Unfortunatly this is not always ammusing.
A few years ago I lived in an apartment building where our rear window overlooked a freeway. One day there was an accident on the freeway. The motorist in one car was trapped inside, there was a fire in the car. Another motorist stopped and had a fire extinquisher in hand. He could have saved the trapped motorist, but refused to approach the burning car, despite the urging of ourselves and other residents of the building viewing the scene from our windows.
He let the man die because he was convinced, from watching TV, that all cars that are on fire will explode, a complete falsehood.