This is an update to these earlier chinaSMACK posts:
- Street Racing Rich Kid Kills Pedestrian, Netizens Outraged
- Hangzhou Street Racing Victim Compensated 1.13 Million
Summary: A young man in Hangzhou, Hu Bin, hit and killed another young man, Tan Zhuo, who was crossing the street while street racing. After the accident, Hu Bin and his other young rich friends appeared nonchalant, smoking and laughing with each other and their girlfriends.
70 km/hr street racing case defendant Hu Bin sentenced to three years in prison
July 20 afternoon around 3:30, Hangzhou City West Lake District People’s Court handed down a sentence in the Hangzhou “5.7″ [May 7th] traffic accident case that received a lot of public attention. The defendant, Hu Bin, was sentenced to three years in prison.
Comments from Mop:
__我不是好人:
Aiyo, after Tan Zhuo’s parents compromised, this matter became none of our masses’ damn business. Instead of getting angry/hurling insults, it would be better for us to save our strength, buy a bottle of beer, sit in front of the computer, and watch the great people’s public servants put on a show. They are all people who have been educated after all, which is why they are called educated people. Just treat the 70 km/hr incident as a joke about playing with lives and forget about it.
奥TM＝奥登+奥巴马:
Water can float the boat,
and sink it too.
Who is the next Li Zicheng? Who will raise the banner of the revolt/rebellion?
No one?! Then we can only be good and love the country, love the party, love money!
They are telling us now: having money is the established truth! Fucking law!!!
感觉是什么东东:
Thank you great PARTY for teaching me yet another trick.
Work hard to earn money, because only by having money can you kill people without having to pay with your life!
一爪长:
You drive a car, hit, and kill a person. Would you choose:
A. No, I would not try to shirk responsibility for myself. Me hitting and killing someone is my fault and I should be punished, punished heavily because I would not be willing to be punished lightly! Best would be to execute me because only then I could forgive myself!
B. Dad and mom, you must rescue me, people want to execute me, you guys must find some connections and see if you can protect me.
C. Racing here was wrong in the first place, I did not intend to hit and kill him, I have kneeled before the other party’s parents, I am willing to use everything I can to compensate/make it up to the other party. If the other party’s parents are able to forgive me, I hope society will give me another chance, and let me support the other party’s parents’ remaining years; The law is impartial!————–
Everyone pretend you are Hu Bin, Hu Bin’s parents,
or pretend you are Tan Zhuo’s parents.Just what kind of outcome do you want?
用过的创可贴:
China, rich people’s heaven.
suzukiairi:
If one day I am in Hangzhou and I see him crossing a pedestrian crosswalk…
掏桃讨套:
This is the law, non-major criminal cases, providing high compensation can gain reduced sentences. As long as it is considered an ordinary traffic accident, and over 1 million was paid [in compensation], one can spend a few months [in prison] and then come out as if everything was normal because society must be harmonious!
违背、流年:
This society let’s us ordinary common people down!!!
Hu Bin, I fuck your entire family to death!
tx615:
Ding.
老鹰应该飞:
To be honest, right now I have incomparable respect for the West’s Christianity. The sentence I heard that was most admirable is: “a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye”. If we want to calm all the world’s grievances, then Hu Bin should be carried out and run over at 70 km/hr, returning peace to the universe.
Right now I am thinking, is it because our harmonious society has too many grievances and injustice unable to be vented leading to an imbalance between heaven and earth that has resulted one natural disaster after another happening?
tx615:
Mysterious country.
Everything has been harmonized.
dakey1:
How could such a thing happen in such a river crab country, LZ you must be an internet spy!
[网特 = internet spy, someone working for a foreign government trying to destabilize China from within]
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First!
Thanks for the follow up on the original story. Always good to know what happens ‘in the end’.
second! my dick touch your arse now!
CAO.. nothing’s gonna happen to this damn place …
obviously these chinese people need to learn more about the west instead of putting it on a pedestral.
many people have killed pepoele racing/driving drunk here in the west and have had similar sentences.
+ 1 on your first statement.
about your second one…… i’ve never heard of anyone in the west having an organ removed for racing/driving drunk.
If anything, these Chinese commentators are more outraged than similar US or British commentators would be about a similar incident in the West.
Many deaths on the alter of the iron cage.
Hu Bin on this pics doesn’t look like Hu Bin in older posts about topic. He is deliberately made to look more “nice” and “innocent”. I’m still think that Hu Bin’s speed was about 90km/h. 70km/h is to slow and too round.
LoL, that’s an interesting observation, krdr! Making him fatter and rounder does make him look more “nice and innocent”! Amazing how much fatter he is from, what was it, 2 months ago?
