A segment on Anderson Cooper’s CNN show last night discussed pedestrians in New York City repeatedly ignoring a dying man on the street and somehow turned into a referendum on videogames.
A NYC man was stabbed after apparently attempting to help a female fend off an attacker and then collapsed on the street as people kept passing by, eventually dying of his wounds. In discussing the story, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, filling in for Cooper, brought on board psychologist Dr. Michael Bradley (pictured) to talk about what might make people ignore a mortally wounded person lying on a sidewalk.
A transcript of the discussion follows (in [URL=http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/podcasts/ac360/site/2010/04/27/cooper.podcast.monday.cnn?iref=allsearch]video on the CNN website[/URL], the segment with Gupta and Bradley begins around the 17.25 mark)
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