Just A Typical Day In Detroit
Body found in warehouse… Brought to you from the same city that watched a woman beaten to death on the freeway and no one came to her rescue.
It starts with a phone call made by a man who said his friend found a dead body in the elevator shaft of an abandoned building on the city’s west side.
“He’s encased in ice, except his legs, which are sticking out like Popsicle sticks,” the caller phoned to tell this reporter.
Why didn’t your friend call the police?”
“He was trespassing and didn’t want to get in trouble,” the caller replied. As it happens, the caller’s friend is an urban explorer who gets thrills rummaging through and photographing the ruins of Detroit. It turns out that this explorer last week was playing hockey with a group of other explorers on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building. None of the men called the police, the explorer said. They, in fact, continued their hockey game.
“It’s just a dead body. Let’s keep playing”
Filed under: Bad Culture
My God!
They must have an extremely frozen conscious to be that cold. I’m just amazed at this. Nobody reported about a missing loved one being gone for an X amount of time? Wow!
I’ll never forget one time where a man seemed to be having a heart attack. He barely spoke English( he was from Panama). The idea of that scared the daylights out of me along with his barely spken English. Luckily what he spoke, I understood some of it,( In Spanish he said that his chest was hurting and his left arm was somewhat numb)Me, and few other people who was present , didn’t want this man to die We all called 911with a prayer that he would be ok. I don’t know what ever happended to this guy, but I just couldn’t live with myself not doing the right thing for him. I can’t see how those people could do such a rotten thing.
Hamdulillah, I’ve never been in a situation like that. Well, not that serious. I saw a male biker bleeding from his knee on the ground once on Madison, and I stopped to help. And I saw a child fall off of his bike in Parkway Village, and stopped. In a place like Memphis, as I’m sure you know, even that could be dangerous. Maybe you heard about the woman, a nurse, in Memphis who stopped to help some people who she thought had been in a car accident, and they turned around a carjacked her. Things like that make you not want to help people… There are psychological studies on these things, as the other article (about the woman being beaten to death) mentions, where people witness things and are inactive. For the case of the woman being beaten, I can understand a little bit more why people would not have intervened. At least someone called 911, though. But to continue playing hockey in ice where you see a dead body? That’s pretty damn awful.