While I was reading the passage of the
bystander effect I ask myself what I would have done if I ever were placed in a
similar situation as these bystanders. After reading this article I will really
try to give a person a more of a helping hand instead of over looking the situation
and saying it does not have anything to do with me. I believe that society must
rethink its attitude about not wanting to be known as the noisy neighbor especially
when children and the elderly are involved.
What I am about to share with you is a
true story of an incident that happen to my mother one day. My mother had
bought a house in another neighborhood after her divorce. She had been living
there about ten years before the incident at Nix Check cashing. This particular
day at the check cashing store my mother’s purse was snatched by some crack
heads that lived in the neighborhood. There were people that seen the incident
and made a phone call to have her purse returned to her. The crack head brought
the purse back and the gang member from the neighborhood beat the man up for
stealing her purse in the first place.
