When Good Men Do Nothing

Wow, that is incredibly horrible and sad. I really wish someone would have had the courage to do something. Maybe call for help, like the police or something, or tried to stop them from doing that. But it's stories like that that chip away at any hope I have in people. I'd like to think I would have been able to speak up or something too if I had been in that situation.

Oh no! That is so tragic. I really hate it when people think they have the right at all to ruin a human life and to harass someone for any reason. Live and let live! Hopefully the disgusting idiots who did it are now serving time. I'm not sure what I would do in the situation, hopefully this will never happen to any of us!

glords yes I would stand up for my beliefs in spite of my fears. this happened years back when I was coming home on the bus from a day at the U. two p assengers startered to quarrel,one a man about twenty years older than me, and the other about twenty five or so. Then the younger man lunged at the old man and doubled up his fist.. the bus driver never stopped, nor did anyone on that crowded bus move a muscle. I got up, I was fifty sis, and moved between the two men.I said," since nobody elseseems willing to stop this, I will. Quit trying to hit this man. He is your elder, respect him." The younger man notified me to mind my own business, that he was a bus driver as was the older man, and he cou ld do whatever he wanted. I turned to the bus driver and said, I will not let this punk hit this old man. stop the bus and call the police" well the driver did just that, and the police were there in a bout a minute.So I got hit in the ribs by the young punk, so what, if he had hit that elderly man he cou ld have killed him. the elderly man was also having some symptoms of an impending heart attack.The police arrested the younger man , and they carried the older man off and put him in an ambulance as he was having a full blown heart attack.As for myself I had a nasty black and blue bruise but would have done the same thing again. nobody,but nobody on that filled to capacity bus had done anything to intervene. I simply could not believe it.

I would stand up for everything I believe in no matter what. I hold my values close to my heart and that would never change. I mean there were 100 people there if all of them stood up and tried to help that young man could still be alive.

You know, that's one of my favorite quotes. And the whole situation sounds like a classic example of it. I heard of a similar story about a woman in a church parking lot. This was about ten years ago. She had recently been divorced, and he ex-husband was waiting for her outside of church when the services had let out. He had a knife. He chased her around her car, and eventually stabbed her. She lived. But the crazy thing was this - a madman chased this woman around her own car, stabbed her and the congregation of the church all immediately ran back into the church for safety and waited to help after the man had left instead of rushing to her aid. When police and emergency crews arrived one officer was reported as asking "There were so many of you and only one of him, why didn't anyone help her?", and he got no response. It's true, when good men do nothing, the wicked triumph. Thanks for the post glords.

i am a man & the only thnig that never needs a reaction from me is ...when two ladies fight ! haha cheers .