Thursday - June 05, 2008

nuttin honey

Sorry folks, I’m just braindead today. I got nothin.

Ok, I got some smut links. And I did some housekeeping and updating around the blog. You’ll have to look really hard to notice. But that’s about it. I was thinking of running Bolton’s piece about Obamba, but what for? We all know he’s hopelessly naive, and the old Mustache of Truth gets almost zero airplay.

OK, here’s Something.

It looks like two goons were playing car tag in Hartford Connecticut. They ran some poor old guy over and drove away. The whole thing was taped on a traffic cam. The whole town is in an uproar, and CNN as well, because nobody did anything to help the guy, and they left him their on the street. For 90 seconds. Until the cops arrived.

‘Like a dog they left him there. Nobody did nothing’

A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back into traffic. A man on a scooter slowly circles the victim before zipping away.

The chilling scene—captured on video by a streetlight surveillance camera—has touched off a round of soul-searching in Hartford, with the capital city’s biggest newspaper blaring “SO INHUMANE” on the front page and the police chief lamenting: “We no longer have a moral compass.”

“We have no regard for each other,” said Chief Daryl Roberts, who released the video this week in hopes of making an arrest in the daylight accident last Friday that left Angel Arce Torres in critical condition.

The hit-and-run took place about 5:45 p.m. in a working-class neighborhood close to downtown in this city of 125,000.

In the video, Torres walks in the two-way street just blocks from the state Capitol after buying milk at a grocery. A tan Toyota and a dark Honda that is apparently chasing it cross the center line, and Torres is struck by the Honda. Both cars then dart down a side street.

Several cars pass Torres as a few people stare from the sidewalk. Some approach Torres, but most stay put until a police cruiser responding to an unrelated call arrives on the scene after about a minute and a half.
The police chief told The Hartford Courant that he was unsure whether anyone called 911.

“Like a dog they left him there,” said a disgusted Jose Cordero, 37, who was with friends Thursday not far from where Torres was struck. Robert Luna, who works at a store nearby, said: “Nobody did nothing.”

One witness, Bryant Hayre, told the Courant he didn’t feel comfortable helping Torres, who he said was bleeding and conscious.

The accident—and bystanders’ callousness—dominated morning radio talk shows.

“It was one of the most despicable things I’ve seen by one human being to another,” the Rev. Henry Brown, a community activist, said in an interview. “I don’t understand the mind-set anymore. It’s kind of mind-boggling. We’re supposed to help each other. You see somebody fall, you want to offer a helping hand.”

The victim’s son, Angel Arce, begged the public for help in finding the driver. “My father is fighting for his life,” he said.

The hit-and-run is the second violent crime to shock Hartford this week. On Monday, former Deputy Mayor Nicholas Carbone, 71, was beaten and robbed while walking to breakfast. He remains hospitalized and faces brain surgery.

“There was a time they would have helped that man across the street. Now they mug and assault him,” police chief said. “Anything goes.”

Councilman Matthew Ritter said police can do only so much.

“The citizens are the city,” he said. “Everybody has a part to play. Call 911 and reach out.”

Maybe the people who didn’t see the accident happen figured the guy was drunk. Or are they too well trained to “get involved”? Or are they ultra wary of being sued if they move an injured person, and thus excused from even stopping. Heck, at least one of them could have blocked traffic to keep people from running the guy over again, right? Or not? What would you do?

OR IS THIS WHOLE THING A BULLSHIT GUILT TRIP? The guy was hit, 21 seconds into the video. The cops were getting there at 1:15 - watch the dodging car come down from the top of the screen. So we’re talking 55 seconds for a response time. You can’t even get a call into 911 and out the other side that fast, can you? So is this moral outrage righteous or not?

Posted by Drew458     on 06/05/2008 at 04:26 PM   
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