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Legal obligations aside, let us throw out a moral question: if you saw someone motionless in the street, critically injured following a hit and run accident, would you phone for police and render aid, or would you snap a pic of the dying victim and Tweet about it?

A nineteen-year-old driver in Edinburgh, Scotland, opted to do the latter when he saw a body in the road outside Edinburgh’s Ocean Terminal. The injured man, who had been sleeping in the road prior to being struck by a car, was later pronounced dead at the Edinburg Royal Infirmary.


According to The Daily Record, the driver in question, 19-year-old Ikram Choudhury, came upon the scene at roughly 1:55 in the morning. Stopping his car, Choudhury snapped a picture of the victim on his smartphone, then tweeted, “Eeeehm wtf? Some guy just casually lying outside Ocean Terminal.”

Choudhury then returned to his car and drove home, never checking on the victim and never dialing 999, the U.K. equivalent of our 911. Police arrived on scene at 2:10 a.m. and immediately called for an ambulance, but the victim later succumbed to his injuries.

Choudhury’s picture of the victim remained on his Twitter feed for some eight hours, until police asked him to take it down.

In Choudhury’s defense, he didn’t witness the hit and run accident and likely assumed the man was just another homeless guy, sleeping off a drunk in a rather inappropriate place. Still, common sense would have dictated a call to 999 to report a body in the road.

Police have cleared Choudhury in the actual hit and run, but the teen driver may still face charges for failing to render aid.

Let this be a reminder to all of us that life is more than an opportunity for social media recognition. The real world, with real people, real drama and, occasionally, real danger, lies beyond our computers, tablets and smartphones.

 

 





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  1. dagr382 avatar dagr382 Posted: 7/31/2012 12:56pm PDT

    That is today's UK for you.
     
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  2. fb_1539966582 avatar Bernie Trenary Posted: 7/31/2012 3:34pm PDT

    . . . and U.S.
     
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  3. fb_1054517124 avatar John Woods Posted: 5/5/2013 11:48pm PDT

    Another envious foreigner who had to throw in the US to make himself feel better about the sh*t country he resides in.

    "Bernie"? Your name alone says volumes about you, you doofus.
     
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  4. fb_1041932369 avatar Andrei Kharlamov Posted: 5/10/2013 10:21am PDT

    @ John Woods - Ur a moron.
     
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  5. fb_100004363568507 avatar Lindsay Kobalt Posted: 5/17/2013 11:43am PDT

    @Andrei Kharlamov - You are a moron. Learn to speak English.
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  6. fb_100000501502704 avatar Di Hetherington Posted: 3/19/2013 12:59am PDT

    Meaning what? The man probably thought it was a drunk, what he did was stupid but he didn't witness the accident so made an error of judgement. Hardly a damning indictment of the uk. Anyone mention Newton or Steubenville?
     
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  7. fb_1481298708 avatar Jerry McConnell Posted: 5/3/2013 11:37am PDT

    Drunks on a sidewalk or on the ground maybe, but a person in the roadway? Any normal person would call for help. They could be hit (as in this case. Also hitting a body in the road could cause a death for the driver and passengers if the hit or avoidance caused the car to crash. So yes this guy was not only stupid but could have caused more deaths.
     
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  8. fb_100004363568507 avatar Lindsay Kobalt Posted: 5/17/2013 11:50am PDT

    But the kid didn't "cause" anything. Your argument makes no sense. Should I call 911 every time I see someone talk on their phone or have a wireless conversation on their phone, while driving? Wouldn't I be guilty of the 2600 people who die (that's in the US per year) because of cell phone related car accidents? No, we ignore that, and instead restrict rights of others because of intentional acts of those few individuals who do horrible things. What he did was tacky, despicable, inconsiderate, but he didn't "cause" anything. To follow the norm, we should pass a law making it illegal to take photos of anyone sleeping in the street, or of anyone who is about to die without calling 911 first. Problem solved.
     
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  9. fb_100005435403649 avatar Grady Philpott Posted: 5/17/2013 7:02am PDT

    This event is not an indictment of the UK, but it's hard to imagine that the photographer in question did not notice the injuries that would have been doubtlessly incurred by being struck by a vehicle.

    At the very least, there was a human being lying in a road and nothing was done to seek aid for him in his time of need.

    We shouldn't try to normalize that, nor should we generalize this behavior to an entire nation.
     
