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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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What? You have problems with people helping other people in obvious need? At the very least, making sure an injured person is comforted and kept from moving if there is a potential neck/back injury beats the hell out of snapping a few pictures and tweeting about it. Worrying about a lawsuit when another human being is injured should be the last thing that crosses anyone's mind. That and "Ooh, I've gotta get this on youtube"