What's going on in China! (Toddler hit-and-run incident)

[Rich S]

At first I was thinking this was a prank, but then I was like, no this is China! (WARNING GRAPHIC MATERIAL)

 

[Dennisch]

OMFG. The kid is still alive. What the hell is wrong with those people freakin' monsters.

Seriously, this is just sick.

Yeey for humanity in China.

 

[TankAss95]

I weep for humanity. God help us.

 

[Blitz187]

I can't believe the driver of the vehicle... Crazy stuff! SMH

 

[W3H5]

What, what, what? I can't see the video.

EDIT: I'm assuming it's the little girl driving her dads car, right?

 

[Dennisch]

No, it's a kid being run over by a van, really slow, and at least 5 people walking by who don't give a crap, and then a small truck runs the kid over for the second time.

 

[TankAss95]

What, what, what? I can't see the video.

EDIT: I'm assuming it's the little girl driving her dads car, right?

No it's a lot worse...
A girl gets ran over by a small van, several people (both pedestrians and drivers) ignore the girl, clearly seeing that she is critically injured. At one point she gets ran over again. It's like the story of the good Samaritan, but with a little girl...

 

[Crumpet]

God damn..

How saddening.. What kind of person would you have to be to do such things?

 

[Vince_Fiero]

Difficult to understand for me. Although not certain if it is not possible in the rest of the world.

 

[W3H5]

As mad as it sounds, I've seen worse, although I can't see that video on this post.

I've seen footage of a young woman hit by a motorcyclist. The woman was not seriously hurt, just a broken ankle or something minor, but enough that it would put her out of work for 6 months I guess. To avoid paying the compensation the guy on the motorcycle pulls out a knife and stabs her repeatedly until dead. Apparently it's a lot easier to do a life sentence than it is to pay compensation. That's madness!

 

[Grayfox]

The reason no one helped is last time when a guy got chraged for helping a old lady that fell down.

More than a dozen passers-by ignored a two-year-old girl as she lay critically injured on a street in southern China after being run over twice, according to the state news agency Xinhua.

The incident has sparked outrage on China's hugely popular social media sites.

Graphic surveillance cameras showed a series of people walk past the girl, named Yue Yue, after she was hit first by a van and then a truck outside her family's shop in the southern Chinese city of Foshan.

Xinhua said a rubbish collector who finally came to the girl's aid, moving her to the curb and shouting for help, was ignored by several shopkeepers before he finally tracked down her mother who took her to hospital.

In response, one netizen on Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blog similar to Twitter, wrote: "This society is seriously ill. Even cats and dogs shouldn't be treated so heartlessly."

But others linked the incident to an earlier case in which a man who tried to help an elderly woman after she fell over was prosecuted, apparently because his intervention broke government rules on dealing with accident victims.

Doctors said Yue Yue was in a coma and unlikely to survive the ordeal.

"She would not be able to survive any operations. She's very close to brain death," a spokesman for the hospital treating her told AFP yesterday afternoon.

Police have detained the drivers of both vehicles involved in the incident, Xinhua said.

 

[Camaroyenko]

LOL...

 

[W3H5]

^Words cannot describe how messed up that is. Those people deserve an equally horrible fate.

 

[Speedy Samurai]

Good article on CNN (imagine that) about 'bystander dilemma'.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/18/opinion/kreuger-china-incident/index.html?hpt=hp_c2


Also, I believe it was last year in China were a judge ruled that the person who came to the aid of a woman hit by a vehicle must have been the driver because 'only the driver would come to the aid...' and the samaritan ended up in jail. Precedent has been set. In China, helping someone might be the worst thing you can do.

 

[ChaosStar79]

Wow. Just wow. It's been a long time since a video made me cringe like that.

 

[Omnis]

Man, I feel so bad for China. Communism really destroyed them.

 

[Lain]

Man, I feel so bad for China. Communism really destroyed them.

And that has to do with this... how, exactly? I'm sure something similar could've happened anywhere, including non-communist countries.

 

[Grayfox]

And that has to do with this... how, exactly? I'm sure something similar could've happened anywhere, including non-communist countries.

But in what country would they say a person that helps an injured person was the right one that caused the injury.

 

[Omnis]

And that has to do with this... how, exactly? I'm sure something similar could've happened anywhere, including non-communist countries.

This situation is a remnant of that mentality. If their government and their courts are still that brutal, it's probably because of how desensitized everything became thanks to the horrors that occurred during the zenith of communist china.

 

[mattythedog]

Well that was not a nice start to my day.

 

[W3H5]

But in what country would they say a person that helps an injured person was the right one that caused the injury.

The problem was, in that case, that the person who helped the lady would have been interfering with the situation.

It's the same for traffic accidents, even a small fender bender requires that both cars remain untouched in the middle of the road until the police arrive, even if it's holding up the whole road.

They say that interfering stops the police from effectively assessing the situation and interferes with their work. It's crazy but not down to the countries political standing. It comes down to provincial law usually and most of them are just plain stupid.