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  10. fb_100004363568507 avatar Lindsay Kobalt Posted: 5/17/2013 11:52am PDT

    Whaaaaaaaaaat? We cant take a single individuals sick depraved act and hold it up as example of an entire body of people from which they came? That's crazy talk.
     
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  11. Damien Thomas avatar Damien Thomas Posted: 7/31/2012 11:50pm PDT

    I have no hope for today's youth, these so-called Gen Y and Mellenials or whatever. They are so isolated from each other because of technology like Facebook and myspace that they are losing what makes them human, as evidenced by this Choudhury character. Add to this role models like the crew from Jersey Shore and rappers and you have a generation of trash.
     
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  12. swagga1209 avatar swagga1209 Posted: 8/5/2012 4:26pm PDT

    So.... Your generation, which promoted racism, fought against segregation, womens rights, educational standards, ect arent trash? pot calling kettle black, as yall like to say....
     
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  13. fb_100003133626214 avatar Connie Breitwieser Posted: 10/8/2012 11:23am PDT

    Don't know who you are talking about but being over 60 and also a republican, I did not nor did anyone I know, promote
    racism, fight against segregation, womens rights, educational standards and so forth. I have to agree though that a lot of todays youth are a mess. And look at the
    trash we have on tv today. Kids can't even watch tv during prime time. And so much of the music if you want to call it music is horrible. Did drink a little boones farm and smoke a little pot back then but that is minor compared to what some do today.
     
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  14. fb_100000035396863 avatar Brandon Flaig Posted: 3/21/2013 3:02pm PDT

    there is good and bad in every generation,location,and race you cant lump everyone together as we are all responsible for our own actions so lets focus on just this ass-hole and call it good
     
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  15. fb_1054517124 avatar John Woods Posted: 5/6/2013 12:03am PDT

    Good for you, Connie, but you might want to keep the fact that you are a Republican to yourself as they have the worst record of racism imaginable. And before you claim that the bigoted south was full of racist Republicans back in your (our) youth, you know that all those racist Dems long since changed parties and are now in your club. In fact, today's Republicans are just figuring out that they need to start including non-whites in their party or they'll never win another major election again. And women's rights? Look at who and what squelched the ERA. And education standards? And who is leading the charge to slash funding to public schools? Not the Democrats.

    However, everything else you said, I agree with.
     
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  16. fb_1241676135 avatar Craig Fellows Posted: 5/9/2013 6:58am PDT

    John - Learn your history.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) - Japanese Internment Camps

    Hugo Black (D) - Member of the KKK

    Robert Byrd (D) - Member of the KKK

    Ernest Hollings (D) - Racial Slur expert

    Jesse Jackson (D) - Anti-Semitic

    J. William Fulbright (D) - Opponent of the Civil Rights Movement

    Donna Brazile (D) - Anti-White Racial Slur expert.

    Get your facts straight. Otherwise you are just another troll.
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  17. fb_100003252498089 avatar Scott Willis Posted: 5/13/2013 11:55am PDT

    John, You really need a history lesson. Republicans freed the slaves whereas Jim Crow and the KKK were the makings of democrats. Even JFK's civil rights act was the brainchild of a republican a decade prior that none other than JFK and LBJ filibustered then used for there own gain when in office. You wanna talk about slashing funding to public schools. Ask any teacher in the U.S. that has had to adopt the Comm Core forced down there throat by the Fed and how much their budgets have suffered with democrats running the show.
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  18. Deirdre avatar Dee Stones Posted: 11/26/2012 3:45pm PST

    So the same generation which fought against segregation also promoted racism? And this generation who also fought for women's rights and educational standards are trash? You'd prefer that blacks "know their place" and women should be in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant. And speaking of educational standards, the abbreviation is "etc.", not "ect". "Etc." is short for "et cetera" - a Latin term for "and other things". If you read Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (and I'm guessing not, judging by your asinine post, that's why I included the author for you), you'd know that when Brutus stabbed Caesar, he (Caesar) turned to him (Brutus) and asked, "Et tu, Brute?" It means "And you, Brutus?", incredulous that his friend would stab him.
     
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  19. fb_100000394042116 avatar Chris Junkin Posted: 4/13/2013 4:14pm PDT

    woman stop all that learning and reading and make some dinner. j/k=just kidding=). lol
     
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  20. fb_100003177369181 avatar MotoloopedRacing Thumel Posted: 8/9/2012 1:23am PDT

    And look who raised them to be this way. Lets hope the next generation will not raise their children as poorly as parents "back in the day" did.
     
