Man attacked by kids at L'Enfant Metro -- bystanders watch, film it - Polidicks

[QUOTE=skynrdfan2;27244581]you people who do not believe in the bystander effect or believe that the only reason people do not interfere with these types of things are dumb. I have done much research and have read many books regarding social engineering/phenomena and can tell you that there are dozens and dozens of reasons people do not interfere, all of which are thoughts (many being subliminal) flying through your head in less than a second that you are sometimes unaware of. In Malcolm Gladwell's book [I]The Tipping Point[/I] an experiment was done similar to this situation that showed even if a person says "If I saw someone in need of help in public, I would step in," there is about a 95% chance they will not do anything when confronted with said obligation.[/QUOTE] For the love of Science please understand that it doesn't make you any less of a pathetic asshole for standing around and doing nothing.

Absolutely fucking disguisting. GOD DAMN. I fucking hate people. FUCK. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. [editline]6th January 2011[/editline] GOD damn it. If I was fucking there. I would have snapped those girls necks, pissed on them, and took the guy out for coffee. FUCK.

[QUOTE=Dan*;27245322]Absolutely fucking disguisting. GOD DAMN. I fucking hate people. FUCK. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. [editline]6th January 2011[/editline] GOD damn it. If I was fucking there. I would have snapped those girls necks, pissed on them, and took the guy out for coffee. FUCK.[/QUOTE] lol overreact much?

I feel awful for that guy. All he wanted to do was work out and read before he went home. He should've fought back despite what others may think. [editline]6th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Dan*;27245322]Absolutely fucking disguisting. GOD DAMN. I fucking hate people. FUCK. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. [editline]6th January 2011[/editline] GOD damn it. If I was fucking there. I would have snapped those girls necks, pissed on them, and took the guy out for coffee. FUCK.[/QUOTE] Relax, there's nothing you could've done to help it.

Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men. Most people consider themselves good citizens, but when shit like this happens they stand in awe or just don't fucking care. How can you consider yourself good if you stand by and simply watch indifferently? You can't. If you're a bystander you can do two things support the attack by one watching and going as far as filming or two be apart of the solution and help someone. Call for help, call the police or even step in and diffuse the situation. Sure you can say "oh I don't want to get hurt", "I don't want to get sued" and all that shit. But are you really going to fear something that might not even happen and allow someone to get injured or even killed? This guy in this case is okay from what I understand, but his cries shouldn't have been ignored and most importantly he needed to defend himself.

[QUOTE=MR-X;27245442]Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men. Most people consider themselves good citizens, but when shit like this happens they stand in awe or just don't fucking care. How can you consider yourself good if you stand by and simply watch indifferently? You can't. If you're a bystander you can do two things support the attack by one watching and going as far as filming or two be apart of the solution and help someone. Call for help, call the police or even step in and diffuse the situation. Sure you can say "oh I don't want to get hurt", "I don't want to get sued" and all that shit. But are you really going to fear something that might not even happen and allow someone to get injured or even killed?[/QUOTE] Most people still value their own life

[QUOTE=Dan*;27245322]Absolutely fucking disguisting. GOD DAMN. I fucking hate people. FUCK. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. [editline]6th January 2011[/editline] GOD damn it. If I was fucking there. I would have snapped those girls necks, pissed on them, and took the guy out for coffee. FUCK.[/QUOTE] Actually you probably would have stood there like everybody else

They'd probably stab me [editline]7th January 2011[/editline] knowing the kids around where I live

[QUOTE=TH89;27245589]Actually you probably would have stood there like everybody else[/QUOTE] I'd still take him out for coffee.

Lol but seriously those kids are piles of shit. Edit, just watched the video, excuse me, "those monkeys are piles of shit" [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Racism" - TH89))[/highlight]

It's DC, nothing to worry about.

[QUOTE=TH89;27245589]Actually you probably would have stood there like everybody else[/QUOTE] Of course the reactions of the people when he came back didn't help their cause.

