震惊:加拿大也有见死不救的

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/woman-called-911-says-mans-pleas-help-drowning-172759628.html

REGINA - A man spent half an hour trying to get help for a friend who disappeared while swimming in a man-made lake near the Saskatchewan legislature, but his pleas went ignored, says a woman who did call 911.

Lani Elliott said she was taking pictures in the garden at the front of the building Saturday when a distraught and dishevelled aboriginal man approached her.

The man said his friend had just died in Wascana Lake, a few steps away, and asked Elliott to call 911.

"I was stunned because people don't normally come up to you and say that, but I immediately called 911 for him," Elliott said Tuesday.

"It was evident to me from his demeanour that he wasn't kidding. He was very upset so I called 911."

Elliott said what happened next was even more disconcerting.

The operator asked the woman when the distraught man had last seen his friend. He told her 30 minutes earlier.

"When I asked him why it took him that long to phone 911, he started crying and he said that no one would help him. He had been asking people in the park to please call 911 or if he could use their phone and no one would help him."

The man said no one believed him.

There is no swimming allowed in the lake.

It was a beautiful sunny day. The temperature hovered around 30 C. The park was busy with people out for a stroll.

Elliott wonders if things could have gone differently.

"You know, I don't know what goes through people's minds," she said.

"But my question is this: if he had been clean shaven, if he had been well-dressed, if he had been non-aboriginal and he had come up to them and said, 'My friend just went under in the water,' would they have believed him then?

"It's too bad that that had to happen and it's too bad that that many people dismissed him based on what he looked like. Yes, he looked like a homeless person. Yes, he was aboriginal. But at the same time he was also a human being and he deserved to be treated with the same amount of dignity and respect that we ourselves would expect."

A police spokeswoman said divers and fire rescue personnel arrived within a couple of minutes after getting the call.

"The response was immediate, but the call didn't come in to police until the man had been in the water for, we believe, about 30 minutes," said Elizabeth Popowich.

"I'm not aware of an explanation for it and I wouldn't want to speculate as to why it took that time."

The body of Darlyn Boyd Johns of no fixed address was found the next day. There is no criminal investigation into his death.

Elliott said she cried when she heard the body was pulled from the water.

"I was extremely upset because I kept thinking if just one person had listened to him when he initially asked for help, maybe that man could have been saved. It only took police, fire and rescue two minutes to get to the lake once I made that call.

"Two minutes," Elliott said.

"It took him 30 minutes to find somebody who would listen to him."

Shawn Fraser, executive director of Carmichael Outreach in Regina, said Johns was a regular at the centre and believed to be homeless.

"He seemed like a nice enough guy," said Fraser, who noted that Johns often volunteered for community cleanups.

"I think he was part of a community that lived a pretty rough and tumble life, but he wasn't out to hurt anyone in particular that I knew about."

Fraser said there is a divide between racial and class lines in the city. He pointed out that about 85 per cent of people who come to Carmichael Outreach for help are aboriginal.

But Fraser didn't want to guess as to why a 911 call wasn't made sooner.

"It's important not to point fingers at a time like this ... to remember that this guy was a real person...he has family and he has a girlfriend and he has friends and...there's a community around him that is kind of impacted by it," said Fraser.

"But I think there's a responsibility...for all of us to...take ownership of the poverty in our city. There's a difference between being a poor person and a bad person."
 
恩。。。俺老家了

那里的人还挺好的。。。可能就是对aboriginal and homeless 的人有偏见
 
It's probably acceptable to ignore someone who asks for money.

But ignoring someone's plea to make a 911 call (it's free of charge from any phone) for a drowning friend ............ That's really cruel and cold-blooded.

I hope this won't happen in Ottawa.
 
喔村也有呀

昨天,M的,I wanted to dispute a parking ticket, coz I was only 5 minutes later to refill a meter...

那个officer是一个中年白女人。。。
第一个进出dispute的也是白人女人,后来,就很快就高兴出来,不用交钱。。。第2个,是中东男人,看他跟她争了半天。。。第3个就是我,那女人整个就是bitch。。。 唉不多说了。。。反正我最后也不给她好脸色看。。。后来想想regret没有给她丢几句难听的话。。。M的谁怕谁。。。

那个白女人这个就是种族歧视的代表

这也可以扯上种族歧视啊?按道理,罚你,走天边去,你都没理由。
如果因为你是少数民族不罚你,那才是种族歧视呢
 
It's probably acceptable to ignore someone who asks for money.

But ignoring someone's plea to make a 911 call (it's free of charge from any phone) for a drowning friend ............ That's really cruel and cold-blooded.

I hope this won't happen in Ottawa.

NO...the real issue is not about cold-blooded, it is about discrimination and distrust...
 
喔村也有呀

昨天,M的,I wanted to dispute a parking ticket, coz I was only 5 minutes later to refill a meter...

...
那个白女人这个就是种族歧视的代表

Cool down a bit.... 基本事实是:你超时至少5分钟。
 
Cool down a bit.... 基本事实是:你超时至少5分钟。

ya, I saw the police just finished writing me the ticket when I rushed to refill the meter
 
这也可以扯上种族歧视啊?按道理,罚你,走天边去,你都没理由。
如果因为你是少数民族不罚你,那才是种族歧视呢

通常你看到写你ticket的警察都可以取消的呀。。。

那道那个白人女人就有道理呀?按你这么说大家干嘛都去dispute呢?
 
通常你看到写你ticket的警察都可以取消的呀。。。

那道那个白人女人就有道理呀?按你这么说大家干嘛都去dispute呢?

问题是你知道那白女人真被免了?为啥被免了?
我的建议以后多投点钱,我就是那样做的,打点余量,省的拿到TICKET.
如果是我超时了,那怕就一分钟,警察要给我TICKET,我和他商量都没办法,那就只好付钱了。因为道理上我是超了。
 
ya, I saw the police just finished writing me the ticket when I rushed to refill the meter

通常你看到写你ticket的警察都可以取消的呀。。。

那道那个白人女人就有道理呀?按你这么说大家干嘛都去dispute呢?


这罚单一旦写上你的车牌号码,是不能取消的。
 
问题是你知道那白女人真被免了?为啥被免了?
我的建议以后多投点钱,我就是那样做的,打点余量,省的拿到TICKET.
如果是我超时了,那怕就一分钟,警察要给我TICKET,我和他商量都没办法,那就只好付钱了。因为道理上我是超了。

Max 1 hour...........
 
这楼歪的,从见死不救,到爬车吃票
 
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