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• #2
wow...interesting story.if everyone was to adopt the attitude you have this place would be a lot better.
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• #3
That's sort of the point though chap. I realised today that, generally speaking, people do care, they just don't really know what to do. I think people also react quite differently in difficult situations. For example, the incident with the girl last year was very different to what happened this morning. She was losing a hell of a lot of blood from her mouth, it was one of the most shocking things I've ever seen in real life. There were people (bystanders) at the scene who had sort of broken down and were in tears/shock. About 3 or 4 of us were with her on the road trying to do what little we could while waiting for the ambulance. When it turned up and took her away I then walked the rest of the way into work and it was only then what had happened dawned on me. I was such a mess work sent me home, I went across the road from work to get a mini-cab and ended up getting into 3 of them before I got in the right one! The rest of the day was a daze.
But I find it quite comforting to think that should any of us be involved in an accident in London it's highly likely that we'll be properly looked after and by complete strangers.
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• #4
Jeez, that sounds like a horrific thing to be involved in, you have my sympathies.
And well done on this morning, you've earned your elevenses :-)
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• #5
maybe i should have emphasised the word 'everyone'.
kudos for the way you acted in both situations...the later would have fucked a lot of people up.
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• #6
@aidan, you probably would use your initiative because you have the desire to help.
All of this is just in preparation for the day I rush to the assistance of a really saucy looking female cyclist who has scuffed her knee and chipped a nail. Nobody else is around to help and then suddenly all her clothes fall off!
:)
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• #7
Fair play to you! You helped out without thinking in two really nasty situations when others might have thought about looking the other way. I think most people are willing to help out if they think they can. Having said that, some people are seriously fucked up - was living in Brighton when I saw a couple get knocked down by a complete c*nt in a body kitted Astra. My mate attended to them and I had to hold off the driver who was shouting "you've fucked my car up" while trying to get at one of the people he'd knocked over. Thank god the police arrived quickly and arrested him.
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• #9
ive been hit by a bus, its f*cking scary. but i recieved the same sort of care from complete strangers, although a few elderly women did break down at the sight of my mangled wrist!
Did my good deed for the day this morning. A cyclist who was traveling along the pavement next to the bus seemed to lose control and fall off his bike dangerously close to the front of the bus. The driver stopped sharpish and people were pretty much gawking out of the windows and now open doors (I think in these situations people are genuinely concerned but don't know what to do). I got off the bus to see if he was OK, a girl called an ambulance, the guy was out cold but moving jerkily and another man had put him more or less in the recovery position (one well meaning woman thought the recovery position meant he had to lay on his back - having done a first aid course, years ago, I put her straight). I was genuinely impressed by how helpful and concerned people were. I was talking to him to try and keep him calm and held my hand in front of his face to check he was breathing properly. I went through his bag to see if he had ID or maybe he was an insulin user (he wasn't and was actually a medical student), unfortunately there was no cash and the packed lunch didn't look very appetising. Two doctors then tipped up who were just walking past, they took over and then the ambulance turned up. I/we 'think' he had had an epileptic fit or similar and was very dazed but conscious as he was taken away in the ambulance. They also took his bike with them in the front of the ambulance.
The incident above brought unpleasant memories flooding back of another accident that occurred last year, again on my way to work. When a girl on a bicycle had accidentally been crushed by a turning lorry. A small group of us did what we could while waiting for the ambulance but unfortunately she had suffered a massive head injury and died as a result - she could only have been 20/22. I was a witness to this and so the police asked me to make a statement re. the lorry driver's role in the accident. At the time the driver was shaking and sobbing and in fairness the cyclist appeared to be quite inexperienced as she'd darted up the inside of him on a bend at some lights sandwiching herself between a turning lorry and metal railings. To cut a long story short the sergeant who took the statement a couple of weeks after the accident told me that the girl didn't have any immediate relatives as such, and had been living with a family friend. She'd moved to the UK from south Africa to study and start afresh after both her parents had been killed in an RTA a couple of years earlier. How bizarre.