What would you do if you saw a freezing child?

D1stant wrote: »

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?

That was heart-warming to watch, really was. It is nice to see that there are some good people in the world, amongst so much negativity we're surrounded by.

I would most likely call a local Garda station or even alert a passing Garda.

I've done that a good few times where I've seen a homeless person in a bad way.

Me intervening on my own wouldn't necessarily be much. The kid would need to be put in touch with someome who could help properly.

I intervened recently where an old lady clearly had either dementia or severe Alzheimer's and was just standing on the street outside our office for hours.

Just went out and had a chat and tried to figure out if we could contract anyone for her.
She had no idea where she was really.

I got onto the local Garda station and they sent out a very helpful garda and we figured out who to call as she eventually remembered her son's phone number. The whole thing was resolved but I just stayed around until I was sure she was sorted.

The family rang afterwards and said thanks.

I'm not sure that a kid out in cool weather here would cause as big a reaction as in Norway, Sweden or any country that experiences regular very cold weather though.

There's a serious risk of actually freezing to death in many of those places.

Yeah big time. It's gone way too far.
Very very few people are predatory paedophiles.

I would be more concerned that strangers would ignore a kid rather than that they might harm them.

I know guys who seem nervous of playing with friend's kids for those kinds of reasons too. It's really very sad.

I had really good positive male role models as a kid, particularly in France but also here before paranoia kicked in.

I mean people like uncles, cousins, neighbours, teachers etc who actually got down to my level and interacted with me, played games etc. Some of my best memories are learning about cars and techie stuff and hanging out with my granddad and other guys too when I was under 5! I also remember some very cool male teachers, coaches and even just random neighbours and shop keepers and stuff.

As a guy, I think that stuff actually was really, really important to me growing up. I looked up to these guys and most definitely they had a huge influence how I saw myself.

I can't imagine what it would be like not to have had that kind of upbringing or to have been made feel I should be constantly frightened of adult males.

I'm not saying I didn't have similarly positive relationships with women too but, I just think excluding men from interaction with kids is going to be very bad for society in the long term.

It's even starting to extend to unfamiliar women now too. Everyone is suddenly a potential threat.

I think the biggest threat here always was that abuses could be covered up due to social pressures to not speak or report them (now gone) and transparency didn't exist in institutional situations where individuals had way too much power and control over kids or vulnerable adults.