Distressed Woman Taunted On M3 Bridge

[agchristie]

Undoubtedly an inconvenience to many motorists but what do you think about some of their reaction?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/588898/Police-condemn-M3-drivers-taunted-distressed-woman-bridge

[sandyRoe]

They're the same sort of people who, if they'd been living in the early 19th Century, would have flocked to public hangings.

[dannyk13]

Appalling behaviour.

[equalityforall]

Disgusting, 1 person suggested shooting her with rubber bullets so they could get on with their day trip.

[Mamyalynne]

The sadness is that some people have forgotten how to silently think or mutter under their breath - they have an uncontrollable urge to shout what they think to the world.


Poor lady.

[Gromit]

1. We do not know if she has a twitter account.
2. She was unlikely to be twittering from the bridge.
3. If she did not read the tweets, she was not taunted.
4. I believe the Tweets were to the police account not hers.
5. People can lose a sense of reason when they are inconvenience unacceptedly.

[marval]

Dreadful reactions, they have obviously never been in her position.

[Prudie]

Of course they are selfish remarks but if you've been sitting in a hot car, stuck on a M-way for hours then tempers can get extremely frayed - and as Gromit said the woman wouldn't have known.

[Gromit]

This probably expises an generational divide. And a technological one too.

Nobody stuck in that queue would have had a kind word for the person delaying them. For every unkind tweet, there was probably 10 people thinking the same thing. Those that condemn tweeting are usually people who do not use that technology.

[sandyRoe]

Has Tweeting come to be like thinking out loud?

[Gromit]

SandyRoe

Or people who do not think :-)

[237SJ]

This article does say that people were taunting the woman although unless they were shouting out of their vehicles, I don`t know how they did given the distance http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/13371231.Police_angry_after_public_taunt_woman_threatening_to_jump_on_to_M3/ I know that piece of road very well - it must have been absolute bedlam because it`s the last day of Hampton Court Flower Show and just about everyone comes into the area that way. It would have impacted the roads off Sunbury Cross roundabout as well

[Sqad]

I agree.......stuck in a hot car with the motorway closed........I would have been EXTREMELY unsympathetic.

[237SJ]

Another thought - people get to Heathrow that way as well and if I was going to miss my flight I might find some of my sympathy going out of the window

[gness]

It's a fortunate family that doesn't have at least one member suffering mental illness of some kind....

Imagine being one of those who taunted and tweeted their anger .....then arrived home, late I know, to find the police waiting to tell you your daughter/mum had jumped off a bridge.....x

[Mamyalynne]

Yes I would have been annoyed at the delay, especially if hot, especially if the back seat was full of grumbling children and I may miss my rail/air/train connection.


Would I have criticised the lady in question on a media open to all - No.

[237SJ]

I wouldn`t have either but then again, I think the whole Twitter thing is ridiculous. Stupid people saying stupid things and then retracting them when they are exposed.

[Mamyalynne]

Agreed.

[Gromit]

Do you tweet at all mamyalynne?

[Mamyalynne]

I have done,yes.

[Mamyalynne]

Why would I want to tell the world at large (ie. whoever reads the tweet) what my opinions are of a person I do not know who is obviously in desperate trouble.

I may phone relatives to tell them where I am stuck and why , that has a purpose.