About the men who laughed. I can understand laughing, but they should have helped.

Somethimes things like that just strike you as funny. One time my brother had a hot drink (some type of grape juice drink my wife made) and he saw me standing on a basketball and thought "that looks easy, I can do that" he got up and hopped on and the ball, it spun out from under him, and he flipped to the floor, hot drink dumped. He was clearly in pain holding his back -- I ran to try to help him and see if he could get up, but his wife could not stop laughing. I became quite angry that she found this funny.

If you're wondering, he's okay. It just upset me that she laughed. She loves him very much and would do anything for him. But the comical tumble he took, especially since he was so confident, just busted her up uncontrollably. Still to this day she can't suppress a chuckle thinking about it.

So my point is just that laughing isn't maybe revealing poor character or even rudeness, but I think the three men should have stopped to help the torn bag lady, and all the more so after laughing.