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Ventrue, either you're agreeing with me, or you're adding words to my post that I didn't say, but for the life of me I can't tell which it is by the way you worded your post. <br /> <br />The Good Samaritan law is irrelevant to the case at hand. It protects you from civil liability (not criminal) for trying to help, not from not trying to help. (Usually it excepts you if you are a licensed professional in that field. For example, if you're a physician, and you see someone have a heart attack, you try and help, and he dies anyway, you can be sued and the Good Samaritan law won't protect you. The plaintiff would still have to prove negligence, however. ) <br /> <br />All I wondered is why someone who works for a railroad or is familiar with them, who sees a dangerous condition such as a malfunctioning grade-crossing signal, would ever even think of not reporting it immediately, whether they were on-duty or off, or worked for a different railroad. I keep hoping that Kitty Genovese was a fluke, but maybe I should just start being a cynic. <br /> <br />OS
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