Help Wanted

My pal Diane and I have been discussing this terrible tragedy in Kansas where a woman lay dying of stab wounds while shoppers continued to shop. One woman used her cell phone to take a picture of the victim -- but did not bother to call 9-1-1. This reminds me of that recent case where a woman lay dying in a hospital ER while a janitor mopped up around her. The Wichita Eagle columnist wonders if it's criminal to see a victim and not do anything to help. My answer is yes. And if you can't prosecute apathetic people, the least you can do is show their faces and names in the newspaper with a caption such as "These people stood by and did nothing". What a contrast between people like that and Wesley Autrey, who risked his own life to rescue a man who'd fallen onto New York subway tracks!