Her comment, "Does a building have to fall on everybody before they see that?" unfortunately has the answer of "yes".
From the short 37 years of life I have lived, that always seems to be the case.
When I was in Okinawa Japan, I was gripping and complaining about no one doing anything about the G.I.'s causing trouble off base. I still have a copy of a letter I wrote to the Stars & Stripes newspaper in which my last sentence asked, "Does someone have to get hurt, raped or killed before someone does something about this?"
A year and a half later the 2 Marines and Seaman raped a 13 year old Japanese girl...then they started to do something about it!
I've got plenty examples of this, and I'm afraid that it's just some kind of natural law.
"Don't touch that, it's hot!"
"Really? OUCH!!!!"