthday present to the gangleader's boyfriend, she was badly beaten up, kicks to the head, punches, slaps can be heard. all these took place at a stairway landing (HDB).
well, they're just afraid to be implicated/called in for eye witness ba, they'll just say aww poor thing, but nothing much i can do without troubling/implicating myself... walk away...
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