Cisse Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesterRam Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 You could place that lad in London and receive the same outcome, just shocking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Clean socks whiter than Tom Cruises teeth, also very clean clothes despite rips in which were way over the top. A camera circling filming, if you watch closely you will see plenty stare into the camera. Sorry, just didn't look believable at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyram Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Harsh man, harsh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 The homeless man doing what he did seemed genuine enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernow Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 5 degrees Fahrenheit? That's -15 degrees Celsius... and they'd leave their little brother on the street for 2 hours in socks, jeans, a ripped t-shirt and a bin bag? Just to wait & see if someone stopped to help? There's bullshit in there one way or another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 17 minutes ago, Kernow said: 5 degrees Fahrenheit? That's -15 degrees Celsius... and they'd leave their little brother on the street for 2 hours in socks, jeans, a ripped t-shirt and a bin bag? Just to wait & see if someone stopped to help? There's bullshit in there one way or another. Think of that YouTube $$$$!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesterRam Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 yeah even if you deemed him not genuine you would approach him and ask him if he was OK? he has no parent present and looked in distress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted November 25, 2015 Author Share Posted November 25, 2015 Little kid on the ground even if you see the cameras one should ask the camera crew if they are filming something or is it real. The thing is that often the most helpful people are those who have the least to lose. Like in this case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 15 hours ago, Daveo said: Clean socks whiter than Tom Cruises teeth, also very clean clothes despite rips in which were way over the top. A camera circling filming, if you watch closely you will see plenty stare into the camera. Sorry, just didn't look believable at all. Exactly. With the camera's circling round, it just looks like performance art. I don't blame the people walking past & wouldn't want to contribute to somoene's GCSE art project by intervening either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rynny Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 There are 2 camera men circling round him, not even trying to hide it, at 1.50 you can quite clearly see the guy in the red coat with his camera filming. Also why do they pixel some people out but not others? That means they were asking people if they mind being in their recording, who would say that they don't mind being shown to walk past a kid who is homeless and do nothing, if it was real? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highgate Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 On a busy street or any crowded area ...people tend not to act. It's called the Bystander Effect. There have been many experiments and actual real events which have proven this to be a very common trend, even to the extent that people will walk past people bleeding to death on a busy street. It happened to Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax in New York 2010, after he had been repeatedly stabbed after attempting to intervene when a woman was being mugged. As he lay there dying people declined to go to his aid or even call the police. When there are plenty of people around, people are less likely to help than if they were the only person there, they seem to assume that someone else will do it. There are exceptions of course, like the unfortunate Tale-Yax himself, who tried to help that woman. Maybe in the clip above people did suspect it wasn't genuine...but it mightn't have changed much if they thought it was real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Seems the perfect thread for what I've just seen on BBC News. Quote Commuters on the London Underground are being handed cards telling them they are a "fat, ugly human" by a group that claims to "hate and resent fat people". NHS worker Kara Florish posted a message on social media after being handed a card while travelling on the Tube on Saturday. She described the card, which berates overweight people for "wasting NHS money" as "hateful and cowardly". British Transport Police said they had been made aware of the campaign. For more updates on this and other London stories visit BBC Local Live The force has also had an incident reported in which a person was given a card. The card says it is from a group called Overweight Haters Ltd. 'Stunned, desolate reaction' Writing on Facebook, Ms Florish said she was "smaller than the national average and not exactly obese", and was "not upset" by the card, but worried it could upset people struggling with confidence and eating disorders. Sean Thomas Knox posted on Twitter that he saw a woman being handed a printed card reading "you're fat" at Oxford Circus. He said: "Her stunned, desolate reaction was very real. Then tears." Steve Burton, of Transport for London, said this "sad and unpleasant" form of anti-social behaviour "would not be tolerated", and urged any people affected to report it to police or a station officer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34969424 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 I do wonder if the underground "fat" stunt is some sort of social experiment - see how much outrage we can drum up on social media - type thing. Otherwise I'm struggling to understand why people would go around doing random acts of mean-ness straight out of the 1983 primary school bullying handbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WharfedaleRam Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Perhaps it would be kinder to hand out free salads?! They could be consumed on the Tube and wouldn't spoil the bucket of tea and cow pie when they get home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 3 hours ago, Wolfie said: I do wonder if the underground "fat" stunt is some sort of social experiment - see how much outrage we can drum up on social media - type thing. Otherwise I'm struggling to understand why people would go around doing random acts of mean-ness straight out of the 1983 primary school bullying handbook. Like this one? Cornwall advert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewe Ram Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Just as an aside, I hate people who eat on the tube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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