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  21. fb_608029571 avatar Samantha Hutchison Posted: 11/2/2012 8:34am PDT

    The people that raised this generation are not the ones over 60. My father is 66 and I am 31, I think you are off by a generation there.
     
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  22. teslaemma avatar david benoit Posted: 12/22/2012 7:17am PST

    These kids are punks with no balls. All facebook, twitter, and all other social networks should be closed down immediately. These networks are the worst thing that you can let your children do. Crack is better for them than facebook.
     
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  23. fb_1503957401 avatar Daniel West Posted: 12/24/2012 8:14am PST

    You probably used your facebook account to post this comment. You can't blame facebook and social networking for bad parenting. Nice try.
     
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  24. fb_100000274699278 avatar David Israel Posted: 1/27/2013 12:57am PST

    David, you're absolutely right!!! Kids today are ball-less punks & thugs and have gotten what they wanted since their first breath!! The problem now is they've got some hair on their arm and think they're all grown up and expect the trend of getting what they want when they want it to continue outside even if they have to kill for it, and often they do end up killing for it! If just a handful of parents got up and said no and showed them how to act in the real world we'd be better off. You're right facebook and that is part of the problem but the main problem is mom & dad doing nothing and letting the computer raise a kid instead of them doing it. I don't have a problem with Facebook and other sites if used to teach what's right!!!
     
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  25. fb_100000527920966 avatar Kris Meaney Posted: 3/16/2013 3:50pm PDT

    Not sure how old you are, but when you were young, did you listen to rock and roll or had friends who did. Would you consider your parents right who said rock & roll was the devils music? Would you consider that everyone growing up in the 60s were listless druggies? A problem with the world, not just now, but always has been, is people putting others into categories. 200 years ago it was common for people to put all colored people into the category of 'Other', 'savage' or 'non-human', Romans 2000 years ago put everyone not roman into the box of 'barbarian'... Its been a problem throughout human history, and you David Israel, are doing exactly that by claiming that all kids today are ball-less punks and thugs. Stop stereotyping, its evil!
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  26. fb_100000527920966 avatar Kris Meaney Posted: 3/16/2013 4:00pm PDT

    Were all kids raised in the 60's listless drug addicts? Was all rock & roll Devils Music.... stereotyping has always plauged man kind. Were all Native Americans Savages, were blacks ignorant and not even dignified to be called human? 2000 years ago, if you were not Roman you were a barbarian... Quit Stereotyping David Israel, its evil.... To call all children ball-less thugs is just plain stupid. Do you have any children in your family, are they all thugs? and by the way, if your into simply throwing out insults.... I have never known a women to be named David..
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  27. fb_1481298708 avatar Jerry McConnell Posted: 5/3/2013 11:52am PDT

    His generation was raised by those born in the 80's bozo! But math is a hard subject for your generation I guess.
     
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  28. fb_1054517124 avatar John Woods Posted: 5/6/2013 12:09am PDT

    Nothing more pathetically amusing than a crotchety old man calling kids names.
     
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  29. fb_100002938139033 avatar Scott Alan Posted: 9/15/2012 8:33am PDT

    San Francisco has tons of people sleeping on the streets and in parks and gutters. This is because the city enables their condition. Taking a picture of someone sleeping by a road is normal in the USA. If the bum was not visibly bleeding, no problem. If I call the police in most American cities about someone sleeping on the ground they will tell me not to call anymore. Fact. This teen was the only person to drive by the deceased? It's the teen's fault? The teen understood the man wa critically injured? Kinda left that part out of the story.
     
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  30. fb_1491948054 avatar Kurt Ernst Posted: 9/15/2012 10:12am PDT

    Scott, outside of San Francisco, it's a bit unusual to find a body in the street. Had the teen in question merely driven by, there'd be no story; instead, he stopped his car, got out and snapped a picture of the body for social media amusement.

    If you find that within the scope of normal and acceptable social behavior, then your standards differ from my own.
     
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  31. fb_1623442030 avatar Kyle Anderson Posted: 11/2/2012 11:54am PDT

    listen buddy ive lived in san fransisco las vegas and tampa fl ive seen iddiots sleepin in the middle of the street in all 3 maybe u should open you damn eyes and see whats around you
     
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  32. fb_100002266794996 avatar Dale Szarejko Posted: 11/28/2012 7:32am PST

    Kyle take a spelling lesson or two before posting. You will not at least look like the arse you really are.
     
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  33. fb_1054517124 avatar John Woods Posted: 5/6/2013 12:11am PDT

    Kyle may be bordering on illiteracy, but he makes a valid point.

