Heathrow Airport worker dies. Passengers complain about delays.

It seems very British that people care more about getting somewhere on time than a death nearby.

Yes! Thank you for expressing your humanity.

I'm NOT ****ing autism. Autism people can't drive, they can't hold 3 jobs like I'm holding, and work, even a-- I wo-do for a moving company. If I was autism would I be able to move ****ing furniture all round all day? No. Would I be able to hold signs and hand out business cards? Noo. Autism people usually can't talk, they have no speech, they're not aware of their surroundings... but I am, so...

Exactly the same principle. I'm not surprised to see this viewpoint represented and endorsed on here, because a great many posters on here routinely lack any sort of thought or empathy for anybody that is not themselves. When this has happened to me (a couple of times actually, but only one where the person actually died), I have of course been annoyed that pickups etc would now be messed up and I'd be later getting home/getting away, but that has quickly been outweighed by the 'well at least my family know I'm just late and not dead' and 'ah I'll get there eventually'.

I can see why people get cheesed off to be honest, because you’re not really told what is going on when an event like this happens (not that this makes posting abuse on twitter right)

There are always reasons, nothing occurs in a causal vacuum, of course. I just don't think getting narked about this stuff is particularly worthwhile anyway, nevermind once the context comes to light.

In this situation it was clear that the person had passed. But in other cases all you here is trespassing or a customer incident, at that point we clearly don’t know if somebody has died or not. That’s when I get slightly grumpy. Because i would like to know what is causing the delays so I know whether it’ll be a while (and worth finding another route) or if it’ll be fixed within the hour. I think that is at least reasonable.

I'm NOT ****ing autism. Autism people can't drive, they can't hold 3 jobs like I'm holding, and work, even a-- I wo-do for a moving company. If I was autism would I be able to move ****ing furniture all round all day? No. Would I be able to hold signs and hand out business cards? Noo. Autism people usually can't talk, they have no speech, they're not aware of their surroundings... but I am, so...

Surprise, surprise, people value large sums of money more than they do someone they never even knew existed. Welcome to the real world.

Surprise surprise, people spend hundreds on a flight (not to mention thousands on the holiday itself)and aren't happy that someone caused an avoidable crash, let's face it, airfields aren't exactly residential streets, not to mention those Hiluxes aren't exactly small either (not to mention they're solidly built), and going off the damage there, it looks as if they've hit something just as f*cking big, if not bigger, some idiot wasn't paying attention and ended up taking someone else's (or their own) life as a result. What's new?

Some people are saying some bad and downright stupid sh*t, but I'd be pretty p*ssed if some idiot caused an avoidable crash that ultimately delayed my flight for a few hours. Death doesn't mean you can't be annoyed at something. You're essentially using the "respect your parents because they're your parents" argument, sh*t don't work like that.

I love it when references totally go over peoples' heads

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No I'd be pissed that an avoidable crash happened and someone else died.
I don't think I'd be that selfish to value £800 over a human life.

You’ve clearly never had to work your ass off to earn money then. If i’d spent £800, that’s a lot of money for me. I’d sure as hell be more concerned about that than some random i’ve never met.

You’re allowed to be annoyed at inconvenience while feeling sorry for whoever died. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. It could make you late for work, an important meeting, a wedding, a funeral of someone you do know. People are allowed to be irritated by inconvenience, the death of someone else doesn’t stop everyone else’s life. That meeting/event happens whether someone died or not.

You’ve clearly never had to work your ass off to earn money then. If i’d spent £800, that’s a lot of money for me. I’d sure as hell be more concerned about that than some random i’ve never met.

You’re allowed to be annoyed at inconvenience while feeling sorry for whoever died. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. It could make you late for work, an important meeting, a wedding, a funeral of someone you do know. People are allowed to be irritated by inconvenience, the death of someone else doesn’t stop everyone else’s life. That meeting/event happens whether someone died or not.

Exactly. I commute up to uni and if something like this happened on the exam day, I’m screwed.

What is wrong with you? Is your IQ 40 or something? The passengers were pissed off at the man for dying!