London woman stopped to help man who’d collapsed at in the sidewalk at Richmond and Oxford
But what made her challenge particularly difficult was that the drivers trying to get through the intersection honked with impatience and anger, swerving around her and darting through the intersection as she tried to help the man.
“They were acting like I was a delinquent and I was just trying to help someone,” she said. “Drivers will stop for Canada geese but you’ve got a man in distress and no one cares.”
Paramedics arrived shortly after and took the man who’d been struggling to hospital. Litsas doesn’t know what caused him to collapse or how he’s doing now.
After the ordeal, she posted on the social media site Reddit about how some of the drivers chose to honk instead of help.
“I was frustrated, I was a bit shaken up just having the traffic whiz by you and it’s just an unnerving position to be in,” she said.
The purpose behind her post is to ask that drivers show some patience and empathy if a pedestrian appears to be struggling.
“Stop, put your hazards on,” she said. “It’s a car against a human being and I’m not going to win against a five-tonne vehicle.”
Indeed. For reference, compare how many people have cut in front of you in line in person versus in a vehicle.
Excellent example! Very rarely do you see a individual just shoot out from behind you in a line and by pass a whole queue of people.
Where as in a car you see people mounting a curb/sidewalk to make a right turn to squeeze past the individual in front of them. Or driving into oncoming traffic to get to the left hand turn lane a few seconds sooner. Or my favourite, seeing people stuck in highway traffic choose to off road to leave the highway, as opposed to waiting for the offramp. Meanwhile a crowed of individuals follows causing a unsafe situation for everyone.
Video for context regarding the last point.
https://www.tiktok.com/@oxtailpapi/video/7222122580495453445
It’s because the fucking pigs don’t do shit. I’ve stood there and watched almost every one of your examples happen right in front of cop (sometimes more than one) and they did absolutely nothing. If people are not punished for breaking the law, they’re going to keep doing whatever the fuck they want.