Michael Cash wrote:

> >I still wonder if it was a Japanese who faded, would it be any different...
>
> No, it would very likely have been the same thing.
>
> Here's a post I made last January: http://tinyurl.com/x3hu
>
> ....and here is the part of the story I refrained from telling at the
> time, which is *why* I was calling 110:
>
> If I recall correctly, the time was about 2 a.m. I was driving down
> Yamate-dori in Tokyo. The traffic was light so I was moving along
> smoothly. I happened to notice a scooter parked on the sidewalk with
> its taillight lit. Next to the scooter, someone was lying on the
> sidewalk and doing a wonderful impersonation of a corpse. It was
> Christmas Eve.
>
> Even though it was 2 o'clock in the morning, there was some small
> amount of pedestrian traffic along the road. I knew from past
> experience, though, that Japanese have a remarkable ability to totally
> ignore anyone who might need help. So I pulled over, stopped my truck,
> blocking half the road in the process, and got out to see what was
> wrong.
>
> It wasn't immediately clear if the guy was even still alive or not. No
> amount of shaking him or calling to him produced any reaction at all.
> There were no visible injuries, but that doesn't mean anything. From
> the time I first spotted him until I reached him, I observed several
> Japanese just walk right the fuck on by the guy. He was lying in the
> sidewalk, so there's no way they didn't notice. I called the cops so
> they could at least get him off the streets so he wouldn't die of
> exposure.

The bitches. Did you ever find out what happened later?

I once had to try to help some guy who wiped out on a scooter in traffic right
in front of me as I was buying a motorcycle. I don't know how he managed, riding
down a straight wide street downtown. I waved traffic around him while he got up
quickly and started pushing his scooter down the street claiming he was ok and
didn't need help.

> Then there was a time earlier this year, on a little country road at
> about 5 in the morning. An old man out walking his dog was lying
> halfway in the street and trying to get up. This was at a place where
> a small hill and a sharp double curve limit visibility sharply. I
> watched several cars in front of me quickly swerve to avoid the man
> who had suddenly become visible to them. They swerved....and kept
> right the fuck on going. Yes, it was Mr. Gaigin who dropped what he
> was doing and went to help the guy. He appeared to have had a stroke
> or something in the past, was totally unable to speak in anything
> other than grunts (he understood just fine, though), had no fucking
> business being out anywhere at any time of the day without somebody
> nearby to watch him, and had stumbled and whacked his forehead
> full-force on the curb.

What happened to these people you had to help?

> I have at least three more personal experiences like this, two of them
> in broad daylight and one involving a child. Situations where multiple
> Japanese observed a fellow Japanese in serious need of help....and
> where each and every last one of them chose to ignore it. And the bad
> ol' boogeyman gaigin was the only one who stopped to help.
>
> If I'm a racist toward the Japanese, maybe it's because they've made
> me one.

I can see from experience why some people don't care about local homeless,
because some I don't trust myself to share with others or live responsibly, but
I can't imagine why ignorant people or those without experience with homeless
would decide people in need right before their eyes are unworthy of help.

--
"I want to meet my father and say, your sperm became me."

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