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Zimmerman has come out of hiding...

Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

OscarB63 said:
which supports my point and refutes yours. out of all those rush hour cars... only you and one other stopped. ie, stopping and helping is NOT what most people do.
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Cool, I thought I was having one of those "needs caffeine" moments
 
Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

OscarB63 said:
this is complete and total bull****. very few passers-by would have even stopped, let alone risked helping.

A couple of years ago, I was on a road trip and witnessed a car hit some debris on the interstate. Car skidded and slid across several lanes of traffic, flipped several times and landed in the ditch. I was mid-morning rush hour with hundreds (if not thousands) of cars on the road and most of them didn't even bother to slow down. Myself and one other guy pulled over. I called 911 to report it and then we stayed with the vehicle offering support and encouragement to the couple trapped inside until the rescue squad showed up.
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Ermmm ... why is it BS? You and another guy stopped and helped in a similar situation - did you not? Or are you saying you are so exceptional that no other Americans would have done what you did?

Allow me to inform you that stopping to assist the victims of road accidents is the norm, rather than the exception, where I come from. I have never seen a major traffic accident where people did not stop and offer what assistance they could. If you are saying that is not what happens in US society then you are making a terrible indictment of your society, and I find it difficult to believe that is entirely accurate.

Furthermore, if you had overcome your defensive attitude towards anything concerned with George Zimmerman, and read the rest of my post, you would have seen that I was recommending that people not be so mean-spirited as to deny Zimmerman credit for any of his actions.

Don't be so quick to gratuitously attack my posts - I will not be quite so restrained in my response next time.
 
Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

Leo said:
Ermmm ... why is it BS? You and another guy stopped and helped in a similar situation - did you not? Or are you saying you are so exceptional that no other Americans would have done what you did?

Allow me to inform you that stopping to assist the victims of road accidents is the norm, rather than the exception, where I come from. I have never seen a major traffic accident where people did not stop and offer what assistance they could. If you are saying that is not what happens in US society then you are making a terrible indictment of your society, and I find it difficult to believe that is entirely accurate.

Furthermore, if you had overcome your defensive attitude towards anything concerned with George Zimmerman, and read the rest of my post, you would have seen that I was recommending that people not be so mean-spirited as to deny Zimmerman credit for any of his actions.

Don't be so quick to gratuitously attack my posts - I will not be quite so restrained in my response next time.
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yes, myself and one other guy....out of the hundreds that passed by stopped.

what I am saying is that only a very small % of the people who witness such accidents ever actually stop to help.
 
Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

OscarB63 said:
yes, myself and one other guy....out of the hundreds that passed by stopped.

what I am saying is that only a very small % of the people who witness such accidents ever actually stop to help.
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By calling my post BS, you said a bit more than that. My experience has been that at every major traffic accident I have seen, particularly where there was a risk of injury, a number of passers by have stopped and rendered what assistance they could. I am sure many others would have done so, but seeing helpers already at hand, saw no further necessity.

This has applied in both Australia and the UK, and I find it difficult to credit that Americans should be so much more selfish and uncaring in similar situations. The Americans I have met in RL give me the opposite impression.
 
Pell the other one Leo. Dozens of people walked by someone getting decapitated in a British street recently.
 
Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

shrubnose said:
Do you have any reliable proof that it wasn't staged?
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I hope you understand by now how ridiculous that statement is....

roughdraft274 said:
So you hear about a car accident and the first thing you think is "I hope it was a black teenager"? How about is the person ok?
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It had already reported the 4 people were OK... but no other details at the time. My post was for GZ haters in speculation of how they would process the info if the 4 happened to be black. There's already been a bunch of idiots claiming this was staged.
 
Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

sharon said:
It was right after rush hour.. I had left documents in the nose of the plane so I was rushing to get them for a meeting.. I didn't say there were three cars on the road.. I said no one stopped except me and the elderly man who's car was clipped.
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sharon said:
Oh buck, you are pathetic. Ordinary people do the right thing every day.
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Not everyone is so ordinary....

As noted by the top quote.
 
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Caine said:
Not everyone is so ordinary....

As noted by the top quote.
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It was my JOB......
 
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sharon said:
It was my JOB......
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well then, there is nothing out of the ordinary for doing your JOB. it was not Zimmerman's JOB to stop and help those people. but he did it anyway...unlike many others who did not.
 
Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

OscarB63 said:
well then, there is nothing out of the ordinary for doing your JOB. it was not Zimmerman's JOB to stop and help those people. but he did it anyway...unlike many others who did not.
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My job was not to pull people out of wrecked cars..
 
Ben K. said:
Pell the other one Leo. Dozens of people walked by someone getting decapitated in a British street recently.
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that's a bit different, and seems to fall in line with the advice they give rape victims about yelling "fire" as opposed to "help"
 
Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

sharon said:
What was your first quote about?
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um...yeah...we were talking about stopping and helping people and you posted "It's my JOB"

so, enlighten us...what exactly was your JOB and what, if anything, does it have to do with the topic under discussion?
 
Dr. Chuckles said:
that's a bit different, and seems to fall in line with the advice they give rape victims about yelling "fire" as opposed to "help"
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But some people did try to help that man, most didn't, most casually walled by - which is the point. People generally avoid acting waiting for a "leader" to emerge in emergencies. It's crowd psychology. It doesn't reflect on any particular society that this happens, but its a bit simplistic to say anyone would do it. We know they don't, even if you individually have or believe you would.

Kudos should be where it's due.
 
Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

sharon said:
Its not heroism.. Its what people do.
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Um, tell that to Trayvon Martin & George Zimmerman. How many people heard screams for help outside their door? And what percentage of them went to help?
 
Ben K. said:
But some people did try to help that man, most didn't, most casually walled by - which is the point. People generally avoid acting waiting for a "leader" to emerge in emergencies. It's crowd psychology. It doesn't reflect on any particular society that this happens, but its a bit simplistic to say anyone would do it. We know they don't, even if you individually have or believe you would.

Kudos should be where it's due.
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I agree. I was just pointing out people react differently to situations where individuals are committing violence
 
Napoleon said:
I can't speak to their motives, but I don't believe this really happened.
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This is the kind of denial that is the bases of most of the hatred for Zimmerman. No evidence, no reason. Just blind hatred based on emotion.

So sad.
 
Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

Caine said:
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confused?
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it was my job......
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my job was not to pull people out of wrecked cars..
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C'mon Caine, you know what she meant. :lol:
What she is trying to say is that it was her job to retrieve the papers, but not her job to stop and help.
 
Napoleon said:
I can't speak to their motives, but I don't believe this really happened.
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Do you realize how many people would have to be involved in this deception to make it work?
 
Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

sharon said:
It was right after rush hour.. I had left documents in the nose of the plane so I was rushing to get them for a meeting.. I didn't say there were three cars on the road.. I said no one stopped except me and the elderly man who's car was clipped.
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sharon said:
It was my JOB......
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Redbeard said:
C'mon Caine, you know what she meant. :lol:
What she is trying to say is that it was her job to retrieve the papers, but not her job to stop and help.
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Actually I didn't know that she was referring to the papers thing.

Thanks for clearing that up. (Im being genuine here by the way)
 
Re: George Zimmerman Emerged from Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue

Caine said:
Actually I didn't know that she was referring to the papers thing.

Thanks for clearing that up. (Im being genuine here by the way)
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I know. You are welcome.

Actually took a stab, hence the smiley thingie.

Myself have a tendency (at times) to write things in a spasmodic manner leaving open to interpretation.
 
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