Stop drop and roll .

aggiehawg said:

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Daddy was transferred to NYC in 1971. I was the only kid left at home at that point. NYC was a hellhole then. Frequent sanitation worker strikes (garbage piled on the streets and stinking awful) transit strikes wherein the trains stopped running, Times Square was all porno theaters, hookers, drug dealers and headshops/sex toy shops.

I was a preteen but walking from Dad's office in the Chrysler Building to Central Station, he still would be solicited by hookers and dealers at least four times in that short distance.

A year before we moved up there from Houston, this movie came out. It was billed as a comedy but it really was a whitewash of what was happening.

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So... the good ol' days.

New York is such a ****hole.

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AgGrad99 said:

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What is going on in that video?

I know the illegal alien threw a match on her...but how did that start a fire and light her up? How is she just standing there on fire? So much about that video makes no sense....

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This is the first time I've watched the video and I have the same questions. How can you just stand there while you're on fire? She had to be drugged out of her mind.

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Try watching what happened to Japanese soldiers after our Marines hit them with a flamethrower in Okinawa

literally the exact same thing as happened in the NY subway

that's what happens to the body when you are engulfed in flames.

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You cannot possibly try to compare fighting in WWII with illegal immigrants lighting someone on fire for the **** of it.

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NM. You'll get it someday.

Aglaw97 said:

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Bystanders doing nothing but recording is less of a right vs left wing thing as it is a generational thing

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For Millennials and Gen Z'ers life if a movie. They're so used to watching videos that recording them is the only thing they think is acceptable when something like this happens. After all, they don't want to be a part of the movie, they just want to post it on their tik tok.

Aglaw97 said:

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Bystanders doing nothing but recording is less of a right vs left wing thing as it is a generational thing

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Or a smart/dumb thing considering what Alvin Bragg would do to you for helping.

JamesPShelley said:

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aggiehawg said:

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Daddy was transferred to NYC in 1971. I was the only kid left at home at that point. NYC was a hellhole then. Frequent sanitation worker strikes (garbage piled on the streets and stinking awful) transit strikes wherein the trains stopped running, Times Square was all porno theaters, hookers, drug dealers and headshops/sex toy shops.

I was a preteen but walking from Dad's office in the Chrysler Building to Central Station, he still would be solicited by hookers and dealers at least four times in that short distance.

A year before we moved up there from Houston, this movie came out. It was billed as a comedy but it really was a whitewash of what was happening.

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So... the good ol' days.

New York is such a ****hole.

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the amazing TV series "Mad Men" depicted NYC in the early 1970s much like this

very realistic and sad.

I feel badly for Don Draper!

Funky Winkerbean said:

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Aglaw97 said:

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Bystanders doing nothing but recording is less of a right vs left wing thing as it is a generational thing

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Or a smart/dumb thing considering what Alvin Bragg would do to you for helping.

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For most in my generation, Gen X, none of that would enter our minds until after we had acted. I can't fathom standing there and doing nothing and most people my age would say the same thing.

I wish I had not watched that. That is a horror movie.

The only thing I'll say about people not helping someone is that in this particular situation the lady is likely better off being dead. I'm not sure you would want to survive that. Her entire head was engulfed in flames. You don't recover from that.

Prayers for her though. And the illegal alien that did this should be executed on the spot.

Taxi Driver was really more accurate.

I can't believe my mom and her friend would drive us kids into NY city for the day in the early 80s. We would eat lunch, go to Lincoln center for a play, look at some stuff, and go home to New Jersey. In the 90s it wasn't bad and us teens would go on the train alone, but it had changed so much in 10 years for the better that it makes me sad now to see how it has regressed.