Thank you :)

yvonne13_2

Today I went shopping with an old friend and her daughter, on the way back to the car the little one collapsed. My battery had gone and my friend had forgotten hers at home.

She saw a woman coming and asked her to call an ambulance and the woman said "No I don't want to get involved" :eek:. We were both shocked and out of stress/worry my friend started screaming/swearing at the woman to get help and she point blank refused..........
I started running towards the main road and I saw a man so I asked him for help. He called an ambulance and stayed with us until it came.

So I'd just like to say thank you so much from all three of us, we didn't get your name but we'll never forget your kindness. :T:T:T

BitterAndTwisted

I completely understand your gratitude under the circumstances but calling for an ambulance for someone who is patently in need of one is not an act of kindness, it's a duty.

The woman who refused was cruel and heartless beyond belief. I sincerely hope that in her hour of need everyone else around won't want to "get involved" either.

Pigeongirl

That's just plain weird - why on earth wouldn't the woman ring for an ambulance?! Did she think your friend was faking so she could steal her phone or something? I just can't get my head around it...

Triquetra

Pigeongirl wrote: »

That's just plain weird - why on earth wouldn't the woman ring for an ambulance?! Did she think your friend was faking so she could steal her phone or something? I just can't get my head around it...

It wasn't even the friend, it was a small child.

I can just about see someone not getting involved with adults (I don't condone or agree, but can see someone doing it), but a child? It beggars belief.

I hope the little one is ok now.

Bigmoney2

Its not unheard of for people to fein illness, to distract attention and pick pocket or worse.

busiscoming2

It does seem unhuman not to help in this sort of circumstance but I am sure there has been one of those spoof things recently on FB saying something along the lines of 'watch out for people saying the child is ill' and to steer clear if it happens as its a con in some form.

Not excusing her but just a thought.

Hope the child is ok now.

Nicki

Pigeongirl wrote: »

That's just plain weird - why on earth wouldn't the woman ring for an ambulance?! Did she think your friend was faking so she could steal her phone or something? I just can't get my head around it...

That would be my guess. It's unusual these days for two adults together not to have a working phone between them. A lone female in a deserted carpark or isolated place accosted by two strangers might be scared particularly if one started screaming and swearing at her and generally looking aggressive.

I have occasionally been in situations where I have walked away to a place of safety and phoned for an ambulance for a stranger from there rather than open my bag or take my phone out where I have felt threatened. Similarly have sometimes refused money to someone claiming to have an emergency because the street was otherwise empty and I didn't feel safe to loiter and take my purse out.

yvonne13_2

Pigeongirl wrote: »

That's just plain weird - why on earth wouldn't the woman ring for an ambulance?! Did she think your friend was faking so she could steal her phone or something? I just can't get my head around it...

I don't know, she could've rang them when she got in her car and locked the doors.

The little one is only 9 and she's very ill

yvonne13_2

Nicki wrote: »

That would be my guess. It's unusual these days for two adults together not to have a working phone between them. A lone female in a deserted carpark or isolated place accosted by two strangers might be scared particularly if one started screaming and swearing at her and generally looking aggressive.

I have occasionally been in situations where I have walked away to a place of safety and phoned for an ambulance for a stranger from there rather than open my bag or take my phone out where I have felt threatened. Similarly have sometimes refused money to someone claiming to have an emergency because the street was otherwise empty and I didn't feel safe to loiter and take my purse out.

My phone was working, the battery was dead and the charger was in my car. My first instinct was to get help not run up 4 floors to the car park to plug it in to get help.

paulineb_2

Id always phone for an ambulance even if I walked away from the people concerned to do it.

moromir

As a single woman, if I'd been approached by two people and I was on my own (and with no other people in the vicinity) I too would have been concerned by two strangers who essentially were asking me to get a valuable item out of my bag and blocking me from safety (i.e. my car/destination).

Upon said stranger launching into an agressive abusive rant, I would have run for my life and called the police to assist ME from the nearest safe place I could reach.

Unfortunately I'm aware of a couple of friends who've been mugged for phones in not dissimilar circumstances.

Edit although agree with PaulineB and would have reported stranger's request for ambulance to the police.