Hit and run and pass and pass and pass and

[Board Game Geek]

may get robbed by an elaborate deception.

I must admit, my first thoughts would be the same. Probably a scam by some Eastern Europeans, to use an innoncent (but complicit) child to make drivers stop and then carjack the vehicles.

I never used to think like that, but I find as I get older and wiser, every interaction with a stranger must be carefully considered in case it may endanger my life or my property. You can't trust no one !

[The Master]

What was an eight year old child doing out at 20:45 anyway? She should have been in bed.

I'm disgusted and blame the parents.

[The Lone Gunman]

What was an eight year old child doing out at 20:45 anyway? She should have been in bed.

I'm disgusted and blame the parents.

I wasn't going to mention that.
How many times do we see stories like this where the parent abdicates responsibility. Why did the mother allow the girl to wander off, particularly to cross the road.
Surely this is endangerment and the parents should be charged!
Parents should be made to be responsible for their children.
"We can't watch them all the time" : Then don't have em. (Teenagers excepted).

[BobTheCrate]

Excuses, excuses, excuses, I would of helped but... It comes down to the fact people can't even accept it is wrong to do nothing.

I agree with LG. Yes people would know it is wrong had they not been programmed to stay well away from little girls on their own at night.

Those drivers would of been saying to themselves - "has she been hit by a car ? has she been attacked ? If I get involved I could end up being labelled a paedophile !"

You see 'child protection' overrides all other considerations, including common sense and common decency.

[Numptycorner]

I agree with LG. Yes people would know it is wrong had they not been programmed to stay well away from little girls on their own at night.

Those drivers would of been saying to themselves - "has she been hit by a car ? has she been attacked ? If I get involved I could end up being labelled a paedophile !"

You see 'child protection' overrides all other considerations, including common sense and common decency.

I doubt anyone even considered that angle. No it's just selfish barstewards with no morals.

[shaunbhoy]

In Manchester they would have had her patched up and sat in front of a posse of slavering ambulance-chasers before the gravy had gone cold on their chips!!

[bogeyman]

After several, not so happy episodes, involving the hopeless UK plod after going in to help in similar circumstance, I'm sorry to say, but I would probably go around too nowadays.

Oh brilliant!

So, what you're saying is that you reckon your own convenience is more important than the distress of a badly injured child.

It's unthinkable that so many failed to stop. What sort of country are we living in now?

[bfg]

I would stop, but not without reservations.

About 6 or 7 years ago I stopped in the morning to help a paperboy collapsed in the road. I protected him from traffic with the car, put him in the recovery position, called for an ambulance and stayed with him.

When the ambulance arrived, shortly followed by the Police, a detailed description had been given to them of how I had knocked him off his bike by another caller to 999 - no sign of that caller doing anything to help though!

Both crews were aggressive towards me and the police were going to arrest me there and then until I pointed out that there was in fact no bike anywhere to be seen, nor any sign whatsoever of bruising or other impact injuries to the boy. That didn't stop them going over the car with a fine toothcomb and searching around for a bike!!!

God knows what would have happened to if he had been knocked off his bike by a hit and run driver. Especially if there had been some minor scrape on the car or I had got blood on my hands helping and touched the car front.

[The Lone Gunman]

Oh brilliant!

So, what you're saying is that you reckon your own convenience is more important than the distress of a badly injured child.

It's unthinkable that so many failed to stop. What sort of country are we living in now?

Once again, and not just to you Bogey, where is the evidence that any of these people "failed to stop" rather than "failed to notice"!

[SameOldStory]

As someone once paraphrased, "at least it is newsworthy"

Whilst it is newsworthy it is an anomaly. Once this sort of thing doesn't get reported, it is time to worry.

Once we start to see stories like "Good samaritan stops to help injured girl until amublance arrives", then we'll know we're in trouble.