04-27-2010, 01:34 PM
JAMAICA, N.Y. (WPIX)
In life, Hugo Tale-Yax was a faceless Guatemalan immigrant, scrounging for food and nickels, trying to survive on the unforgiving streets of Jamaica, Queens. In death, hundreds of mourners who never knew the 31-year-old are expected to pay tribute to the homeless man's heroism, and lament the pedestrian apathy that immediately preceded his death.
The Guatemalan Consulate is planning a wake for Tale-Yax to be held Wednesday from 3 to 9 p.m. at Funeraria La Fe, 183 Wyckoff Ave.
Surveillance video released Monday by the NYPD shows at least 25 passersby who glanced at the dying man, but never stopped to help him. In one instance, a pedestrian strolls up and begins shaking the stabbing victim's body, but then hurriedly walks away.
Just before that, a man was captured on camera walking out of a nearby building to take a cell phone snapshot of Tale-Yax. He then leaves, apparently without calling 911.
Read the full article here:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainmen...6916.story
This really shows me what our country has went to when you see a man, basically dying right in front of you, and don't even try to help him, but you merely take pictures. A human being, is a human being. Put yourself in his shoes, he was a homeless man, and I know alot of people look down on the homeless community, BUT he gave up his life, to save another. Think about it.
In life, Hugo Tale-Yax was a faceless Guatemalan immigrant, scrounging for food and nickels, trying to survive on the unforgiving streets of Jamaica, Queens. In death, hundreds of mourners who never knew the 31-year-old are expected to pay tribute to the homeless man's heroism, and lament the pedestrian apathy that immediately preceded his death.
The Guatemalan Consulate is planning a wake for Tale-Yax to be held Wednesday from 3 to 9 p.m. at Funeraria La Fe, 183 Wyckoff Ave.
Surveillance video released Monday by the NYPD shows at least 25 passersby who glanced at the dying man, but never stopped to help him. In one instance, a pedestrian strolls up and begins shaking the stabbing victim's body, but then hurriedly walks away.
Just before that, a man was captured on camera walking out of a nearby building to take a cell phone snapshot of Tale-Yax. He then leaves, apparently without calling 911.
Read the full article here:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainmen...6916.story
This really shows me what our country has went to when you see a man, basically dying right in front of you, and don't even try to help him, but you merely take pictures. A human being, is a human being. Put yourself in his shoes, he was a homeless man, and I know alot of people look down on the homeless community, BUT he gave up his life, to save another. Think about it.
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