Dying man robbed in ER waiting room

[SandEagle]

Surveillance camera shows 3 people stealing unconscious man’s watch

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34227560

PHILADELPHIA - Police say three people who noticed a man unconscious and dying in an emergency waiting room robbed him instead of going for help.Police say 63-year-old Joaquin Rivera spent nearly 80 minutes waiting in an emergency room after complaining of pain down his side. But they say he died of an apparent heart attack at Aria Health's Frankford Campus before seeing a triage nurse.
Surveillance video shows three people talking with Rivera before he passed out and then taking his wristwatch.


Police arrested 44-year-old Richard Alten at the hospital and are seeking his companions, whom Capt. John McGinnis described as homeless addicts. Alten's public defender has declined to comment.
Aria Health also declined to comment, citing the criminal investigation and patient confidentiality.


i think this is where vigilante justice is needed :twisted:

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that's a pretty brutal heartless thing to do.

 

[Kalmah]

But the real question is, why was he allowed to die in the waiting room? I hate hospitals for this reason. You could be practically dieing, but then you set in the ER waiting room for 2 hours before they can even get to you.

 

[QueBert]

Shitty story, and sad as hell but whoever wrote it's a retard. How do they know the 3 robbers knew the man was dying? He could have been asleep in the ER waiting for his wife who was in the ER. I've been asleep in an ER waiting room before. They saw an old man who wasn't awake and stole his watch. Doubtful 3 idiots stupid enough to steal in a place that obviously will have a shit ton of camera will be able to come to the conclusion that a man is dead simply by looking at him.

 

[Newbian]

They need to learn how to do it right...

You dig up the body after it's been buried with the persons best suit and jewelery and then sell the body.

 

[Red Squirrel]

But the real question is, why was he allowed to die in the waiting room? I hate hospitals for this reason. You could be practically dieing, but then you set in the ER waiting room for 2 hours before they can even get to you.

I was thinking this too. Sadly sometimes it's just a result of understaffed units because they don't want to spend the money to pay more nightshift people working at the same time.

I actually had to go to the ER when I had C diff. I was not dying, so I did not mind waiting but I just wanted to get checked as it was still pretty brutal and I did not know what I had at the time.

I saw people walk in with broken limbs or other cases that could be very serious, having to wait hours. That's not cool at all.

 

[Bignate603]

i think this is where vigilante justice is needed :twisted:

Against the people that took his watch or the hospital? Telling a 63 year old man complaining of chest to sit and wait without even letting him see the triage nurse for over an hour is negligent.

 

[Kalmah]

Against the people that took his watch or the hospital? Telling a 63 year old man complaining of chest to sit and wait without even letting him see the triage nurse for over an hour is negligent.

Screw the watch, I think the hospital did the crime here.

 

[Nikamichi]

Screw the watch, I think the hospital did the crime here.

Exactly. Those people were just lowlife, crackhead fiends that stole a watch to feed their addiction. That watch cannot compare to value of human life. The hospital staff committed the real crime here.

 

[Fenixgoon]

good ol philly. so glad i go to school here

 

[JS80]

But the real question is, why was he allowed to die in the waiting room? I hate hospitals for this reason. You could be practically dieing, but then you set in the ER waiting room for 2 hours before they can even get to you.

The doctor was prob in his office on the phone with his stockbroker shooting the shit.

 

[ecom]

Probably because the ER is often crowded with people who use it for primary care.

 

[CRXican]

it's not like he needed it anymore

right?

 

[SSP]

good ol philly. so glad i go to school here

Lucky man... least he wasn't stabbed while waiting.