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Hit and run in China

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Horrible stuff. One question - why aren't her parents guarding her, and where are they?

The passers-by don't have much heart either, especially the ones that take a good look at her on the floor and keep on walking.

Posted

Not as simple as it looks

In China, this kind of situation is referred to as the 'Peng Yu' effect. Before you condemn then, you have to understand their situation. The law right now in China means that many victims of traffic accidents, or people who have fallen ill in the street have actually successfully sued the people that helped them for sums of money that could easily destroy lives, even if there is no evidence that they are the ones that caused the accident (because they were not),

In a country that executes more than any other, I wonder how willing you would be to potentially implicate yourself in a crime by helping a stranger. Yes, its very sad. But I, for one, find it hard to blame them in this situation. The law needs to change before people can become less suspicious.

Posted

Just saw the uncensored version of this on youtube posted on another forum. What the initial van driver did is just totally inhumane. Absolutely shameful. The passers by can be forgiven but how ****ed up does the world have to be to get to the point where people are scared of helping a 2-year-old girl lying dying on the street. **** human beings, seriously. We're so often such a disgrace.

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You would like to think so, but similar things have been reported, more than once on our fair isle.

Show me the footage from these events and then we'll have this debate.

I don't want to take anything away from the two stories you've posted, they are truely sickening, but in the sexual attack it may well have been difficult to make out what was going on and with the old lady only one person walked by and they thought she was drunk. Neither of these happened in the middle of a market place in a city.

I believe that if the above happened in this country there is no possible way that 18 people would walk by and not do anything. I feel confident in saying that 99% of the time the first person to walk by would do something.

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I believe that if the above happened in this country there is no possible way that 18 people would walk by and not do anything. I feel confident in saying that 99% of the time the first person to walk by would do something.

Really? The Sun newspaper placed one of their editors on the floor in the streets of major City's (Birmingham, London, Nottingham, Manchester I think it was) to see if people would do anything. However, most people just walked past. I do not know the figures or anything like that, I will look for them now, but saying that anything like this wouldn't happen in our country is slightly premature.

Posted

Like anyones surprised that China's a shit hole. Not exactly known for its high standard of living.

Posted

you seem to be forgetting this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gex_ya4-Oo

I thought of that (and something worse I've witnessed in real life) before posting, and that's why I put '99%' of people. This was a guy caught up in some of the worst riots with the scumiest people in a shithole part of the country - not walking through an everyday market place. I do also think it would be different if he was a toddler who had been run down as opposed to an injured teenager with a bag full of swag - something every contrary opinion seems to be overlooking.

Don't get me wrong, I do think there are absolute cretins in this country but I just can't see this happening here, despite what you may think

Posted

I believe that if the above happened in this country there is no possible way that 18 people would walk by and not do anything. I feel confident in saying that 99% of the time the first person to walk by would do something.

I do agree with you in this particular case, but think that the extent to which we are 'better' than the Chinese or any other nation in this respect is pretty limited. Especially when you consider that the 'peng yu effect' is (or should be) non-existent in the UK.

This is a human issue and we should look at ourselves before we judge the Chinese, imho.

Posted

NONE of the people just walking past can be forgiven...what planet are you on? Its a 2 year old kid FFS

I dont care what walk of life anyone is from, that is a ****ing Disgrace

Posted

She didn't die :), but she's still in critical condition. And this is a heart-warming photo to go with this article:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/usa/china/2011-10/18/content_13920575.htm

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In that article, though, it reports that some people still seek to find negativity out of a good gesture, for example, 'Since the rescue, Chen said she has been bewildered by the number of requests for media interviews she has received. She also heard that critics have accused her of helping the girl merely out of a desire for publicity'

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A culture that puts little value on human life.

I'm reading Nineteen Eighty-Four at the moment and, given that China is a communist shithole, the parallels are scary.

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