2 year old child is ran over twice 18 people walk by before anyone helps.

[Memphis]

Diffusion of responsibility? There was no swarm of people shuffling by leaving everyone to fall to the same conclusion that someone else has done something about it. These were individuals passing by one after another.

The only thing that binds them is that they are all mental.

I can believe that witnesses to a murder thought they were witnessing a lovers tiff, I can see how that might happen. I cant think for one second though how a child laying smashed up in the road could possibly be construde as anything other than a really fucking bad situation. Perhaps they thought she couldnt get of to sleep in the street unless she was in a mangled heap?

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Diffusion of responsibility? There was no swarm of people shuffling by leaving everyone to fall to the same conclusion that someone else has done something about it. These were individuals passing by one after another.

The only thing that binds them is that they are all mental.

I can believe that witnesses to a murder thought they were witnessing a lovers tiff, I can see how that might happen. I cant think for one second though how a child laying smashed up in the road could possibly be construde as anything other than a really fucking bad situation. Perhaps they thought she couldnt get of to sleep in the street unless she was in a mangled heap?

Bystander apathy is very common.

How many times have we walked passed someone who we assumed was a drunk/tramp sleeping on the floor, they could be dead for all we know. We just keep on walking, what if they are dead? Damn, I'd have to call the police, give a statement, what if they think I was involved, I'd be late for work, what if they're just sleeping I check up on them and they kick off....keep on walking. We've ALL done it.