From Nancy B,OT - This happened in Detroit. To 86-year-old Aaron Brantley who was carjacked at a gas station on his way home from Bible study. To Mr. Brantley who is a World War II veteran who raised 8 children and is the grandfather to 18 grandchildren. To Mr. Brantley who was a productive hard-working citizen and worked 31 years as a welder for Chrysler after his military service. THANK YOU. Thank you for serving my country during a perilous time. Thank you for returning and living your life as an honorable man who provided for your family and worked for a living. Thank you for continuing to be a role model to the younger generations in your family. THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU. I AM SORRY. I am sorry that the country you once defended has so morally degenerated that you had to crawl, with your broken leg from the attack, to the store door with people walking and driving past you and not one of them assisting you. I am sorry that you had to ask someone to open the door for you while you crawled on the ground so that you could get in the store and get help. I am sorry that woman almost didn’t even do that one small act for you, and that she then just walked away after letting you in. I am sorry that the city you have apparently lived in most of your life is now overran with those who lack basic human decency and compassion. I AM SO SORRY. To those who didn’t care enough to help an injured elderly man. Kiss my ass. I’m glad you’re a country-width’s distance from me. And with fair warning please note…KARMA IS A TREMENDOUSLY CRANKY AND SPITEFUL BITCH. God Bless you Mr. Brantley and if I learn there is a fund to assist in replacing your stolen wheels and radio I will contribute. One truly disgusted with humanity right now, Nancy B.
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HERE is the link. Taken out of comments and put where it belongs. (DD)
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No excuse for it none at all. Just angers you to where there is nothing you can do. I know Detroit is a tough town so you would think many would realize what happen to the guy. The real sadness is 1/2 of them probably watched the robbery too!
Most disappointing thing I have had to read today.
Ann
That story doesn't surprise me at all. About a month ago, my elderly dad went to the same grocery store chain he's been shopping at for 40+ decades. People know him there, and like him. So he's in the familiar store this one day...tripped while trying to make his way back into the grocery aisles when he discovered he had picked up the wrong brand of jam. He ended up face down, with his left foot/leg caught up on a chain that's used for blocking aisles with...the jam jar busted all over the place...lying there unable to move because of the contorted postition...and not one single person stopped to help or even ask if he needed assistance. This includes store employees. I was furious!!! They're also damn lucky that we're separated by about 1500 miles, or I'd have been in there within minutes and kicking ass big time. Wtf is wrong with people these days? God help us all if a major war broke our on our own turf...who could we trust to have our back?
Wow...I couldn't NOT rush to someone's aid. Isn't that the first reflex a person experiences when someone falls? Or requires assistance? A person would have to work really hard to ignore that impulse and act against it, wouldn't they? What the hell is wrong with people?
Well said Nancy B.
An old man laying in the ground? Yeah, I'd have to stop. But, read my post titled 'Is this nuts?" and well, shit. Yeah, I'd still stop. Duuh me.
Dear DD,
I thought the exact same thing you posted here; I just said in the other post that I am less inclined to ask anyone if they need help anymore.
With that said, THIS situation wouldn't have me think twice. I would have sprung into action for this poor, dear man. Would love to gun down the varmints who carjacked and injured him and get them off this planet.
I also would have helped the poster's Dad who tripped in the store; poor man. These are obvious situations.
This story made me cry. Have the majority of people on this planet become cell-phone toting, self-involved MORONS? I think so . . .
Absolutely inexcusable! Please keep us posted if there is a fund set up for this dear man!
Unfuckingbelievable!
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