Disgusted
Published 1 year, 11 months ago in Making News.To all the residence of Benson street, Belgrave
thanks for ignoring the screams for help at 11pm on the 7th of Feb.. as my brother was forced to deliver his baby on the side of the road after his wifes labour was faster than expected.
you should be all ashamed of yourself….
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It is pretty shocking when you are actually calling for help and it is totally ignored by all!
Good grief!
Gosh, now thats pretty inconsiderate.
I worry about the society we live in these days. Your brother’s experience is a classic example of ‘I don’t want to get involved’. Disgraceful. Hope all went ok with the delivery.
I have just been to visit them at the hospital and am pleased to report
mother and baby Jack are doing well..
That’s super news dzlr. Thanks for the update and we are all glad to hear things are now fine.
Well thankfully things went well and mum and bub are both ok. How bad is it that no-one came to assist — disgusting ! Congrats to dad for doing a great job
reminds me of a case study that i looked at in psychology, of a woman in New York (i think it was) who was murdered. She was near an apartment block, screaming for help, and been attacked for a period of time. After she died, the police investigated and found that although most people in the apartment block heard her screams no one went to help her, and i think not many people even rang the police, because they thought basically ‘well surley someone else can hear that too, and someone else will help her.’
Glad to hear that the baby and mother are well
Unfortunately lilmisskiki, exactly the same thing happened here in Melbourne last year (North Melbourne). Even the Chief Commissioner of Police, Christine Nixon, went to the media to have a go at all those people who heard a woman screaming but didn’t report it to police. The poor woman was found murdered a few days later. My thoughts are, if people don’t want to check things out, AT LEAST make that call to the police. How hard can that be?
Quite honestly, due to my own personal experiences living in that very community - this doesn’t surprise me that much in Belgrave. I know, I know, people from surrounding Melbourne have been led to think that the community of Belgrave are beautiful, caring, interested people. Of course many are, but many, are not. I found living up there that personal image and outer appearances stood for alot more than true personal substance in the minds of a significant number of narrow minded people whom I encountered up there.
I am absolutely generalising, I admit - and Belgravians - do not even bother to defend yourselves because we are intelligent enought to understand that positive and negative exist simulataniously together in every aspect.
However, this concept where obvious calls for help are ignored - is refered to as the ‘bystander effect’.
Psychologists have discovered through experimentation that in an environment where an individual is aware that there are others around who are able and willing to help/attend a distress call, then they are less likely to act themselves. They assume that ’somebody else’ around will attend a distress situation and therefore do not actively seek involvement.
Alternatively, these same experimentors concluded that when an individual bypasser is aware that they are the only person who can ’save’ another - they are far more likely to respond.
Human beings are highly complex and strange beings.
Glad that everything ended up okay dzlr!!
Good on you for raising this story, it’s important to have a good hard look at ourselves all over Melbourne and consider the meaning of ‘community’.
thanks for all your posts,
I am pleased to report they are all home and well with the only inconvience to them is a somewhat unusable car, thats a shame because they are struggling.
but all that matters is they are well..
They are going to be on the front page of the local paper, thats out on
wednesday, so you will all be able to read the whole story
it seems that my post got some attention from the editor…
(thanks guys, I think its a story worth telling)
Just a thought…
anyone from the hills will know that wherever you drive around here you will find a cross on the side of the road where some poor soul died in a car accident….
wouldn’t it be nice for a plaque to be put near where Jack was born on Benson st?
anyone have any thoughts on how to arrange such a thing?
Doubt the council would allow anything like that.
It’s good to hear that Jack and his Mummy doing well. If someone called out for help and I could hear them over our noisy aircon I’d ring the police, but they’d have to call out pretty darn loudly.