A video out of Spain showing a woman on a busy street appearing intoxicated shows men attempting to take the “drunk” woman to a hotel, to get more drinks, and even groping the woman.
The woman stands alone on a Madrid street in late afternoon with a bottle in her hand, appearing to wobble. As men stop to talk to her she tells them she has been separated from her friends and her phone’s battery is dead.
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The video was produced as a social experiment by Centro Europea Neurosalus, a drug and alcohol rehab centre.
“How are people around her going to react?”
The first group of men who stop to help the woman, who was instructed to act passively, says they will help her find her friends. They then encourage her to continue drinking and go to a bar with them.
“I don’t believe you drank enough,” said one man. “How about if we drink a little more?”
Later in the video, a pair of men tell her they are going to buy alcohol for them all to drink. One of them them gives her a hug before departing, saying he’ll be back. The remaining man then leads her toward his hotel and asks her if she’s married.
She says she doesn’t feel well, and doesn’t want to go to the hotel, but he tells her to come so she can charge her phone and drink more beer.
Another man, after telling her she is “too beautiful,” leads her around a corner and begins kissing her as she’s up against a wall. At that point a man involved in the project intervenes, and the two men begin to argue over the woman, with the first man, who had met her minutes before, claiming to know the woman. Both men pull on the woman while pushing the other man away.
The video concludes with Gaona explaining that the video was not edited to show only unfavourable interactions.
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“The most disappointing fact is that we had no need to edit the video and avoid any scene of someone approaching to help this woman in such a delicate situation.”
“Why? Because nobody got close to help this drunken woman that was in need of maybe, get a taxi or help her in any other way.”
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