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Three year old "motorcyclist' takes to a busy road in China to find his mum.

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  • #2
    Franticfrank
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭Franticfrank


    Bad junction alright...surely some of the motorists could have stopped? Or else that might have made it worse for everyone.


  • #3
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Franticfrank wrote: »
    Bad junction alright...surely some of the motorists could have stopped? Or else that might have made it worse for everyone.

    Stop? That's not how they roll in China!


  • #4
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Probably safer not to stop, some clown behind would think "whats that díck doing" swerve around him and run down the kid.


  • #5
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Unfortunitly there is a fear of helping others over there, a public case around 20 years ago saw a motorist help an old man that had been run over to the hospital, next thing the old mans family showed up an accused the driver of running him over. It went to court and the judge ruled in the family's favour, the drivers life was ruined and he had to payout money and medical bills for the rest of the oldmans life. This was so famous everyone over there are in fear of helping others unless the person in trouble shouts out publicly that they fell by themselves or whatever. This fear of paying money out has lead to a few cases where a driver has run over a child and then backed up over the child to make sure they are dead as it would be cheaper to pay off the boys family than pay hospital bills for a cripple. I love China and speak Chinese but it is one of the thing I dislike.


  • #6
    spank_inferno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    There was also that other case a few months back of a child being hit twice by vehcles in the street.

    People just walked by....


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  • #7
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Chris_Heilong wrote: »
    Unfortunitly there is a fear of helping others over there, a public case around 20 years ago saw a motorist help an old man that had been run over to the hospital, next thing the old mans family showed up an accused the driver of running him over. It went to court and the judge ruled in the family's favour, the drivers life was ruined and he had to payout money and medical bills for the rest of the oldmans life. This was so famous everyone over there are in fear of helping others unless the person in trouble shouts out publicly that they fell by themselves or whatever. This fear of paying money out has lead to a few cases where a driver has run over a child and then backed up over the child to make sure they are dead as it would be cheaper to pay off the boys family than pay hospital bills for a cripple. I love China and speak Chinese but it is one of the thing I dislike.

    Speaking of in today paper: "Drunk' Chinese couple 'knocked down elderly woman.and then buried her while she was still ALIVE' :

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149260/Chinese-couple-buried-elderly-woman-alive-theyd-thought-theyd-killed-drink-driving-accident.html
    spank_inferno wrote: »
    There was also that other case a few months back of a child being hit twice by vehcles in the street.

    People just walked by....
    They would probably have done it to this child too, someone must have been looking over him. :)

    CCTV systems are exposing these horror cases that a number of years ago people could have got away with.


  • #8
    deman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭deman


    Luckily for this kid, he was the right gender. A little girl probably wouldn't have been as lucky.


  • #9
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Speaking of in today paper: "Drunk' Chinese couple 'knocked down elderly woman.and then buried her while she was still ALIVE' :

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149260/Chinese-couple-buried-elderly-woman-alive-theyd-thought-theyd-killed-drink-driving-accident.html

    I'm just gobsmacked by that picture, what came first, the bridge or the house?:eek:

    article-2149260-01A022B600000578-871_468x314.jpg


  • #10
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,710 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    I'm just gobsmacked by that picture, what came first, the bridge or the house?:eek:

    I'd say the bridge

    Not that different from how we use railway arches

    1318939484_80.177.117.97.jpg

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  • #11
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    ^^^
    Looks a lot nicer, that's living under a bridge in style!:D


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  • #12
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    They see me 'trollin, they hating :pac:.


  • #13
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    Gone Drinking wrote: »
    Stop? That's not how they roll in China!

    Life is very cheap in China. Sure over 1.2bn of them around to waste

    Someone died making your iProduct? Sure how bad!


  • #14
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    ^^^
    Looks a lot nicer, that's living under a bridge in style!:D
    You know all about it when ou are woken up at 6AM every morning with the first train.


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