My day off is always uneventful.

[Sliceanddice]

*gets the hasmat suit ans pushes eq into the radition cleaning room from indian jones* happy

[Evil Queen]

*hisses and tries to scrub the Good away*

[Sliceanddice]

oh hell im evil too and i still have a caring soul

[Evil Queen]

ew.... quick, get me bleach! I need to made the caring soul go away!

I'm Evil, Darn it!

[Sliceanddice]

Mom like? GAH!

its the cookies and caring soul

[Evil Queen]

<snippet>and mom like

Mom like? GAH!

[Sliceanddice]

EG ever take a first aid class. You are taught in them to look, and point at some and say "Hey you with the*insurt features* call 911. You with the *insurt features go try and find a first aid kit or some authority" if you know names great.
Which is while even with my family i will yell there names.
also the classes are fun.
"HEY YOU! Blonde hair, 80s shirt, old shoes with too much jewelery, CALL 911 NOW. TELL THEM *facts*. You Red hair, tank top, low slung jeans and flip flops got run and try to find the first aid kit" all day long

oh and EQ you are awesome and mom like

[Chanlin]

I forget which network did this, but there was a similar study where they staged the abduction of children on a street corner in New York. The set up had a police officer speaking with some actors who were in on the staged kidnapping at the opposite street corner.

The results were less than stellar. If I recall only two or three times in like 50 or so staged abductions did anyone try to stop them.

[crazylegs]

I know in retrospect I wasted the police's time, but I don't know the difference between a loud firework bang (it had to have been one hell of a cherry bomb - not your average OOH, AHH sparkly firework) and a gun shot.

No, you didn't; for the very reason you just gave.

I would much rather spend my time chasing calls like that then a call not come in at all.

[rerant]

yeah, didn't a study several years back say that they could actually graph the probability of what percentage of people would call emergency services?

I think the most famous example is the apartment complex in new york where there was over 100 witnesses to a murder and not a single person called the police because they all assumed someone else was calling and didn't want to overwhelm the dispatchers...
remind me not to get killed in new york.

We studied that case in my high school sociology class.
What was interesting was everyone in the class was horrified, but quite a few admitted they would have reacted the same way as the people who did nothing.

Fuckin' hell I called the cops when I heard a firework go off on a day that was nowhere near a firework related holiday just in case.
I know in retrospect I wasted the police's time, but I don't know the difference between a loud firework bang (it had to have been one hell of a cherry bomb - not your average OOH, AHH sparkly firework) and a gun shot.

[Geek King]

Setting a car on fire by setting a bottle of something on the hood and lighting it? That seems a bit odd way to set something on fire.

Not really. A glass or plastic bottle would make a nice, if inexact, timer. The firey mixture would take a bit of time to melt or burst the bottle, giving the arsonist time to get away from the area.

Good for you, Evil Queen, for stopping and doing something. More kudos for aiding the investigation.

[thehippie777]

This story is worse: video clip from fox news.

Someone even takes a cellphone picture, but doesn't use said cell to call 911.

holy crap. So much for my friend's theory on people being naturally good. Mine is they are natually dumb lol or at least, like the movie Idiocracy, only the dumb ones are breeding too much.

All of those people...just staring at him... What kinda sick @#@!&%$$%$ takes a pic of a hurt person but doesn't try to help by calling 911???

I worry for this world...

[JustADude]

yeah, didn't a study several years back say that they could actually graph the probability of what percentage of people would call emergency services?

I think the most famous example is the apartment complex in new york where there was over 100 witnesses to a murder and not a single person called the police because they all assumed someone else was calling and didn't want to overwhelm the dispatchers...
remind me not to get killed in new york.

Yeppers. Kitty Genovese, which is why the phenomenon called Dilution of Responsibility is known as Genovese Syndrome as well as Bystander Effect.

[One-Fang]

This story is worse: video clip from fox news.

Someone even takes a cellphone picture, but doesn't use said cell to call 911.

Oh. My. God.

My faith in humanity is at an all time low right about now. Hit and run? Yeah, sucks but happens. I can see that. But those bystanders? HOLY FREAKING COW!

[crazylegs]

I posted a similar story about a week back, it doesn't suprise me in the slightest to be honest.