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2-Year-Old Girl Ran Over by Van & Ignored by 18 Bystanders

by on Sunday, October 16, 2011 1,241 comments comments

Highlighted, a 2-year-old little girl about to be hit and run over by a white van in the background, in Guangdong, China.

From NetEase, Sina, and Sina Weibo:

2-year-old female child ran over by car, 18 passersby ignore her

Synopsis: October 13th afternoon around 5:30, a car accident occurred at the Guangfo Hardware Market in Huangqi of Foshan. A van hit a 2-year-old little girl and then fled. No passersby reached out to help and then another car ran over her. Over the span of 7 minutes, a total of 17 people passing by failed to extend a hand or call the police, up until the 19th person, a garbage scavenger ayi [older woman], who lifted her up after discovering her but the little girl in her arms was like a noodle, immediately collapsing back onto the ground. The trash scavenger ayi called for help, and the little girl’s mother, who was in the vicinity, immediately rushed over and rushed her to the hospital.

The news report video above has been viewed nearly 700k times on popular Chinese video-sharing website Youku since it was uploaded 17 hours ago and currently has over 6200 comments spanning 210 pages. This story is also spreading on China’s popular microblogging service Sina Weibo in addition to receiving a lot of views and comments on China’s major internet news portals and communities.

In addition to showing the little girl, Yue Yue being run over twice and many of the bystanders who didn’t stop to help her, it also shows that Yue Yue is currently in the hospital in critical condition. Police have already found the second driver but have yet to find the first driver as they were unable to read the first van’s license plate and are calling upon witnesses for help. Yue Yue’s parents are also shown.

A man who walks by pretending not to see the little girl lying injured on the street.

A Chinese man riding by on his tricycle cart carrying pipes, avoiding the body of a 2-year-old little girl on the road.

The worried mother of a 2-year-old girl who had been run over twice in Foshan, China and then subsequently ignored by 18 bystanders.

The weeping father of a 2-year-old little girl who was ran over by a van and truck and then ignored by 18 bystanders.

Comments from NetEase:

lgaxy [网易浙江省嘉兴市网友]:

It isn’t ignoring, it’s not daring. If one were to encounter a Nanjing judge, one would be screwed.

[Note: "Nanjing judge" refers to the infamous 2006 case of a man named Peng Yu who helped a woman to the hospital after she had fallen only to have the old woman accuse him of knocking her down. The Nanjing judge in that case ultimately ruled that common sense dictated that only the person who hit her would take her to the hospital, setting a precedent that continues only further discourages and reinforces many Chinese people's wariness to help others in similar situations.]

做个自然人 [网易陕西省西安市网友]:

Truly very painful!
The majority of us Chinese people are already considered abnormal!

六十夕阳红 [网易上海市长宁区网友]:

The Chinese people have arrived at their most moral-less moment!

向前冲 [网易北京市网友]:

It can only be said that the garbage scavenger doesn’t read news on the internet.

屠杀农民工 [网易北京市朝阳区网友]:

No one wants to cause trouble for themselves. These days, everyone is busy enough with their own matters. To say these people are cold-blooded is a bit too strong. Those who want to criticize them should first ask themselves: Would you have gone to help or not?

kenny44272 [网易广东省江门市网友]:

The driver should die.
The child’s parents have some responsibility that cannot be shirked, especially the mother.
The passers-by who ignored an injured child are as low as cats and dogs, simply unbelievable.
This video shakes the soul of every conscientious person.

网易浙江省杭州市网友:

Don’t blame the passersby, it was a Nanjing judge that killed this little girl.

网易广东省河源市网友:

Those people who walked by are animals. No, even some animals have compassion and would at the very least stop to take a look. Those 18 pigs who walked by should also be arrested and taught a lesson with 15 days [in jail]. Instead it was the waste scavenger ayi from other parts [of the country] who had a conscience.

网易浙江省宁波市网友:

Mencius taught us: The poor must look after themselves, while they rich should spread goodness throughout the world.

With regards to this incident, we first cannot blame the driver, who makes a living with his physical labor. We cannot close our eyes and demand that he bear too much responsibility, as he didn’t mean to hit someone either, and it was definitely very difficult to have noticed [the child], and afterward he was conflicted too, only he was afraid of bearing the burden of compensation and that’s why he chose to run away. I can sympathize with him. After all, running away means still having a life to live while not running might mean his life is completely ruined. Though running away means his conscience is to be condemned, how important is one’s conscience for the rabble where simply getting enough to eat is already a major accomplishment? Not betraying one’s conscience in reality is a kind of spiritual luxury.

