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So you doubt that the reporting is accurate? I don't. It's very believable to me that people would ignore some disturbance outside in a suburban neighborhood.
by sverige 10y ago
So you doubt that the reporting is accurate? I don't. It's very believable to me that people would ignore some disturbance outside in a suburban neighborhood.
Granted, this is an anecdote that illustrates one of the stranger aspects of isolation, and probably wouldn't happen everywhere, but I think that's the point: in some places, absolutely no one will help you.
So, to say it's a lie without any evidence to the contrary is unconstructive.
- aaron695 10y ago> So, to say it's a lie without any evidence to the contrary is unconstructive. Sorry, it is of course a lie. You shouldn't need evidence. If you think this sort of thing happens you are a very very broken human being. 'You' are the actual problem, because the people in these stories are not real. But people who believe these stories are. I shouldn't need to link evidence but I will in the hope that perhaps the truly awful humans who think people will knowingly leave a screaming a grandmother to die in the cold might change the awful way they think. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-womans-desperate-attempt-to-stay-alive-in-freezing-temperatures/article562552/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-womans-d...
- mirimir 10y agoWhat's your point? The story that you've linked to tells basically the same story as The Observer article does. It does close with: > Mr. Fisher believes his neighbours would have helped Ms. Chiu, had they known what was happening, and may simply have not heard her cries for help. "I don't like to believe that people heard her and did nothing." But that's not evidence.
- kayoone 10y agoNot a native speaker so i must be missing something, but how does that link, that reiterates the same story, prove that it is all a lie ?