Here’s something that happened to me recently – quite an eye opener. Maybe we all can learn from this:
I was on my one knee feeding my 8 year old daughter a corn chip in a tented stall in a flea market. I was holding plastic bags of vegetables in my other hand.
A little old lady tripped about 4 feet from me. She landed on her face and was not able to get up as she was overweight. I watched for almost 15 secs and was upset that No one helped her up. I laid my plastic bags on the floor and went to assist her - turned her to a sitting position with her buttocks to the floor. She had slight bleeding on her lip and forehead. I looked around and found a sheepish young Chinese man hanging around. I asked him if she was his mom. Almost begrudgingly, he answered yes. I was incredulous, that this idiot let his mom lie face down on the cold parking lot (where the flea market was held) and did not help her up.
I then asked him to help me lift her off the ground and we sat her in a chair close by.
Out of kindness of my heart, I gave him my phone number and told him that I will donate $20 towards buying her a new pair of glasses (that got smashed).
The following weeks, he called, blaming me for tripping her mom. He claimed that he saw me making a turn into the covered tent of the stall, and his mom tripped on my tote bag on rollers that I have dragged behind me. Lately, he claims that her replacement glasses cost $200 and wants me to compensate her. He started to cuss me out for telling lies. She did not incur any medical bills neither did she go to a doctor after that fall. There must have been over 4 people standing around me when the accident occured - it was a crowded flea market. Anyone of those people could have tripped her. She herself said she tripped over a brick (but we don't think there were bricks laying around). He claims he can sue me, but he only has my phone number, not my name nor address.
I donate money to poor people all the time, so my wife and I were thinking of donating $100 but have him sign a release form - releasing me from blame. I want him to acknowledge in writing that this $100 is only a donation - not my recognition of any liability to her.
No wonder no one helped that little old lady who tripped and fell !!
I was on my one knee feeding my 8 year old daughter a corn chip in a tented stall in a flea market. I was holding plastic bags of vegetables in my other hand.
A little old lady tripped about 4 feet from me. She landed on her face and was not able to get up as she was overweight. I watched for almost 15 secs and was upset that No one helped her up. I laid my plastic bags on the floor and went to assist her - turned her to a sitting position with her buttocks to the floor. She had slight bleeding on her lip and forehead. I looked around and found a sheepish young Chinese man hanging around. I asked him if she was his mom. Almost begrudgingly, he answered yes. I was incredulous, that this idiot let his mom lie face down on the cold parking lot (where the flea market was held) and did not help her up.
I then asked him to help me lift her off the ground and we sat her in a chair close by.
Out of kindness of my heart, I gave him my phone number and told him that I will donate $20 towards buying her a new pair of glasses (that got smashed).
The following weeks, he called, blaming me for tripping her mom. He claimed that he saw me making a turn into the covered tent of the stall, and his mom tripped on my tote bag on rollers that I have dragged behind me. Lately, he claims that her replacement glasses cost $200 and wants me to compensate her. He started to cuss me out for telling lies. She did not incur any medical bills neither did she go to a doctor after that fall. There must have been over 4 people standing around me when the accident occured - it was a crowded flea market. Anyone of those people could have tripped her. She herself said she tripped over a brick (but we don't think there were bricks laying around). He claims he can sue me, but he only has my phone number, not my name nor address.
I donate money to poor people all the time, so my wife and I were thinking of donating $100 but have him sign a release form - releasing me from blame. I want him to acknowledge in writing that this $100 is only a donation - not my recognition of any liability to her.
No wonder no one helped that little old lady who tripped and fell !!
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