What would you do if you saw a freezing child?

D1stant · 21-02-2014 03:16PM #1

Sometimes you see things that give you an extra faith in humanity

From Oslo

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/ThreeTrending/video-how-strangers-react-to-seeing-a-freezing-boy-at-a-bus-stop-30029950.html

What would happen here?

SEPT 23 1989 · 21-02-2014 03:20PM

He would have his shoes robbed off him over here

Mr Freeze · 21-02-2014 03:20PM

D1stant wrote: »

What would happen here?

You might try to help, but then the mother would appear screaming "Get away of my child"...

Or that would enter you head when you thought of helping, then you would just walk past.

Sir Arthur Daley · 21-02-2014 03:21PM

I was given hot whiskey as a child if i was freezing from the cold, the only stuff to warm you up.

jane82 · 21-02-2014 03:21PM

You would get called a molester here for giving a strangers child a coat.

wazky · 21-02-2014 03:21PM

Ask the child if they thought they were cool.

Sauve · 21-02-2014 03:24PM

jane82 wrote: »

You would get called a molester here for giving a strangers child a coat.

But that shouldn't stop you doing the right thing. Just cos other people are cnuts doesn't give us the right to act the same way.

I'd like to think I'd help the kid....but it's easy to say here when I don't have to make a snap decision.
Aaannnnd now I feel like a cnut for saying that!

ScumLord · 21-02-2014 03:26PM

In Ireland this would have happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmR9Sa8C-8

KeithM89 · 21-02-2014 03:26PM

Laugh.

Mr Freeze · 21-02-2014 03:27PM

Sauve wrote: »

But that shouldn't stop you doing the right thing. Just cos other people are cnuts doesn't give us the right to act the same way.

We might want to help, but might be afraid to if someone is going to accuse you of being a molester.

Merkin · 21-02-2014 03:29PM

Awww. I'd buy him some hot chocolate and a scarf the poor little mite. I'd probably offer him a cuddle in my ample bosom to keep him warm as well but that might be viewed as crossing the line.

Anyone · 21-02-2014 03:33PM

Merkin wrote: »

Awww. I'd buy him some hot chocolate and a scarf the poor little mite. I'd probably offer him a cuddle in my ample bosom to keep him warm as well but that might be viewed as crossing the line.

Niiiiiiiice

Baze · 21-02-2014 03:33PM

Does anyone know the precise location of that bus stop?

Think I might go over and sit there shivering in my boxers until the blonde at 1:43 shows up to rescue me.

Duggy747 · 21-02-2014 03:34PM

I'd sell him some gear, help take the edge off.

Sir Arthur Daley · 21-02-2014 03:35PM

Merkin wrote: »

I'd probably offer him a cuddle in my ample bosom to keep him warm

iDave · 21-02-2014 03:36PM

thaw it

RoboRat · 21-02-2014 03:37PM

Awww. I'd buy him some hot chocolate and a scarf the poor little mite. I'd probably offer him a cuddle in my ample bosom to keep him warm as well but that might be viewed as crossing the line.

I'm cold... where did you say you were again?

cml387 · 21-02-2014 03:38PM

A freezing child? Try switching it off and then on again.

Jester252 · 21-02-2014 03:43PM

I tell him to take his "social experiment" and jog on.

Wacker The Attacker · 21-02-2014 03:45PM

Probably do nothing

Secretly, I'd want to punch them in the face

Sauve · 21-02-2014 03:46PM

Mr Freeze wrote: »

We might want to help, but might be afraid to if someone is going to accuse you of being a molester.

That's my point though, we shouldn't be afraid of doing the right thing regardless.

If someone accused me of being a molester for helping a kid then they can pïss right off tbh.

We can't pander to this kind of bull

Wacker The Attacker · 21-02-2014 03:50PM

Sauve wrote: »

That's my point though, we shouldn't be afraid of doing the right thing regardless.

If someone accused me of being a molester for helping a kid then they can pïss right off tbh.

We can't pander to this kind of bull

You'd be surprised the lengths some cranks will go too.

Mr Freeze · 21-02-2014 03:51PM

Sauve wrote: »

If someone accused me of being a molester for helping a kid then they can pïss right off tbh.

We can't pander to this kind of bull

Agreed, but when the cops show up, and you can't get a word in edge ways causing of the accusations being screamed at ya.

Sadly this is the way of things, you are more likely to get in trouble than be thanked.

Naos · 21-02-2014 03:54PM

From the article "And the answer may surprise you."

It didn't surprise me in the slightest, I would've been surprised if people didn't give him a jacket.

wil · 21-02-2014 03:55PM

In Ireland
There'd be a tribunal set up to investigate the actions of the charity on the grounds it had risked the health of a minor and the whole point would be lost.

Sauve · 21-02-2014 03:56PM

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Agreed, but when the cops show up, and you can't get a word in edge ways causing of the accusations being screamed at ya.

Sadly this is the way of things, you are more likely to get in trouble than be thanked.

Absolutely, but there are also a culture of people who won't help and use exactly this as an excuse to turn their heads rather than dig in and help out.
The chances of getting in major trouble for innocently helping someone are quite small really.

Mr Freeze · 21-02-2014 03:58PM

Sauve wrote: »

Absolutely, but there are also a culture of people who won't help and use exactly this as an excuse to turn their heads rather than dig in and help out.
The chances of getting in major trouble for innocently helping someone are quite small really.

Agreed I take your point.

I'd would like to help, but there is a good chance I wouldn't help, for the reasons stated above.

Sarky · 21-02-2014 04:01PM

WikiHow wrote: »

I was given hot whiskey as a child if i was freezing from the cold, the only stuff to warm you up.

Alcohol dilates your blood vessels, increasing heat loss. It's one of the worst things you can give to someone with hypothermia. Your parents might have been trying to kill you.

StinkyMunkey · 21-02-2014 04:15PM

Merkin wrote: »

Awww. I'd buy him some hot chocolate and a scarf the poor little mite. I'd probably offer him a cuddle in my ample bosom to keep him warm as well but that might be viewed as crossing the line.

Makes a guy wish he was a ten year old kid freezing his nuts off :P

D1stant · 21-02-2014 04:21PM

Naos wrote: »

From the article "And the answer may surprise you."

It didn't surprise me in the slightest, I would've been surprised if people didn't give him a jacket.

Yes. I think exactly the same thing would happen in Ireland, if anything someone would go overboard with kindness, that would leave it open to question by some cynical scrote

Merkin · 21-02-2014 04:23PM

StinkyMunkey wrote: »

Makes a guy wish he was a ten year old kid freezing his nuts off :P

The same would apply to dwarves as they'd be approximately chest height too so your luck could still be in

What would you do if you saw a freezing child?

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