No, it was real. It was on an NBC (or perhaps CNBC) program. It was a follow-up to the pieces they did on people standing around watching children get abducted by strangers.
There have been a number of studies along these lines, and they all seem to start out with the same reference to that woman who was murdered in NYC while everyone turned away. It *is* hard to believe until you see just how incredibly apathetic Americans are across all economic boundaries. It's almost like entertainment to most. In fact it's so prevalent that we have laws that put you in jail for not taking at least reasonable action. It's called "Depraved Indifference," and it will send you to the big house if your inaction catches the wrong person's attention. Didn't they use that in the series finale of Seinfeld to send everyone to jail for a year? Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Get advanced intensive Master-level training in C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at ProductivityEnhancement.com -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:14 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: GREAT BATTLE!! SFW I don't believe that for a second. Sounds like a Michael Moore or a supersize it fakumentary. On 5/23/07, Adam Churvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony, > > I'd have to disagree after seeing independent study after independent study > show that Americans almost always look the other way, even in the most dire > circumstances. The one I liked the best was this guy who stood out in a > house's front yard and yelled to all the neighbors: "Hey! I'm ripping off > this house! Call the police!" People just stood around and watched and did > nothing. This was after breaking into a few houses without drawing any > attention to himself, so he wondered if flat-out telling people that he was > ripping off the house would make any difference. It didn't. Good > neighborhood, too. In another one he threw bricks through parked car > windows and stole the cars, right in front of everyone else walking by on > the sidewalk right next to the car. > > Didn't someone else on this list tell us about a group standing around > watching a girl get stabbed repeatedly? It happens everywhere in this > country, all the time. It's rare that anyone takes any action. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235370 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
