huh.

[fox]

This morning on the radio there was a thing in the traffic report about a truck that had jackknifed or something on the highway. It was still right-side up, the reporter said, but it was at a weird angle off on the shoulder, and people were slowing down to look, blah blah blah -- "and," she said, "a couple of good samaritans have pulled over to make sure the driver is okay."

And I thought, huh -- are they really "good samaritans"?

So okay, of course they're not literally Samaritans. But I'm thinking they're not even really figuratively Samaritans; unless I'm remembering the parable very incorrectly, the whole thing about the Good Samaritan was that a Samaritan would be the last person you'd expect to stop and help you when you needed it, so it wasn't just that he stopped, but that he was a Samaritan and he stopped.

Now, maybe you can argue that commuters during rush hour are among those least likely to stop and offer help to a fellow motorist; but I suspect that when she called those people "good samaritans", the reporter simply meant they were concerned citizens.

Or am I overthinking this? (More so than usual, I mean.)