(October 16, 2021 at 3:31 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: I dunno. That just seems crazy to me. I would have jumped on top of that mother fucker and started pummeling without even thinking about it. I can’t fathom doing anything but.
And I'd bet that if you had, maybe, others would have followed you. But in large groups, regardless of crime or context, that doesn't always happen. Even in disasters, or car accidents. You will have situations where people don't do anything, and others who do something. I don't think it is as simple as what you think should happen. I 100% agree in the context of this story, it makes no sense.
But I can also tell you I have seen countless stories of even first responders standing back because the situation was too dangerous. I think you cant assume that because people on that tram didn't do anything, that they didn't want to. "Arwethereyet" made a very good point that fear of harm to them jumping in may have delayed the response. But someone did report it in any case, and the suspect was arrested.
9/11/01 was heartbreaking. There is a recorded phone call from a lady trapped above the impact zone the 911 operator was responding to. That responder was helpless, she couldn't do a thing. But worse, my x-landlord who lived in VA at the time, was an x-fireman. I didn't know him at the time, but after I started renting from him, the subject of that day came up. He said to me, he could not understand why first responders were being sent up into the towers. He had every inclination at the time, watching it live, that the heat would melt the metal, and the buildings would collapse.
It is one thing to say what you would or would not do as an observer. It is quite another to be in the actual moment.
I love your intent, and I mean that seriously. But in the moment is far different than after the fact looking back.
I wouldn't judge everyone who didn't intervein. But I do understand your frustration.
