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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Were the other passengers on the bus too PC to get off and safely call 911 when the guys was making wild death threats? What about the driver? DC people are too polite and tolerant of the crazy for their own good. [/quote]

Honestly, who has time to call 911 every time someone yells something threatening at you? I just walk away. [/quote]

maybe you should try being less passive, and more community-minded. Sad that your biggest concern is your "time" which would be all of two minutes. All they want is a location to check into.

https://www.bbc.com/storyworks/the-psychology-of-heroism/overcoming-the-bystander-effect#:~:text=In%201964%2C%20Kitty%20Genovese%20was%20killed%20outside%20her,of%20them%20acted%20or%20went%20to%20Genovese%E2%80%99s%20aid.

"In 1964, Kitty Genovese was killed outside her apartment building in densely populated Queens, New York. As the story goes, [b]there were dozens of people that heard the young woman screaming for help but none of them acted or went to Genovese’s aid[/b]. The infamous murder launched decades of studies investigating the “bystander effect,” where a diffusion of responsibility and fear of risk leads to inaction on the part of people who may be able to rectify a risky situation."[/quote]

I would definitely call if someone was threatening someone else. I just don't bother calling when someone yells threats at me.[/quote]

I've had people tell threats at me, and then go on to threaten people behind me - like school kids. I always call in threats. A threat is a threat is a threat.[/quote]

Yes, a threat is a threat, but I’ve had people yell threatening things to me and then not appear to threaten anyone else. Don’t really feel like I need to call that in. Again, if I saw them do the same to someone else, I’d call.[/quote]

You are basically saying you don't want to get threatening people off the streets and to help [/quote]

No, I'm saying I don't feel the need to call if the only "victim" I'm aware of is myself. I also didn't call police when someone stole my grill off my patio once (though then I had no idea who did it, so it really seemed pointless) or when cars have hit me while I've been riding my bike.

Have frequently called the cold weather hotline for people outside in the winter who look like the need help, have called 911 about crimes I've witnessed, have called for welfare checks on people lying on the sidewalk, called 911 to get medical assistance for a man who collapsed on the street near my building and gave him water while waiting with him for the ambulance to arrive. But I'm not sure people necessarily need to be off the street if all they're doing is yelling at me -- if they're threatening to hurt me, they might just not like me for whatever reason. And most of all, I'm not sure I have great confidence that calling D.C. emergency services will always lead to a resolution that's best for them if police arrive prepared for someone who all they know is threatened a passerby.[/quote]

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