heartless people

[balto]

What sort of society do we live in when an old lady falls over and nearly everyone just walks past her, let me explain my mother inlaw who is nearly 76 fell yesterday (21st sept) while crossing over from the big coop hurting herself badly in the meantime she tripped over 1 of her shopping bags, but most people just walked past her while she was lying there, thankfully 2 ladys were nice enough to attend to her and assist her to walking to the council offices where one of their workers took her up to the dunbar hospital for treatment, now tell me how would people feel if it was their mother that fell and was treated like a piece of rubbish it just makes me sick to think people treat our elderly people like this, do they not realise that one day they too will be old.

[newpark]

How sad an awful. I fell quite bad once and an old lady tried to help me up. Everyone else just walked past and I am young. It is awful to think that our society has diminished so much that we do not even try and help each other.

[Dadie]

I hope she is ok!
I would never leave anyone like that and i didnt think many people would have left someone in the road no matter if they were young or old!

society is changing..

for the worse..

[corgiman]

Balto this is awful to hear, give her my best and tell her get well soon from us.

[karia]

Hi balto,

My dad had a bad fall last year, he is 79..a young lady helped him to his feet and ensured that he was okay by waiting with him and returning to check on him after completing her errand.

Sorry that your MIL had such an experience..but it really isn't the norm... and she did receive assistance from the ladies and the council offices..It should have been an instant response, but a lot of folk are afraid to approach the elderly lest they be accused of mugging etc...this applies especially to men.

Which may explain why all of our heroes here ..are heroines!

Wishing her a speedy recovery

karia

[botheed]

would never happen in wick

[balto]

Hi balto,

My dad had a bad fall last year, he is 79..a young lady helped him to his feet and ensured that he was okay by waiting with him and returning to check on him after completing her errand.

Sorry that your MIL had such an experience..but it really isn't the norm... and she did receive assistance from the ladies and the council offices..It should have been an instant response, but a lot of folk are afraid to approach the elderly lest they be accused of mugging etc...this applies especially to men.

Which may explain why all of our heroes here ..are heroines!

Wishing her a speedy recovery

karia

sorry dont agree 2 middle aged ladys went past her and just looked at her like she was a bit of dirt and 1 of the ladys that helped her works for the council she had been on the ground for a while before she came along it is just disgusting.

[balto]

would never happen in wick

aye do you know i agree with i am originally from wick.

[karia]

sorry dont agree 2 middle aged ladys went past her and just looked at her like she was a bit of dirt and 1 of the ladys that helped her works for the council she had been on the ground for a while before she came along it is just disgusting.

There is nothing here for you not to agree with balto.

Your MIL had a horrible experience and I really feel for her, however it is not universal and there are good and compassionate people out there also.

karia

[footie chick]

Thats horrible hope she is okay and on the way to a full recovery.

[telfordstar]

that is such a shame balto i hope that your mother in law is ok and not to shaken up by that horrible experience. its such a shame that there are not may decent folk in the world who would of rushed over to help which is exactly what i would of done, a few weeks a go i had a funny turn in river street in wick and was overwhelmed but the amount of strangers who stopped and offered me help or pulled over in their car to offer me a lift to the hosp i was so very grateful for this its just a shame the sme thing didnt happen to your mother in law hope shes on the mend

[corgiman]

Thurso is hardly a sprawling metropolis and it's a sad day when an elderly person can fall in the road in a busy area and people just walk past. It certainly explains the current attitude of it's not my problem in society, we moan about kids having no respect these days but if they are raised by people who cannot even give 5 minutes of their time to help a person in trouble then it's all we can expect.

[Julia]

In the early eighties I collapsed in a very busy street in Bury, people just stepped over me, I was only about 14 at the time.

I'd never ignore someone obviously in need of help.

[trix]

ats awful, yer poor mither in law. i wish her well.
i mind bein in inverness waitin for a bus, i wis sittin bletherin til iss mannie an i seen iss aulder wifie trippin an fallen aboot 30 feet awie.
it wis lek slow motion. i wis up lek a shot an by time i got til her 2 guys hed magically appeared and both simutaniously helped her up withoot even a word bein said.
by time e wifie got til her feet a chair hed magically appeared behind her and an ambulance wis on its way. it wis that fast. she wis on her own so i waited wi her til e ambulance came. she hed cut her heid and hand and their wis kwite alot o blood. we phoned her family and they were meetin her at e hospital. e ambulance wis no longer than 5 menids.
when i got back til e bus which hed arrived by then, there wis e mannie i wis speakin til howldin oot my bag til me which i had left an totally forgotten aboot.

we'r no all bad...

[Anne x]

hope she is okay now and on the mend some folk just dont care

[crayola]

There is nothing here for you not to agree with balto.

Your MIL had a horrible experience and I really feel for her, however it is not universal and there are good and compassionate people out there also.

karia

You're absolutely correct karia. Threads on this forum get out of hand when people generalise and run down our society based on a single event, however appalling that event may have been.

Glasgow is a sprawling metropolis but people generally help old people when they fall in the street or have severe difficulties using public transport, for example.

I hope your mother-in-law is fully recovered by now, balto.

[Whitewater]

What sort of society do we live in when an old lady falls over and nearly everyone just walks past her, let me explain my mother inlaw who is nearly 76 fell yesterday (21st sept) while crossing over from the big coop hurting herself badly in the meantime she tripped over 1 of her shopping bags, but most people just walked past her while she was lying there, thankfully 2 ladys were nice enough to attend to her and assist her to walking to the council offices where one of their workers took her up to the dunbar hospital for treatment, now tell me how would people feel if it was their mother that fell and was treated like a piece of rubbish it just makes me sick to think people treat our elderly people like this, do they not realise that one day they too will be old.

Unfortunately this happens much too often now. Many people would perhaps like to help, but are too afraid of doing the wrong thing and causing more damage, they will not take the chance. This state of mind has come in from America where people offering 1st aid and help were sued if the person they were treating suffered any unaccountable damage.

However, having said that there are still far too many people who will just walk-on bye because they don't care and are too interested in their own little world. But we are not all like that, there are in the world today many people who will go out of their way to do the right thing and help when necessary, with genuine care and feeling.

Your mother in law was very unfortunate that too many of the wrong type of people were in the vacinity at the time. Lucky the two ladies ( the right type of people) came to her assistance in the long run.

I hope she is OK now.

[crayola]

Many people would perhaps like to help, but are too afraid of doing the wrong thing and causing more damage, they will not take the chance.

I don't believe people worry about doing the wrong thing and causing more damage when a 76 year old lady falls in the street. Nor do they worry about being sued.

Are you watching too much tv?

[bobsgirl]

I think this is awful, that people just walk by and never bother.

I remember a couple of months back an elderly woman fell outside the 99p shop in Thurso. The women in the shop took a chair out for her to sit on and made sure she was ok. They were going to call an ambulance but she did not want to bother emergency services. She only wanted a taxi home.
I overheard this and offered the woman a lift home which she was very thankful for. I took her to her door, made sure she got in and her sister of whom was at her house, called her doctor to make sure she was ok.

Not all people in Thurso would walk past and let them suffer.

No-one can guarantee that this would not of happened in Wick. It is just such a shame that this woman had to go through this ordeal!
Hope she is ok!!

[Thumper]

I think this has become a sad fact of life all over the world nowadays my heavily pregnant friend fainted in Thurso a few years back at the bus stop outside the jobcentre and not one person waiting at the bus stop or on the street stopped to help her!She just lay on the ground and nobody even looked her way!It's a sad sad state of affairs!I wouldn't care what happened to me afterwards, I would just go and help as best I could no matter who,what,where or when x