An overpopulate yet cold city

Today I was waiting for a friend to meet up for a drink at Lan Kwai Fong. I waited him at Ben & Jerry. During my wait, tons of people walk by and suddenly one slipped just few meters in front of me. He slipped hard and caught everyone’s attention. Some just turn their head and kept walking, some laugh, some gave a weird look. Yet only few gave a “sincere” and only me and 2 other person actually walk towards him and see is he okay.

While I am walking towards him I realize he is in serious pain and my first reaction was already going for my phone. Yet I paused to see is there a need to call emergency. Before I realize, a women realize he dislocated his arm and yelled. In split second everyone around stop walking and gather around. There are probably 20 something people around yelling call 999 (the emergency hotline in Hong Kong). Yet I am the only who actually held a phone and made the call after realize NO one actually reach their pocket or is dialing. After I call I stay and make sure the man gets his treatment then left the scene.

After the incident, I realize something that annoys me. The people that is yelling to call the police, why NO one call himself? do they DON’T have a phone?? it is impossible… Another thing that annoy me is… people that come around and ask the guy “Are you Ok?” or “It is painful?” when they CLEARLY see the guy is in pain and dislocated his arm. After I made the call to the medic is here it took a whole 20 minutes. During this 20 minutes, NO POLICE came by… NONE… now it may be normal for other places but for HK police are EVERYWHERE… and yet when they are needed no one is around. Even after the call no police came… The ambulance, I was waiting to hear the siren of an ambulance but when I saw it came I am very confidential I have hear no siren so I am quite sure they didn’t turn it on so they don’t see it as an emergency. Lastly the medics, I ran over to grab the medics as they stopped the car 20-30 meters away in another street, I just want to make sure so I ran over to grab them to the scene exactly. I try to communicate to them but THEY DIDN’T even said a word to me from the start till I left, is almost like I am invisible.

Is sad to see how cold the city is… very troubling…