Crime

Shock Video: Bystanders Walk by Dying Man as He Lays Motionless on the Sidewalk in Virginia

Police in Arlington, VA, are shocked at what transpired on July 1 near a city bus stop. There, a man was struck by a vehicle, and he ended up lying face down and motionless on the sidewalk. But that isn’t what has officials horrified: it’s the fact that a bus surveillance video driving by caught numerous people walking past and doing nothing as they man lay dying.

Police Video Shows Virginia Bystanders Doing Nothing as Man Dies on the Sidewalk After Accident

Police Video Shows Virginia Bystanders Doing Nothing as Man Dies on the Sidewalk After Accident

Police Video Shows Virginia Bystanders Doing Nothing as Man Dies on the Sidewalk After Accident

Video of the aftermath and of the not-so-good Samaritans was released on Monday. ARLnow.com explains:

With the bus stopped, passengers file past the man’s body. Although someone had called 911 — lights from police cars heading to the scene can be seen in the background — not a single person stops to check on the man, who was either dead or dying. A woman carrying shopping bags walks right by, without hesitation. One man crosses himself after getting on the bus.

Police say they released the video in a “good faith effort” to get witnesses to the accident to step forward. Detectives are not looking to charge anybody in the video with any wrongdoing — they just want them to “come forward and say ‘this is what happened, this is what we saw,’” according to Arlington County Police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck.

“The intent is solely to get these witnesses to… assist police in the reconstruction of what happened that night,” spokesman Sternbeck said. “The intent is not to say these individuals are accountable for anything.”

The startling video is below:

“It‘s more trouble than it’s worth for some people or it creates extra work for them, so they would rather just ignore it and move on,” resident Mike Ford told MyFoxDC.com.

Police say the driver of the vehicle in the accident has been cooperative, but they still need help piecing together what happened in the wake of the victim’s death.

And in case you were wondering, there is no Good Samaritan law in Virginia making it illegal not to help someone in need.

The video is eerily similar to one out of China last year. There, a little girl was hit by two vans and several bystanders did nothing.

(H/T: Daily Mail)

Comments (169)

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  • dimitrisokolov
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:40am

    Why would you stop? In this day in age, the guy might roll over and start eating your face. No thanks.

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    • grudgywoof
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:58am

      People called 911 what else can you do? If it’s a bad hood then you are risking personal injury or perhaps getting robbed if that was a set up. Sorry his amego was killed he was somebody’s son and my heart goes out to the family.

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    • mils
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:57am

      I AGREE…
      in this world…who knows…he could be faking…someone called 911
      such a tragedy that we have come to this in our country…can’t trust anyone..

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    • TAXEVERYONE
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:41am

      You three are a good example of why our once great country is in a moral cesspool.

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    • drattastic
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:51am

      Aah life in the progressive utopia, isn’t it grand .

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    • jungle J
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:09pm

      you can have by back..good thinking..call and walk….too many animals in America today….you bend over to help himand 8 people beat you pull your pant off do you and rob you and then try to sell your lungs and the video of the doing it.

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    • TAXEVERYONE
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:16pm

      Jungle J,, what language are you speaking?

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    • piper60
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:06pm

      In this day and age, if you were to give CPR and the victim still died, you would get sued by the victim’s family. That’s enough to give most people pause.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:15pm

      Just remember when you three top posters get mugged and beaten and people just walk by and not help, remember what you said here. When your family ask why did no stop and help, remember what you said here. All of you who said it could be a setup are IDIOTS.

      I can honestly say not one of you has God in their lives or an moral obligations other than yourselves. Nothing but selfish me, me, me B’s. Congrats! your parents must be so proud.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:21pm

      Where the hell are you people from, when you see another human in distress, you take the time out of your precious day to inquire….”are you alright sir, can I help?” Call 911 again and tell em to step it up the man is dying. Being so afraid of being robbed, or accosted yourself to the point that you can not render simple humane services to a wounded person, leaves you souless.
      I’ll bet you call yourselves Christians too.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:36pm

      1 Minute to call 911 on cell phone. 3 minutes for police to arrive unless you live in a city run by the ‘tard’ party. Most large cities are run by them. In that case the police might take 20 or 30 minutes.

