Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Timely Response?

"Whoever came up with all this tosh about the world being a ‘global village’? Seems to me that different parts of the world have a very different way of going about things.

In Saudi Arabia, a BBC reporter gets gunned down and lies bleeding in the street:

“Police said Mr Gardner tried to get bystanders to help him as he lay wounded in the street by crying out that he was a Muslim.”

Now I like to think that here in dear old Blighty, we would rush to the aid of a badly wounded human being regardless of his religion.

Oh, unless the police are around to stop us:

“A police force was accused yesterday of waiting too long to act after a shooting at a family barbecue left two sisters dead. One witness claimed that their lives could have been saved.

Roy Gibson, 70, said he spent an hour waiting for help to arrive as he tried to save one of the women. Paramedics were prevented from entering until Thames Valley Police had completed a one-hour assessment of any further risk to life.”

By which time, there was definitely no risk to life because the victims were no longer alive."

Nothing to see here, citizens, move along.

This post was completely lifted from David Carr at Samizdata. Carr provides links to the two articles which reported on the two incidents.

Posted by John Venlet on 06/08 at 04:35 AM
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