"In our world, instead of helping, people make videos of everything. I don't understand it"
>The video was then shared online and the 28-year-old was identified by Belarusian journalists.
Thats slightly unnerving though even though it might have been done with good intentions (given he didn't even give his name to the Polish journalists), can Belarus journalists normally just identify any random lad from a social media video? I can see why he chooses to remain in PL rather than BY (perhaps one of the protestors/activists and already the media are told to look out for him?)
I guess that was just regular crowdsourced OSINT - in such case there's a massive wave of proud shares on social media in the origin country and someone eventually recognizes the hero.
@kravietz that makes sense (as he's clearly done a good thing and not in any trouble more people might come forward).
I'm not sure if in UK these days bystanders would be expected to or even encouraged to attempt to shift a bus (in spite of any traffic jam) as bus company + insurers would be worried about liability (in any case many buses would have automatically notified control they are stuck somewhere due to GPS and telemetry) - but would be encouraged to make space for any rescue vehicle..
It was a snowy winter and as I walking from the Co-op I saw a car stuck on the bottom of the hole unable to climb either way as obviously you can't drive up a hill on summer tyres unless you gain enough speed.
There were a few bystanders looking and giving extremely useful advice like "call emergency" or "try to drive faster", so I just walked up, explained that she should try not to spin the wheels too much, pushed a bit... and she was out!
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