Decease...

[c.cloudwalker]

I just LOLed at some of the posts here. And sadly they come mostly from the US where enough good samaritans have gotten sued for their deeds that I wouldn't help. You gotta make a choice. Either stop sueing and get help, or fook you. China got a wake up call recently when a little girl got ran over a couple times and just laid in the street for the longest time without any help. They are trying to figure out a way for this never to happen again. But first, they had to admit that there was a problem. In the US, we don't have any problems so we don't have anything to get better.

And before anyone says anything, no, France is no better. We actually had quite a funny incident here very recently. A guy died in the subway after helping a damsel in distress. Turned out there was no damsel and the guy that was instantly made a hero was 1/ drunk and 2/ started the fight.


I f you are both an EMT and a photog, yes, you should help first, snap later. I am not an EMT so that after securing the perimeter and calling for an ambulance, I would shoot. Whether you like it or not.

I don't really have a problem with these posts and I tend to agree with E.Rose's take on this. Perhaps the OP should have included something in the subject line about viewer discretion.

You mean like TV stations do?

"We are about to show you some horrible, terrible footage so please put your kids in the next room because we are going to show it to you no matter what. It does help our ratings."

Isn't it time we stop kidding ourselves?

 

[imagemaker46]

I just LOLed at some of the posts here. And sadly they come mostly from the US where enough good samaritans have gotten sued for their deeds that I wouldn't help. You gotta make a choice. Either stop sueing and get help, or fook you. China got a wake up call recently when a little girl got ran over a couple times and just laid in the street for the longest time without any help. They are trying to figure out a way for this never to happen again. But first, they had to admit that there was a problem. In the US, we don't have any problems so we don't have anything to get better.

And before anyone says anything, no, France is no better. We actually had quite a funny incident here very recently. A guy died in the subway after helping a damsel in distress. Turned out there was no damsel and the guy that was instantly made a hero was 1/ drunk and 2/ started the fight.


I f you are both an EMT and a photog, yes, you should help first, snap later. I am not an EMT so that after securing the perimeter and calling for an ambulance, I would shoot. Whether you like it or not.

I don't really have a problem with these posts and I tend to agree with E.Rose's take on this. Perhaps the OP should have included something in the subject line about viewer discretion.

You mean like TV stations do?

"We are about to show you some horrible, terrible footage so please put your kids in the next room because we are going to show it to you no matter what. It does help our ratings."

Isn't it time we stop kidding ourselves?

It's all quite true and yes sad that people are being sued for helping, and sometimes the people don't want help. The China incident was tragic and says alot about a society where people are more afraid of being sued, than helping a child. Sadly the world is becoming more of a turn and walk away society, and who can blame them. A couple months back a guy I went to school with saw two boys stealing a pumpkin from outside a store, he confronted them and was beaten to death, over a $5 pumpkin, simply because he wanted to do the right thing.

These photos posted are not graphic is anyway at all, it is as I said, the words used by the OP to describe them and the over-reaction to the people that have viewed them have created the story behind them. It simply could have been put. "man falls down stairs" and the only reaction would have been, was he alright? and this thread would have ended at that.