Chinese toddler run over by vans and ignored by bystanders

Byrnzie

cincybearcat wrote:

What have you witnessed?

I've luckily never seen anyone ignore something this severe before.

Similar incidents have occured - Kitty Genovese - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese - was a famous one in New York, and a case in England a few years back - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 700446.stm - but I agree that this incident in China - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEzMzMyMDQw.html - was very bad. (The link I posted is from a Chinese webpage and quite graphic).

By the way, I'm surprised that people on the AMT didn't immediately attack China and the Chinese on this. That was definitely my initial reaction.
As for those 18 people who nonchalantly walked past that 2 year old in the road, I see people like that everyday here - the same people who push to get on and off buses, the people who drive their cars and scooters on the pavements and beep their horns at pedestrians to get out of their way, the same people who push their way into lifts - elevators - before those inside have gotten out, and the same people who try and push ahead of me in queues at bus and train stations (I don't let them succeed).
There's definitely a problem in this country with people only caring about themselves and their immediate circle of friends and family. Just the week before this 2 year old was knocked over 'an 88-year-old man in Hubei died of suffocation due to a nose bleed after passers-by ignored his collapse. Only when relatives arrived, 90 minutes later, was he taken to hospital.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/se ... count-cost
It's an accepted fact here that if someone is lying in the road following a traffic accident the nobody will stop to help. The attitude is that of one of the passersby of the 2 year old last week: 'a middle-aged man riding a scooter, said with an uncomfortable smile on his face: "That wasn't my child. Why should I bother?"' - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... old-hearts

It is pretty despicable, but at least this latest incident has gotten the Chinese discussing the problem. There's even talk here of making it law that you have to assist if you see somebody in distress/trouble.

Chip McFlennigan

Fucking terrible world. The human race is a disgraceful one.

haffajappa

Byrnzie wrote:

cincybearcat wrote:

What have you witnessed?

I've luckily never seen anyone ignore something this severe before.

Similar incidents have occured - Kitty Genovese - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese - was a famous one in New York, and a case in England a few years back - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 700446.stm - but I agree that this incident in China - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzEzMzMyMDQw.html - was very bad. (The link I posted is from a Chinese webpage and quite graphic).

By the way, I'm surprised that people on the AMT didn't immediately attack China and the Chinese on this. That was definitely my initial reaction.
As for those 18 people who nonchalantly walked past that 2 year old in the road, I see people like that everyday here - the same people who push to get on and off buses, the people who drive their cars and scooters on the pavements and beep their horns at pedestrians to get out of their way, the same people who push their way into lifts - elevators - before those inside have gotten out, and the same people who try and push ahead of me in queues at bus and train stations (I don't let them succeed).
There's definitely a problem in this country with people only caring about themselves and their immediate circle of friends and family. Just the week before this 2 year old was knocked over 'an 88-year-old man in Hubei died of suffocation due to a nose bleed after passers-by ignored his collapse. Only when relatives arrived, 90 minutes later, was he taken to hospital.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/se ... count-cost
It's an accepted fact here that if someone is lying in the road following a traffic accident the nobody will stop to help. The attitude is that of one of the passersby of the 2 year old last week: 'a middle-aged man riding a scooter, said with an uncomfortable smile on his face: "That wasn't my child. Why should I bother?"' - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... old-hearts

It is pretty despicable, but at least this latest incident has gotten the Chinese discussing the problem. There's even talk here of making it law that you have to assist if you see somebody in distress/trouble.

I read somewhere that they feared malicious prosecution (or something to that effect) if they helped the girl.
Anyways, it is all pretty disgusting. Even the lady who finally helped the little girl seemed to pick her up like a rag doll...

Bronx Bombers

Driver receives just 3 1/2 years for killing this child

http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1153201

mikalina

Bronx Bombers wrote:

Driver receives just 3 1/2 years for killing this child

http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1153201

how very sad - I doubt the driver will even serve that long ( I hope I'm mistaken )....