A Troubled, Disabled Man Drowns While Teenagers Laugh, Videotape, And Do Nothing

     A troubled, disabled man walked into a retention pond in Cocoa, Florida, fully clothed. A group of teenagers on the other side of the pond watched and videotaped the man as he entered into the pond, struggled in the water and then drowned. When the man realized he was in trouble and drowning, he cried out for help.
      The teenagers watched, videotaped and laughed at the man as he was drowning. No one made any effort to try and save him. No one called the police.
       The man's body was discovered days later.
     
        Plenty of people as they get older start to fear death, which they know is coming sooner rather than later. It is not like being young, when death seems for many like a far away, hard to imagine possibility. When reading about things like this, and thinking about the kind of world this is, and the way people act or fail to act, it makes one worry about the future of young people that have to live in this world. If there is such a thing as a fountain of youth, it might not be as desired by the elderly as some might think.

        A troubled human being entered into that pond. It was in the capacity of those young people to help or at least try and help. How the smallest shred of decency and compassion was missing is hard to fathom. Here was a rare opportunity for these young people to display gallantry and courage. They would have been honored for it. What they failed to do is beyond disgraceful.