22...,21...,20....,19...,18..., if you count off seconds that is a lot of time. How long does it take you to take 49 flash pictures. Some witnesses said the man was struggling on the track for nearly a minute.
What I am referring to is a man who was pushed onto the subway track by a deranged man and was struck by an oncoming subway train. A freelance photographer for the New York Post captured a picture of the man right before he was about to be hit by the train and according to his own reports took 49 flash pictures. Others according to witnesses were even closer to the man and did nothing to help him. Yet some apparently had time to get their cell phones out to take pictures. Here is an interview with the reporter. The New York Post not only purchased the photo (oh, sorry the photographer says they licensed the photo), but had to add the sensational headline "DOOMED". I am not going to reproduce it here because it is just wrong.
Does this sicken you? It does me. What would you do? Would you have at least tried to pull the man up? Would you have yelled to others to help? In some ways, it is easy to point fingers at others, but what would you do? Are you worried that we have become so callous that we wouldn't help someone in this situation.
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