Fucking crazy. I guess in times like that, better to let the bastards or their friends just die.
I remember when I was a kid, in a Country pub and a dude staggered across the road and was hit by a speeding car. We kids had to stay there. After the event I learned that my mother went to roll him onto his side as he was choking on blood and the decent drunken friends strongly suggested to "Leave him the fuck alone because if you touch him and he dies, it's your fault"
Made no sense then and none now.