[LWJ]

Hold on. While the goof balls that just stepped around to the feed bag seem a little selfish, most people are simple TERRIBLE in a crises. I have had a number of similar situations. The fact is, people just don't process these events well. In one situation, we had a group rafting on a river. A guy jumps in and breaks his neck. He almost drowned in front of 30 people until I said "what if Tom actually has a problem?"

It really may be more of a cognitive framing issue. Meaning, people simply don't know what box to put an emergency into.

Yes. There are selfish people. We all see them. Lots of people (many?) are good folks that would do something but don't know what to do. Or, they see you have it in control and don't want to further embarrass the victim.

I could be wrong in your situation. I am right in the emergencies that I have experienced.