    And your sentence construction leaves a lot to be desired, too, pal.
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  34. fb_100002938139033 avatar Scott Alan Posted: 1/20/2013 6:59am PST

    Normal? No. Acceptable? No. Outside of San Francisco is L.A., Miami, New York, Chicago. Lots of people on the ground, sleeping away. Symptom of out of control socialism.
     
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  35. fb_721679251 avatar Eduardo Hope Worrell Posted: 4/19/2013 7:24am PDT

    Sorry, Scott, but "lots of people on the ground, sleeping away" is NOT a symptom of out-of-control socialism. Socialism hasn't worked out in the way its idealists would have wanted, but no one can say the United States of America has a socialist system in place, and be taken seriously.

    When an economy has taken advantage of unregulated immigrant workers; has at-will employment policies; permits businesses to declare bankruptcy in order to undercut labor unions and yet comfortably pays six-figure salaries to its executives; and corporations hire a bevy of tax lawyers to comb through the law to find tax loopholes, we have out-of-control capitalism.

    And you may take that to the bank.
     
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  36. fb_100000125939562 avatar Milly Westbrook Posted: 4/28/2013 7:16am PDT

    At least with capitalism we have the choice to file bankruptcy and the choice to start a business were with socialism it is 100% controlled by the government. I lived in Holland were the government gives you a house to live in, gives you your job according to your education and basically gives you a doctor to see. THAT is socialism were the government makes you completely dependent on the government. You have to ask to wipe your a s s! My brother tried going back to Holland but couldn't live like a small child for the rest of his life under socialist rule. He came back to the USA were he choose the job he wanted to do instead of the government choosing the job he was going to do!!!
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  37. fb_1054517124 avatar John Woods Posted: 5/6/2013 12:13am PDT

    "Out of control socialism" ? Scott, why aren't you posting on your favorite news outlet, Fox News? Oh, that's right, they don't allow readers to comment. Hypocrites of freedom. You should be more worried about their fascism than their made-up fear-mongering (ie: socialism in America).
     
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  38. fb_546041866 avatar Alystar Mckenneh Posted: 11/14/2012 10:51am PST

    Sleeping in the road is normal in the US? Where the heck have you been. People don't sleep IN THE ROAD! They may sleep in a park, under a bridge or on bus benches but I have traveled A LOT OF MILES and I have never seen anyone sleeping IN the road.
     
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  39. fb_100000125939562 avatar Milly Westbrook Posted: 4/28/2013 7:22am PDT

    He is just making up excuses to defend someone from his generation. This generation are the most spoiled, self centered, opportunistic and plain selfish worthless generation I have ever seen. It is all about them and they will blame and make excuses to take the blame away from them! This is due to parents not being home but are working so they overcompensate by giving the kids everything they want because they feel guilty for not being there. These kids are mostly latchkey kids with no parents to guide them but their friends who are their same age! Womens equal rights sure ruined the last three generations!!
     
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  40. fb_100002531157762 avatar Kay Cee Posted: 12/16/2012 11:33pm PST

    Try reading the article you're commenting on. The person wasn't sleeping "by" a road. The person was lying IN the road.

    Kinda ignored that part of the story?

    People lying IN a road are usually NOT ok, or about to BECOME not OK if a car fails to see them in time.

    YES you call Emergency about a body IN the road...paramedics and police WILL respond.

    In fact, if you have the sense, morals or compassion of the average brick, you try to find out if your Fellow Human Being (not "bum") is hurt, even try to move him/her out of harm's way.

    What you DON'T do is assume a body in a road is a homeless person sleeping--99% of the time a body IN the road DOES need help. The teen was an inhumane moron. The result: a man who might have lived, died.
     
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  41. fb_746658482 avatar Kevin Prichard Posted: 5/17/2013 3:10pm PDT

    "The injured man, who had been *sleeping in the road* prior to being struck by a car..."

    Differences of British and American English aside, whether it's lying or sleeping, in or on, it's all the same from a driver's point of view.
     
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  42. fb_1728447954 avatar Dorothy Castillo Posted: 10/3/2012 11:43am PDT

    One can only hope for Karma.
     
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  43. fb_1307708082 avatar Robert Houg Posted: 10/23/2012 12:33pm PDT

    Human being fail. Could have tried to help him out of road. Could have called 999 could have tried to speak with him to see if he is alright. I think the kid should be evaluated for possible psychopathic tendencies.
     
