So, last night I was walking down the street, coming back from the supermarket, and I see this guy lying on the sidewalk. He was about a block away when I first noticed him, and from my angle I wasn't sure if he was a person or just a pile of clothing. THere was a guy walking by him at the time, so I figured, hey, if it's a person, he'd stop, right?
WRONG.
This guy just walked by a man lying FACE DOWN on the sidewalk. Didn't stop to check and see if he was breathing or anything. Just kept walking, because hey, he probably had to be somewhere, right? Or, you know, maybe common human decency was just beyond him.
Sometimes, people suck.
So I stopped, a couple cars drove by, and finally one stopped, and we tried to get the guy up. He was homeless and drunk and just a mess. We got a cop, and he called a shelter, and all was good.
Sadly, I was too busy trying to make sure that the guy didn't freeze to death lying on a Cambridge sidewalk, so I couldn't go beat up the jackass who ignored him.
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