429421Cowboy
04-21-2013, 09:18 PM
Sorry for a rant, i know i might get long winded but i am a bit torqued still!
My twin brother and i are transfering down to MSU-Bozeman this fall, so we went down there this weekend to put in our transfer paperwork and sign up for classes. That all went well, and as usual, everyone on campus treated me wonderfully and i got to spend a weekend with some friends at the ag frat there.
On our way back yesterday we had just made it to Three Forks, and were pulling off for a stickybun at Wheat Montana there, and i noticed something on the side of the road on the onramp going west-bound, and it looked like a person laying there. My brother drove over there in the parking lot to the fence next to the road and sure enough, there was a man laying with his feet on the road, head in the ditch laying downhill (not a natural or comfortable sleeping postion). HEY BUDDY YOU OK?? Nothing. Semi's are driving within feet of this guy and he's not moving or flinching. Dial 911, tell her that there is a guy on the side of the road, exact location, etc... Can you check for responsiveness? Yes, we are staying on the line, but if he jumps up and freaks out because he's high on meth, i don't wanna have to shoot him but i will! Lady says just check on him and let me know what happens, so we do, i swear to God i thought he was dead until i finally was close enough to see him breathe. 911 says medical is on their way and we can leave if we want or stay with him since he is not responding to anything. We said we'd stay and make sure somebody found him. Finally spotted a Highway patrolman at the gas station and flagged him down, he could not get the guy to respond either but was going to stay with him till medical showed up, so we left when another HP showed up to assist. I have no idea if he was hit by a car, beat up and dumped, high on something or drunk, but i feel better for trying to help. What made me mad was THE ENTIRE TIME WE WERE THERE EVERY SINGLE CAR DROVE PAST HIM. We were the only ones who even dialed 911 or stopped, everybody else just stared and drove by. So the moral of the story is if you are ever laying in a ditch someplace, DO NOT expect anybody to do a dang thing for you!
If anybody knows of a way to find out what happened to him, you heard anything or know a LEO or something in the area i'd just be curious what happened to him.
My brother said they talked about this situation in his Psyc class, that it has been tested many times before, that people will not go out of their way to help somebody else laying on the street or sidewalk. What is wrong with people? Why not help each other? Yes i was cautious and tried to maintain my distance to have some reaction time, but a simple 911 call isn't a hardship or require someone to get involved to still help.
P.S. this was all in the same weekend i nearly saw two guys get in a fistfight over two boxes of 9mm bullets one snagged out of the other guy's basket while he wasn't looking because they were the last two in the store. Do people just generally not respect their fellow man anymore?
My twin brother and i are transfering down to MSU-Bozeman this fall, so we went down there this weekend to put in our transfer paperwork and sign up for classes. That all went well, and as usual, everyone on campus treated me wonderfully and i got to spend a weekend with some friends at the ag frat there.
On our way back yesterday we had just made it to Three Forks, and were pulling off for a stickybun at Wheat Montana there, and i noticed something on the side of the road on the onramp going west-bound, and it looked like a person laying there. My brother drove over there in the parking lot to the fence next to the road and sure enough, there was a man laying with his feet on the road, head in the ditch laying downhill (not a natural or comfortable sleeping postion). HEY BUDDY YOU OK?? Nothing. Semi's are driving within feet of this guy and he's not moving or flinching. Dial 911, tell her that there is a guy on the side of the road, exact location, etc... Can you check for responsiveness? Yes, we are staying on the line, but if he jumps up and freaks out because he's high on meth, i don't wanna have to shoot him but i will! Lady says just check on him and let me know what happens, so we do, i swear to God i thought he was dead until i finally was close enough to see him breathe. 911 says medical is on their way and we can leave if we want or stay with him since he is not responding to anything. We said we'd stay and make sure somebody found him. Finally spotted a Highway patrolman at the gas station and flagged him down, he could not get the guy to respond either but was going to stay with him till medical showed up, so we left when another HP showed up to assist. I have no idea if he was hit by a car, beat up and dumped, high on something or drunk, but i feel better for trying to help. What made me mad was THE ENTIRE TIME WE WERE THERE EVERY SINGLE CAR DROVE PAST HIM. We were the only ones who even dialed 911 or stopped, everybody else just stared and drove by. So the moral of the story is if you are ever laying in a ditch someplace, DO NOT expect anybody to do a dang thing for you!
If anybody knows of a way to find out what happened to him, you heard anything or know a LEO or something in the area i'd just be curious what happened to him.
My brother said they talked about this situation in his Psyc class, that it has been tested many times before, that people will not go out of their way to help somebody else laying on the street or sidewalk. What is wrong with people? Why not help each other? Yes i was cautious and tried to maintain my distance to have some reaction time, but a simple 911 call isn't a hardship or require someone to get involved to still help.
P.S. this was all in the same weekend i nearly saw two guys get in a fistfight over two boxes of 9mm bullets one snagged out of the other guy's basket while he wasn't looking because they were the last two in the store. Do people just generally not respect their fellow man anymore?