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Saving the Driver
Published: 2009-01-29 00:08:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 13937; Favourites: 415; Downloads: 0
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Info - UNESCO photo contest "The Changing Face of the Earth"
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Thanks a lot for the kind comments. I hope this photo will change a bit our minds and concept about humanity and someday we will remember who we really are and help each other for no profit or such.
Thanks Lili for pushing it and thanks estudio for featuring it so the world could notice it
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let's look at this from another point - imagine in the car therewould be say, our close relative - mother, father, sister, anybody. you wold still care about your life and let them drown or would you help them?
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Luckily, I will never have to make this decision in the case of immediate family. Extended might be different, so I can kind of see where you're coming from, but if the situation really was as it appears in the photograph, then I won't be included in the rescue effort outside of trying to get a helicopter involved. You might think this very inhuman, but obviously it isn't.
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No I don't. I've never saw in Moldova a helicopter involved in a rescue action so I guess if nobody would care and help the guy, he might be gone now...
I don't say they don't use helicopters to rescue at all, but in this case, it just didn't happen
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I don't know how these sort of things go down in different areas so I've said in my area a couple times and described it to narrow down what I was talking about.
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Okay, well... Thanks for sharing a great capture!
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you're welcome!
thanks for sharing your thoughts
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What I meant by getting hurt and drowning is the differnce between someone not wearing a helmet on a skateboard and flying off, recieving either a big bump on the head to teach them their lesson, or cracking their head open. Sometimes stupid people need a fright to teach them right, but death is a pretty heavy punishment to wish on someone, don't you think?
I have never been in a flood nor do I live in an area that has ever recieved one, but to say that the man EXPECTED help is a stretch, isn't it? And even if he did, it's human nature to help (at least, it's there in me) and no different then firefighters, police men or the armed forces. Besides, I don't think these men would have done it if it was a serious risk.
At the end of the day I agree with you to some extent. There was that case of a kid getting killed at a theme park because a ride hit him. The problem was that he was in a off-limits zone, dictated with plenty of signs (he had to hop 2 or 3 6-foot high fences just to get there, anyways) and all to retrieve a hat that had dropped there while he had ridden the ride a few minutes ago. In that situation the only thing I could think was "that teen doesn't DESERVE to die, but he certainly had it coming and I can't feel all that sympathetic. Stupid people get in stupid situations." So maybe I'm a hypocrite. But you always see these images and stuff of people sitting on their cars in a flood, so I guess it makes me think the man got TRAPPED there, instead of risking it and willingly going out. And then there's the fact I think drowning would be a pretty horrific death... eh...
blah blah, I guess it's all a matter of opinion. The main moral is that acting with a bit of common sense would do the world a favour.
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Usually when someone is sitting on the top of the car it is because they drove into the water and then the water sweeps them off a bridge and/or the vehicle stalls and the water rises up around them. Really, it happens multiple times a year in the area that I live. We have teams of volunteers who go out and rescue these people and will do anything to save them no matter how useless the situation seems or how risky. And I can assure you, anything involving fast moving water and debris is very dangerous. People are aware of such teams and act accordingly. Maybe you cannot fathom this because you value your life.
"What I meant by getting hurt and drowning is the differnce between someone not wearing a helmet on a skateboard and flying off, recieving either a big bump on the head to teach them their lesson, or cracking their head open."
This is different because it doesn't physically involve other people. I do agree within the example, your logic works, but this basic principal cannot be generally applied to more complicated issues. Everything is situational. My opinion of "heavy punishment" applies only to the the situation of flooded low water crossings when there only victim would be the driver. Also I don't think you understand me on another level. I don't so much as want to punish people for their stupidity, but keep others from being harmed by it because they cannot help but want to aide.
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...It may have been that the water came in so fast, no one had time to escape it...
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Seeing as how I also live in the middle of flash-flood alley, I can tell you that that is very unlikely to happen. But, as the other person said, it's a situational sort-of thing.
~Anan
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Maybe. Which is why I say this is situational.
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This DD was well deserved! They managed to save him then?
Amazing shot.
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Jeez...i just got chills...this is immaculate, ive never seen a photograph so humbleing, so precious.
This is a work of art, and i cant think of anybody who deserves a DD more than you.
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thanks a lot for the kind coments.. you just poured some honey on my heart
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"...und der Mensch heiΓt Mensch,
weil er irrt und weil er kΓ€mpft,
und weil er hofft und liebt,
weil er mitfΓΌhlt und vergibt,
und weil er lacht und weil er lebt..."
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Easy thing to do a better translation than:
"... and the human is called human
because he's wrong and because he fights,
and because he hopes and he loves,
because he cares and forgives,
and because he laughs and because he lives..."
great choice of song for a GREAT picture!
I am also interested in wether they got him out of the car?
Greetings from Germany!
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thanks, and- greetings
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ohai there! thanks for the tanslation, indeed it totally fits the theme of the picture.
and yes - they got him out, i didn't picture that because i didn't notice when they did it. i guess i was looking in another direction.
thanks a lot and greets from Moldova!
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"...und the person is called the person,
As he is mistaken and as he struggles,
And as he hopes and loves,
As it sympathises and gives,
Both as he laughs and as he lives..."
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the person is a really really bad translation for Mensch I think.
human? human being? mankind? persons sounds heartless.
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why won't you translate it fo us?
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what kind of crap translation is that? |:
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thought so xD
hate google translator
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Easy thing to do a better translation than:
"... and the human is called human
because he's wrong and because he fights,
and because he hopes and he loves,
because he cares and forgives,
and because he laughs and because he lives..."
great choice of song for a GREAT picture!
I am also interested in wether they got him out of the car?
Greetings from Germany!
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thanks for translating
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I just made copy and paste
thanks for translation, My aunt lives in Germany and I always laugh when she speak in german.
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You're welcome. I think most languages sound quite funny if spoken by a non native-speaker. The most funny conversation I had in my life was a telephonecall in English (we me beeing German and not speaking that good English myself) with a guy from Tokio.
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just when you've given up hope in humanity, an image like this comes along...
great work
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yeah.. we still have a chance...
thanks!
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As someone said above, my faith in humanity has just risen
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When i saw what they were doing, mine has risen too
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Omg, I want to study photojournalism, so this kind of pictures inspire me ^^
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