If you saw a car flip and roll into the median, would you stop to help?

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NickB79

If you saw a car flip and roll into the median, would you stop to help?
So I'm in the break room at work, and a coworker is telling us how, on his way home from a weekend in Duluth (Minnesota), he sees a car in the northbound lane of I-35 spin out in ice, roll multiple times, and hit the dividing wires. If it weren't for those wires, it would have rolled into incoming traffic, ie his car.

He laughs and says it made him slow down the rest of the way home.

I was like "You didn't stop to help?!?"

His response was no, but it's fine because he saw another car behind him stop so it's fine. Another coworker chimed in that he wouldn't either, because "You don't know who that is. What if it's a murderer?" A couple of other coworkers nodded along.

And I keep thinking about that. How scared of the world do you have to keep driving as someone is potentially dying inside that vehicle? How do you sleep at night? What if that was your child, and someone drove by?

And it's not even the first time I've had these discussions. My wife and I found a lost child at the Mall of America a few years ago. Dozens of people walking by and going around him, looking away from a visibly terrified, crying child. Watching that sea of people just part around him. Long story short, I went to him, mall security was called, kid's parents found. And coworkers chided me for approaching a crying child, because "what if you're accused of being a child abductor?" WTF???

I've been at my job 20 years. I've worked with a lot of these guys since I started. Between these kinds of regular discussions, the Trump presidency, the response to COVID, and the response to the George Floyd murder, I've realized that a lot of my coworkers are only skin-deep good people. That makes me so profoundly sad.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218531179

This never happened...

[Old n Grumpy]

I was expecting him to say you stopped the car ran over, blew out the fire, ripped the door open, pulled the people out, resuscitated them and gave them emergency first aid while he waited for help Then traffic stopped. Everyone got out and clapped.

Notice oh he had to include Trump in his bouncy

[ADsOutburst]

I was expecting him to say you stopped the car ran over, blew out the fire, ripped the door open, pulled the people out, resuscitated them and gave them emergency first aid while he waited for help Then traffic stopped. Everyone got out and clapped.

Notice oh he had to include Trump in his bouncy

If I remember correctly, during the run-up to the 2016 election, there was a thread asking whether other DUers had noticed more people being kind lately. The idea was, this was a sign that people were rejecting Trumpism. To the dems, everything must somehow be examined in relation to Trump. If people are more kind, they say it's because of opposition to Trump. If people behave badly, they say it's because of Trump. That's where they are now.

[USA4ME]

If I were a primitive, I would naturally assume that a cop would jump out of the bushes and help the distressed driver.

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[jukin]

If true, it isn't, even if the DUmbass DUchebag stopped, what good would it have done knowing exactly nothing to assist or help but only be in the way of useful assistance.

If I stopped I would be of use as I have had a CPR certification since 16 from a BSA course, I am a certified lifeguard  and have saved several people while I was recreating. Also Red Cross certifications in first aid that I have used on others many times. I have also used the Heimlich Maneuver six times, one being my mother, to save choking people in restaurants. I am cool under pressure. I have experience from bear attacks and potential drownings to auto/motorcycle and hiking accidents.

I've been subject to DUmmys for almost 20 years and I can say without a doubt they are some of the worst people I have ever encountered in my entire life. They lie, they cheat, they break all society's decent norms and still have the unmitigated gall to lie about their fake virtue while berating decent and civilized people. 

 

[DefiantSix]

NickB79
...I've realized that a lot of my coworkers are only skin-deep good people. That makes me so profoundly sad.

Life's a real bitch when you live and work in a leftist-run shithole, ain't it? 

Most Dim'Rats I know aren't even "skin-deep good people." Quislings, sycophants and bully boys never are.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Clearly NickB79 has a very advanced case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Good and NORMAL people will go out their way to be nice, especially in the Midwest. This jackass is just trying to make a political point when there isn't one.

[CollectivismMustDie]

And I keep thinking about that. How scared of the world do you have to keep driving as someone is potentially dying inside that vehicle? How do you sleep at night? What if that was your child, and someone drove by?

Scared? Ì doubt it.

Perhaps they're just long time MN natives who have some real degree of understanding just how much MN has changed in the last 35 years...for the worse.

Next weekend I'll be driving through the twin cities. I used to love driving through Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Now days l avoid it. It has changed for the worse. Seeing as I grew up just north of there and lived there for 33 years, I have a frame of reference from which to make such judgements.

For the record: "Minnesota nice", was always a myth.

[CollectivismMustDie]

Clearly NickB79 has a very advanced case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Good and NORMAL people will go out their way to be nice, especially in the Midwest. This jackass is just trying to make a political point when there isn't one.

In general. You're right about good and normal people in the Midwest, however, in MN, thier numbers were always vastly exaggerated.

The leftist scum and their evil ways have driven large numbers of them out and replaced them 3 or 4 times over with illhan omar/blm/commie PHDD types and their fellow travelers.

As a MN native, it saddens me deeply.