Be thankful you don't cycle in Russia

[jefmcg]

Read a post here where witnesses to a hit and run did not stay or report the incident to the police and was rather shocked until I heard this report

http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-13815429

A fake accident scene was staged in a village in the Astrakhan region in which a boy of 14 was covered in fake blood and placed face down by a road.

Some drivers slowed down but no-one called for help, police said.

The radio report mentioned that there was a crumpled bike place beside him.

 

[abo]

No Russian cycling holiday then...

 

[Globalti]

Quite often in Lagos, by the time you see the body it has already been hit by vehicles and scattered around or flattened. Sometimes people will place a tyre or an oil drum to try to prevent cars hitting it but nobody will touch it. I've seen well dressed men and women lying by the roadside who might have lived with some first aid; it's shocking but what really distresses me is the thought of their children sitting at home waiting for a Mum or a Dad who never comes back from work.

 

[abo]

Wonder why? Cultural thing, or just don't want to get involved?

 

[Globalti]

Wonder why? Cultural thing, or just don't want to get involved?

It's partly fear of dead bodies and partly not wanting to take responsibility for them.

 

[HLaB]

It's partly fear of dead bodies and partly not wanting to take responsibility for them.

Or were the Russians clever, realised it was a hoax and didn't want to stop in case it was a car jacking stunt.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

That was my first though.

Or were the Russians clever, realised it was a hoax and didn't want to stop in case it was a car jacking stunt.

 

[jefmcg]

Or were the Russians clever, realised it was a hoax and didn't want to stop in case it was a car jacking stunt.

Fair enough: don't stop, but then call the police.

The suggestion was that getting involved with the police was something that Russians - with some justification - like to avoid.

Whatever the reason, if you are knocked down in Russia and people ignore you because they think you are a trap, or because they are terrified of the police or because they are b*st*rds - the end result is the same.

Oh, and Lagos - wonder if HIV/AIDS has people avoiding blood?

 

[Globalti]

I doubt it; I used to see more bodies in the streets back in the mid 80s before the HIV scare; it was three or four a week at that time.

 

[ColinJ]

I've mentioned this before ...You don't have to go to Russia or Nigeria to be left lying in the road!

Hebden Bridge - the caring town!

 

[Globalti]

Yeah, well, but at least Hebden chavs don't kick goths to death in the town.

 

[ColinJ]

Yeah, well, but at least Hebden chavs don't kick goths to death in the town.

That's a coincidence - I was telling my sister about that Bacup murder only yesterday!