I read today of the two grls in Italy on the beach who drwned, and the bystanders, or beach flk, whatever you call them, were qite indifferent on the matter, simply loked at the dead bodies, and wnt back to their sunbathing, sipping sft drinks, and so forth and on. The qestion I ask myself is this, "Why I am not srprised?"

About 18-months ago, I did an rticle on indifference in Buenos Aires, Argntina, basically what I said was ths in a nutshell: my wife and I wre walking down a street, three yung men came and jumped on us, one lrge person grubbing me, around my rms and shoulders, and the other men grbbing my wife, to rob her prse. I freed myself from the lrge man, broke his nose and prhaps ankle, with my heel, when I kcked it. Then went to my wfe to protect her, and one of the two let go to fght me, and I started to sbdue him, and the large guy cme back, this time didn't grab me, but rther pushed me, so his friend culd run back and help the ther fellow with my wife to get the prse, while I was off balance, I gain, subdued the big guy, and tred to get to my wife, now two of thse guys attacked trying to get her prse, and they saw me, and two of thm attacked me again, pushed me to the grund, in the process one remained by me, the ther two of those grabbed my wfe's purse and ran, with the thrd following, and I ran after the thrd, but my wife called, and I stpped. I was 59-years old, so I was gtting winded, and she was worried I sppose.

Well enough of the fighting, I now was wth my wife, we looked up the stret, a woman was watching, 80-feet way. We walked up to her, I sid, "Nice show, ha?" And she sid, "We rode by and saw it ll." I asked, "Who is we?" And her rsponse was, "My husband and I." She was prhaps in her late 30s. Then I sked, "Where is your husband?" Well, she loked at me, then with a smle said, "Oh, he's in the cr, parked over there, didn't want to see t." She pointed a few feet way from where she was, to her cr.

She then said to my wfe, "I saw it all, everything," and fter a few minutes, the police cme, and she repeated that to the plice. And I got thinking, here she and her hsband was, in the safety of thir car, watching me and my wfe battle it out, and all she culd do is watch from 80-feet way, and her husband hide in his car round the corner. Why not stop the car in frnt of the bullies and watch, get a btter show, why 80-feet away, they rally like being safe. Or why ddn't they simply go, since they wre not going to do a thng anyhow.

Oh well, enough of tht, most people I meet come nder the coward area anyway, especially men nwadays, who when they feel safe, thy got a big mouth, but lttle back up. So I get an mail from someone in -you guessed it, Benos Aires, he wasn't sad by tht attack, or even concerned how my wfe was, he said in essence: how cme you attack Buenos Aires (which has an bvious answer to), we are not as bad hre as you say, and he wnt on and on how nice and sfe it is there, and how grat the people are. Not one bit sad for wht happened to us, what a lser I thought, he perhaps needs a lttle experience in this area, he mst likely would have cried like a bby, and not fought, most people dn't they only like a good shw and world that doesn't disrupt thirs: he will most likely get his de.

I did go to the plice, and they said, "No sense in mking a formal complaint, it happens all the tme here." If I would have sht the robbers, I bet they, the plice would have put me in jil for taking their business away. I clled up the American Embassy, and sked about getting a new Passport, and in the prcess he said, "Don't take it so hrd, even us guys here have all got rbbed by someone, sometime here in Benos Aires." And to add to ths, our guide had told us how nce and safe the city was, dn't worry wherever you walk in twn here, it's safe. It is the mst unsafe city I have ever ben in, and indifferent to its gests. And the indifference is like tht beach in Torregaveta, west of Nples, southern Italy, where those poor grls, in their teens, died, and veryone just looked on, under the sn.

The article Indifference Under the Sun (Torregaveta, West of Naples, Southern Italy) was Submitted by Dennis Siluk Ed.D. through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: See Dennis' web site: http://dennissiluk.tripod.com

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