By now I'm sure many of you have seen the (censored) clips of the woman who was set on fire as she slept in a subway car. I'm not about to be politically correct and describe the miscreant using the preferred titles that those on the left give to people who cross our border illegally.
"Undocumented", is one which implies that if only they had a simple document, everything would be alright. "Lacking papers" is another take on the same thing.
A "migrant" an innocent-sounding word picturing a sweet old lady just passing from one place to another. Those are all misnomers. Nah, this son-of-a-bitch was an illegal alien. He came BACK to our country after being deported, and his actions in setting that woman alight, were definitely Alien to everyone.
Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, an illegal alien from Guatemala, is the pond scum who calmly walked over to the still-sleeping woman and set her on fire. I viewed the uncensored clip where he's actually fanning the flames (making things worse for her) after his ruinous misdeeds.
When I first read the news story, I didn't re3alize that the lady he scorched had been using a walker. We still don't know her identity, but this implies that she had mobility issues and may possibly have been elderly (but we just don't know as of yet).
Forever Watching, yet doing Nothing
We see her standing at the entrance to the car, body shaking in response to what must have been horrific pain. Not only do we see the perpetrator sitting calmly and watching the scene (before fanning the flames), but a motley crew of others shouting for her to "drop and roll" as they capture every gruesome second on their cellphones.
You know, without doing a damn thing to actually help her...
A police officer enters the scene, stops to look at the burning lady which caused me to think "finally, someones going to rescue her!" before he turns and walks away. Watching the video, you keep thinking that somebody's going to pull her out of the car, or drape their jacket over her to blot out the flames, go get water, ANYTHING at all.
But no, they just stand there and film. No doubt seeing this as content that they can upload to their social media accounts or to the even more rank and odious WorldStarHipHop.
However, I noticed off to the right, a puddle of water on the platform, and hoped against hope that someone would roll her into it in an attempt to put the fire out. But alas, it was not to be, and I can have solace that at least now her suffering is over and her soul is at peace.
I wonder if it's a typically American thing to aim your phone at a tragic event instead of doing something to help. I'm reminded of the story years ago about a 12-year-old girl who was being raped by an adult in the hoods of St. Louis, Missouri.
A crowd gathers as the girl begs for assistance, but the mob ignores her pleas, filming instead and telling the adult to "tear that pussy up!" By the time the police arrive, its too late and the perp is finished and gone.
A similar event happened a few weeks later to a 14-year-old girl in the ghettos of Los Angeles. People watch and filming, goading the rapist on, with nobody doing a damn thing about it.
One wonders what would have happened if this woman had been set on fire in the UK, Europe, or Australia. I watched a news video of a car exploding (as part of a terrorist incident, in some place called "Merseyside" whatever that is) in 2021, outside a women's hospital in Liverpool, England.
In this case thankfully, the terrorist Emad Al Swealmeen, (surprised?) carrying the bomb blew himself to kingdom come and died, while the taxi driver thankfully, escaped.
In the clip, you see brave Brits actually rushing over to help rescue the driver and putting the fire out, instead of you know, standing around filming the event, as they would have here in America.
In 2017 I had the absolute pleasure of spending a day in England on my way to Germany. Native English people were some of the nicest and most helpful individuals I've ever met in my life. I love the UK.
The Bystander Effect
In Life is Precious #15, I wrote about the murder of Kitty Genovese despite numerous people watching the killing take place. She was attacked at the entrance to her building, then someone would shout at her attacker causing him to back away thinking that someone was coming to save her.
Each time realizing that the cavalry wasn't coming, he returned to resume the attack, coming back again and again until she was dead.
Her killer, a two-legged turd named Winston Moseley, finally kicked the bucket himself in 2016 at the age of 81.
I hope he rots in Hell.
This famous case happened in New York City (of course) in 1964, and gave birth to today's 911 emergency number system which didn't exist at the time.
But its the 'bystander effect' that's the issue here in this subway burning. What causes people to just stand there watching someone get killed and do nothing?
It's known that the bigger the crowd, the higher the odds are that nobody will do anything. Everyone seems to be waiting for someone else to make the first move, which allows a dangerous apathy to take place.
If I were ever in trouble, I'd want someone to help instead of watch and so would you. I think a fitting legacy of the unidentified woman in that subway car would be for each of us to vow that barring extreme danger to our own lives, that when the time comes, we'll do something.
Let's honor her in this way, and resist the bystander effect because next time the person needing help could be you or me.