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News: A little girl crashed, all 18 Persons ignore (Update)
Member Since: 4/30/2011
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That poor girl! I can't believe that some people are really that ignorant. 
That's just sad.
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Member Since: 6/24/2011
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Originally posted by jaydee20
It's not surprising they didn't help. It's called the bystander effect or diffusion of responsibility. The more people around, the less likely someone is of helping because of fear of embarrassment or simply because they think someone else will help. There are heaps of youtube videos on it.
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This and the 'Peng Yu' effect, as RichGirlPlanet and !ola explain, is the reason why this video isn't very surprising to me. Nevertheless, situations like this one are terrible for everyone. We need to do better for one another.
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Member Since: 8/19/2011
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People. 
If there's a life lesson all people should know it is that you intervene when you see an injustice going on.
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This is extremely shocking and disturbing. I don't know what to say, by the info. some users already posted then there's like a "reason", but no, there's no ****ing reason to let a little girl die.
Now, if I want to get more "reasonable", why does the little girl was walking alone in the street, and when the woman shouted for help (and I would think that she shouted for the girl's mom), I think that the mother was near enough because even the woman didn't have to walk more, and the mother came up fast.
But whatever, the little girl is now battling for her life, hope she get's alright.
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Member Since: 2/17/2010
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Originally posted by RichGirlPlanet
Terrible, but check this out.
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Yeah, because a two years old will surely sue them.
A revolution is needed in China. Their system is ****ed up.
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Member Since: 11/5/2009
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Originally posted by RichGirlPlanet
Terrible, but check this out.
Reddit: In China, this kind of situation is referred to as the 'Peng Yu' effect. Before you condemn the BYSTANDERS, you have to understand their situation. The law right now in China means that many victims of traffic accidents, or people who have fallen ill in the street have actually successfully sued the people that helped them for sums of money that could easily destroy lives, even if there is no evidence that they are the ones that caused the accident (because they were not).
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They also have a rule that if someone steals something from you, and you are 100% sure, then you can beat the **** out of them. 
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Member Since: 11/24/2006
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Originally posted by Bloody†Mary
As for the child, she was knocked into a coma and was pronounced brain dead this Sunday.
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Is this true??!
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Member Since: 11/5/2009
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A Chinese toddler who was ignored by at least 18 passers-by as she lay bleeding and unconscious in the street, has died, the hospital treating her said Friday, in an incident that has shocked the nation.
The plight of the two-year-old girl, nicknamed Yue Yue, captured the public imagination after surveillance camera footage showed her being knocked down first by a van and then several minutes later by a small truck.
At least 18 people were shown walking past the girl as she lay in the street critically injured, before a female garbage collector finally picked her up and moved her to the curb.
Several passers-by can be seen stopping to look down at the girl before carrying on, and their failure to help her has triggered speculation the country’s rapid development and has made people more selfish.
Millions of Chinese went online to watch the grainy footage of the incident, which took place on October 13 in a narrow market street in the southern Chinese city of Foshan.
China’s hugely popular weibos — microblogs similar to Twitter — have buzzed with the incident since the video emerged, with many online commentators hailing the garbage collector as a hero.
But there has also been much soul-searching about why both the drivers who hit Yue Yue and the passers-by in China’s wealthiest province, Guangdong, chose to leave her for dead rather than stop and help.
“The little girl’s destiny made us ashamed because she left this world painfully due to our indifference and neglect,” posted one commentator online after the hospital treating Yue Yue said she had died.
A commentary in Friday’s Global Times daily said the incident had exposed the “dark side” of Chinese society.
“The Yue Yue incident reminds us of where China is standing on the ladder of its moral development,” it said. “This is what happens in a modern society when many decisions are shaped at a fast pace.”
A senior official in Guangdong said the tragedy should be a “wake-up call” for society.
“We should look into the ugliness in ourselves with a dagger of conscience and bite the soul-searching bullet,” said Wang Yang at a provincial meeting, according to China’s official Xinhua news agency.
Some commentators speculated that the failure to help Yue Yue was motivated by fear of being blamed for her injuries after a high-profile 2006 case in which a driver who stopped to help an elderly woman was later prosecuted.
Peng Yu, then 26, said he stopped after seeing the woman fall in the eastern city of Nanjing, but she accused him of knocking her down with his car, and a court later ordered him to pay her 45,000 yuan (US$6790) in damages.
“The judge in Peng Yu’s case in Nanjing has destroyed the kindness of a whole nation and it is difficult to recover,” wrote one weibo user on Friday.
Retired sociologist Xia Xueluan of Peking University said the Peng Yu case was a turning point in recent Chinese history, after which many people feared a backlash for doing the right thing, the way heroes of his childhood always did.
“After Peng Yu, this is China’s moral quandary. When we were small, we had no such trouble knowing right from wrong. We had Lei Feng to look up to,” Xia told AFP.
Lei Feng was a Chinese army soldier whose selfless service to the Communist Party, Chairman Mao Zedong and China’s people was immortalised in a nationwide propaganda campaign targeting the country’s youth after his death in 1962.
“Today, we have no Lei Feng,” Xia said.
Psychologist Hu Shenzhi of the Guangdong Sunflower Counseling Center said Chinese today are stressed knowing that social services have not developed as fast as the economy, so many fear debt if they fall ill or are in an accident.
“Under the circumstances, there’s slim chance of helping others. If the two drivers stopped to help the kid, they wouldn’t have had the chance to get away, then they would be asked to pay lots of money,” Hu told AFP.
“As for the 18 passers-by, if they helped, they would probably be blamed for causing the accident. In China, everyone’s trying to protect himself,” he said.
Police in Foshan said the drivers of both vehicles that hit the young girl had been detained and would face trial.
One was detained the night of the accident and the other gave himself up three days later, police said.
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scared to look at those ^ ... god that's terrible!
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Member Since: 7/9/2010
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The vileness of some
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Member Since: 12/31/2010
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I ****ing hate people. This really makes me mad. How dare people choose to not assist someone in need like that, especially a toddler. People passing by, the damn people who hit the poor girl! Should all be arrested for all being affiliated with her death. And who are these ****ing paparazzi think they are getting in her face when mourning the fact her child died? **** the bystanders, **** the paparazzi, and **** the people who don't understand how messed up this is. This is beyond wrong.
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Member Since: 9/13/2011
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She died. So sad and preventable 
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Member Since: 9/13/2011
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It was a case like this in New York awhile back...
A homeless guy was helping someone who was being attacked/robbed and he was stabbed and later bleed to death on the side walk. Ppl were walking by him while he was bleeding and did nothing.
Some ppl are just heartless.
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I have goosebumps all over my body. I hope the mother never watches the video.
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Member Since: 11/5/2009
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Originally posted by IWasHere
It was a case like this in New York awhile back...
A homeless guy was helping someone who was being attacked/robbed and he was stabbed and later bleed to death on the side walk. Ppl were walking by him while he was bleeding and did nothing.
Some ppl are just heartless. |
I remember that.
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