Man dies as his screams for help are ignored by neighbours

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The death cries of a man trapped head-first down a storm drain went ignored by his neighbours in what a coroner today described as a 'sad reflection on society'.

Mark Wells shouted and screamed 'please help me' for up to an hour in the middle of the night, but no-one came to his aid because they thought they were hearing drunken antics.

It was not until the next morning that the 32-year-old's body was found with his leg sticking out of the 2ft-by-1ft drain.

He had suffocated in the mud and slime at the bottom of the drain.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...man-trapped-drain-thinking-drunken-prank.html

Ugh, makes me actually feel sick to think of that being the way I died. Poor guy, it truly is a sad reflection on our society and goes back to a post I made a few days ago about the cowardly and fearful society we have become.
 
Perhaps if he hadn't been drunk, people wouldn't have thought he was just a drunk shouting at random.

Perhaps if he hadn't been drunk, he wouldn't have fallen into a drain head-first.

Shocking way to die? Yes, of course. But it's NOT a reflection on society apart from the fact that people being drunk and shouting are considered the norm, not the exception.

The coroner sounds like a complete tool as well - I'd certainly hate to be accosted by someone who had done drugs...I mean what if I didn't ACTUALLY have a Mars bar...
 
Mr^B said:
Perhaps if he hadn't been drunk, people wouldn't have thought he was just a drunk shouting at random.

Perhaps if he hadn't been drunk, he wouldn't have fallen into a drain head-first.

Shocking way to die? Yes, of course. But it's NOT a reflection on society apart from the fact that people being drunk and shouting are considered the norm, not the exception.

The coroner sounds like a complete tool as well - I'd certainly hate to be accosted by someone who had done drugs...I mean what if I didn't ACTUALLY have a Mars bar...
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So you wouldn't help someone just because they were drunk? Do you not think that is a bad reflection on our mentality? Even if it is the norm, it is still a negative reflection due to that sense of normality.
 
Maybe if the Daily Mail didn't spend so much time publishing the negative aspects of society he might have got some help.
 
This IS a reflection on society - both the fact that people get so drunk and secondly that people think that someone that calls for help over an hour is actually still playing a prank or that the prank could have gone wrong. To me it sounded like people just decided that it wasn't their problem. I hope they feel ashamed of themselves.

I remember in Italy, my taxi driver and myself helped a homeless drunk in a wheelchair get to the right way up again. Would you have driven past as it's not your problem too?
 
Horrible way to die.Then again:
We are plagued by drunks shouting and screaming where I live.I certainly don't rush out the door every time one of them kicks off.
 
Very sad, but it's like car/house alarms. You hear screaming so often that you rarely pay it any attention. Although an hour and still no one even looked.
 
Sawell said:
So you wouldn't help someone just because they were drunk? Do you not think that is a bad reflection on our mentality? Even if it is the norm, it is still a negative reflection due to that sense of normality.
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that's nothing close to what he was saying :/
 
Mr^B said:
I'd certainly hate to be accosted by someone who had done drugs...I mean what if I didn't ACTUALLY have a Mars bar...
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I dont get what your trying to say here? Actually i do it's a tounge in cheek statement that people who smoke weed are not dangerous I assume. You ever think thats not the drugs he was talking about? or are you going to fight off a smack head robbing you with a dirty needle with a mars bar?

Sad way to die for this guy, can't imagine the terror he must have felt slowly sinking into the sludge and drowning. And while they can justify it any way they like, any of the people that heard this and didn't take action are probaly feeling very bad about themselves atm.
 
Capn' $qu!ff said:
If somebodys shouting help no matter how drunk they are I'd always rush to help provided I could hear them, it's the right thing to do.
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So would most other people, what we are saying is people scream so much. It is hard to tell if someone is screaming for help or just screaming (having a stupid chav couple fight or being drunk)
 
Wasn't there another story a while ago about two guys beating up someone in the middle of a high street and no one did a thing, just stood and watched and in the end it was some 90 year old war vet that stepped in and helped?
 
The hypocrisy of the dailyfail is monumental, on one page you will have a "ZOMG no one went outside to help" then on turning the page you will be greeted with a "don't leave your house, the (insert hoodies, immigrants, rapists, murderers) will get you!111! storey.

Which is it ? do we stay in, or go out
 
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