Thursday, April 29, 2010
Is anybody human anymore?
The story of the man in NYC who had been stabbed while helping a woman who was being mugged and left for head by numerous passers by broke my heart. Video footage from a surveillance camera showed at least seven people going by, some turning their heads to look, others stopping to gawk. One took a picture with his camera phone. Another lifted the man's body, exposing what appeared to be blood on the sidewalk underneath him, before walking away.
It wasn't until after the 31-year-old Guatemalan immigrant had been lying there for nearly an hour that emergency workers arrived, and by then, it was too late. Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax had died.
I just can't believe this man took the time to help someone in need that he didn't know and was killed for it. That people chose to ignore a dying man and walk away. I'd like to believe those people will live with horrible guilt for walking by and not even anonymously calling the police. What is wrong with humanity? Are we so disconnected from one another that we are unfazed by a man laying on the ground bleeding to death? It's absolutely insane.
