Seinfeld's Good Samaritan Law Now Reality?

e3m4n writes "The fictitious 'good samaritan' law from the final episode of Seinfeld (the one that landed them in jail for a year) appears to be headed toward reality for California residents after the house passed this bill. There are some differences, such as direct action is not required, but the concept of guilt by association for not doing the right thing is still on the face of the bill."

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Re:Politician's "thinking"

[larry bagina]

Let's say you have a few dozen illegal immigrants hanging out, watching a girl being raped. Some of them even taking a turn. Now, you can't arrest them for being illegal immigrants and you can't arrest them for rape, so the only solution is to create an entirely new law that wouldn't have helped but at least sounds good. Sort of.

There is an upside: this law provides an absolute defense if you kill the legislators who thought this was a good idea.

They are animals.

[tjstork]

Related stories note that this crime took place in an inner city area, where people are already breaking the law rampantly. What you have here is a bunch of ghetto people that are completely out of control, and the answer is what? Some other stupid law?

The entire culture is just ruined, the values, what these people think, are just a cancer on society and it has to be isolated and then ultimately cut out. You can't mandate dogs be good samaritans, you can only put them in concentration camps.

Re:No

[bluefoxlucid]

They should be arrested for not throwing the little fuckers off a bridge ugh god damn I hate kids. Keep that shit out of society's way until it's at least 15 and smart enough to not piss me off. Then again I'm 24 and I get 14 year olds coming onto me, what the fuck is wrong with the world? They're in middle school and think I look like I'm in high school; I tell them I'm in college and ohgod now they're even more interested, go the fuck away before I throw you under a bus come back when you're 19 and a college cheerleader ugh.