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This bizarre scam is made even more hideous because it tugs on a Good Samaritan’s sense of humanity. Behold, the drowning baby scam:
She pointed to the nearby lake where Mr White saw a baby, clothed and with shoes on, floating face down in the water.
Mr White, who suffers from angina, immediately sprang into action.
He took off his jacket and jumped into the filthy, waist-deep water while his wife and dog waited nearby just out of sight.
But when he grabbed the child’s leg he realised it was actually a doll.
When Mr White turned around he saw the woman and her male accomplice stealing from his coat.
Would this make you less likely to save someone truly in need? Link – via TYWKIWDBI
Remember the adage "no good deed goes unpunished?" Well, Jim Moffett was helping two elderly women and a man cross a busy Denver street in a snowstorm when a pickup went straight at them – Jim pushed the three out of the way, but got struck himself.
His reward for being a Good Samaritan? A jaywalking ticket:
Family members said 58-year-old bus driver Jim Moffett and another man were helping two elderly women cross a busy Denver street in a snowstorm when he was hit Friday night.
Moffett suffered bleeding in the brain, broken bones, a dislocated shoulder and a possible ruptured spleen. He was in serious but stable condition Wednesday.
The Colorado State Patrol issued the citation. Trooper Ryan Sullivan said that despite Moffett’s intentions, jaywalking contributed to the accident.
Previously on Neatorama: Suing a Good Samaritan
Trying to be a good Samaritan (at least in California)? Beware: you could be sued for rendering "non-medical" help, instead.
Carol J. Williams of the Los Angeles Times has the interesting legal development:
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a young woman who pulled a co-worker from a crashed vehicle isn’t immune from civil liability because the care she rendered wasn’t medical.
The divided high court appeared to signal that rescue efforts are the responsibility of trained professionals. It was also thought to be the first ruling by the court that someone who intervened in an accident in good faith could be sued.
Lisa Torti of Northridge allegedly worsened the injuries suffered by Alexandra Van Horn by yanking her "like a rag doll" from the wrecked car on Topanga Canyon Boulevard.
Torti now faces possible liability for injuries suffered by Van Horn, a fellow department store cosmetician who was rendered a paraplegic in the accident that ended a night of Halloween revelry in 2004.
But in a sharp dissent, three of the seven justices said that by making a distinction between medical care and emergency response, the court was placing "an arbitrary and unreasonable limitation" on protections for those trying to help.