The people who passed by are also not worthy of being blamed. To conclude that they are cold-blooded for turning a blind eye is a bit arbitrary. If it were a small cat or a small dog struggling on the ground, I think they would definitely give their attention, even kneel down to investigate the injuries, maybe even carrying them home to nurse them back to health. But when it is a child, everyone pretends they don’t see, it is always like this, almost without exception. This is not about whether or not a person is cold-blooded or not cold-blooded, but it is definitely about there being a very serious problem in society. These days, it is better to be less involved than more involved. Getting involved may very well mean getting majorly screwed. There are really too many of these kind of precedents, and everyone has silently evolved from these observations. No one is more qualified than anyone else to criticize.

和谐评论非处不娶 [网易吉林省延吉市网友]:

No one will say anything if you run over a dog and flee, but this was running over a person… This driver must be severely punished.

兔兔要开心 [网易江苏省南京市网友]:

I wouldn’t necessarily send her into the hospital, but I would definitely make a call, and call for help. For those people who saw and then made a detour around her, have your consciences all been “eaten by a dog” [lost]? May your own children be the next Yue Yue [name of the 2-year-old girl who was run over in the video].

网易江苏省苏州市网友:

I cried…

网易山东省青岛市网友 [贱男春浪贱]:

Those above who are saying that our countrymen have become numb, I want to ask simply: What would you do if you ran into this kind of thing? Don’t just blame this or that on this internet post, would you risk being accused of being the perpetrator? Would you be willing to dump your entire family’s savings into the endless vortex of accident compensation? You aren’t afraid of going to jail as the perpetrator? Have you not considered that one moment of greatness could mean your entire family losing their happiness with you? Do you know just how many Nanjing judge [case results] there are? Do you think it is only Nanjing? The consequences of moral turpitude is not something that you and I can rectify. We are just ordinary people. Seeing this kind of thing, I can only describe it as heart-breaking, but I would be numb/indifferent like those 18 people…because I am a normal person!!!

Jasonwu [网易广东省佛山市网友]:

Don’t push responsibility onto society, let’s ask ourselves: what are we afraid of?

投篮 [网易亚太地区网友]:

I remember when I was small there was a small girl who fell into a pond. I yelled for help and then some adults came and rescued her. But in the end, her mother kept asking if it was me who pushed her in. Now that I think about it, I was truly lucky!!!!

What do you think?

The Chinese parents of a 2-year-old girl who was ran over twice and ignored by 18 pedestrians who passed by.

The lone woman who stopped and called for help after a 2-year-old little girl was run over by two cars.

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  • kb

    I am choked. I have been traveling a lot in poor parts of both India and Africa I have witnessed accidents and all ways people came to the rescue. In my country it´s law that you should help and can be prosecuted if you don´t.
    A lot of the people on this site refer to a Nanjing case. These are entirely intellectual considerations, people on this video just doesn’t show any interest and just doesn’t care. Especially, it´s not necessary to drive over the child a second time, it was possible to avoid but they just didn’t care.
    To all those who sympathises with the runaway driver, “as he should consider his family and his life first”. Do you have no consciousness, no mercy? Should you not stand up to your actions?
    If China is going to be a major player and this are the standards of you civilization then some body please have mercy on us all.

  • Kristine

    Her mother should never have left her alone in the streets in the first place!! And how could she not even noticed that her 2-year-old kid had been missing for like 12 minutes?

  • James Li

    Very sad.. to see indifference in chinese society. I am Chinese, and i know this incidence should not be a surprise from a Chinese viewer, however i live in the US for more than 30 years. I am so disturbed by it when i heard it this morning that i came back 8 hours later to search and verify this news. To the Chinese people who simply ignore this girl, you should be ASHAMED. This little girl could have been your daughter. In fact there is a difference between a beast/animal and human. Today and tomorrow and the next day, the difference is not there for you. yes, there is no difference between a dog and you. and i purposely use the dog analogy since many of you take it offensively referencing a Chinese to a dog.

  • harry

    The first time that the first driver ran over that girl, it was an accident. The second time (with his rear wheel) was NOT an accident – Horrible. And then all the other people, even a child, just pretending not to see her and not even calling for help – Disgusting.

    Regretfully I’m not really surprised as years ago on vacation in China I saw a man lying on the road and cars just driving around him (I was inside a bus and only saw it in a flash). The people I told about it were not shocked like I was, but instead they offered the same excuse: anyone who stops will be accused of being the cause. China is a horrible society.

    Let’s hope that this incident will have a positive effect, so that they’ll introduce new laws to stimulate a change in attitude.

  • Ronon

    Reading other news about this it seems that the 1st driver was arrested as well. Hopefully he’ll get the death penalty.

    • mystery_man

      Did he turn himself in?

  • Kong

    http://china.org.cn/china/2011-10/17/content_23641415.htm
    money quotes:
    “According to reports the van driver had just split up from his girlfriend and was talking on his mobile phone when he hit the girl.”

    ‘”If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands yuan,” said the driver over the phone to the media, before he gave himself up to the police.’

    “Earlier this month, a bus driver in Chengdu, Sichuan province, drove his vehicle directly to the hospital after an elderly woman on board collapsed with a cerebral hemorrhage. Four other passengers, who were willing to serve as witnesses should any dispute occur in the future, gave the driver their phone numbers.”

