Something about
this story doesn't seem quite right to me.
Fight breaks out. Youths gather to watch. Lad gets stabbed. Youths film it on their phones.
Now, maybe I'm not down with the word on the street, but I always thought that one of the great things you could do with a phone was to call someone. Perhaps that's not what the most happening phones do these days though. Maybe they really are just dedicated to playing music and taking pictures. Far be it from me to understand the cool kids.
For pity's sake, it's a phone. They could have called the police or an ambulance, or perhaps even the fire brigade or coastguard if they really thought it would help. But no, they stand around filming someone being beaten and murdered in front of them. Honestly, what the hell is wrong with people?
Now sure, you might say that it's great that they filmed it, because now the police have lots of video evidence to trawl through which will make identifying the perpetrators much easier. Well, I'm just certain that was their motivation in filming it. This gang of youths were filming a violent attack with the intent of turning the videos over to the police, assuming anyone ever got round to calling them. Frankly, given teenagers past record with mobile phone cameras and violent attacks,
I rather doubt it. Besides, there are CCTV cameras on the walls for a reason.
Perhaps the most glaringly obvious option would have been, you know, for some of them to intervene, perhaps. There were 40 of them, after all. Granted, you would be putting yourself at risk, but if we're going to assume that it's never worth stepping in and putting yourself in danger for the sake of someone else, then we might as well just declare the word
help obsolete and remove it from the dictionary.
I despair.