      Arrests in Case of Chinese Toddler Hit by Van and Left to Die
      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/update-arrests-in-case-of-chinese-toddler-hit-by-van-and-left-to-die/

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:28pm

      @Cofemale
      Have you ever been robbed raped beaten?If you haven‘t don’t judge everyone who walked by.I garantee at least one who walked by has and was rightfully afraid.It doesn’t make them selfish simply prudent.It doesn‘t mean that they didn’t care either.
      Please stop to think before posting.

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    • atechgeek
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:06pm

      Same reason why a doctor can’t just stop at an accident to help. If something goes wrong, they sue and the doc loses his/her license. I would also just call 911. Sorry but this is how the laws work in this country now. For all I know the victim would accuse me of being the one that caused it and I got to jail. f’that.

      Nice work politicians. You have truly f’d up this country beyond recognition over GREED.

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    • feralgrognard
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:07pm

      A chap name Wayne Dyer said “How people treat YOU is THEIR karma; how you react is yours.

      To these narcissistic Gen ME cowardly commentators that have replied here, may karma bring to your inhumanity and dispassion, the same last moments this poor chap had in this world with persons equally self serving and unconcerned at your moment of greatest peril and of greatest need.

      Peace be unto his tormented soul by this indoctrination of dispassionate indifference that has been expressed here.

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    • black9897
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:20pm

      All you can do is call. Even as a 22 year old male who does MMA and carries a gun I would never stop. There could be 10 guys waiting in the bushes.

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 5:51pm

      @PIPER60

      Don’t be ridiculous. You are doing this world a disservice by delineating false information.

      It’s called the Good Samaritan Law and it protects exactly the situation you are describing.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:18pm

      drattastic
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:51am
      Aah life in the progressive utopia, isn’t it grand .

      feralgrognard
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 3:07pm
      A chap name Wayne Dyer said “How people treat YOU is THEIR karma; how you react is yours.

      This type of behavior is as old as civilzation. Christ covered such a scenario in a rather well-known parable. The “it’s worse than it has ever been” crowd sure does think highly of the time they tread upon this earth. “No one has ever witnessed the horrors I HAVE.”
      Be the change you want to see. Or not. Do you believe pointing fingers is what matters? Hell, that’s no better than the folks who walked on by.

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    • APD847
      Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:34am

      Pansy.

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    • AmericanFightingMan1
      Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:10pm

      As a believer, we know that each will be judge (by God) for our own acts. Those who blew if off, well, that is a part of the record.

      Yes, in most inner cities, it is risking one’s life to render aid. No doubt. Could be a setup. But ignore the man? No. If we do, then the animals win. The only answer is to render aid. Yes, that means putting yourself at risk. But to not render aid just (incrementally) worsens society, and that has a bigger risk. So in the end, it is a bigger risk to make society worse since you and your family and friends will live in a worse world as a result of your (in)actions and those, collectively, of others.

      There is no safe path through life. It just does not exist.

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    • rabid_wolf2007
      Posted on July 20, 2012 at 12:12am

      The laws here in Canada may be different but being a descent and caring human being is the same around the world. I would rather be sued, beaten or mugged, then to spend the rest of my life wondering if my help could of saved a life. I wish no bad will to anymore, and as much as i know this world can be an ugly place, and know i may be risking my own life, I would not think for a second to stop and offer help, or to see if it were needed. I live in a Ghetto neighbourhood in Southwestern Ontario and even in a ghetto i would still stand as a human being to offer help. I think anything less in cowardess. Since when do we let thugs and haters stop us from doing what is morally right. Everyone wonders why they roam the streets and run our cities the way they do? It’s because people like you choose to let it be that way, afraid to fight for whats right, to worried about yourself, lack of balls to push back. Judging by many comments on here left by some, more incidents of this nature will happen for sure, but here my ghetto, as bad as it is, us who live here own the streets, not the common BS and fubarred criminals. Start standing up and doing whats right for the human race, not for stupidity. Don’t let criminals make the most basic of decisions and choices for you especially those of human compassion and caring. My families hearts go out to those who suffered a great loss. I only wish i could have been there.

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  • Critters58
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:37am

    What you do or don’t do will come back to you. I hope those who passed him by are never in that situation where others pass them by. What is so hard about taking out your cell phone or asking someone to call on their cell phone and dial 911, the police will take it from there. Get the phone out and call!