However, 90 looks as round as 70 to me. The police did later revise their estimated 70 to a higher speed after the suspicious public blasted them for declaring a slower false speed to protect the rich. The Hangzhou police took a pretty big PR hit on this one.
“about 90″ is not round as “70″, that was my point.
I never heard police saying “Driver was going 79,3km/h”. It is always round number. What bothers me is that in this case driver was driving 70km/h, not “about 70km/h” or “more than 60km/h”. Their way of speech is suspicious for me. Maybe they uses different way than European police.
That was “Fast and furious-Hangzhou drift” …
Sure thats the right guy? looks like they just stumbled upon a bad imitation of the real guy in the last minute.
People with money can actually hire a look alike person to sit in jail for them. This can be done during bail time to do the swap. Im sure a lot of people would actually agree to sit in jail for 3 years for a few million rmb right?
Just a thought.
Errrr…..
Where did you hear this, or are you just making it up?
Happens everywhere… also in the west, Heard several examples in Holland. Would surprise me if it wouldn’t happen in China… Chinese all look alike afterall… :dumbface:
With words like “People with money can….” and “Just a thought” makes me wonder why you would ask me where I heard this or if I made it up. I’m just claiming it as a possibility.
i hope the 3 years pass quickly and he gets to kill more people :)
Just in case you thought that China was the only country where worthless sentences are handed out to people in positions of power and/or wealth, here’s the case of Lord Ahmed in the UK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7939988.stm
Maybe China is catching up a little TOO quickly!
DWR
I was surprised at the revolution comment.
“Who will raise the banner of the revolt/rebellion?” Thought it’d have been harmonized.
Corruption is one of the factors that caused the Communists to come to power in the first place. Hope the next revolution is more peaceful. I’ve got my stack of USD, AUD, Euros, SGD, etc. to bribe my way out of the country when the shit hits the fan next. Don’t want to be like that Shanghai expat family in the Spielberg film Empire of the Sun.
Wonder what the tipping point will be.
USD is going to fall in Sept. 09. Keep buy more paper/fiat currency….it will all be worthless eventually.
Why September? You know some reason why I should hold onto my RMB a little longer?
just buy crude oil, I would recommend gold but its price is just too high. As for USD, the quantitative easying the fed is doing is bound to have consequences, September, October, next year who knows.
3 years is reasonable. In Singapore you will just get one day in jail if you are connected.
Now you know why Jet Li wants to move here.
Yeah, but they also whip your ass. Remember that American kid who got 30 or so lashes for spray painting cars 15 years ago or so? They should institute that in the US. Better than getting gang raped in prison I guess.
LOL that was 15 years ago! Now Singapore is totally different. The cane and death sentence are now reserved only for unconnected locals and some poor 3rd world worker.
And your children are next…
to be the victim
or
to be put into prison
He got what was coming to him! Are his 3 years going to be spent in some low security country resort like facility or is he going to be sent to the same prisons murderers and rapists go?? Also, does he have possibility for parole after just a couple months or any bullshit like that? He definitely deserves to spend all 3 years in a real deal prison which I am hoping he gets.
You’re an ignorant fuck.
1) He didn’t have intention to murder someone.
2) His crime was *speeding*.
3) He was unlucky in that some kid stepped out onto the road as he was *speeding*.
4) Do you think someone who was simply speeding and “deemed” by netizens to be smug in his reaction, deserves to be put in the same cell as say, a violent and proud rapist?
5) Are you fucking high? You’ve never committed a crime? Perhaps you’ve committed many and have just been lucky in the results.
Jaywalking is a crime. Lets say a jaywalker walks out onto the street infront of a vehicle who swerves to avoid hitting him, and ends up driving into that then ends up killing the driver of that vehicle.
By your logic, the jaywalker committed a crime resulting in the death of someone else, and should be put in prison with rapists and murderers.
Tell me, have you ever walked across the street on something other than a cross-walk at a green light?
Doesn’t sound like his crime is speeding — it sounds like vehicular manslaughter.
The difference is negligable, the difference is merely a situation of circumstance. Someone who speeds (or does something else ‘against the law’ with their vehicle) who causes an accident resulting in death are then charged with vehicular manslaughter, however, their actions were the same as that of someone who did not cause an accident resulting in death – the circumstances were less fortunate when they commited their minor crime. That’s all.
