Well, this tragic event occurred in Oslo, and while the rescuers tried to do their work, people were filming and laughing, blocking their paths to get their fill of a human in a precarious situation. The lack of empathy is baffling.
Do you find that this happens in other countries as well?
by Lollygagger0
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Nordmenn som filmet? Det er veldig skuffende.
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Idiots. Idiots everywhere.
It’s enraging and disheartening, but also I don’t think we should read too much into it.
There were thousands of people in the area at the time, rush hour at the place in Norway where most people are around in rush hour.
Amongst these there will be some psychopatic assholes, some groups of young guys egging each other on with dark humour, many who don’t quite understand what’s going on, perhaps some who work in the media and film as a journalistic instinct, some people who laugh as a psychological defense mechanism when they see something fucked up etc. And those people who decide to push to the front are not a representative selection.
Not excusing anyone who behaved callously, the feelings of the rescuers very much understandable, but it’s not really an indication that things are worse *here*, nor that things are worse *than before*. People used to enjoy executions and lynchings not that long ago, there has always been rubbernecking crowds around accidents, anywhere in the world. The only thing remotely new here is the ability for individuals to spread recordings instantly.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dTaITZqlFVk
This has to do with cell phones / smart phones and how it disconnects us from our society. We have asked many times “what will be the long term effects of the smart phone and social media”
This is one of them, we are becoming more and more awful people.
A perfectly reasonable human reaction to be curious about what is dangerous/what can kill you.
Ye same everywhere else
While distasteful, it is nothing new. Uti vår hage parodied it decades ago. There’s no imminent unraveling of society about to happen due to this.
This really isn’t a problem of the Norwegian public. The shutdown of the station was abrupt and chaotic and left people confused on street level.
This was primarily a **failure of city planning and crowd control**! An important transport hub like Oslo S should have incredibly robust emergency services access routes which can be separated from street traffic and pedestrians.
I’m sorry but it’s the way the emergency response was handled is what’s embarrassing. Sure there may be a couple of assholes in a the crowd but 99% of the people are just confused, cold and want to get to their destination asap.
The only people i see recording wearing headscarves and look anything else than norwegian… funny thats the same thing in Germany…
From the UK and unfortunately this type of behaviour is extremely common.
In previous generations, if you saw a car crash for example, people driving by would slow down have a quick look and continue their journey.
Nowadays with smart phones, people cant resist but filming for ‘content or simply just to send to friends on WhatsApp with a message hey look what I saw today.
We had people stood around trying to record when the attack on the Jewish synagogue was happening.
This is the messed up world we live in now where you can witness a dangerous situation but you need to record otherwise it didnt happen.
It is illegal to film some in public if they are the object of the film without their permission. In this case filming an injured person, in order to show an injured person is an obvious breach of the law.
You are also obligated to assist in the case of a traffic accident so long as you are not putting yourself in danger. If people have been crowding so much as to interfere with the duties of the fire brigade or ambulance personnel, then this is also a breach in the law.
It is probably a good idea to prosecute a few people to make sure everyone else knows what an psychotic prick they are but also as a public reminder for anyone who needs it to behave like a reasonable human being when it matters the most.
I think any country has this issue to a degree.
are you really just noticing this?
Ingenting nytt det. Vi nordmenn elsker jo å se på istede for å hjelpe til. Så er ikke overrasket i det hele tatt
I don’t think folks really understood what was going on, or if they should find other means of travel, etc. Also, there will always be assholes. It’s the nature of the universe.
Really, the transport services should have had staff out telling people to clear out, sending them to taxis & replacement busses, etc.
To my knowledge it happens in every single western country
I can’t imagine it could happen anywhere else than in downtown Oslo, to be completely honest. Filming the area and moving on, yes. Filming the guy on the stretcher – no, only Oslo.
The comment from the police as well is as typical as you can possibly get, not really seeing the difference between “yes, people film us a lot because we do incredibly strange things”, and “someone just kept filming people in the accident site”. They are supposed to be the adults here, and they clearly don’t understand the problem, either, treating it as that people are being rude to them.
Oslo in a nutshell nowadays.
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