Chuchoter wrote: » If I'm honest, I've a feeling this story has an even more awful backstory. I find it really difficult to believe that what happened happened, someone already had their phone on to film it from such an opportune vantage point and failed to call out from the window to stop what was happening. It just seems really really suspicious to me.
IvyTheTerrible wrote: » Me again! wrote: » any examples? Well there have been well known people getting away with killing people while drink driving with just losing their licences.
Me again! wrote: » any examples?
Me again! wrote: » who?
Oranage2 wrote: » Well the real cruelty here is why the kids was allowed play on the road alone. Apparently the parents worked in a shop there and would leave the kid out all day to play on his/her own
A two-year-old Chinese girl who was run over twice and left to die by 18 passers-by has died in hospital. Wang Yue, died shortly after midnight of brain and organ failure at the The Guangzhou Military District General Hospital. Intensive care unit director Su Lei said: "Her injuries were too severe and the treatment had no effect," The sickening pictures of the girl have shocked a nation. More than a million people have viewed the horrifying video of the Chinese tot being knocked down by a white van online. The driver pauses but then he carries on, crushing her with the back wheels. Eighteen people ignored little Yueyue lying in a pool of blood. Cyclists and rickshaws weaved to avoid her and she was run over by a second vehicle. Eventually, street cleaner Chen Xianmei picked up Yueyue from the street in Foshan in China’s Guangdong Province. Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/10/21/chinese-girl-run-over-twice-and-left-for-dead-in-street-dies-115875-23504101/#ixzz1bUpAyPrL
phasers wrote: » posted twice already. Poor kid.
Yve wrote: » Awful Poor Little Thing Why would anyone want to watch the video ?
Some believe Yueyue was ignored due to a 2006 judgment when a Good Samaritan was ordered to compensate a woman who she helped get to hospital in eastern China.
Cookie_Monster wrote: » pretty obvious why they did nothing in fairness though... when ****ed up **** like the above happens why would you expose yourself to such?
shampoosuicide wrote: » jesus fukcing christ. i love how every thread on boards that's to do with a child having an accident/dying always comes back to this chestnut. i fully expect that all you people wrap your kids up in protective cotton and never let them leave the house. 'apparently' - it's more than likely a rumour and nothing more. also it wasn't a road, it was an alleyway beside her home.
--Kaiser-- wrote: » This reminds of a story I read a while back. A homeless man stopped a woman being mugged and gets stabbed for his trouble. He is left bleeding to death for hours and no one stops to help him. One guy even stops to take a photo and walks on.http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dying-homeless-man-stopped-mugging-sidewalk/story?id=10471047 Disgusting. Some people don't deserve to live