I’d like to add, even when I’m not speeding, going around little streets (or even big streets) with so many fucking ignorant peasants who clearly don’t value their lives meandering around.. meandering out onto the roads while cars breeze past them, if one even had a badly timed sneeze they could bump into another and a few may fall off onto the path of oncoming cars, the drivers being (potentially) charged with vehicular manslaughter. I swear more in my car than anywhere else…at least in Chengdu people *MEANDER* around, fucking back and forth, swerving about, if I ran one of those meandering bikes who swerves into my lane as I pass over I’d get out and beat the fucking piss out of them with a stick. Watch out for black plates and angry faces, weavers. They’ve came SO close to causing me to get into an accident, far too many times.
3 years!!!!
He deserves more than that
I really don’t see the point in killing that young guy. This was clearly, though obviously the drivers fault, an accident. He for sure didn’t plan to kill someone. He drove too fast and it is a very tragic accident, still no manslaugther or even murder! How could one want this guy to be killed? It wont bring the victim back… I see the problem here because this is a rich kid and the common people like us tend to envy those with money and connections because they seem to be treated better, but I don’t know if a similar case where the accused is a poor guy would have had another outcome.
Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth is in no way close to the western way of justice. Atleast not to the european.
Manslaughter is essentially performing an illegal act which results in someone else’s death..what he did was manslaughter, even though it was just an accident.
It was wreckless to be speeding at night and not cautious of people around him, and for that he is guilty. But you’re right, there was no *intent* to murder someone, so punishing him as if he’s a violent murderer or even just had serious mal-intention is ridiculous.
“To be honest, right now I have incomparable respect for the West’s Christianity. The sentence I heard that was most admirable is: “a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye”. If we want to calm all the world’s grievances, then Hu Bin should be carried out and run over at 70 km/hr, returning peace to the universe.”
Sounds like a Chinese (mis)understanding of Christianism… Or perhaps the poster was thinking about Judaism?
Well, the “a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye” is understood as a *limit* for revenge (i.e. no more than this, lest it spiral out of control).
That said, 3 years? This guy got off too easy.
He who seeks revenge should dig two graves.
I thought that saying was usually applied to curses?
Anyhow, modern justice systems rose as a way to take over for various revenge schemes used in ancient societies. There was a time when getting revenge on someone might be the *only* way justice would be served at all.
Of course, I greatly prefer the modern way of doing things.
Judaism isn’t an officially recognized religion in China, so probably Christianity even though Jesus would have said to turn the other cheek.
“I fuck your entire family to death!”
I’m definitely going to start using this a lot more.
Hahahaha, same here… I already used it once today!
“a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye”
Fools, that’s Hummarabi’s law, from ancient Mesopotamia. WTF are they teaching you young’uns in the west these days.
Yes Hammurabi’s Law was an antecedent, but the principle of “an eye for an eye” was also referenced in Exodus 21:23–27. So go fuck yourself…
Is that the same guy? Why does it seem like he is smiling in that picture?
Justice will be served. Chinese prisons are hardcore. Judging by his cute face, I’m pretty sure he will have a new boyfriend in oh…. .034 seconds. I would be hit with by a drunken idiot than be hit with the man meat. Now, if his parents allow his stunt double to endure all of this pain… Well, that would really make a few people upset.
I think China has enough gay guys that rape is not as necessary in prisons as it is in some other countries.
Ooooh…buuurnnn..
The odd thing is that the other 2 cars are never mentioned. The reason was that Hu Bin actually hit the guy. Rumour has it that there were 2 other cars involved and that DOES make the scene different. Speeding is NOT the same as street racing (this coming from a hotrodder).
Apparently the other 2 drivers also had parents that were super connected… their names didn’t even make the news or get charged.
T.I.C….never forget it.
You dont need to be super connected in China to get away with hitting some1. The only thing about this issue is that the media got hold of the story and it was passed through on BBS.
If no BBS, knowing a few low level judges is enough
Justice has been served. However, I doubt it will act as a deterrent to fools who still use public roads for their hoon behaviour.
in certain place….. if u r rich n well connected…murder n killing is consider legal…but they cannot get away from the punishment from the GOD …for me…justice is still far away in this case…
In other news, the Chengdu Buick car accident driver got the death sentence. But he did hit 5 cars and killed 4 people, which constituted “gravely endanger public safety”.
Im late on the photo comparisions….the trial guy just doesnt look like the speeding perp initially photographed. Does anybody have any follow up on this body double suspicion?
Only three years?! Money can buy anything nowadays.
poor guy! he doesnt deserve this!
donte stallworth
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Story?id=7867036&page=1
the point is the one killed four people in Nanjing due to drunk driving was sentenced to death.
tooth for tooth, eye for eye. Aint that a Sumerian saying or something? If i not wrong, from Hammurabi time… such golden age….