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    • DunnoYIGolf
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:44am

      If you watch the background of the video, there seems to be police lights flashing. The cops may have been there, so i’m sure people did not want to interfere…just saying

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    • KyleD
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:28am

      In this day and age where you can get sued, jailed or assaulted for helping it‘s society’s own fault this is happening. If people just voted right this might not be happening.

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  • Grumpytroll
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:31am

    Parents don’t expect your children to watch out for you in your old age, because young adults today
    don’t care about anything but their own lazy as_es. Look at these you people just load on the bus not giving a damn.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:29am

    If that were me laying there dying, I’d want to have been left alone to die. Not a bunch of strangers in my face. Hey, it didn’t say they robbed him, so no harm. no foul.

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  • Disabledvet
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:22am

    I can see that happening, we see so many people drunk or high on drugs that pass out where ever they are, that we can not tell the difference in another waste case crack head and a man dying. it would have been nice if someone would have at least called 911 for help.

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    • politicianssuck
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:28am

      911 is for emergencies only. Not for calling just because you need a ride! If this guy was drunk and no one was bothering him what would the emergency be? Stop being an arm chair good Samaritan.

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    • yiska8
      Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:29pm

      @Disabledvet
      I agree. Remember when cell phones were for “emergencies only”? Only one person called! The rest were too busy texting, sexting, facebooking, or playing war of warcraft to even bother. I would have checked on the guy because I wouldn’t want that negative energy following me, but I carry a weapon, so I’d feel more secure in doing so. The younger generation (Generation sociopath)is numb and without empathy. That is why Obamacare will succeed. Death panels and euthanasia will be tolerated because Americans do not care about anything it seems other than the next available app or itune. Americans just don’t give a damn. And that is why we are too far gone to avoid societal collapse.
      Merciful Jesus, please return now. Mankind is not getting any better nor do they wish to. C’mon back Lord, and finish it. AMEN.

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  • lembrandt
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:21am

    Liberalism in full swing…as government becomes involved more and more with our lives, people withdraw more and more from each other…pathetic.

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  • USPATRIOT101
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:15am

    It’s good to see assimilation in full swing made evident by the fluent use of english.

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    • Ballot_Box_Revolution
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:26am

      I‘ll give you a couple reasons why people probably didn’t stop.

      1. Maybe they just thought he was drunk and passed out (maybe it’s common to see in the area)

      2. Now days, it is more of a hassle to help someone out by getting authorities involved. (if I call the police, I am likely to become a suspect, and this could turn out real bad) You WILL become a suspect even if only for an hour.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:20pm

      Ballot box YOU Are an idiot. Suspect for reporting a possible mugging? Please tell me you are not this ignorant and you are not voting this election for Obama. If you are, then I stand by my first sentence.

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    • christos
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:56pm

      To COFEMALE – ACCUSER the woman walking by may have called 911 she probably did not want to be accused of anything,and she may have had her fill of fake rotten men,what was she supposed to do,maybe she had to pick her kids up and if she wasn’t on time her kids could be in danger,people fake stuff all the time,,one of the new ones someone on the road will pretend to be broke down and they will use a girl to wave for help then guys will come out of the ditch where they were hiding & waiting,,,as for the others walking by what could they do,,,other than call 911.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:21pm

      What you may not know is that faking is done for robbery rape and murder.It hit northern va many years before it hit southern va.Not only faking dar break downs and passing out.There is one where they pretend to be disabled and in a wheel chair.They go out of their way to solicit from those weaker especially women.However soliciting for money[begging or asking for change]is the ruse.As soon as you are in arms lenght they grab you and will rob you.It also has the effect of diflecting reporting it.Not only do the victims think they won;t be taken seriously.Its truly embarrasing.We had one here doing that almost twenty years ago.He was caught after five different robberies.Afterward many many people came forward to state that he had done it to them.They were too embarrased to report it.
      The fact that these bystanders may have feared something like this isn’t unreasonable or necessarily cowardice.

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  • 4BlueStars
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:14am

    Kind of symptomatic of what happens in the overcrowded cage when the inhabitants have become dependents and expect “somebody else” to take care of it.

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    • scrudge
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:30am

      welcome to oBAMAISM this is our future

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    • TAXEVERYONE
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:52am

      And have no compassion for another human being. The younger, it’s all about me, generation has never been taught the important things in life. They are really good at coming up with excuses for not getting involved though.

