RustyHawk
30 Jun 2008, 02:41
This thread (rant) is promted by driving past my local McDonalds this late evening only to find for the first time in months it is closed.
This McDonalds was the scene of a late night stabbing Sunday morning with a 21 yo Dandenong North man taken to hospital in a "serious condition".
This store is a franchise store. No doubt corporate headquarters and local management would have made the decision to close the store down overnight after the incident. McDonalds have a history of doing this including when in the US many years ago a gunman shot 3 people at a McDonalds they ceased all advertising for 3 days and demolished the store where the slayings occured.
McDonalds have the systems in place to deal with such issues. My rant is not about McDonalds, they have done the right thing from a corporate point of view.. dont need people associating violence and McDonalds. You dont need people coming around looking at the crime scene. You dont need friends of the victims looking for revenge at the location of the incident. Better to close the store, take a hit on revenue from 1 store rather than risk a wider more damaging event or events occuring that affect overall bottom line.
My thread is about the good samartians out there who dont have the right systems in place and go out and get seriously injured in events that don't even concern them. Further, we could all be potenial good samaritians. Do you have the systems in place to deal with the sort of potential situation of going to the aid of a person or persons being attacked?
The most famous recent case was solicitor Brendan Keilar who was shot dead by Christopher Hudson in the city just over a year ago. Mr.Keilar and another man went to the aid of a woman being assaulted in a city street.
Sunday morning the 21 yo man who I dont believe I know and who, if we
believe media reports didnt know a) the attackers or b) the victims, went to the victims aid only to become the most seriously injured with a stab or stab wounds and is now in a serious condition in hospital.
And there are other cases all the same. People with good intentions coming to the aid of people being beaten or threatened and ending up the most seriously wounded out of all.
Take some time while driving or walking to work or sitting in the train. Take some time to think, what would I do if I saw a) a woman being bashed by a man? b) a group of thugs surrounding and beating someone?
What would you do?
Personally if I really felt I had to get involved I would move out of direct sight, if possible or further away and dial 000 and advise the professionals of the situation and let them handle it. You can do more good that way than getting potentially stabbed or killed.
The "smart" samaritian is always better than a "dead" samaritian.
Think about it.
This McDonalds was the scene of a late night stabbing Sunday morning with a 21 yo Dandenong North man taken to hospital in a "serious condition".
This store is a franchise store. No doubt corporate headquarters and local management would have made the decision to close the store down overnight after the incident. McDonalds have a history of doing this including when in the US many years ago a gunman shot 3 people at a McDonalds they ceased all advertising for 3 days and demolished the store where the slayings occured.
McDonalds have the systems in place to deal with such issues. My rant is not about McDonalds, they have done the right thing from a corporate point of view.. dont need people associating violence and McDonalds. You dont need people coming around looking at the crime scene. You dont need friends of the victims looking for revenge at the location of the incident. Better to close the store, take a hit on revenue from 1 store rather than risk a wider more damaging event or events occuring that affect overall bottom line.
My thread is about the good samartians out there who dont have the right systems in place and go out and get seriously injured in events that don't even concern them. Further, we could all be potenial good samaritians. Do you have the systems in place to deal with the sort of potential situation of going to the aid of a person or persons being attacked?
The most famous recent case was solicitor Brendan Keilar who was shot dead by Christopher Hudson in the city just over a year ago. Mr.Keilar and another man went to the aid of a woman being assaulted in a city street.
Sunday morning the 21 yo man who I dont believe I know and who, if we
believe media reports didnt know a) the attackers or b) the victims, went to the victims aid only to become the most seriously injured with a stab or stab wounds and is now in a serious condition in hospital.
And there are other cases all the same. People with good intentions coming to the aid of people being beaten or threatened and ending up the most seriously wounded out of all.
Take some time while driving or walking to work or sitting in the train. Take some time to think, what would I do if I saw a) a woman being bashed by a man? b) a group of thugs surrounding and beating someone?
What would you do?
Personally if I really felt I had to get involved I would move out of direct sight, if possible or further away and dial 000 and advise the professionals of the situation and let them handle it. You can do more good that way than getting potentially stabbed or killed.
The "smart" samaritian is always better than a "dead" samaritian.
Think about it.