Young girl run over by truck in China as bystanders do nothing

[cowcommander]

WARNING: Video is disturbing. Jesus Christ, so many people just ignored her... :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys9DPhAMJr0

[roamer65]

1. I have been told that human life is treated very cheaply in China.

This from someone who visited many years ago.

[texanwitch]

7. Wow.

She was runover twice, really 3 times.

The truck ran over her with his front wheels, stopped and then ran over her with his back wheels.

A second truck ran over her foot.

No one gave a damn that a injured child was laying in the road.

[Maine-ah]

56. I'm glad I read your post.

I can't watch that.

WTF is wrong with people?

[Xithras]

45. Hate to say it, but it's not that unusual

Hardly a week goes by when LiveLeak doesn't have a new video with something like this from China. It's certainly not universal, but it's WAY too common. I've known enough Chinese to know that there isn't a disrespect for life there, so that's certainly not the cause. I don't buy the claim for a minute that life "has less value". I think it has more to do with not wanting to get involved.

There was a video posted a few months ago showing a young man and woman who lost control of a scooter and hit a concrete median. Their bodies laid there for nearly 30 minutes before someone stopped to help. The young man never moved, but the woman was writhing around for at least 20 minutes before she either died or lost consciousness. It was a horrific thing to watch, and dozens of vehicles passed them before one stopped to help.

Of course, I hate to say this, but watching vids on LiveLeak also wakes you up to one other fact. It's not just a China thing...in a LOT of the world, most drivers simply steer around an accident (the Russian's are fairly famous for this too). The practice of stopping to help at an accident site is fairly uncommon around most of the world. China is simply notable for the sheer volume of these videos (which may simply be a combination of their massive population and the ubiquity of video cameras there).

[bananas]

59. NYC used to be like that, maybe it still is - Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

[Little Star]

2. That was unbelievable!

[chillspike]

3. Fake?

[ZombieHorde]

5. It is so disturbing that I was hoping it was a prank. nt

[Booster]

Gotta be. Nobody in the world is that callous.

[ZombieHorde]

4. That is one of the most disturbing videos I have ever seen.

I physically winced several times during that video.

[polly7]

6. OMG. That is absolutely horrible.

What the hell is wrong with people. Poor little thing.

[renate]

8. can't watch

Was she killed?

[cowcommander]

9. No she's still alive but seriously injured

[polly7]

11. del. I was wrong, thank goodness. nt.

[SkyDaddy7]

10. That is BEYOND DISTURBING! nt.

[KathieG]

12. Horrible.

:(

[JI7]

13. I SO hope this is fake

[JI7]

14. is there anyone that can translate what is being said , and are there any other

media reporting on this ?

[DonCoquixote]

15. and these are the folk

That will bet new superpower. In all fairness, Life In China did not become really cheap until the double whammy of Mao and deng Xiaoping (aka the guy that made the PRC the capitalist mess it is today) did their thing.

[BOG PERSON]

37. life in china was a million times worse before the revolution

[DonCoquixote]

54. ah

and life has become so much less cheap now, right?

[texanwitch]

16. I am going to say this.

Was it because it was a little girl and not a little boy.

That video is really disturbing.

[Politicalboi]

40. I think that could be true

How can someone just walk by, or even run over her again. I thought she was dead till I saw her arm move.

[stuntcat]

17. k

.

[thelordofhell]

18. Time Warner China?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2121733

[texanwitch]

19. I read that.

I don't understand that either.

I would like to see someone try to stop me from CPR.

[NutmegYankee]

20. OMG, was that the father watching the video?

How sickening and horrifying for the parents to watch that. I have heard of cases like that in the US as well. What the hell people?

[FedUpWithIt All]

21. I feel sick.

My three year old son is sleeping next to me right now. He walks like that little one and is about her size. I feel like throwing up.

[texanwitch]

23. This is one video I wish I could unwatch.

It took two women to finally do anything.

