Why Don't We Just Bring Back the Lions and the Christians?

All right, I need to interrupt my uber interesting "Adventures in Dating" series to rant about something...

What the hell is wrong with you people today?

This ain't ancient Rome, I thought we were supposed to be civilized?  Is blood lust that deep in our genes?

I mean you, you YouTube type people.  Everywhere I go, people are recording stuff on their phonea when they should be jumping in and helping!  What in God's name is wrong with you?  Is ya' ignant?  Has all the world become a spectator sport?  Has the world become a giant electronic device, it's not real anymore, it's a video game or reality series?  Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I'm appalled!

What buzzed up my skirt, you may ask?  I was driving down my street the other day and I saw these kids in front of a house.  I drive up slowly to make sure I think what I think is going on is actually going on.  And yes indeed, it's two approximately 10 year old girls beating the hell out of each other, while one slightly older boy stood and watched as if he were watching the coin toss for a football game, and a slightly older girl recording the fight with her phone.  I pulled over the car and started screaming out the window, "Hey, stop it, stop it, stop it!",  followed by some random things like "What is wrong with you?  You don't do that!  You're not animals!  Where is an adult?".  After the fact I felt like Glady Kravitz on Bewitched, but I didn't care, it was the right thing to do.

The girls stopped and looked at me amazed as if I was wrong.  Then after a second, ran in the house.  I didn't want to get involved much further, because I'd probably have some Hood Mom kick my ass for not minding my own business.  I'm serious, the families on that part of the street are very, well let's call them street.  It's not stereotypical, it's just a fact.  I hear them, I see them, always out, yelling at each other about bustin' caps and beatin' asses.  So, I know enough to not tempt fate.

I was bothered for hours after.  I was appalled by the barbaric behavior of the girls, but horrified by the bystanders.  Has the next generation become that numb?  I lectured my kids forever after that.  I told them if they ever just stood by when something like that was going on, I'd beat them.  No, just kidding.  I said they needed to stand up against violence, but also be very careful to know when to just call or run for help instead as to avoid death.  You never know when someone is gonna' pull a .9 out... or a knife.  Like the kid that just got killed at a fraternity party here at the U. of Rochester, usual drunken college brawl, but a kid pulls a knife.  Boom.  Dead.

Another example, locally a mentally disturbed teenage boy starts stabbing his girlfriend in a Wegmans grocery store.  A couple people stood by and watched,  but two courageous teenage boys jump in and tried to pull the kid off her.  They saved her life.  They wound up with some cuts.  My son said he didn't care, he'd rather die doing the right thing like that.  Wow.  Would you?  Check yourself, are you the type to, A.) videotape, B.) run away, C.) watch, D.) jump in to stop it or call for help? 

This nonsense has got to stop.  Violence and bullying behavior is not a spectator sport.  I know I'm becomming a self-righteous, crotchety, old hen, but you all should be ashamed of yourselves.  "WWGWD", "What Would Grandma Walton Do?".  (Hey, I model my life after 70s TV shows, is that so wrong?)  Or at least do what Spike Lee said, "Do the Right Thing", which doesn't include throwing garbage cans through Sal's Pizzeria, but you know what I mean.

Don't make me come over there...  stop this nonsense right now.