One consistently hears horror stories about dead men sitting on New York City subway cars for hours without people noticing, or the upstairs neighbor who passed away months ago without anyone coming to collect the body until the stench became too much. For the most part these can be chalked up to urban legend, but one tale came true over the weekend.
A Good Samaritan, Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, came to the aid of a woman who was being assaulted on the streets of Queens. A video shows Mr. Tale-Yax being stabbed as the assailant runs away. What happens next is horrific and chilling. The video continues, and shows scores of passers-by ignoring the body as it lay bleeding on the street. A couple takes a camera phone picture; another man shakes the body and notices the blood. Neither does anything to help. It took nearly an hour and a half for respondents to be called to the scene, after which time Mr. Tale-Yax had already died.
Some have claimed that the cold response was due to the high illegal immigrant population in the neighborhood. Nobody wanted to risk giving their names to police. Others say that there are drunkards on the streets all the time, and didn’t give the body a second glance. It is scary to think that this could have been any one of us. It also gives pause before coming to someone’s aid. The assailant is still on the loose.
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