First off, let's start with the story highlighted on fark yesterday-
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/f...?storyid=55973
Quote:
MIAMI BEACH, FL -- In an odd twist of fate, a sister caught her sister's last minutes alive - without even knowing.
Maria Ramoutar and her sister were in separate cars on their way back from Miami Beach when Maria saw a fiery car crash. She decided to videotape it with her cell phone.
Four people inside that burning car died, including Maria's sister.
Maria didn't find out it was her sister till the next day. Now she says she wishes she would have done something to save her.
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Basic question for folks out there-
1. In that situation, or others, would you do whatever you could to help someone in immediate mortal danger? Would you if that meant risking your own life?
2. How do you feel about people whipping out their cell phones and videotaping such events, rather then possibly helping?
Personally, I would make every effort to help someone in grave need to a point for sure. I've been one of the first at the scene, of what turned out to be a fatal accident, before police had arrived. While not being able to do anything to help the crash victims physically, due to the critical nature of their injuries, I did what I could, like making sure the engine was off, diverting traffic until help arrived, etc.
Would I run towards a burning car and attempt to pull out people inside? I can't say for sure, since I've never faced the situation. I do know I feel like I
should, and with the adrenaline factored in I do believe I
would act. Is that the most responsible thing to do in everyone's situation? I don't have any children for example; I imagine that could change someone's perspective.
I do know under very few circumstances would I start filming. It's hard to know exactly how the above event went down, so there is a lot of speculation into what she could/did do. The way the story is written, certainly portrays that she
could have done something, but didn't (under the belief it wasn't anyone she knew).
I should hope at the very least if she was a witness of the actual crash when it happened, that she used her phone to call 911 first before flipping it over and rolling the camera. Though frankly, I don't have any nice things to say about someone filming a tragedy like this (capturing planes flying into buildings is a completely different story) for the likely purpose of cashing the video in to the local news, even if there couldn't be something done to help.