    “Tan Fang, a professor with the South China Normal University in Guangzhou, set up a foundation in March to deal with the risks of helping the elderly in difficult situations. It provides both financial and legal aid to those who get into trouble helping the elderly.”

  • Ed

    i could not believe that so many people did nothing and did not help this poor little child, karma will catch up with them.
    ed from sydney australia

  • Olivia

    My prayers are with this family and this little girl. Such a heart wrenching thing to happen. Words cannot even explain how I am feeling. :(

  • http://www.google.dk Dîlan

    it’s terrible to watch people who ignore a child, they should be ashamed og themselves! This is so terrible, that I can’t explain word. I’m so against these peoples!And the man who ran the child down what was he thinking??? It could be, that he didin’t saw the child, but he might then stop and take the child to the hospital! People like them doesen’t deserve life seriously! I can’t judge but this is really really WRONG! I cried, because this is wrong and wrong!

    What do they have eyes for? TO SEE! what do they have hands for? To take/carry the child at the hospital. What do they have mouth for? To cry for help!They don’t deserve nothing and none of the persons have any of it????!!

    Even people who passing by, they are also guilty. If you see a child who is dead/unconscious, just help, what damage it? Use one hour or half hour of your life to send a child to the hospital, what damage it? seriously I hate people who do such things, they should be imprisoned for life. The one who ran the child down is not only blame for it, but people who passing by a child who is unconscious/ dead is just as much blame for it!

    The girl is in heaven now… a place where she finds love and freedom.

    what a world we live in!

    I wish I was there so I could do something for the child..

    I will give all my heart to help a little child who are there. It could be she had a the chance to live! But these people don’t think about anything of themselves!
    I give all my support and love for girl..

    R.I.P Yue Yuem!

    Much love from the girl from Kurdistan and Denmark.

  • Bech

    Kill the driver and the people pas’n bye..!!!

  • Issam

    Alot of you people are sick, they could have moved the girl away from the middle of the road and called an ambulance, they didnt have to take responsibiluty for her, even a poor china man has a mobile phone, and the driver fleeing is a joke, if that clip was slowed down then you can accuse the driver of not seeing her but if it was really moving that slow then he had no excuse of no seeing her.

  • Brian Seeger

    stupid fucking people… it wouldt never happen in the western world….. ;o( hope you catch all the stupid people that ignores the baby and put them to jail…..

    Frynse

    Denmark

    • whododat

      Well it does in Canda, may be just not as bad as the China pigs doing it.

  • Val Oswald

    Terrible shame. Many commenters ask “would you stop to help, knowing the risks?” The answer is yes. Not everyone thinks of self-preservation first and foremost. And what is up with all the comments disparaging animals like dogs and pigs? I have yet to see a dog or any other animal behave with the callousness and utter cruelty shown not only by the passersby but also by most humans in general. The Chinese are disrespected around the world for their cruelty, particularly to cats and dogs.

  • required

    Dear poor girl :(( did she survive??
    OF COURSE I would help if I saw such thing appear in front of me!
    If you have a clean conscidence why wouldnt you help this is so tragical. I really hope justice would be brought over the bastards head who ran over her TWICE!!

    rot in hell you bastard

  • Lyndsey

    This makes me realize how different American society is from that of the Chinese. In America, if this happened, dear lord… It would be crazy. The perpetrator would be hunted down like a dog, and the eighteen on lookers would be screwed for life.

    But there are no ‘Nanjing’ (sorry if mispelled) judges here in America; our philosphy is innocent until proven guilty, meaning that there must be absolute evidence (or pretty damn close) in order for you to be convicted.

    It just makes me sad. I don’t blame the people who ignored; I blame those precedents. But at least this misdeed is noticed and people are outraged! Otherwise there would be no hope for a change.

    So, I would help the child here where I live, but I don’t know if I would in China due to the possible persecution.

  • http://google kiara

    people do have problems of there own and dont wana be a part of sumone elses but theres a limit to it when you see a innocent little fucking girl laying on the ground im sure hurt and crying n no one did apsolutely anything to help or even just call for help. that is just bizarre thet any one of those people walked by and didnt do shit it pisses me off.. im sure that evryone would be nozy enough to stand by and see shit happen but wont be nozy to help out someone who s hurt especially a little girl..there not to blame but very well cold hearted for not helping her so minus well be a part of it..

  • aok

    Chinese Bastards.

    Amazing how the Chinese get all bent out of shape about the past Japanese stuff… yet they are fully willing to run over their own Children, and not lift a finger to help.

    Spineless Coward Soul-less Lowlifes.

    The bystander thing is a pathetic Excuse. Not one thing in this entire world have would stopped me from helping that child Immediately… Not even risk of losing my own life.

