Video shows bystanders ignoring hit-and-run victim:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but appear to do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back into traffic. A man on a scooter slowly circles the victim before zipping away.
The chilling scene captured on video by a streetlight surveillance camera has touched off a round of soul-searching in Hartford, with the capital city's biggest newspaper blaring "SO INHUMANE" on the front page and the police chief lamenting: "We no longer have a moral compass."
"We have no regard for each other," said Chief Daryl Roberts, who on Wednesday released the video in hopes of making an arrest in the accident that left Angel Arce Torres in critical condition.
The hit-and-run took place in daylight last Friday at about 5:45 p.m. in a working-class neighborhood close to downtown in this city of 125,000.
In the video, Torres, a retired forklift operator, walks in the two-way street just blocks from the state Capitol after buying milk at a grocery. A tan Toyota and a dark Honda that is apparently chasing it veer across the center line, and Torres is struck by the Honda. Both cars then dart down a side street.
Nine cars pass Torres as a few people stare from the sidewalk. Some approach Torres, but no one gets any closer than a couple of yards and no one attempts to stop or divert traffic until a police cruiser responding to an unrelated call arrives on the scene after about a minute and a half.
"Like a dog they left him there," said a disgusted Jose Cordero, 37, who was with friends Thursday not far from where Torres was struck. Robert Luna, who works at a store nearby, said: "Nobody did nothing."
One witness, Bryant Hayre, told The Hartford Courant he didn't feel comfortable helping Torres, who he said was bleeding and conscious.
And here I am thinking how could anybody not get out and help.
One point each for each assclown that was involved in the 'chase', another point for the assclown who actually hit Torres, and two points for the at least ten people who chose not to do anything. That's five. I don't know how some of you people will live with yourself.
Nod of Doom to X-Files.
I seem to remember a recent conversation in your other blog, www.thetrenchcoat.com and we were discussing this: http://thetrenchcoat.com/archives/3577-Bullying-death-was-recorded.html
And right away we got this littel jewel from a cowardly asswipe:
"Pirelli Jones
I disagree with you here based on my momma's input. As a kid I was always getting into the middle of shit like this because I'm a bleeding-heart stick up for the weak kind of guy but momma broke me of it with her words of wisdom and my maturing eyes vision that showed me there's no divine calling to be a hero. Kudos to the child that captured a video record of the incident instead of risking their own safety by joining into the confrontation or the mayhem. One child dead is too many, we don't need them to step up as sacrificial lambs to a blossoming monster whose parents failed to instill compassion, manners, restraint, etc with any success.
Sunday, February 10. 2008 "
Sounds to me like Pirelli and his "momma" must have been at this incident. Worthless cowards. My God people disgust me more and more. I have very little faith left in my fellow man. Most of you suck. Seriously.
are 'heartless' towards everyone or just Hispanics.