This is sickening. To hear someone's cries of pain and to still choose to ignore his distress is unspeakably inhuman. If Singapore was ruled by fascist dictators or someother warped government I could understand people's fear to intervene, but it isn't../. wrote:Taken from the other board.
What would prevent an entire bus load of passengers and a bus driver from stopping an assault that could 'potentially' lead to murder? I hop the police will be forced to act.
This is extremely unlikely since bus drivers are paid to drive buses and are advised to stay out of such disputes/incidents (in the UK at any rate which shields many its drivers with plastic shields and equips many vehicles with radios in some cities). I am sorry to say the situation you describe is all too common around the world. People just do not want to get involved, they are too concerned with themselves overlooking the fact if they had joined in thwarting the attackers assault they may have spared another human being the agony he endured../. wrote:Surely the bus company trains it's drivers' responses in such situations?
If they do train the drivers, then the lack of ANY response should be very troubling...
I suppose the immediate response needed was active direct intervention? Calling the police after disabling the assailant would be the next step that would occur to me, if I was involved. Provided, of course, that I don't go into shock over the whole horrible incident../. wrote:Whatalark I am puzzled why the writer and her friend did not insist that the driver call the police, or do it themselves. Surely the bus company trains it's drivers' responses in such situations?
In her first paragraph she very pointly made it know that the majority of the passengers were Chinese. (Why not just say Elderly unless she harbours feelings herself? Food for though only. This is not what I believe in this case but if someone wanted to debate it would be good place to start.First of all near the end of her article "Did I rush to the worker's aid only because of the apperance of similarities in racial origins? I would like to think not.
[RANT]Did the others in the bus dismiss his plight because because he wasn't our equal?
i'm a little slow on the uptake tonight. what has your being caucasian have to do with his ethnic group? going by probabilities he should have been chinese but the tone of your post suggests he was indian / malay. please shed some light as i'm feeling dim.sundaymorningstaple wrote:as I am caucasian and live in an HDB flat, you have and 80% chance of guessing his ethnic group.
agree, it's sad.sundaymorningstaple wrote:We are in a country where you can get fined if not belted up in the back seat of a taxi! But! You can cram 12-14 foreign workers unbelted into the rear bed of a light truck without even a seat or covering against the elements? Let alone a seat belt. The government makes the rules, you tell me if they think they are our equals. If the government doesn't think they warrent treatment as human beings then prey tell why should Singapore citizens do so?
I asked a Cambodian the same thing when I heard about the Killing Fields. How could a whole nation allow itself to be massacred without fighting back? He blamed it on conditioning and subversion and mistrust of his neighbours.Fantastic wrote:Why would any grown up man let his head be slammed against a window and kicked in the face, without trying to at least fend off the assailant and protect himself? (Did he?)
What went through his mind and his life?
And no one had a phone to record the whole episode?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSHziqJWYcM
while we don't know what really happened, the passengers on Flight 93 and maybe the others rose to the occasion, I know I would if I were on that bus, and if I were too old to physically intervene I certainly would have said something, especially if the perp were one of my own kindsundaymorningstaple wrote: If the bus WAS filled with elderly chinese and tired women what good would they have been able to do? If the article writer and friend were the only able-bodied persons on the bus then this article should probably not been written at all They were obviously young adults and would appear to be about 19 or 20 maybe a little older.
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