    At very least those Spineless bastards could could have EASILY done was to putting something in front of her, to keep her from getting hit a 2nd time.. and calling the Emergency services from a nearby shop.

    The Truck driver takes the cake however. Had he actually stopped, he could have gotten out and got help.. but instead, he just slowly ran over her again.

    This man needs to be found, and given the 1000 flesh cuts death sentence… and the passing people who didnt help, should be found, caned, then be forced to watch the truck drivers agonizingly slow and painful death.

    Had the Driver stepped up, he may have gotten off the hook due to his true inability to see the little girl… and his willingness to get speedy help. Instead, he will fry if they catch him.. and with the media pressure, and number of eyes around, it shouldnt be long till hes found, and or found in a ditch somewhere beaten to death.

    Karma is a Bitch, and these soulless people will pay a high price, when it comes knocking on their door.

    • http://chinasmack kiara

      i cant agree with you more

    • Steve Byrne

      Apparently he didn’t see her because he was talking on his mobile phone while driving his van. Something I see every day here in China. There are no traffic rules and regulations here that are enforced at all. Everyone just drives the way they like. It’s like a dodgems circuit at a fairground – except here people die. I counted 100 traffic accidents in my first two years of living here, and then I gave up counting. I saw 4 accidents in one day a couple of weeks ago. It’s a disgrace.
      The Chinese think that they can stand side-by side with the developed nations of the World simply by accumulating enough money. They don’t seem to realise that leaving backwardness and barbarity behind requires more than just lining their pockets with cash. This recent incident just shows how far they still have to go.

    • Joe

      One thing I have learned in America is that white people have very big mouths. You must be white, since your mouth seems quite big. You are incredibly confident about what you would have done and such. But do you really know? Or is it just white arrogance as usual?

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  • Si En

    thats fucked up…it fucked my day up they should tied the back of a vehicle while it is driving..#vomits

  • asdf

    They couldn’t see her through their cold, slanted eyes.

  • Steve Byrne

    Why are so many Chinese people like this? When did this type of selfish, uncaring behaviour begin to ingrain itself into Chinese society? Surely Confucian values and ethics didn’t teach people to walk past injured two year old’s in the street? Is this an effect of years of Maoist indoctrination that taught people to care only about the Communist party, and which taught that the individual is worthless?
    The thing is, while watching those people walking past that little girl in the footage above, what struck me was that I meet people like them in China every day – the same people who try and push in front of me in queues at bus and train stations…the same people who drive their cars on the pavements and nearly run me over on the sidewalk everyday and beep their horns at me to move out of their way…the same people who push elderly women out of their way when getting on and off buses. The kind of people who don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves are the same people we can see in this video nonchalantly walking past that 2 year old girl.

    • glow

      It’s because of poverty and the need to ensure one’s own survival. Singapore is a mostly Chinese majority society and so is Hongkong and Taiwan. These places are much more gracious but also much richer.

      According to Maslow, one starts from the bottom of the hierarchy of needs which is sastifying the individual’s basic needs such as food and shelter before he moves on to higher planes such as care for the general society.

      • myriam

        it has nothing to do with poverty. I lived in 3rd world countries most of my adult life, in places much worse then chins, and i never encountered such selfishness and ignorance like i did in china. Funny you mention Hongkong/Singapor, but wasn’t they under british rule for at least a hundred years ? So maybe they learned a thing or two in all this years ? Seems that it works better then on mainland china. Even when you take into account the 100 years “western education and morals”, there are still HongKong people which don’t behave any better then the ones on the mainland, just glad they are in the minority.

      • Steve Byrne

        The only form of poverty this applies to is a poverty of the mind. Those people who walked past that baby are selfish, impoverished pigs. Their behaviour has nothing to do with how much money they have in the bank.

        • Steve Byrne

          …mentally impoverished pigs

    • Chef Rocco

      Steve, are you blaming Mao for moral deterioration of Chinese society?

      But if you ask Chinese, I bet most of them would rather blame Deng and his policy of “getting rich is glorious”, specially these over 40-50 years old. As a matter of fact, Mao taught people not only to love the party, also love the people in general, Lei Feng was modeled as a hero for his Samaritan behaviors during Mao period.

      More interestingly, many new-leftists in China consider the tragedy of a proof that liberal reform in Guangdong is a moral failure and blame Wang Yang, the governor, for not taking care of poor people.
      “pursuing money” becomes priority of people’s life in Quangdong.

      • Just John

        “If you ask people”, they will also conveniently forget how many died directly because of Mao’s leadership.

        Lets see, the destruction of most of the educated in China. The starvation of many of the uneducated in China. So, how did he teach people to love? Seems more like he is one more in the chain that taught people to fear, which leads to the current non-involvement that is seen in situations like this.

        Doesn’t matter what people want to blame, there is a root cause in there somewhere, and it does not matter if people see it or not. I would argue that Mao is one of the root cause of the isolationist, NIMBY views we see in China.

