I just watched an episode of "I shouldn't be alive" that pissed me off.

[savalez]

A family got their truck stuck in the Arizona desert. It was a man, a woman and two young girls. They had very little water. The man went off to look for help. After two days of walking in scorching 118 degree heat he came across a truck with two men in it. He was dehydrated and completely exhausted and his mouth was so dry he couldn't speak. All he could say is "water, water". The men in the truck laughed at him and drove away. The narrator then went on to say, "The sun had changed his appearance so much that the two men in the truck thought he was an illegal alien and drove off".

[MyrnaLoy]

1. near

death makes us all equal, too bad those assholes didn't realize that. Someday they may face adversity and need help.

[savalez]

2. Yep. Karma.

Also, the narrator's statement was absurd. It was as if to say that under those circumstances leaving a dying human being in the desert was understandable.

[May Hamm]

8. That's what many want America to be - Heartless

A heartlessness apparently endorsed by the narrator.

I know people who are proud of fellow Americans who would KILL by denying water. Life giving water provided by god, by the way. Denying God's water to someone whom God did not allow to be born in America. Grrrrrrr..... I feel a rant coming on... gggrrrrrrr.....

[reggie the dog]

3. they would be arrested in France for not helping a person in danger

[rurallib]

4. That on one of the cable channels that Fox owns half of?

like history or discovery?

[savalez]

5. It was on

Animal Planet, which I think is part of Discovery.

[shastamccloud1]

6. Ridiculous

I saw this episode last night, and it was ridiculous...as in "story exaggerated for TV".
I've lived in Arizona before, and 99% of the people would stop to save a person who was dying.

This show is supposed to show re-enactments of real experiences, but there were some inconsistencies about this show to make the audience feel sorry for immigrants:

This family was having a picnic in one of the most dangerous drug smuggling areas, but the lady kept referring to the bad people as human smugglers. There is that going on, but the real trouble is caused by people who are out there trying to rip off drug loads that are coming north.

The type of people who are involved in this activity wouldn't help anyone no matter who they were.

[savalez]

7. So...

So you are suggesting that the show disregarded the first hand accounts of the family involved and presented their predicament as a means to "make the audience feel sorry for immigrants". That's a stretch. I did not see that at all. I think you'd have to be a bit biased against illegal aliens to make that assumption just because they may have used the term "human trafficking" in favor of "drug smuggling". Especially since you yourself said that human trafficking is indeed going on.

[DeadEyeDyck]

9. everybody should carry their green card or passport

and wear clean underwear in case you are stranded in the desert. Didn't your mother ever teach you that??????