Captain Caveman wrote:
Elderly decorated war veteran left to fend for himself by Tesco shoppers, when mugged, despite pleading for help:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ca ... e-19885252Quote:
A decorated war veteran said he was "appalled and terrified" when no-one came to his rescue as he was mugged in a Cambridgeshire supermarket car park.
Michael Saxby, 83, was attacked by two people at about 12:00 BST on Friday at Tesco in Bar Hill. They took his bank card and £720 from his bank account.
Mr Saxby said: "If I was younger I would have helped someone in trouble."
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The pensioner, who uses crutches to help him walk after being injured by a landmine in the 1950s when he was an RAF medical orderly in Malaya, said he had called out for help but no-one had come.
"I shouted at the top of my voice, 'Please help, please help', but people just walked on.
"I thought the man and woman might have a knife or a gun. I was absolutely terrified."
Fucking gutless tossers - a man and a woman FFS! I'm dreading being too old to defend myself against such people; if I'd have been there they would have been wearing broken bottles to their faces and bollocks to the consequences.
Sadly, I do think that in lots of occasions like this there are people that just assume it is a drunk. If the passers-by didn't see the crime take place I can imagine what some may think. My grandfather once had a mini-stroke whilst on the way back from the local paper shop and collapsed to the ground near the front door of his block of flats, and people similarly walked by when he called for help.
I'm not in any way saying it is right, but I have been told by others many times to walk away and ignore someone, usually an old person, when they have fallen over a particularly bad bit of pavement outside the florists where I used to live. It must have happened four or five times around there, and I was always told to just ignore it (I didn't, but was always told I should have left it as they were probably drunk, and once because an old man spilt all his head open and bled on my shoes). Anyway, some people are just adverse to anything like that whereas I find myself rushing to help without that initial consideration, whether that is right or not.
A bit of an aside, but why do people always say 'ooh, it's terrible, and a war veteran too...' like anyone who didn't fight in the war would either be not so deserving of help, or that it would be a less traumatic tale?
By the way, my grandfather (the war veteran) was helped by a group of teenagers who got off a bus who carried him all the way up the stairs to the door and phoned an ambulance whilst they were helping.