Pour Out a Lil' Liquor
I knew something was up in my neighborhood when, riding my bike to work yesterday, I saw police tape sealing off one of the entrances to Golden Gate Park. I read that there was a shooting in the paper, and on the way home a bunch of kids were gathered along my route home, lining forty bottles with candles in them along one of the roads -- it looked really nice, spiritual even.
Then I read this morning that the guy was killed about 15 minutes after I'd passed by the exact spot on my ride home from work on Tuesday. His mistake? Helping a woman who was being robbed.
Basically, this is another sad reminder that helping people in distress ain't worth it. Sure am happy it wasn't me, though.
posted by Matt Stewart @ 12:30 PM
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2 Comments:
You think it's not worth it to help people in distress? So if you see an old lady being robbed or a womn being raped, it's alright to walk by? Superman would be ashamed of you. - Colin
definitely not worth it to get killed when a stranger's getting robbed, I think you'll agree. pat rial will remember the time he got stuck up and I kept walking -- don't regret it either. but pat wisely gave the guy his wallet rather than put up a fight with a gun in his gut.
by the way, that's an unfair comparison: superman's made of steel.
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