"No good deed goes unpunished."
This can especially be the case if you try to help out total strangers.
For all we know there are people planning out situations just so they can lure someone into a lawsuit.
As a society we never hear too much of the good of people and the assistance that is provided to each other on a daily basis.
We only hear about how much trouble and problems there are around us and the bad consequences of helping out the wrong kind of people.
Plenty of stories can be found where the person/people who tried to do a good deed for a person/group in need ended up getting ruined by a huge financial burden as a result of a frivolous lawsuit. For every story there is about something like that, there are probably 100 other instances of the same thing happening.
Most people will probably think twice about pulling you out of a mangled car with a fuel leak.
In fact, most people would keep on driving after getting a good glance.
How many counties now charge you for calling the police? Very few and hopefully it will remain that way, but in those counties, that fee alone will scare people out of making a phone call to get you that help.
Most people will probably not walk grandma across the street for if she happens to fall while you are helping to walk her, her sue happy son will take you and your entire family out financially.
I was in Atlanta walking with a couple of friends to grab lunch from a place near our apartment. We were waiting for the signal to cross an intersection. A car misjudges the time/distance of oncoming traffic while talking a left hand turn and get T-boned by another car. There was a car in the other lane traveling in the same direction as the car that t-boned the first one. That does not even stop, just slows down to a slow pace, the driver then decides to slowly work his way around the wreck and then crosses the intersection right before the light turns yellow. The people waiting at the stop light in the perpendicular direction get the green light. Every single car in the unobstructed left lane drove past. Any cars that were in the right lane simply flipped on their blinkers and shifted over to the left lane so that they could go about their day like nothing happened. What did we do? My roommate called the APD and let them know. Did we bother to try to help anyone in the wrecked cars?
No, we did not.
We all recalled those stories and did not want to get placed in the gun sights of a greedy lawyer. What if we moved someone and it turns out they had a fractured vertebrae? What if while we move them, we damage nerve endings in that persons compound fractured leg?
In this country, you have to think twice about helping people because of the fear of getting ruined by the very person you want to help.
The only people I would help in emergency situations are close friends and family whom I know would not be convinced to sue me by their greedy immoral lawyer brother-in-law.