        • Just John

          Sorry, it would not be NIMBY views, but instead an entire SEP field…

      • dim mak

        I’ve heard both “the cultural revolution made people into indifferent assholes” as well as “the economic reforms made people into materialistic assholes”.

        Both have a grain of truth if you ask me.

  • 平凡人

    This place is screwed; hit & run, bystanders not helping, people who helped being accused,…..

  • lisa

    This video is honestly horrific and has made me feel physically ill people can defend these cowards for not helping all they want going on about fear of being blamed but at the end of the day I cam honestly say that I would rather lose everything even go to jail than leave a 2 year old BABY!!! to die in the street and at the end of the day that is what those 18 people did that little girl could b alive today if the first van had stopped or even if someone had helped before the first van hit and I hope everyone who left her there rota in hell! To the lady who helped her… At least we know there is at least one person out there with a soul

  • http://i.saac.me Isaac Lewis

    Think how often you see beggars lying on the ground in this country, with missing limbs or covered in weeping sores. Within a few weeks you learn to blank them out.

    Think how often you see child beggars trying to sell you flowers or latching onto you for spare change. Within a few months you learn to blank them out as well. (And everyone *knows* all their money goes straight to their Mafia bosses, right??)

    The commenters above can argue all day about whether what the passers-by did was moral or not, but they didn’t have time to weigh up the ethical pros or cons. It’s a split-second decision – is this genuine or is this yet another scam? Life is easier if you just turn away.

    To make it clear, I don’t think to understand is to forgive, and I think both these scenarios are equally bad:

    * Chinese people ignore injured children for no good reason
    * Chinese people have a good reason to ignore injured children

    On the other hand, the two drivers who ran over the girl without stopping… let’s just say they’re a strong argument in favour of capital punishment.

  • lisa

    There is no reason good enough to ignore a dying baby!

  • Greg Berry

    Actually worse then Africans

  • jim

    I have to retract what i said about this case. The Chinese judicial system is broken… Culturally, i am disheartened by culture worrying more about who should get the blame and not about helping each other out. In this case this girl can be anyone’s daughter. however, no one treats this child as a human, except for the lady who was willing to help. The government bears a big part of this responsibility. If the government wants everyone to worry only about money, wealth and materialism, then i certainly do not want to be part of it. what happen is so low and disrespect since i am a Chinese myself. Government officials are spineless to admit what type of society they have created.

  • Sarah

    The comments on this are disgusting! Where is the value for human life? Everyone is giving the reason to not stop but hey guess what losers, the only kind of people I want living in this world are the ones who would risk being blamed to save another soul. Its not a moral conundrum that doesnt have an obvious solution. Please…everyone who thinks that it was ok for people to walk by without help remember the last moments of your lame life as a knife is held to your gut in a crowd of people, and no one comes to your aid, no one even dials the police. Deal with every nerve in your body exploding with pain, get enveloped in the darkness, and then keep telling yourself that it was ok that no one helped you.

  • JJ

    All of you people defending and or trying to rationalize why someone would not lift a helping hand in this situation, because of the Nanjing Judgment etc., are as messed up in the head as these careless and callused sub-human wastes that ignored this distressed child lying on the road.

    I will tell you what a hero is: it is someone who thinks less of his or her safety when compared to the victims. Someone who acts and instinctively thinks in the moment to save lives, not someone deciding how much money this could potentially cost them. I don’t care if they throw me in prison for life. I could never leave a distressed and immobile child in the middle of the road, especially in China.

    Not everyone is a hero, granted. In this situation calling for an ambulance and or notifying oncoming traffic would be the least expected from anyone with human emotion.

    This is sick. …Especially the man who seemed to notice the initial accident and actually walked out of his way to get around her and keep going on. I just hope that you few who are rationalizing this behavior do not find yourself in a rough spot in China, because it is obvious you might not be helped even if it is a life or death situation, even if it would only require a marginal amount of time and or physical energy to save your life.

  • lisa

    I never mentioned regions I don’t care where ur from or what ur race if this was in any country in the world I would react the same way there is no reason good enough to leave a child to die I couldn’t care a less about who u are or where ur from if u can walk away from a baby who is suffering like that then u are a monster its as simple and black and white as that

  • lisa

    Well said michele

  • Mom to Six

    I cannot believe there are people commenting here who would be more willing to help a wounded animal than a wounded child. I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that I would help that child because I have taken two children who were in need into my home and raised them as my own. This little baby was a human being who needed the compassion and kindness of others and all of the adults but one a beggarwoman, turned a blind eye. What does that tell you about the society there? It speaks volumes to me.

  • lisa

    All I saw was people walking past and no one even stopping some people didn’t even look at the poor girl you can’t watch that video and say that those people aren’t inhumane

  • RP

    Horrible parents..leaving their child unattended..further evidence that most people should not have kids…just because there’s a one child policy doesnt mean you MUST have a child.

