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Title: "Would you give your jacket to Johannes?"

1st text: What do you do if you se freezing/cold child?

2nd text: We put up a hidden camera and placed Johannes on a busstop.

Blond girl: "Don't you have a jacket?"

Boy: "No, someone stole it."

Blond girl: "Where?"

Boy: "Down over there, Im on a field trip with my class, and the teacher told me to meet her here."

(cut)

Woman: "Do you have a phonenumber for your teacher?"

Boy: "No."

Woman: "Are there someone we could call?"

Boy: Think he says no here.

(cut)

Young man: "Are you okey?"

Boy: "No, im very cold"

Young man: "Are you cold?"

Boy: Nods

(cut)

Woman: "Do you want my scarf? Will it help?"

Boy: "yes"

Woman: "Here you go, its good and warm"

(cut) Different people give him cloths, he says thank you very much (cut)

Blond girl: "What school do you go to?"

Boy: "Ramberg"

Blond Girl: "Ramberg?"

Boy: "I'm from Moss" [it's about 65km from where this busstop is]

Text: Children in Syria are cold. Send SOS to 2160 (90 kr) and give a warm jacket.

Sadly, I don't think it would have gone as well in America.

*kids *wheels

Adding video to channels (Kids, Wheels) - requested by ant.

I expect @rasch187 would give the kid a beer and whiskey chaser

That's expected behavior, at least where I live.(Edmonton, Alberta) If you are outside in winter without a jacket for more then a half an hour you're looking at a trip to the hospital.That's if your lucky.

You see a little kid freezing without a jacket and you let him freeze, that's criminal. If you live in a place where that's the norm, that's fucked up.

I see nothing exceptional here, only people doing what any person should.

This video isn't about how great Norwegians are (even if they are great), it's basically saying "You wouldn't stand by and watch a child freeze in front of you but what about children in Syrian refugee camps, how about stepping up to the plate for them"

I can also make unfounded statements: This would have failed in Norway, just the same as it would have failed in the US, if the kid was a minority and/or wearing an exotic outfit.

Hence why it starts with a white child and leads into helping people in Syria. If they had shown us children in Syria, I don't believe this video would exist because no one in Norway would be tricked into giving a shit.

Besides, Norwegians don't believe in democracy, every American citizen knows and practices this belief -- because Fox says so, telepathically. In all of our minds. All of hivemind America.

So it sounds as if we would agree, we think it would have failed in both places if the child were obviously Muslim.
Having Fry's disease, the telepathic signal becomes scrambled in my head...it confuses the non-damaged hive minds near me (and me).
EDIT: and my statement wasn't unfounded, I verified with myself that it's what I thought. That's a verified statement about an unfounded opinion! ;-}

Yea, someone would have called Child Welfare, and then shot the camera people when they jumped out.

Nice to see another Edmontonian. I almost think we should try for an Edmonton Sift-Up sometime.

@Fusionaut

See, I told ya there were more of us. That makes four, I know there is a fifth.

In America you'd be at risk of being perceived as or accused of being a pedophile.

I'd offer my jacket, but I'd throw it to him from a distance, and I definitely would not sit next to him.

Sift up! Sift up! Sift up!

Same in the UK.

Though it's not really adding to the conversation much; it's more about the media's obsession with Pedogeddon.

My dad was born a bit South of Red Deer in Three Hills, does that count?

I used to live in Edmonton but have moved to Winnipeg now. Fwiw.

Would be exactly the same in Finland too, i guess it's the annual cold and common sense. We wont let kids freeze, no matter what is the social status, child health is big priority here. Taking care of other peoples kids when needed is still very close to the culture.

The next thing that would've happened when heard he is 65km from home is to call the cops. They call the parents and provide temporary shelter. But then would've started the social worker round and that is not pleasant.. It's the one part of our 'nanny state' that often oversteps it's boundaries and that is really unfortunate.

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