Am....Am I reading this right? This is pretty f-ed up, Is there some kind of truck killing epidemic or something? This is ridiculous. I cant believe there is such an inherent paranoia in China that over fear of losing money, they just inhesitantly do shit like this. After the tragedy of Yue Yue, the Chinese trucker who hit a boy... then ran over him again to be sure he'd died 'because it was cheaper than paying the hospital bills' Tragedy comes just a week after two-year-old was knocked down by two vehicles on a busy market street and ignored by 18 passers-by A lorry driver ran over a five-year-old boy – and then reversed over him to make sure he was dead in an apparent attempt to avoid footing hospital bills for the child. The sickening incident happened in Luzhou, western China, when driver Ao Yong hit Xiong Maoke as he left home to walk to school. Witness Zhang Shifen said: ‘I saw the truck move back a little and then move forward again. Xiong became wrapped up in the wheel and the truck continued forward another ten yards.’ The tragedy comes just a week after two-year-old Yue Yue was knocked down by two vehicles on a busy market street. The child was ignored by 18 passers-by before someone came to her aid. She died in hospital a few days later. In this latest incident passers-by said the lorry driver jumped from his cab after hitting the boy. They claimed Yong then asked: ‘How much shall I pay?’ The drivers who shamed China: Two arrested in death of two-year-old Yue Yue - who was run over TWICE as dozens of people ignored her lying in the road Police said Yong, a 35-year-old lorry driver from Luxian, argued with the boy’s family about the size of the damages for seven hours. After the latest incident, Yong denied reversing over the boy to kill him. Last night, police and government staff insisted Xiong died on impact. Their investigation ruled that Yong was the first person to call the police after his truck hit the boy in the village of Yunfeng, in Luzhou, Sichuan province. They said his body was not removed immediately because angry villagers were demanding instant compensation from the driver. In heartrending scenes, the boy's mother sat shocked next to the covered body of her five-year-old son. A string of such horrific cases have led to soul-searching in China, where the economic boom has been blamed for fuelling materialism at the cost of compassion. Handing over compensation if an accident victim dies is seen by many Chinese as cheaper than paying for lengthy hospital treatment. The Communist regime does not provide free healthcare for its 1.3billion citizens. Ignored: In a similar incident the previous week, Yue Yue was left with horrific brain injuries and never recovered The fear of high medical bills is also thought to be behind a second accident in China in which toddler Yue Yue was knocked down by two vehicles on a busy market street. The gruesome ordeal, captured by security cameras, showed the bleeding child was ignored by 18 passers-by before she was picked up by a scrap picker and given to her mother, who rushed to the street looking for her. A week after the accident, she died in hospital. Two drivers suspected of running over the Chinese toddler were arrested on Sunday. The Beijing News and other outlets reported that police in the city of Foshan concluded their initial investigation and ordered the two men formally arrested, a step that almost always leads to a trial. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...latest-horrific-Chinese-traffic-accident.html Warning. There are some explicit pictures that are although censored is still noticeable
reversed to roll over twice just not to pay bills thats just fked up =_= and that picture..... left the truck just like that?! WTF!
The thing is that you can see the truck is lifted up from the ground because the kid is underneath the wheels. The driver should get run over and then hunged to death.
Running over someone unintentionally is called an accident; doing so intentionally to cause his death, regardless of purpose, is referred to as murder. In this case, the driver should be charged as such, with his vehicle being the weapon. Let them put a bullet in his head, charge his family for that "service" and then harvest his organs. Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to the inhumanity of the PRC.
"economic boom has been blamed for fuelling materialism at the cost of compassion." Human nature at times, is very disgusting.
one thing that people may have not thought about is why are these kids getting run over? what were they doing on the road and where were their parents? oops just saw the article haha... the mother was walking with her son home
The problem here is, that Chinese in the PRC have been conditioned to be totally dispassionate to the pain and suffering of others. While most in the west would cringe at the thought of choosing money over a child's life, many in the PRC would just shrug. Instead of running to assist at the scene of road accidents, Chinese instead, choose to take pictures of the spectacle and show their friends. The person laying there is no longer human, but a thing to comment on. Again, this is emblematic of the years of grinding dehumanization by their style of governance and its overall social effects. It will take several generations to undo what has become almost reflexive to the mainland Chinese psyche. Personally, I'm filled with an incredible sense of sadness over what my people have become.
This is murder, plain and simple. It astounds me that the villagers would first think to approach this man for some sort of cash payment for having witnessed this incident, rather than making some sort of citizens arrest. The chinese justice system is completely fucked. They will jail artists for being political dissidents, but when it comes to murder, they instead impose some sort of monetary punishment?
It is hard to not say that these people are selfish, but the reality is really the society they live in. Both sucks.
