The Bystander Effect

 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.