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    Disgusting behaviour - police hunt man who filmed dying biker instead of helping

    Seems people are increasingly inhuman and incapable of empathy and helping others.


    German police hunt man who filmed dying biker instead of helping



    German police are searching for a cyclist who filmed a dying man after a road accident instead of going to his aid.

    Police say the cyclist could be prosecuted for failing to assist the 29-year-old who had crashed his motorbike into a lamp post. He was later pronounced dead at the scene of the accident in Heidenheim near Ulm in southern Germany.

    The cyclist, who is thought to be in his early 20s, filmed the aftermath of the accident on his mobile phone and continued to do so when an ambulance crew arrived. When medical staff complained that he was hampering their work, he refused to leave or stop filming. He fled just before police arrived.

    Police said the case served to highlight the problem of “gawpers”, or “gaffers” as they are known in Germany, who slow down or stop their vehicles to film accidents on their phones, often publishing pictures or videos of them on social media.

    German rescue services said gawpers had impeded their access to victims of a bus crash in Bavaria and speculated that they may have reached them sooner had drivers, who were concentrated on capturing the scene on their mobile phones, not failed to open a corridor to allow their emergency vehicles through. Eighteen people died in the ensuing blaze.

    The cyclist involved in Sunday night’s incident was caught on a motorist’s dash cam, and police are now trying to track the cyclist down using the footage.

    The German psychologist Wolfgang Krüger said the “gaffer” phenomenon was nothing new, but had been given a new lease of life thanks to smartphones.

    “Sensation-seeking is the simplest way to bring a bit of excitement into one’s life,” he told the Hamburger Morgenpost. The thrill factor is only heightened when photos or film footage are posted online, he said. “Sensation-seeking is nothing new. In the middle ages people made pilgrimages to watch people hanging from the gallows.”
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    Don't think the degree of "humanity" has changed much in aeons

    Just how it presents itself....
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    Perhaps.
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    I crashed my motorbike in the early 90's and while lying under my bike on the side of the road a car drove past, slowed down, looked at me for a minute and then drove off.

    Nothing has really changed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewy110 View Post
    I crashed my motorbike in the early 90's and while lying under my bike on the side of the road a car drove past, slowed down, looked at me for a minute and then drove off.

    Nothing has really changed.
    I was once cleaned up by a car coming out of a side road, the type where they have a lane alongside a main road for the houses. Of course the car only clipped me and kept going.

    The insult was one of the residents came over and said "it wasn't her fault, she didn't see you" before disappearing.

    The cop doing the investigation was an ex motorcycle cop and he was just as pi55ed off as I was...

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    Yeah, I don't think anything's really changed - I witnessed a major accident about 15 years ago before every mobile had a camera in it, (The car in front of me drove through a give way sign and was hit right in the drivers door by a car doing 100KPH) and after I stopped and had checked both vehicles and drivers (Thought the driver in front of me would be toast - the car was - but she was thrown clear of the wreck - which saved her life, and the other was trapped behind the wheel but conscious and lucid) I looked around to see if anyone else was around to help - there were about 10 people stopped and gawping out their cars at the scene. When the Police arrived, around 20 people were standing around - still no one assisting - I was with the trapped driver - the Copper just started pointing at people 'did you see it?' - 'No' - 'Then **** off'. He had to do this many times to clear the scene - he asked me the same question - I said 'yes' - 'well you stay right there then'.

    No pics or video of the accident, but still a heap of people not lifting a finger to help. I don't know what it is with some people, but nothings changed but the filming of it all.
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