[FedUpWithIt All]

25. I want off this planet.

I really just cannot stand the depravity anymore. That was just unthinkable. And there is so much unthinkable that it becomes hard to bear.

[texanwitch]

26. I hope the little girl will not remember what happened.

Bless her.

[JI7]

22. i wonder how people would have reacted if it was a Boy that had been hit

[texanwitch]

24. I would hate to think that but I also wonder.

Glad I am not the only one to think it.

[JI7]

29. look at this

the below is from a previous incident, the same article talks of a guy who hit a woman with ihs bike and then just stabbed her to death, and a guy who hit and just decided to run over and kill a begger because he didn't think her life was worth anything. in all of these cases it's a female that is the victim.


<The killing in Fuzhou occurred as numerous witnesses watched in shock. The unnamed driver, seeing he had hit the six-year-old girl, returned to his car and hit her again.

"He drove back, and ran the right front wheel over the girl again," the local Strait Metropolitan Daily quoted witness Chen Yi as saying.>

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/hit-run-murders-spark-china-morals-debate/story-e6frfkyi-1226052767292#ixzz1auqiUazk

[seabeyond]

38. and people woder why women are bothered with misogyny. i dont care if it is another part of the

world

it is just degree.

[IndyPragmatist]

27. I wonder if police corruption has anything to do with this

I've heard that in some places in China, police just want to close a case and claim they caught the criminal. I just wonder if people ignored her because they were afraid of getting involved and being arrested. I don't believe that so many people could walk by and do nothing if they weren't afraid.

[JI7]

28. why was she hit in the first place

the car was stopped for a while . i thought the car that hit her was going to suddenly come from the opposite direction. but from where the car that hit her stood it seemed like the driver should have been able to see her even while itw as still stopped.

i don't know. maybe they are afraid. but i just can't see mostp eople even if that was the case to react in a way when it's a small child like this.

and as i said above, what if it was a boy ? i wonder if they would have reacted the same.

[Kurmudgeon]

30. Completely horrible. I don't know what to say.

[ReverendDeuce]

31. Usually I can deal with stuff...

But here I am, 30 minutes later, and my head is STILL spinning...

[Quantess]

32. That was absolutely mind boggling!

It looks real, too. I wouldn't ignore an injured bird or squirrel in the street, let alone a child. WTF?!

[Odin2005]

33. Many Chinese concieve girls as a worthless finacial burden because of doweries.

[ReverendDeuce]

34. How did this get +7 recs?

Jayzus...

[Quantess]

35. Because it's noteworthy.

[BOG PERSON]

39. those chinese

they just don't have the same value for human life we do.

*predator-drones a hospital*

[JI7]

41. the thread on the Time Warner employee who died because people were told to get to work

instead of help has more comments and recs.

[stuntcat]

42. also this thread was un-rec'ed a few times

I was watching.

I guess people didn't want this news to get much attention? didn't think it merited DU's notice

[JI7]

44. i don't understand that at all

some seem to have some mentality that either we can't criticize what goes on anywhere else unless we are perfect. or they just don't consider it important or sensationalism type story.

but this is a big problem in chian. and in fact many who are criticizing htis ARE Chinese people.

this is not on the same level at all but remember during the olympics how they got another girl to appear in public and sing some song, but the actual girl whose voice was used was not shown because they didn't consider her nice enough to put out there. as if the girls are just objects.

this is just so fucked up. most people don't even run over when it's a dog, cat, bird etc. but how this girl was just treated like some useless object.

[Shagbark Hickory]

60. "recs" means people recommend that others read it. It's often mistaken as

an opinion poll of personal approval.

[stuntcat]

36. k

again


thought recs were to get people's attention to things, not because you like them

[JI7]

43. Updates , There is some news that This Little Girl has died

reporting on various sites on China.

i think shanghaidaily has somethign on it but you have to login and i'm not registered.

the girls name was Yue Yuem and she was 2 years old, and the woman who did try to help her was a garbage scavenger .

below has some info

http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/videos/2-year-old-chinese-girl-ran-over-by-van-ignored-by-18-bystanders.html

[polly7]

47. Aw damn.

I hope the poor little thing never regained consciousness. God help her family get through this.


