How right you are! When my attackers fled the on lookers did nothing to offer assistance. An American gent came to my aid. He saw me from a distance between the parked cars and realised what had happened. He told me that he lived in Rio and preceding months he had been robbed 3 times the last by an assailant carrying a gun. I pointed to the on lookers standing and staring liked stuffed dummies and his exact words were “sir, they won’t help, they won’t help.”