    • glow

      I agree, the parents share a big portion of the blame and the 2 drivers just as much. The passerby less blame although i do not condone their inactions, it still difficult to judge a person’s ethical decision and even more so knowing the fundamental flaws in the Chinese justice system.

  • thenewworld

    Don’t give me that complete bullshit that people are controlled. Those who are controlled are those without a spine. With a population as large as theirs they could overthrow their rulers (with casualities obviously) but they will not. For the same reason the germans did not and for the same reason the british will not. Every man and woman in china is to blame for this! Your society is molded by your own action and inaction and this is where your great civilization stands now…..utterly detested by the rest of the planet! WELL DONE!

    • glow

      You can’t judge the whole of China on the basis of negative reports. There are good stories about China too but most people only seemed to focus on the negatives. If you skipped all the bad press and only read the good stuff about China, you still wouldn’t call it a paradise, would you?

      And no, the rest of the whole does not utterly detest China or it’s population. Do you detest the grandma who helped?

      • Joe Fitzgerald

        Yes, I can easily condemn the whole population. I have seen similar behavior within China, and my acquaintances have seen similar behavior.

        About two weeks ago, a bicyclist was struck by a vehicle in Xiamen. A taxi driver rolled by the scene and laughed at the injured biker.

        Recently a friend helped two a sick person who collapsed on the sidewalk, while others walked on by as if nothing had happened.

        Dogs would render more help than the typical Chinese.

        • Just John

          I was not laughing at the bicyclist, I was laughing at a funny joke I heard on the radio.

          It involved this dog who helps two sick Chinese who had collapsed on the sidewalk. Anyways, you have probably already heard this one, so I will leave it at that.

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        glowworm,

        the problem then centers on China’s tightly controlled media which only allows certain news stories; besides the bad news (like how only 40 people died in the Wenzhou train crash), people will be suspicious of good news.

        While there is some good news in China that I don’t believe like the girl who saved a suicide jumper with a kiss or the glam high-heeled female police officer who saved a suicide jumper, others I do believe like “the world’s most beautiful mother” who saved a falling baby. Thing is, I can understand if people don’t believe it. Because they have every reason not to believe.

    • Kong

      An individual is a member of a small society is a member of a larger society is a member of a nation is a member of a country is a member of the globe! Aha, very clever, so what you’re saying is that we are all responsible for this! But wait, you stopped at country…. Are you suggesting that country-wide societies are uninfluenced by other societies? Are you suggesting that the western world has not had profound cultural, political, and economic impacts all around the world? Hm, maybe you’re just dumb.

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  • john

    what is this world coming to!! i hope that little girl pulls through . my heart sank when i seen this video.

  • glow

    What would Sun Yet Sen’s thoughts be if he was still alive?

    • Chef Rocco

      His thought would be: “the revolution hasn’t succeeded yet, comrades still need to make efforts”.

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        What China needs now: the re-animated zombified corpse of Sun Yat-sen hopping around in his safari hat preaching revolution.

        Chef R Coccoon, as you are in an answering mood, your response: the anniversary of the 辛亥革命 1911 revolution just celebrated its centennial in the proper fashion: with a Jackie Chan movie. While we scrutinize JC’s fabulous use of prop comedy to get away from the bad guys, is the message of Sun Yat-sen (as you have elucidated) getting through to Chinese?

        Or is it possible that the commemoration of a man who started a revolution in vain as neither his message is remembered nor does his act inspire later generations to do the same thing that he did?

  • Erwin

    Full of Shit.. Where is your heart that God have given us.

  • lisa

    I think a lot of you are totally missing the point of what happened here… It has nothing to do with politics or what country ur living in or what bad things could possibly happen to you if you help a stranger in the street a baby died because 18 people didn’t have enough humanity to stop for even a second to help and it does make a difference that its a baby I’m not just mentioning it to “pull at heartrstrings” the diffrence is a baby is helpless a 2 year old can’t help itself in a situation like that it can’t promise not to lay blame on those that help all it knows is that it hurts and no one will get their mum or dad everyone just walks on past no matter how hard they cry if you think there is any reason that justifies allowing a baby to feel like that then u should take ur self away and live on an island somewhere far away from other humans!

    • http://ragemanga.com mobio

      Please learn how to punctuate. Otherwise your opinion is worthless.

    • Zhang Fei

      a baby died because 18 people didn’t have enough humanity to stop for even a second to help

      Before you jump to any conclusions, you need to understand that China’s officialdom is the scum of the earth. Anyone who intervened ran the risk of being blamed for the child’s injuries and potential jail time or worse. China’s police is simultaneously corrupt, lazy and indifferent to questions of justice. Closing cases and getting that annual cash bonus for meeting arrest quotas is more important than catching the right person. I personally know of two people who have tried to be Good Samaritans and ended being arrested and having to spend tens of thousands of yuan paying off the victims and/or the police. A government that ensures that no good deed goes unpunished is at the root of this apparent indifference. The street sweeper was fortunate that a camera caught everything on tape. Otherwise, she might have spent a few days as a guest of the Chinese Communist Party.