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  • teddyc73
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:07am

    My God, what a society we have created. The total lack of compassion towards our fellow man and the callousness for the life of another human being. It’s simply astounding.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:18am

      let us not forget. Some parts of our country have no shortage of bums that lay around on sidewalks drunk and stoned.

      For some people, it is common to see all manner of vagrants laying around at bus stops, train stations, subways, alleys….

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    • Ballot_Box_Revolution
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:29am

      ….and if you call the police on a Spanish man that was just passed out from drugs, then you will be looked at as racist (you didnt have to call the police, he was just resting)……I mean if you are white and called…

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    • Saggar
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:44am

      Indeed. People are so disconnected from each other. How about leaning down and saying “Are you okay? I see blood running down your head.” But nope. We are afraid to even speak with each other, especially in cities. Sad world we’ve created.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:58am

      Look, the govt is responsible for this. People used to help others all the time. Then the lawyers and cops showed up. Back then, you beat the crap out of drug dealers and run them out of town. Now, the cops arrest YOU for assaulting the drug dealer and the lawyers sue the crap out of you. Back then, a person cries for help, you ran to help. Now, a person cries for help, you look the other way because god forbid if you hurt a criminal then you become the criminal. The cops are mostly responsible for this crap. They don’t want anybody that is not a member of their union interfering with their money grab. That is why nobody gives a damn anymore. Cops, lawyers and politicians. Oh, but if THEY need help, you better help or you go to jail.Pffffttt…..

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    • jenk99
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:22pm

      What is scary about this whole thing isn‘t that they didn’t stop to help, its the why. Was it because they couldn’t be bothered, scared of a possible setup, figured someone else would help or assume he was just passed out, because they see it all the time? It was probably all of the above. There will always be people who don’t care. But, the other reasons are just typical as of late. Our society is breaking down. This is just a prime example. We have a society where even if you want to help, the probability that it will bite you in the butt is entirely too high. In our society, it is always someone else will take care of it. The fact there is any sort of justification for not stopping, should be frightening. I know that these types of things have been throughout time, but not throughout the history of the US. We have been better than this. Now, it is common place to walk past a dying man on the road because he might be passed out, because someone else will take care of it, or because I am afraid that I might end up being a victim. Truly sad.

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  • kentuckypatriot
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:57am

    I would say the very least they could have done was to sit with him until police arrived, but I guess they didn’t want to miss their reality shows when they got home.

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  • Leslie Anne
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:56am

    Alright, we’ve got a guy laying face down next to garbage cans at a bus stop at night. My thought would be he’s a homeless drunk passed out. I’d have left him be. I’d also have crossed the street. Maybe some of them thought the same.

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    • Leslie Anne
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:03am

      Then again, I live near an urban area where seeing someone laying there like that IS a homeless drunk passed out. Unless there was a huge pool of blood or something to tip me off to there being “something wrong”, I‘d just assume it’s another ordinary day in the city.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:15am

      Bravo. Someone who admits to being an actual human being.
      What’s funny is we have a well-know parable to refer to and yet people are blaming everything but human nature. Why? I guess it’s too scary to ponder, “Wow. What if I was one of those people that just walked on by?”
      It happens, folks. Recognizing it is the first step towards NOT walking by. This type of behavior is as old as civilization. Blaming politics or the big city sure as hell ignores a lot of human history.

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:18am

      Agreed, that’s the scene at EVERY bus stop in philly after midnight…

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    • politicianssuck
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:25am

      You said what I wanted to say. If you saw him get hit or some evidence like blood then you would help. But just seeing a guy lying on the ground would tell me he is drunk and he will sleep it off.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:27pm

      Remember what ASSUME means? If you assume he is a drunk passed out and then find out he died, how are you going to feel? When YOU walked passed and ASSUMED he was just a drunk AND DID NOTHING, YOU are just as much at fault as the person who attacked him.

      It is no different than watching a bully, bully someone. If you stand around and do nothing you are just as guilty as the bully. WAKE UP you cowards.