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  44. fb_1000876520 avatar Doris Cribbs Posted: 10/25/2012 3:18pm PDT

    wow
     
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  45. fb_100000062405568 avatar Marcus Humphrey Posted: 11/3/2012 11:23am PDT

    Maybe the teen was under the influence of drugs and or alchohol. It was dark. He snapped a picture and kept going. How many homeless people you see appear to be lifeless? He just thought he was in a deep sleep. Me for one would have not taken the picture, but I probably would have tried to get him out of the street. Just a young man that made the wrong decision.
     
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  46. fb_100003605629100 avatar Lyrik Engel Posted: 11/20/2012 2:56pm PST

    Think you might be right...he might have had something to drink or something else that kept him from calling the police. Won't admit it now. Shame that he is so insensitive as to have to have the police to tell him to take the pic off tho. This person is seriously lacking a soul
     
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  47. fb_1507965915 avatar Mari Joram Posted: 11/13/2012 11:10am PST

    Agree, no role models, both parents working, after school goofing off, supper, then homework. In between all that, iPhone and TV,videos and other sitting inactivity. Today's youth couldn't keep a fire going in the wood stove, they'd freeze, it's all in the prep.
     
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  48. fb_1054517124 avatar John Woods Posted: 5/6/2013 12:15am PDT

    Talk about "inactivity." Mari, instead of sitting at your keyboard complaining about the state of our youth, why not get off your crotchety ass, volunteer at the nearest grammar school, and do something about it?
     
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  49. fb_1334648333 avatar Christina Rodrigues Posted: 12/20/2012 8:20am PST

    Maybe it's just me.....but, what about the guilty motorist who actually hit the victim? Aside from the fact that any 'normal' person would opt for a safer place to rest for the night; there is still the fact that someone is guilty of actually killing a man and leaving him for dead. Bad luck and bad choices on the deceased and the tweeter, but what about the person(s) who is actually guilty here? No mention of possible vehicles or witnesses? Just sad!
     
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  50. fb_100000125939562 avatar Milly Westbrook Posted: 12/21/2012 7:16am PST

    My children are in their 30's and are allways amazed at what this generation gets away with. They are solid citizens with college degrees and even THEY see how far downward this nation has gone! Technology might be great for the world but it is destroying our future generations!!
     
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  51. noon avatar nikki florio Posted: 1/26/2013 10:57am PST

    Technology is not "destroying future generations"... bad parenting is.
     
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  52. fb_1054517124 avatar John Woods Posted: 5/6/2013 12:17am PDT

    Ask these well-educated kids of yours if they thing technology is "destroying our world." When you ask them, I guarantee you that they'll have their smart phones within arms reach.
     
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  53. fb_100000125939562 avatar Milly Westbrook Posted: 12/21/2012 7:40am PST

    My 23 year old daughter speaks to this generation and cannot understand how dumb they are. She is this generation but deathly afraid for her future. She tries to talk to kids her age but comes away feeling very sad at the stupidity of the way they think. Yes she is a physics major going for her PHD and has some smarts but our school system has failed our kids miserably. I came here from Europe in the 60's and I am so disappointed at this generation of Americans! Our schools have become so liberal that nothing else matters to them but the brain washing of our future kids!
     
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  54. EleanorK avatar Eleanor Rohl Posted: 4/27/2013 9:18am PDT

    I think that bad parenting is th main problem today. Park your baby ibn front of the TV as soon as they can sit up, and not have to bother with them all through their formative years have created this generation, Not the schools or technology, but no "old fashioned parenting"
     
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  55. fb_1054517124 avatar John Woods Posted: 5/6/2013 12:20am PDT

    You had there until you had to pull the "liberal" card. Another Fox & Friends neo-con automaton talking out of her ass. The Republicans are ruining this country with their worship of the Almighty Dollar. I own my own business, but you fascist, blame-the-other-guy sheep disgust me.
     
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  56. fb_100001516060605 avatar Juliette Dauterive Posted: 1/17/2013 6:08am PST

    Oh my! The generalization of generations is at full swing.
    The guy was 19. Young and dumb.
    This could have happened at any time in history if one's first though was that someone was just drunk and passed out. Yes, most of us would think to make sure the poor fellow was alright but an ignorant youth, maybe not.
     
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  57. fb_100000228290152 avatar Tha Comic Posted: 1/22/2013 4:41am PST

    And this idiot will play "hide the salami"... and reproduce. Makes my skin crawl.
     
