Another Day, Another Hero
August 8, 2008 at 11:31 AM |
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We have all heard stories about atrocious tragedies in which no one did anything to help anyone (i.e. the soul-crushing story Kitty Genovese, which is actually a little more complicated than the legend that has grown up around it).
But the more common response looks more like this story from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, in which a random group of bystanders rushed into a burning van to rescue five disabled passengers before the vehicle burst into flames. Heroism is a lot more prosaic than we think. *Special thanks to Thomas for sending me this story.
putney_swope said on August 10, 2008 at 1:35 am
Let me explain a few things here as in 1964,the good folKK of KewGardens would call the cops if their garbage cans were touched,if you leaned on their car,etc. ZERO tolerance for any disturbances.
Also,nyc isn’t subzero in March,there were no “double glazed” windows---they all heard her and refused to simply call the precinct and report a crime in progress/apparently someone’s INJURED,etc.
THEY were concerned with identifying themselves and the possibility of court and couldn’t care any less about their bartender neighbor,all of them were tired ,etc.
The individual that truly called,got a response.
In OUR lower income WORKING CLASS neighborhoods,that man would have been dead,as we have ZERO tolerance for men even harassing a woman.A scream would be responded to,esp if you know that so-and-so works nites and is out there alone.
“Normal” people will assist others and there IS,still IS and always were decent,NORMAL new yawhkhas that don’t hesitate to open their big,new york mouths-call police,come out with baseball bats,throw objects out the window at a “perp"---REACT-
Every single one of “them” should have been booked as accesories to crime.
..............even new yorkers were APPALLED.
IT was and still is reflective of the ethnicity of that area.
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According to The New York Times, in an article dated December 28, 1974, ten years after the murder, 25-year-old Sandra Zahler was beaten to death early Christmas morning in an apartment of the building which overlooked the site of the Genovese attack. Neighbors again said they heard screams and “fierce struggles” but did nothing.[
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nice bunch,aren’t they ?