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    • christos
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:00pm

      To COFEMALE – Sometimes it takes more Courage to just walk by,,,you don’t know the people walking by past history,,,maybe they thought it was a trick.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:46pm

      Thank you for the truth.Better yet thank you for not making a drunk persons life any harder than it is.Not everyone you see who is passed out drunk is a hopeless wino.Calling the law only ends up with them in jail for drunk in public.They end up fines they struggle to pay if they ever do.They get there life back and the first thing they have to do is pay off the fines in order to drive.So they spend weeks and months with the money going to the court system ,when it would be better served getting back on their feet
      Way to tell the difference vetween a hopeless drunk and someone having problems.The hopeless drunk will never pay off the fines.Most others do

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:12pm

      The folks who scream after the fact “Someone should do something!“ are likely the same folks who then assert ”But not me!”
      Until you are in this type of situation, you’re nothing more than an armchair Samaritan.

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  • randy
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:52am

    What do you expect from Obama voters?
    There was nothing in it for any of them to stop.

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  • thop1960
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:48am

    It’s the governments job to clean up the streets, right? It’s the governments job to help people, right? It’s the governments job to save people, right? America is leaning so far left we are about to capsize. A side note, it’s interesting that the opposite of capsizing is “righting” a ship. We are in desperate need of leaning right. That starts with doing what is right.

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    • rickc34
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:56am

      In the last days the heart of man will grow COLD. no natural affection for one another.
      Are we close to the coming of Christ for the Church? some would say yes, come quickly Lord Jesus. It is very sad to have seen this lack of love for your fellow man.

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    • MEANS2RESIST
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:21am

      You’ve got that right THOP, looks like they were all of the young “everyone gets a trophy” types, even if you suck.Afraid of confronting reality, not ready to accept that bad things happen in everyday life. C’mon you young dems, prop him up, give him some CPR, call an ambulance, he’s got obamacare to nurse him back to health & its free

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  • The Gooch
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:46am

    Meh. lots of blame to go around on this: The embrace of big gubment, the lawyers, the “Me!” culture, but there is also a bit of cowardice that has to be trained out of the individual human being before he or she will normally act. Oh, and we are taught in our country to be passive.
    I watched a kid fall thru a water meter cover (one leg… ouch) and start crying in pain… as big, burly men stood and watched mutely. I can proudly say I bothered to help. Doesn’t make me a hero, but we are trained to be timid and that can be a big hurdle for folks to get over.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:05am

      There have been lots of studies done on this type of human behavior. If you want to bother to educate yourself, look up the term “bystander effect” and learn about Kitty Genovese. Or don’t and assume these people are monsters. Read up on some of the other incidents during which this human behavior has been exhibited. You may want to puke, but it appears we aren’t all ready and willing to intervene when another human being is in serious trouble. This phenomenon crosses cultures, religions, nation states… you name it. Easy to judge ’til you’re the person there.
      A good case of where training kicks in is where the lifeguard recently abandoned his post in an attempt to help a floundering man. Also, all it takes is for one person to act to get other people involved. I’ve seen that in action. Funny how we’re such predictable little minds at time. “Someone else is acting, so that means I‘m less likely to ’get in trouble’ if someone challenges me about why I helped.”
      Rant and rave about how this is ‘the end times’ and ‘it has never been this bad’, etc. ect., or learn from this.

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  • Constructionist
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:43am

    What are you talking about? I don’t know of any jurisdiction that has a law which makes it illegal to NOT offer assistance to someone. Good Samaritan laws were created to prevent people from being sued for wrongdoing because they attempted to help others in distress.

    For example: A person is unconscious with no pulse, and a passerby renders CPR to revive the victim. However, the CPR cracked one of the unconscious person’s ribs (which is common). The person who was unconscious later sues the person who attempted to help. This used to happen in the past, so jurisdictions passed good Samaritan laws to protect the public from such law suits.

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    • chips1
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:59am

      Florida has a “stand your ground” law and doesn’t mean squat. A “good samaritan” law also doesn’t mean squat. Can you afford a lawyer? Zimmerman had donations to help him, yet the corrupt government keeps right on attacking him. Neighborhood watches are a form of citizens trying to protect themselves and the libs refuse to allow it.

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:15pm

      That’s right CHIPS, you got it. Your best bet is to stay as FAR AWAY from anything even remotely associated with law enforcement, govt or the legal system. The laws have been so perverted by so called LEOs that they don’t mean anything anymore. Like, just touching a cop on the arm is “ASSAULTING A POLICE OFFICER !”, or yelling at your wife-again “ASSAULT !”. Save a women from being raped? Hell no. “Don’t you dare harm that rapist, we want him alive so we can soak him for everything he has”. So, people walk on. It is not worth it.

