Walk On By

[nailit]

Would you honestly stop to help or would you follow the herd?

[jourdain2]

I would stop and try to help, but be more careful than last time, when I drove a lady home only to discover later that she had Hepatitis, so I'd probably just stay with her and call an ambulance.

[-Talbot-]

nailit Question Author //I would stop unless I thought they were on drugs, trying to assist someone on drugs just gets you into trouble//

A couple of months ago I came across someone apparently unconscious with a bag of shopping spread around him and his phone lying at his side. People just walked past him, I waited until there was no one around and called an ambulance. The 999 operator asked me to check if he was breathing etc. I refused on the grounds that I didn't know if he was out of it on drink/drugs and could 'turn' on me. It wasn't my job to ascertain his condition. I waited with him tho to make sure no one robbed him until the ambulance arrived. Turned out he was just plastered.




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I'm not sure of your point ...

[Old_Geezer]

Only time I was in a similar situation it was as a teenager, after chucking out time. Didn't feel I could cope so dialled 999 and said there was someone lying out and it was possibly too much drink but I didn't know and the police or ambulance should check it out.

Not sure what I'd do these days, hopefully go check.