London woman stopped to help man who’d collapsed at in the sidewalk at Richmond and Oxford

But what made her challenge particularly difficult was that the drivers trying to get through the intersection honked with impatience and anger, swerving around her and darting through the intersection as she tried to help the man.

“They were acting like I was a delinquent and I was just trying to help someone,” she said. “Drivers will stop for Canada geese but you’ve got a man in distress and no one cares.”

Paramedics arrived shortly after and took the man who’d been struggling to hospital. Litsas doesn’t know what caused him to collapse or how he’s doing now.

After the ordeal, she posted on the social media site Reddit about how some of the drivers chose to honk instead of help.

“I was frustrated, I was a bit shaken up just having the traffic whiz by you and it’s just an unnerving position to be in,” she said.

The purpose behind her post is to ask that drivers show some patience and empathy if a pedestrian appears to be struggling.

“Stop, put your hazards on,” she said. “It’s a car against a human being and I’m not going to win against a five-tonne vehicle.”

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Human beings are fucking trash. I hope every last person that honked gets hit by a car.

And/or a Canada goose. Those things are evil

TurtlePower
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Come on now, those geese can’t help but honk. Or did you mean the people that honked should get hit by a Canada goose? I’m cool with that.

Yeah, the second one! Those fuckers need to come face to face with a couple of those geese. See how they like honking at people after that

Drusas
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Canada geese are aggressive. They don’t just honk at you.

metaStatic
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Peace was never an option

Two humans in this story helped! Most people are good.

TurtlePower
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[People honking] > 2 = your numbers don’t add up. If it weren’t for the threat of laws and/or the fear of imaginary bullshit (religion), people wouldn’t be good hardly at all.

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