Watched a great TV show tonight called "What would you do?" The premise is that they set up different situations with hidden cameras to see how people would react.
The first scenario that really struck me was one where they took a bike into a crowded park and locked it to a post. They then had different "thieves" come in and begin trying to remove the lock. First with a hammer, then bolt cutters, then even an electric saw.
The first thief was a preppy lookin white kid. People just kind of walked by and didn't say much. A few people asked if it was his bike...and he would give a vague, no not really, and people would keep going. Nobody called the police or really confronted the kid.
Then they brought in a black kid to act as the thief. Oh man you'd have thought all hell broke loose. Everyone's calling the cops, screaming at the kid and so on.
The kicker is that at the end they interviewed all the people who intervened (or didn't) and every single one of them stated matter of factly that race had NOTHING to do with their decision to get involved or not. Bullshit.
Then, they brought in a hot chick to work as the thief. People (all men) actually started helping her saw the chain off the bike! Hahaha. Then she started asking people to help her steal the bike....even telling them what she was doing, and they helped her anyway! Then later a couple of mean old ladies actually called the cops on her....As if we needed any more proof that men had no power to resist hot women....I was definitely born into the wrong sex!
Next they did a lottery scenario where an actor gave a lotto ticket to a cashier (also an actor) and then goes to the back of the store to get something else....the cashier scans the ticket in front of other customers, the winning jingle plays...and then when the actor comes back to the front of the store the cashier tells her she did not win. In over half the times they ran the scenario the customers who saw the cashier scan the winning ticket and then tell the woman she didn't win did NOT speak up and say anything.
Up next week, actors portraying battered women and their abusive significant others getting into a fight at a restaurant to see if anyone steps in, a breastfeeding woman and a man who chastizes her for doing so (both actors) to see if any of the patrons in the restaurant step in and put the man in his place, and a woman who pulls her car over on a busy street to throw her two rambunctious toddlers out of the car and tells them to walk home.
Should be good!
The first scenario that really struck me was one where they took a bike into a crowded park and locked it to a post. They then had different "thieves" come in and begin trying to remove the lock. First with a hammer, then bolt cutters, then even an electric saw.
The first thief was a preppy lookin white kid. People just kind of walked by and didn't say much. A few people asked if it was his bike...and he would give a vague, no not really, and people would keep going. Nobody called the police or really confronted the kid.
Then they brought in a black kid to act as the thief. Oh man you'd have thought all hell broke loose. Everyone's calling the cops, screaming at the kid and so on.
The kicker is that at the end they interviewed all the people who intervened (or didn't) and every single one of them stated matter of factly that race had NOTHING to do with their decision to get involved or not. Bullshit.
Then, they brought in a hot chick to work as the thief. People (all men) actually started helping her saw the chain off the bike! Hahaha. Then she started asking people to help her steal the bike....even telling them what she was doing, and they helped her anyway! Then later a couple of mean old ladies actually called the cops on her....As if we needed any more proof that men had no power to resist hot women....I was definitely born into the wrong sex!
Next they did a lottery scenario where an actor gave a lotto ticket to a cashier (also an actor) and then goes to the back of the store to get something else....the cashier scans the ticket in front of other customers, the winning jingle plays...and then when the actor comes back to the front of the store the cashier tells her she did not win. In over half the times they ran the scenario the customers who saw the cashier scan the winning ticket and then tell the woman she didn't win did NOT speak up and say anything.
Up next week, actors portraying battered women and their abusive significant others getting into a fight at a restaurant to see if anyone steps in, a breastfeeding woman and a man who chastizes her for doing so (both actors) to see if any of the patrons in the restaurant step in and put the man in his place, and a woman who pulls her car over on a busy street to throw her two rambunctious toddlers out of the car and tells them to walk home.
Should be good!