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Originally Posted by Mirajj
The problems I have with random folks just jumping in and helping are two fold. First, if you think you know what you are doing, and try to help and make the situation worse, you can become a target of a lawsuit as well.There are all sorts of funky laws that start to apply in weird ways about helping someone, conscious or unconscious, etc.
Second, how many folks actually have useful, up-to-date medical aid training? I see a LOT of idiots in my daily travels, and the last thing I would want is someone who thinks they know what they are doing but who really doesn't try to 'help' me.
Also, what disturbed me a bit about this was that despite folks whipping out iPhones and Tweeting and the like...almost no one got the situational information right. How many different rides was it said to be? How many different injury/fatality totals? If folks can't keep their heads about them enough to read the name off the ride and count the folks on the floor, as it were, you don't want them doing more complicated things like trying to help. You just want them out of the way so the real helpers can do their thing.
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So lets say someone died because no one came to their aid quickly enough.
Would you rather help them and maybe take a lawsuit or live with the fact that you might have been able to prevent their death by helping them.
It sound like Conroy22 had some training to handle a situation like this.
He should be able to forgive himself if he faced a lawsuit, but would proably have a lot harder time forgiving himself if someone died and he might have been able to do something about it.