On 04-23-98 Tom Rightmer wrote to Mark Raciborski... 
 
 TR> shoes. According to the Sgt., many people gave him the finger and
 TR> cursed him 
 TR> as they went by because of their inconvenience. Someone shouted, "get 
 TR> that 
 TR> garbage off the road." I wonder if they were talking about the woman 
 TR> also. 
 TR> This is a sickening report about the value of human life and the 
 TR> complete 
 TR> disregard for a human being desperately needing help. They call the 
 TR> Sgt. a 
 TR> hero for helping her, but this is a civic duty required by law in many 
 TR> places. It's also sad that we would need to consider making it the law 
 TR> to be 
 TR> a decent human being and stop to help a possibly dying person. 
 
I would never have believed anyone could be as callous as the general 
public has become, if I hadn't had a very good friend go through a 
similar situation. 
 
He was driving to work at 4 am, on a rural road, when he fell asleep 
at the wheel.  He ended up hitting a guardrail and flipping his car 
into a ditch. 
 
He crawled out of the ditch with a broken back, and flagged down a 
passing car. 
 
The lady told him, "Why don't you walk to the next house and have them 
call the ambulance?" 
 
Luckily, the next car after her, was a little more sympathetic, and 
they did call for help. 
 
It took him almost a year, but he has recovered very well, and is 
even back to work.  You, almost, wouldn't even know that he had 
broken his back. 
 
Guy 
 
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