  • v

    I find all the comments saying “this or that type of Chinese is good and would never harm anyone” etc. I wonder if the ones making these comments are in fact Chinese looking out for ones own reputation. These comment have guilt written all over them.

    How can the world respect a culture that does not even respect itself

  • lisa

    Did u seriously just compare the life of a baby to finding $100? Who cares if they knew exactly what happend she was lying in a pool of blood and her lower half must have been crushed everyone who walked past her must have known she needed help

    • Just John

      You are right.
      Bodies are worth at least “”We expect to recover between $5,000 and $6,000 per cadaver – either in its entirety or after the body has been divided,” he says.”
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8519611.stm

  • Joe Fitzgerald

    The People’s Republic of China = 1.3 Billion people with no morals, no integrity, and plenty of fear of an incompetent Party leadership.

    The people fear a legal system that favors whim and stupidity over reason and due process. Mostly because they fear for themselves, they will not risk reform of this system.

    • Nate

      I don’t know whether you are a troll or not, but I’ll bite the bait anyway.
      It seems that you really care about The People’s Republic of China, otherwise you wouldn’t comment like this, How about you grow some balls and fucking fight the system, ALONE! If you can’t then show some of your charisma and lead the Chinese to over throw the system, instead sitting in front of your computer and bitching how bad The People’s Republic of China is, which makes you no different than the feared Chinese you just mentioned.

  • Amanda

    I am heartbroken after watching this video. Prayers of love and peace to that precious little girl.

  • Frank

    Reading all this ramble on the laws and stereotypical cultural race, leave all this aside and ask yourself this question! What if this girl was your daughter? or if the young girl is your relative, friend’s friends?

    • Suicidal tendency

      If that girl was my daughter I would first wonder what was she doing alone in the street.
      Either I’m the first one to blame, or the second for having trusted the bad person to watch over her.

      • Tengu

        There is no law against leaving your children alone in China…sad but true.

        • Crystal Brock

          holy crap! thats not good! what can be done to change this?? because in the states u are crucified for even spanking in public!

    • Roger

      I believe what most comments were pointing to the fact that China is missing or are ineffective in regulating law for Duty to rescue and Good Samaritan law. Which, one makes it NOT a liability for people to ignore to save someone, and second provides no protection for good samaritan.

      • S. Barret Dolph

        Three weeks ago I was admonished by the police for not minding my own business. In fact, I can’t remember who I might have helped but I was told that 1) to concern myself with others is to usurp the power of the authorities. 2) To help others would show that there are some differences between perception of China as told by school text books and reality. 3) I should not help others as I will be sued and punished. 4) Good people don’t get involved in other people’s business and mind their own business.

        I didn’t argue or dispute any point as the police official is a good friend of mine and some who did not use his position to accumulate money.

        Just a sad state of existence and so I just turn to my studies of ancient chines and write calligraphy in silence.

  • Boo

    Admittedly, I haven’t managed to read every single comment here but does anyone else think that besides the obvious total-wrongness of this whole horrific incident, the broadcasting of this video and making it freely available to view online is also very wrong? Would a written description not have sufficed? Poor, poor girl…

    • Just John

      Well, when confronted with the horrors of what really happens, it may move some individuals to actually think about things and possibly help make a change.

      It is at your option to watch or not to watch, so they are not forcing you to see it. Me, I have chosen to not watch, simply because I know the situation and I do not need the graphic, gory images to paint the picture, but for others, it might help burn the image into their heads so they will actually give it some thought later, if they see something similar.

      Think about it. You see a ton of videos of car accident fatalities, doesn’t it make you think a little about how your driving? I bet you would drive more carefully at least for that day.

      I personally feel things like this will be the thing that pushes China into a better socially conscious place, as long as more people see it and it is not “harmonized” so most do not get the chance to actually reflect on it.

      • Vivian Ho

        Well , I just think there is different kind of people out there , I can’t really stand them people who chosen to ignore the situation at the time the accident occur .I guess there is a improvement area to improve in that area . if I see someone got ran over .. come on pick up that darn phone and call 911 or the ER line 119?? whatever. I feel very bad for the kids .

    • yooo

      The Full footage was broadcasted over the news already. Making it online is not anything secret or whatever. So what? do you suggest people hide the video and hide the truth? No one will know about this poor girl if it wasn’t broadcasted at all.

    • David Lee

      I disagree; videos like these are exactly what’s needed to change the callous culture of the Chinese.

      • Vivian Ho

        I agree , what the heck wrong with them people . where is the parent ??? why is the little kid walks on the street by self ???

