What the fuck is wrong with China?

Chinese media and internet users have voiced
shock at a hit-and-run incident involving a two-year-old child left
injured in the road as passers-by ignored her.

The toddler was hit by a van on Thursday in the city of Foshan.

After the van sped off, several pedestrians and vehicles
passed the girl without stopping. Several minutes later she was hit by
another vehicle.

A rubbish collector finally helped her, but she is said to be seriously hurt.

The incident was captured on surveillance cameras and aired on local media.

'Lacking conscience'
The footage showed the van hitting the little girl, pausing
briefly while she was under the vehicle and then driving off, running
over her legs.

It then showed about a dozen passers-by, including cyclists, a
motorcyclist and a woman and child, noticing the little girl lying
injured in the street but walking on.


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After she was hit by the second
vehicle, a rubbish collector spotted the little girl and moved her to
the kerb, then began looking for her mother.

The child, Yue Yue, was taken to hospital for emergency surgery but pronounced brain dead on Sunday, the China Daily reported.

The newspaper said she had wandered off while her mother went to collect some laundry.

The drivers of both vehicles have now been arrested, the
newspaper said, but the incident has also triggered outcry among Chinese
citizens.

It provoked a storm of comment on microblogging site Weibo.

"Even pigs and dogs are better than they are!" said one angry contributor about the passers-by.

"In China, there's no bottom line for human ethics anymore!
China is 'smashing' new records again and again!" commented another.

Others were more reflective. "Now people ignore everything
other than money. This society is lacking people with a conscience
badly."

Scam fears
Some said they understood the dilemma for the passers-by -
that if they helped out they might incur costs or be blamed for the
accident.






The China Daily reported incidents in January in which elderly
men who fell in the street were left alone because people did not want
to get involved.

It cited an earlier case in which a man, Peng Yu, who helped
an injured elderly lady to hospital was then found by a court to be
liable for some of her medical costs.

Another case - in which an elderly woman believed to have
fallen in the road accused a man, Xu Yunhe, who stopped to help her, of
hitting her with his car - also attracted considerable attention.

"There's been so many cases where people have been treated unjustly after doing good things," one comment said.

"I am not as rich as Xu Yunhe and Peng Yu are, we are all
poor grassroots people," said another. "If we get caught in a scam, this
is it. All we can do is to dial 120 (the emergency number)."

ResurrectionRooney wrote:You'd do the same thing you fucking hypocrites. Google Kitty Genovese.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:You'd do the same thing you fucking hypocrites. Google Kitty Genovese.

Gegilworld93 wrote:Fucking hell

I'm not really sure if everyone really noticed the girl, might have looked different on the streets than on the camera angle, people might have mistaken her for a rubbish sack or something but what the first driver did was absolutely sickening, just run over her again. Her legs must be seriously injured, I hope she fully recovers.

The child, Yue Yue, was taken to hospital for emergency surgery but pronounced brain dead on Sunday, the China Daily reported.

Gegilworld93 wrote:I hope she fully recovers.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:You'd do the same thing you fucking hypocrites. Google Kitty Genovese.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:You'd do the same thing you fucking hypocrites. Google Kitty Genovese.

Zlatan wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:You'd do the same thing you fucking hypocrites. Google Kitty Genovese.

Srs?

Let me guess, you would swoop in like a hero?

Chris wrote:Its called being an absolute moron Res.

I could never walk past that neither could 99% of the people i know.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Zlatan wrote:

Srs?

Let me guess, you would swoop in like a hero?

As it happens, yes I would, but only because I know about psychology. With people who don't know about this sort of thing, 99 times out of 100, people will just walk on by, it's called diffusion of responsibility or the bystander effect.

Zlatan wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

As it happens, yes I would, but only because I know about psychology. With people who don't know about this sort of thing, 99 times out of 100, people will just walk on by, it's called diffusion of responsibility or the bystander effect.

You shouldn't just assume that none of us would do anything. Fair enough, you make a point, you can't really say what you would do until you are actually put in a situation where someones life is seriously in danger, personally, I have been in that situation, so I know exactly what I would do.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Zlatan wrote:

You shouldn't just assume that none of us would do anything. Fair enough, you make a point, you can't really say what you would do until you are actually put in a situation where someones life is seriously in danger, personally, I have been in that situation, so I know exactly what I would do.

It's a fair assumption that the vast majority of you would do nothing. You say you can't say anything about that sort of thing until you are put in such a situation well A) that's bollocks, if you've done the reading you're as well qualified as anyone, if not more thanks to bias and B) that's what plenty of people are doing when blaming it on shit like Communism or the One Child Policy or the Chinese being 'fucked up' or whatever.

And as it happens, I have been in a situation like that, where someone's life was in danger and people were just standing by and watching like most people would, and I saved that man's life.

ahlycotc wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

It's a fair assumption that the vast majority of you would do nothing. You say you can't say anything about that sort of thing until you are put in such a situation well A) that's bollocks, if you've done the reading you're as well qualified as anyone, if not more thanks to bias and B) that's what plenty of people are doing when blaming it on shit like Communism or the One Child Policy or the Chinese being 'fucked up' or whatever.

And as it happens, I have been in a situation like that, where someone's life was in danger and people were just standing by and watching like most people would, and I saved that man's life.

I call BS.