Is DC actually that bad? It looks pretty nice to me (from a UK perspective). Poor man anyway.

[QUOTE=Collin665;27242737]Accidently push them onto the third rail while trying to defend self, profit.[/QUOTE] Lol you don't know what a third rail is

What the fuck man? "Oh today I feel like beating someone... Oh look! An old man, let's beat him!"

If I was in haywoods case, I would've grabbed the girl and slam her to the ground and hold her in a lock position until someone smart arrived.

Enraging, and the animals that did this will probably never be caught. I honestly would have wrecked fucking house after half of the shit that guy put up with, guy or girl, you don't just do that to some random person. [editline]6th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=M24;27246371]Is DC actually that bad? It looks pretty nice to me (from a UK perspective). Poor man anyway.[/QUOTE] Lots of places like this in the U.S regrettably, sorry to say it but if this guy had fought back the crowd would have actually jumped to the girls defense and the guy would have ended up getting a jail sentence (And [B]if[/B] he was lucky, the girl too.) I'm not gonna say that this is because of black people, just the environment they were raised in (Plenty of white trash, black people are sadly just the front page for this kind of shit), its a perpetuating cycle that will never break unless something is done in society to stop the reproduction of animals like this. However, due to our constitution, the acts required to actually change this significantly will never happen. Meaning there will always be ghetto thugs and white trash like the ones you can see in videos like this. Heck, some of what I'm saying people could call me racist for, even though its not the color of the skin, but the circumstance of their upraising. In short, this will ONLY get worse.

[QUOTE=TH89;27245589]Actually you probably would have stood there like everybody else[/QUOTE] I probably would have tried to get plenty of distance between me and the situation

[QUOTE=johan_sm;27245494]Most people still value their own life[/QUOTE] Of course, I'm not asking you to jump and take a bullet or get stabbed. But in this case two pre-teens jumping someone could have been easily stopped if a few people stepped in. I'm not saying beat the shit out of the kids, but create a physical barrier between the victim and them. I'm all for looking out for number one (yourself, or if talking about myself that would be me). I would consider my safety before others, but it doesn't make me indifferent when something like that happens. If I saw something like that I would intervene. If I got hit or bruised up it isn't a big deal, I'm alive and can still function normally. I would hate myself for the rest of my life if I stood by and the victim died.

It's OK. It's visually obvious those kids will just be future victims of the war on drugs. They'll have to push that crack cocaine to keep their South east DC ramshack of a home. PAGE KING Anyways, this is why we have the 2nd amendment. I plan to get my handgun when I turn 21 later this year. Be poppin caps in dey ass

[IMG]http://i56.tinypic.com/14x2nm8.jpg[/IMG] If only he had been there...

:smith: I fucking hate things like this

[QUOTE=Tippmann357;27243324]Alright, now analyze the person filming the video. Does it sound like he would have helped even if there weren't any people? There is a group of retards and there is a group of regular people to which the bystander effect applies to.[/QUOTE] Those were fifth grade kids filming it I think. I don't think that those kids would risk the chance of ruining their reputation in school, especially if they weren't fatally injuring the guy. They're still assholes though.

[QUOTE=Elizer;27241813] Side note: Of course, then the kids go running back home and cry out that they were 'assaulted' and then this dude ends up arrested. Seems he may have been in a lose-lose situation.[/QUOTE] The sad thing is, if it was a woman that was attacked and she fought back, it would be a win-win situation. What the fuck is wrong with law?

Shoulda punched 'em in da face.

Oh man.

I can't stand these videos with people screaming for help in them. It started with that terrorist beheading video, then that one video with the cop being shot (from the GD thread a few days ago), and now this. Even though this isn't even that bad, it still makes me cringe.

"white boy mad as shit" wow

Heh, l'enfant means children in french. Children's metro. Although Metro means weather. So children's weather. :wtc:

This is pretty messed up, the fact nobody helped him. Everyone sat there like an idiot recording, rather than trying to help the poor guy.