sometimes the best that you can do is
have the first aid skills afterwards to
help someone stay alive welcome to
today's active self-protection lesson
I'm your host John Correa today's
educational lesson comes to us from
downtown Los Angeles California in the
United States guy on the bench is a
known vagrant in the area and as he kind
of flinches at this lady she was paying
attention to him didn't really do a
whole lot to her she saw him coming and
walks on by but about thirty seconds
later we see a guy walking by who's not
paying attention and dude just pushes
him right under the wheels of a big rig
right under the wheels of a large
delivery truck and then walks off
actually firefighters caught that guy
about an hour later when they saw his
picture and recognized him as a local
vagrant so they finally backed the car
off this guy and the guy comes out of
the store here and it's gonna help him
up you go read the news stories in the
description
the firefighters gonna show up at nine
minutes later he has a collapsed lung
and multiple broken bones but sounds
like he's going to make a full recovery
everyone stands around that's where this
one ends I think this one meets the
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video I want to think about the
unavoidability of some attacks I also
want to think about the bystander effect
and having the medical equipment and the
training to help someone in need first
thing I want to talk about here is
paying attention actually really like
this lady for her awareness and paying
attention in this area so yes she has
her cell phone in her hand however she
is also an urban dweller in Los Angeles
and she sees some guy just kind of
randomly sitting on a bench here outside
a place and she's paying attention him
doesn't mean that he's necessarily evil
but she's paying attention notice that
her phone is down her eyes are up she
sees him and is assessing him that's
what paying attention means knowing your
own personal space and understanding the
world around you and when he flinches
noticed that she takes a little bit more
space when he kind of does that little
flinch thing it makes her take a step
out so that she is aware and paying
attention to him but not giving him the
eye interestingly here he knows she's
now
looking him in the eyes and not giving
him the face instead she's just paying
attention to his world so that she knows
that she's safe excellent job by her of
getting the heck out of the danger zone
without being attacked now this other
guy on the other hand is not paying
attention to him so our victim here is
walking confidently but notice he
doesn't give this guy any indication at
all that he's paying attention to him
and clearly some guy gets up that fast
in that closer proximity to you I don't
even care that you didn't see the
earlier one paying attention to that
making sure he's okay incredibly
important seeing those pre-attack cues
might have given you a little
opportunity to stutter step have a
little bit more structure in your person
to not get attacked maybe to be
deselected but to be prepared otherwise
and not end up under the wheels of a
truck now this little flinch is a huge
deal because again this guy did this
before as a pre attack indicator and the
fact that he didn't get the kind of
response that he wanted out of the other
girl meant that he didn't attack her
this time on the other hand because it
didn't deter this guy and make him pay
attention or structure up he was able to
continue on now once he's done this guys
and our good guy has walked all the way
into this he really doesn't have the
ability to protect himself because it's
only a quarter second later that the guy
contacts him we see him come in contact
here and you notice that our victim is
just starting to turn at him so his
unwillingness to see what's going on in
the world or inability to see what's
going on in the world and his
unwillingness to maybe do something
socially a little bit awkward or paying
attention to somebody or making sure
that he's safe put him in a spot that he
couldn't respond in time when the guy
finally did make a very aggressive move
at him and at this point he really
doesn't have anything at that point
because he wasn't willing he was this
outcome was unavoidable now did the guy
purposely put him under the wheels of
the truck I don't know and I kind of
doubt it I just think that he was
probably just trying to hurt him but I
don't know about putting him under the
wheels of the truck and friends
sometimes these attacks are unavoidable
I do think that this one if he had been
paying attention and had been aware he
enough in his world to see that guy jump
up and kind of stop and make sure he was
okay might not have happened to him but
of course dude walks off I don't know
that he really took anything from him
here but of course now let's think about
these bystanders look at everybody kind
of standing around of course the driver
of the truck is gonna jump out but good
night thank God the driver of the truck
was paying attention because he was he
didn't run the guy over would certainly
have killed him running
that drive tire like that run over that
front you know a steering wheel so
instead he was paying attention enough
to get on the brakes and not do that but
think about the bystanders here they're
kind of standing around looking like
what am I gonna do friends you've got to
be the one to break the bystander effect
and you got to recognize that in all
likelihood bystanders are not gonna come
and help you so you got to be the one to
do that when the bystander effects
finally broken is when this and this
kind bystander finally steps in and says
hey man let me help now if you notice
look what it says 1009 or so on this
instance and they find they're gonna
help him up have your first aid skills
and plan available quickly be able to
triage and effect and say okay let's
let's do a little bit of analysis here
are you okay can you speak is everything
all right do you understand how to stop
major bleeding and make sure that the
ABCs are there airway is breathing in
circulation because you notice the fire
department shows up and look at the time
stamp now went from 1009 to almost 1019
so what we have here is we have almost
10 minutes before professional you know
medical advice is here and professional
medical help you're gonna be the one who
is responsible to be that first
responder for yourself and for those in
your world so I can't tell you enough
yes take a stop the bleed class yes take
an emergency medical class yes take a
trauma medicine class and have some
equipment on you to help a guy like this
thankfully he didn't need intervention
of those kinds yes he had a collapsed
lung though that's a pretty big deal and
yes he needed some significant help
thankfully he got it you need to be that
first one so let's make sure that we're
understanding about paying attention
here some attacks are unavoidable they
are what they are but I think this one
could have been avoided make sure you
fight the bystander effect have your
first-aid equipment and skills on you to
cover your ass
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