1) This could have happened in any major city or town in Canada. And it does also happen in any major city and town in Canada. To suggest it's exclusively a 'Calgary attitude problem' is just the usual ignorant bashing from the usual ignorant anti-Calgary haters.
2) This particular accident happened on or very near to a high-speed ramp that enters onto another higher-speed road. I drive it myself at least several times per day. There's no shoulder there which makes it too dangerous for any non-emergency or City maintenance vehicle to stop along there. This didn't happen in the 'burbs in front of a strip mall or someone's house where it would have been much safer to stop.
3) If it was caught on camera that means the police or traffic monitoring people saw it happen live. They themselves should have been the ones to send an ambulance out immediately instead of waiting around for a motorist to call it in. And if the cameras were monitoring the location why were they fiddle-fucking around waiting for an untrained motorist to start administering first-aid?
Just my two cents. The police really screwed up on this one by going public with a silly 'oh, these cruel heartless people these days' rant. Especially if they didn't bother to make the rest of the facts of the incident and location known.
PS: Three summers ago I called the police so they could save a drunk who had wandered onto and passed out right on the C-Train tracks that ran outside my former condo. I did this because, even early in the morning, a train was eventually going to come along and run over the guy. So I don't need to hear from anyone who doesn't live here that no one in Calgary cares or looks out for other people. Anyone who says otherwise, well, GFY.
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