>> Now the footage that you're seeing sped up is coming from Florida but wait, it's not gonna
end as horribly as most things in Florida do. A car starts to careen across the intersection. A
woman instantly runs out like a superhero to try to slow it down and ward people away from it.
And that inspires more people to run for all directions, including a man in military attire,
they're able to stop the car. So inside the car
there is a woman slumped over steering wheel. Apparently it had some sort of medical
problem that caused her to be unable to control the vehicle.
So people try to do something. A guy you saw trying to punch through the window,
immediately regretted that decision, I imagine. And then a woman goes back to her car,
gets a weight that she had been carrying around cuz she's grinding,
working out all day. And he takes that and he successfully smashes it in.
I will say at first when he takes that weight and tries to smash it and
it didn't look like it worked and I thought if it warded off that weight. I feel so bad for
the guy who tried to punch the window in. I still do, but they were able to actually
get through, smashed the side window, unlocked the door and help the person and that is awesome.
And that is what you wanna see. I mean in a very real sense, you'd prefer to not have had
any of this happen, that would be great. But if people are going to be having these sorts
of medical emergencies, you want someone to help them immediately. That could have been way worse.
Her car could have been hit, it could have careened into another car off the road. And
my main fear here is something that has been identified and sometimes exaggerated. But it's
known as the bystander effect. And what that is basically is that in the face of something bad
happening, someone needing help there can be in some circumstances a thing where you wanna help.
Everyone wants to help but nobody wants to be the one to do it. Not that they don't wanna help,
it's that they feel uncomfortable being the one to do something. You see something
happening and you are trained to believe, well there are authorities in the world.
A cop is gonna come or a nurse or someone's gonna do something.
It's not on me right? Like I'm not an expert. Should I help? What if I make it worse? And
sometimes lots of people can feel that way nothing happens. But you'll often find that if one person
springs into action that will inspire other people to do so. Now as I alluded to the bystander effect
in some cases has been exaggerated and academia hasn't necessarily reproduced it.
But it can happen and in this case we didn't have to worry about it because that one woman
ran into traffic to try to stop a car. With her literal just her own body trying to stop
it to save that person. It is just a regular like everyday act of heroism and obviously
most people we go through months years without being faced by anything like that.
But we all wanna imagine that we would do what that woman did and what those other people did.
That we would try to maybe not punched through the window. That's a really bad idea, but grab
something and knock out the window and so great work by her. By the way,
in response to this, the Boynton Beach Police Department said you all work fast.
They've been trying to get in touch with these people said we've been put in touch
with several of the Good Samaritans. Were coordinating everyone's schedules
to get them together with the woman they rescued. We will let you know once it's
confirmed. Thank you. That would be nice, will have a nice little lunch or something.
I'm assuming that the woman's okay. There hasn't been much information about what
ended up happening to her. It's sort of like the story we talked about earlier this week with the
person who was piloting a plane. And passed out and someone else leapt to the rescue to land it.
Once the person passes out there out of these stories. Generally it's a weird
thing that we do as a society. I am assuming that she is okay and soon we'll be able to
you'll meet with and thank the people that helped her and that'll be nice.