Did you read the comments after the article? Many of them are excusing those who walked by:'Before you judge, ask yourself what you would have done.' What kind of disconnect does it take to even ask that? Unbelievable.

[stuntcat]

48. k

When I try to look this up the only links I get are the video and this DU thread, which keeps getting unrec'ed. She is probably dead.

To me it is not about China, this. is. humanity.

[FedUpWithIt All]

49. It was difficult to imagine her surviving that.

I saw this last night and it has literally haunted me all day. There are some things that will never wash off. :(

[FedUpWithIt All]

55. Driver of the first van worries he'll have to pay more if girl is injured than he would if she died

He tells the media in a telephone call...""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,"

This man STOPPED and then decided to run over the child with his rear tires.

When she ran from shop to shop for the identity of the girl, the rag collector was told by a number of shopkeepers to mind her own business.

http://english.sina.com/china/p/2011/1016/405462.html

The police have reportedly arrested the second driver and, according to the girl's father, the first driver has also been arrested. The first driver even called Yueyue's father, saying that he was willing only to pay some compensation but not to turn himself in.

"If it was you who hit someone, you'd run too," the driver reportedly told Yangcheng Evening News, blaming the child for the accident. "You can see the little girl, looking around when she walked. If she walked properly, how could I hit her?"

The father said Yueyue ran into the alley to look for her seven-year-old brother.

His wife ran out looking for her, but in a different direction.

WTF is wrong with people. Seriously just :puke:

http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=8fd07b0c14d03310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=china&s=news

[Blue_Tires]

58. Jesus fuckin' Christ just when I thought this story couldn't get worse

we're in a whole new universe of bad...

[FedUpWithIt All]

62. It really is just unfathomable.

Lack of empathy is an ugly thing.

[Blue_Tires]

63. Does the driver have any kids of his own?

[FedUpWithIt All]

65. I seriously hope not.

Sadly, this man's comments and views on this are apparently not that rare. More than a few of comments on some of the Chinese reports are both callous and share the sentiment of this man. Apparently there is fear of liability in accident cases, among some, and that death, in such cases, is preferred because compensation is less.

[RebelOne]

50. Why was a 2-year-old child out alone on the street?

Where was the mother? Why was she not out looking for her? A lot of questions here.

[JI7]

67. the parents own a shop in that market place and the baby wandered off

the mother went to look for her but went in a different direction.

does it matter how well economic growth is if society is reduced to ignoring a dying bleeding 2 year old right in front of you.

people are mentioning the kitty genovese case but this seems even worse.

[Quantess]

53. After reading some of the comments

it appears as though strangers are reluctant to help because they may get in trouble for getting involved. People mention a court case in which a bystander helped an injured person who later took him to court, and he was held responsible.

Which makes sense. I can't imagine any society which would be so callous to a small child, without some explanation like that.

[octothorpe]

68. sad :(

[nadinbrzezinski]

46. I hate to say it, not surprised

And not because it's china.

As horrific as this is, we hav periodic reports even in places like Toronto.

Rest in peace little girl

[abogado]

51. Somewhy the video won't play for me but the name Kitty Genovese

came to mind as I read the sub line...

[Glimmer of Hope]

52. Something is seriously wrong with a society that acts this way.

Those people showed no concern for a dying child on the street!

[JI7]

57. Picture of Yue Yue

with her mother. some international sources are starting to report on this. i hope it gets huge coverage internationally.

[polly7]

66. Adorable. I'm glad there's such a nice picture of her being circulated. nt.

[Shagbark Hickory]

61. Savages. n/t

[slackmaster]

64. This happened on our watch.

:argh: