All the simply cant be bother pedestrians! terrible.........

[tamarind]

Hi deminc,

Your comments are very sensible. However, note that there are also big problems with tainted food in China, big problems with the high speed rail, and pollution.

I advice parents who wish to bring kids to China to avoid big cities and avoid crowds as much as possible. I brought my kids to Lijiang and Shangrila in June this year, and I do recommend these two places for fresh air and a relaxing holiday, just make sure you avoid peak periods.

deminc:

I would like to go to China again and I will bring my children along when they are older. It's a complex place, no doubt about it. One should be watchful, or get a trusted guide, but I disagree that this incident shows it to be a terrible place. If it's so terrible, there will not be an uproar in the first place. Rather the incident would have been treated as commonplace and no one would bother to report it. I believe there is societal pressure from poverty and the law is weak and fickle. As an outsider, I will not judge the 18 people.

I read the news article to my children. I highlighted what the victim's mother said - that she refused to be disappointed by society. That is very commendable.

[raysusan]

[quote]AFP

Friday, Oct 21, 2011

BEIJING - A Chinese toddler who was ignored by 18 passers-by as she lay critically injured in the street after being run over by two vehicles has died, the hospital treating her said Friday.

Surveillance camera footage of people walking past the two-year-old girl, nicknamed Yue Yue, as she lay bleeding and unconscious sparked a wave of condemnation and soul-searching on China’s hugely popular social networking sites.

A rubbish collector who finally moved the girl to the side of the street in the southern Chinese city of Foshan was hailed as a national hero, but the incident also led many online commentators to question the state of Chinese morality.

“Yue Yue died of systemic organ failure,” a spokesman from the hospital treating her told AFP, adding that no expense had been spared to try to save the girl, whose parents are migrant workers.

Doctors had earlier said Yue Yue, who had been in a coma since the October 13 incident, was unlikely to survive.

The death of Yue Yue was one of the most popular topics on China’s weibos – microblogging sites similar to Twitter – on Friday as people expressed sorrow and anger over the incident.

“Farewell to little Yue Yue. There are no cars in heaven,” wrote one microblogger on Sina’s weibo.

“Yue Yue was consumed for a week by the fake kindness of netizens... All the wishes are fake and only the 18 passers-by are real. Farewell, and do not be born in China in your next life,” another weibo user wrote.

Police have detained the drivers of both vehicles involved in the incident. [/quote]rip.....................

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[poppy15]

RIP little Yue Yue... u can roam anywhere freely in heaven... there are no cars ard...

[blueblue]

Rest in peace Yue Yue

[Castle House]

RIP…

[kiddo]

RIP Yue Yue , you bring the people you left behind to their conscience…


you will be happy then in a better place
where you dont use money
to buy a life …

[pinky]

a few more cases happened after her death, not because no one helps but the vehicle went over the kids again to make sure he/she is dead but this time, the drivers are stopped by the crowd... :yikes:

[concern2]

Sick…

[poppy15]

:mad: ... :rant: ... :nunchuk:

[concern2]

Hey guys, I simply have to post this. Every parents should watch this. There is something called the \"bystander mentality\". It could happen anywhere, and what people should do when witnessing such a situation.


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