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I want to tell you a story that is
bothering me, and I will admit some aspect may sound like I am
praising myself, but that is not the intent.
About a week ago, from my bedroom
window I heard the screeching of tires and the tell-tale sound of
cars colliding, complete with a car horn playing its note in one long
tune. This accident, I could tell, happened on a main drag, about two
streets over from my domicile. This being Vallejo, and expecting
little of my fellow citizens, I threw on my shoes and wandered over.
Sure enough, a car had collided with
the back of another. The salient point of this tale is that a woman
was still in her car, bleeding, obviously in shock, and trying to
call someone on a cell phone, while her car still sat in the road on
a blind turn. A crowd had beat me to the scene, but all they did was
stand there and watch.
I leaped to action and got the woman
out of her car, over to the sidewalk, and flagged down cars coming
around the turn so as to avoid another collision, while at the same
time convincing a few men to push the damaged car out of the road. Later, the paramedics who arrived would not let me
go until I could show them the blood on my arm was not mine.
So yes, I did what I thought any decent
person ought to do, but it really bothers me that everyone just stood
around watching, and not helping, until I said otherwise.
Something has seriously gone wrong in
our society. This isn't reality television, people...it's just reality.
-Brent
“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.” ― Helen Keller
