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This one isn't so much funny as strange.
In my social psych class we were discussing how, during a crisis, the more people witnessing--the less chance there is that anyone will do anything. It's called Diffusion of Responsibility.
Anyhow--just as the professor pauses, a girl in the middle of class keels over and has a seizure. The entire class of about fifty just goes silent and stares--nobody does anything cuz even those that would normally do something figured it was part of an experiment or something.
After a good ten full seconds I grabbed my cell phone to dial 911 as an Alpha Phi in the class walked over to help her (she had spent the last summer as a paramedic in training or something). The girl didn't want an ambulance (not that I could get one--the lady insisted on an address...I told her I was on campus...and this building didn't have a road next to it anyway).
Anyhow it turns out that she had given blood and just had some sort of hypoglycemic shock or something...but during the seizure she lost control of her bladder and there was pee all over the middle of the floor. The Alpha Phi girl escorted her to the student health center.
The professor just went on and said,"well, I was going to go on with that...but I think this incident pretty much illustrated the idea here."
She never did come back to class.
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