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    • armymedicvet
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 4:13pm

      @ Constructionist, I agree. The Good Samaritan law in VA does protect citizens rendering emergency care as long as they acted in good faith, Code of Virginia Section 8. 01-225. Each state could be different. As long as the scene was safe I would help. I don’t see how someone could just walk by someone and not at least render basic first aid or call 911. I’m sure the haters will try to bash my statement. Just think, how would you feel if someone just walked past your mother, brother, ect?

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  • sawbuck
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:41am

    You know in a day when every mothers son has a cell phone… glued to their ear ..
    this is very sad…

    If this was a policeman treating a black thug criminal harshly …
    You would have seen a hundred cell phones…Lit up like Christmas trees.

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  • skiz
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:36am

    Animals!

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:48am

      no lawyers you move an injuried person to help them …some dirt bag lawyer would make you liable if you cause any injurys like say to the spine.
      THIS IS THE SOCIETY LIBERAL CREATED

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:22pm

      Once again, JohnJ is on the money.

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:33am

    Aren’t the Democrats/Progressives all in line with their president when he says “we are our brother’s keepers”. Guess not. They means handouts to them, not actual helping someone in need. God bless this man’s soul. May he rest in eternal peace with the Lord.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:32am

    Stop and help. Then you get a lawsuit placed upon you. That is the American way now. Attorneys brought you this harness of heart. We are in self preservation mode most of the time in our society because we see what happens to the Good Samaritan. Now who runs our Country…ATTORNEYS! They all need to be lined up and shot…

    Here is ANOTHER REASON to not get involved…Many years ago I stopped to help a man change a flat. Yes, it was a nice car he stole from me that day. I was stranded for about an hour until someone stopped….You think I stop and help people now? Nope…sorry, you are on your own. That is just one example. Dont even get me started on helping people at the food pantry or helping out in Houston during Hurricane Katrina……I quit that service hoping all poor people would just starve.

    Nowadays I do reserch on aomeone before I help them. If they are able bodied, I could care less what happens to them. If they are in REAL need, then I step in.

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:32pm

      Interesting story, BADDOGGY, I don’t blame you these days. You‘re lucky you weren’t killed before your car was stolen.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:26am

    That could’ve been anyone of us folks. Sad and scary times.

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    • MAULEMALL
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:36am

      Yeaaaaa bullchirt…… Northern Va is a cesspool of libs and other assorted trash…

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    • Countrygirl1362
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:36am

      Yes it could have been. If they did not want to stop, at least they could have called 911.

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  • FREDD The WILSON
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:26am

    People please keep in mind that Arlington is a suburb of DC and part of the Democratic Socialist State know as Northern Virginia. The rest of our wonderful state is not like this (except for the penal colony of Norfolk )

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:36am

      I don’t know.

      The police/paramedics were called. Some of them look genuinely concerned. He wasn’t moving. Flashing lights were there in the distance.

      Perhaps they didn’t want to touch him because he had been hit by a car and they were afraid of causing more damage (ie spinal injuries.)

      Maybe he looked really dead.

      If you came upon someone lying motionless whose head had been twisted around to the back of his body would you ask him if he were OK?

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:25am

    It‘s more trouble than it’s worth for some people or it creates extra work for them, so they would rather just ignore it and move on,” resident Mike Ford told MyFoxDC.com.

    cause LIFE isnt what it used to be ……………….and as to the ” it creates extra WORK”………..hello democrat

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    • MAULEMALL
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:37am

      yep….hampton and norfolk are nice places to go by on the way to the Outer Banks

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  • blanco5
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:24am

    The VERY least someone could have done is call 911, but doing the least is still too much for losers.

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  • jcldwl
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:23am

    Lord help these people that chose to ignore this dying man. It is official we are now a third world country just based on the actions of these people. Of course I shouldn’t be surprised it is in the DC area. DC is a cesspool of Hell.

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    • Popp40
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:54am

      @JCLDWL your statement is point on, just look at the flash riots that the blaze reported on yesterday that are taking place throughout America. We basically have a dictator in the WH and look at how his supporters act when they see him or if anyone criticizes him. The government class is taking more and more money away from the private sector, they are spending our money without any regards. 47% (but now it than likely over 50% now) are dependent upon the government…….yea we are a third world country.

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  • Amy
    Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:18am

    Let’s see. Arlington is just how far from D.C? Oh.

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