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  58. joeystyle11 avatar joey loughary Posted: 1/23/2013 4:54am PST

    that would be a tuff call i live in downtown Denver and i have walked over bodies on the sidewalk before never thinking to check and see if there alive or not i figured they were sleeping off a drunk or drug… now tweeting it maybe not but i have commented on it on my Facebook account hum that is something to ponder ….
     
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  59. jessix avatar jessica s naples fl Posted: 1/26/2013 10:47am PST

    Nobody expects a person to be sleeping in the road in the middle of the night.

    The driver who took a photo was angry at the man for sleeping in the road. My reaction is the same, not of sympathy for the "victim". His actions made a victim of the first driver who will live with this the rest of his life, and of the second, who now has to explain his actions.

    Years ago a Texas woman was sent to prison for hitting and killing a man who was in the middle of the interstate at 4 AM. She drove home with him stuck in her windshield. She was railroaded because of false sympathy for the "victim" who deserves none. No sympathy was given the driver who was in shock.

    These were 2 suicides who took others with them.
     
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  60. fb_1672562405 avatar Erika Mullins Posted: 2/1/2013 8:08am PST

    I remember that case and that driver in Texas also left him attached to her windshield in her garage for two to three days until he bled to death. She was drunk and on Ecstasy and the man would have lived if she had called 911 anytime in those 2 to 3 days..then she had friends dump him in the park. She was rail roaded, REALLY? Um he was a victim, he begged her to call someone, as for sympathy, she deserves none. Read up on cases before you mention them.
     
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  61. fb_594461248 avatar Joseph Pittman Posted: 2/25/2013 9:15am PST

    I find it interesting that the article states that the victim was sleeping prior to being struck by the vehicle. It's possible that the victim could have been simply walking home late at night rather than drinking and driving before being struck. This could happen to anyone, not just the ASSUMED homeless!
     
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  62. fb_100000811381858 avatar Anjela Keepsitreal Posted: 3/22/2013 10:28am PDT

    aint that just crazy you see a man layin in the road you reather tell twitter then the police .... then you get in your car drive home & never call 4 help & the man dies .... now you may be charged 4 bn stupid
     
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  63. fb_1571003138 avatar Delores Johnson Posted: 3/27/2013 11:26am PDT

    What a generation of heartless young people. They have ABSOLUTELY NO conscience or compassion to call for assistance for someone lying in the street and instead tweet a picture of the person thinking it's a "funny" situation and something to make fun of. GOD HELP US! These are the "adults" of the future. We are in BIG trouble, that's for sure!
     
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  64. fb_1397707787 avatar Giovanni Taylor Posted: 3/31/2013 8:33am PDT

    On a completely unrelated note, 999 seems much more logical than 911. in the latter, a person has to change buttons, and if in enough distress, possibly confuse the order of the digits. With 999, one can just keep pressing the same button and after 3 strikes, it will initiate a call to emergency services. They should keep 911 in the U.S., but make another option such as 999.
     
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  65. nab70 avatar john johnson Posted: 4/20/2013 8:49pm PDT

    Ha. So many sixty and seventy year olds talking about how bad this current generation is as if their generation didn't have its fair share of psychopaths. Last time I checked your generation was filled with crazy teens who would go out on a Friday night looking for a good time and end up murdering/lynching blacks/gays for no other crime than being black/gay. Every generation has its crazies, stop generalizing before you make yourself look even more foolish
     
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  66. nab70 avatar john johnson Posted: 4/20/2013 8:50pm PDT

    That said.. this guy is is crazy
     
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  67. fb_100003366665415 avatar George Tirebiter Posted: 5/10/2013 2:07am PDT

    Those darn kids with their "rock and roll" and long hair!
    And the music! "Yeah, yeah yeah" Stupid lyrics! Why back in my day...
     
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  68. fb_100002627261074 avatar Mike Weston Posted: 5/15/2013 11:16am PDT

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  69. fb_746658482 avatar Kevin Prichard Posted: 5/17/2013 3:03pm PDT

    This is sensationalist reporting. Mr. Ernst strongly implies in the title that the tweeter had responsibility and knowledge about the injured party, then late in the article switches to the likely scenario: that he had no knowledge the subject of his photo was injured. And he wraps the whole thing up in a hypothetical. Well-done, sir.

    Mr. Ernst, will you write a follow-up article if the man is cleared of wrongdoing? Will you remember to do that, especially given you've named Choudhury as chargeable with a criminal offense?
     
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