    • Miyu_k

      No, a written description can not suffice you can not capture in words the horrendous crime that took place to that girl. People need to see with their own eyes what transpired only then can the world be shocked into changing its morality. We can not continue hiding things because they appear to graphic….its not graphic its the TRUTH the truth hurts and the truth isn’t always pretty we have accepted by the media that we can’t handle the truth so we accept watered down stories and edited out pictures of what is going on globally, but what this does is make us think and believe and want to believe that it isn’t all that bad. But it is bad it’s not just bad it’s REALLY bad. People need to see the horror that is society. What has society become where people are scared to help others because of fear of being a victim themselves?? What has society become where people can walk by a severly injured child lying in a pool of their own blood and continue walking as if the child doesn’t exist. This isn’t something that only happens in China it happens everywhere. We humans aren’t as nice as we like to think and good thoughts don’t replace good actions. I hope this video gets seen by everyone with access to any media capable device I want this video to be shown in schools, in waiting lines at the DMV, and before every new movie at the theatres. I want everyone to see this video and everyone to be reminded of what we are capable of and what we should avoid.

    • http://chinashmina.com Augis

      I have added English translation to the video -> http://chinashmina.com/nanjing-judge-case-good-samaritans-china-146 (video in the end of the post)

    • actionjksn

      @ Boo It needed to be seen to bring out enough public outrage to hopefully prevent this sort of thing from happening again. It’s also good for the world to see how life really is in a Communist society. To many people think we western country’s need to be more like Communist China. And I can tell you as fucked up as America is right now, this would never happen in the United States. The hit and run could and has happened but not the multiple people ignoring a baby who’s dying in the street.

      • a new yorker

        What are you talking about it happens all the time in new york type in 6 train subway fight in new york

    • Dragon

      i agree with you. anyway i still wondering until now, is it some kind of conspiracy to make people hate china. because i know sometimes news are not always true. also i’m not really sure that china smack new’s are really reliable.

  • Zeet

    There is an inherent problem with Chinese culture which is survive and don’t bring attention to oneself. This behavior was long before the Nanjing judge.
    Here in the states I have Mainland Chinese tech workers. I learned over time they are not team players and only cover for themselves. They have so much fear they lie about project problems (note problems not failures) and quickly blame coworkers and ignore project problems and pretend all is well. They pick the easiest technical solution even though it is the wrong one.

    There is no direct link with this example to the tragic story, but the attitude and culture they see as correct governs their actions. I think it is despicable behavior, but the mainland Chinese are raised this way and are always in survival mode and fearful of anyone and simply look to take care of themselves and their own family. It is really scr@we’d up.

    One other time we were at Chinese funeral and the trash near some parked cars went aflame. I started yelling for the drivers to move their cars. The old timers in my group said be quiet, dont say anything or they will blame you for the fire! That pretty much sums up the cultural attitude to ignore and fly under the radar. It is sad and will take 5000 years to reverse or maybe never.

  • Pachia Yang

    If there is a website or any sort that goes out to this family. My boyfriend and I would like to donate to this family.

  • Sandra

    Im in california to think no one care to help this lil girl makes me sick I dont care how bussy hard working the peopel are the hell with them I do bealive in carma they all and will pay for this we should all pray for this young sweet lil girl its not het falt but again you guys eat and are dogs there is no words that can descrabe what type of humans you are all 18 of them that pass on by with no heart I hope the day u 18 animals die u suffer 10 times more ! Sick sick sick

  • Dan Danger

    “These days, it is better to be less involved than more involved. Getting involved may very well mean getting majorly screwed. There are really too many of these kind of precedents, and everyone has silently evolved from these observations.”

    So nice to have these “precedents” to excuse people collective apathy and disregard the need to help others. This one case has been over used as an excuse to give a reason to letting people lie in the street and bleed to death, as if before before the 2006 Nanjing ruling it was an entirely different nation and people were just swarming to assist the injured and impoverished. The truth is without or without the Nanjing ruling the same thing would have most likely happened, but now there is a handy rationalization. Also, this is hardly an isolated incident. With the assistance of traffic and surveillance cameras more and more is being shown about practices that happen every day and have been happening for longer than many people here wish to admit to.

    And further, I have read comments at some posts that criticize the old lady for helping the child, claiming all she wants is “fame.” So easy for people to sit back and feel superior even to the one person who helps and imagine dark motives even on that one decent person. She was great and that is that. The rest of the people are not only embarrassments to China but to the human race as a whole.

    • James

      I am from Malaysia. I once helped a victim who was hit by a car which ran away without stopping. I stopped my car and help the poor guy. Some stupid bastards not related to the victim wanted to beat me up assuming I was the one who hit the victim even though he had not seen anything with his own eyes. Luckily the victim could still talk and told them I was not the one. Heh, hello I was helping the guy, now even if I was the one who knocked down this chap, let the law decides who was at fault. Many people stood there watching without helping at all. From that day onwards, I would be very hesistant to physically help, but I will stand aside, and call for others to help or call the police or hospital. Some bastards out there think they are heros but just fools only.

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