 

[Grayfox]

The problem was, in that case, that the person who helped the lady would have been interfering with the situation.

It's the same for traffic accidents, even a small fender bender requires that both cars remain untouched in the middle of the road until the police arrive, even if it's holding up the whole road.

They say that interfering stops the police from effectively assessing the situation and interferes with their work. It's crazy but not down to the countries political standing. It comes down to provincial law usually and most of them are just plain stupid.

But doesn't the government in china have the power to change the law.

This is why no one helped that kid, because they would be interfering, so the answer is obvious let her bleed to death until the police come.

If this law was in a non communist country the people would be in an uproar and the government or state would end up buckling due to public pressure.

I just think that china doesn't really care about its people all that much.

 

[sniper338]

Good article on CNN (imagine that) about 'bystander dilemma'.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/18/opinion/kreuger-china-incident/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Also, I believe it was last year in China were a judge ruled that the person who came to the aid of a woman hit by a vehicle must have been the driver because 'only the driver would come to the aid...' and the samaritan ended up in jail. Precedent has been set. In China, helping someone might be the worst thing you can do.

That has to be dumbest thing I've ever heard, implying that the person who comes to the aid of another must be the aggressor. Common sense should be taught in school.

 

[McLaren]

That has to be dumbest thing I've ever heard, implying that the person who comes to the aid of another must be the aggressor. Common sense should be taught in school.

It should, but it isn't like many things.

The sad thing is that the "bystander effect" is an issue in the US as well, although nowhere as extreme as what happens in China. But thanks to so many people being sue-happy here, it only takes a quick second for a victim to turn around and sue the person that helped them, knowing they can make an attempt at a quick buck.

It can be a real shameful society we live in at times.

 

[W3H5]

The isn't such thing as common sense in this country. Really, I know it for a fact. I observe lack of common sense on a daily basis but it's not the educated, modernised minority, it's the poor, uncivilised, peasant majority that fail on this.

It's not to do with the country politics much either. It's to do with stupidity on the part of municipal governments. There are so many people in this country that it's like life doesn't has the value that it does in other countries.

 

[sniper338]

It should, but it isn't like many things.

The sad thing is that the "bystander effect" is an issue in the US as well, although nowhere as extreme as what happens in China. But thanks to so many people being sue-happy here, it only takes a quick second for a victim to turn around and sue the person that helped them, knowing they can make an attempt at a quick buck.

It can be a real shameful society we live in at times.

In the US we have the Good Samaritan Law which gives immunity from lawsuits for helping someone. It allows people to give basic first aid but does not cover you if you're going to get crazy and try to perform surgery or something along those lines. The biggest problem you would have to deal with is exposure to bodily fluids, who knows if the person bleeding out has some kind of disease.

 

[McLaren]

In the US we have the Good Samaritan Law which gives immunity from lawsuits for helping someone. It allows people to give basic first aid but does not cover you if you're going to get crazy and try to perform surgery or something along those lines. The biggest problem you would have to deal with is exposure to bodily fluids, who knows if the person bleeding out has some kind of disease.

Except those laws do not apply to the entire US & the details of them vary by state. In some, the laws only protect those trained to administer aid & in others, they protect first responders because the law requires them to give aid to a certain degree.

The laws help, but they do not protect bystanders completely. There are several loopholes for a victim to sue their rescuer, unfortunately.

 

[sniper338]

Except those laws do not apply to the entire US & the details of them vary by state. In some, the laws only protect those trained to administer aid & in others, they protect first responders because the law requires them to give aid to a certain degree.

The laws help, but they do not protect bystanders completely. There are several loopholes for a victim to sue their rescuer, unfortunately.

I just did a little research and you are absolutely correct. I was thinking everywhere else was like Arizona but some states only cover you if you have received certain training or are a first responder. I think regardless of the laws a person should at a minimum call for help, especially if no one else is around!

 

[Rich S]

Good article on CNN (imagine that) about 'bystander dilemma'.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/18/opinion/kreuger-china-incident/index.html?hpt=hp_c2


Also, I believe it was last year in China were a judge ruled that the person who came to the aid of a woman hit by a vehicle must have been the driver because 'only the driver would come to the aid...' and the samaritan ended up in jail. Precedent has been set. In China, helping someone might be the worst thing you can do.

Good point. Monkey judicial system with communism, false convictions galore over there I bet... The corruption must be horrendous too when the state controls almost everything.

China is a country with a history of unspeakable tragedy. The "great leap forward" killed nearly 50 million people.

In the 1970s a big Typhoon swept inland and caused the Banqiao Reservoir Dam to break, sweeping away 250,000 people; killed close to that many.

So this is a culture that has an incredibly high number of children, and has had a real horrific history of mass death. There must be certain amount of apathy developed when a country sees that on home soil.

 

[CSLACR]

At first I was thinking this was a prank, but then I was like, no this is China!

Please post some type of warning before videos like that, I'd really rather have not seen it at all.

Interesting thought - The morality of torture.