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At midnight on Monday, our friend was returning from a friend's house at 88 Huichuan Lu in Chang Ning district when a red taxi pulled out from a driveway, hit a man and drove away. He heard the sound and saw the man on the ground with a pool of blood from his head and his body twisted in an awkward position. The taxi drove off and Clark was the sole witness on the street except for a Brazilian woman, who also saw it happen. They assumed the man was dead, but called Guanxi and tried to get through to a hospital. From our friend:
Last night (Monday) I was returning from a friend's home around midnight. When I stepped outside, I heard a noise and it disturbed me. As I got closer to the road, I saw a red taxi speed away and a man's body on the ground. There was a Brazilian lady outside and she and I both stood still staring at him. I ran over to him, asking him if he was ok.. but he did not move and I saw the blood. The Brazilian lady asked if I knew number to hospital and I didn't.Some numbers you should remember off the top of your head, just in case you have an accident or witness one: Ambulance: 120; Police: 110I used Guanxi and got the number, but no one spoke English and they laughed on the phone as they passed it around saying they don't speak English. I hung up. The Brazilian woman saw a taxi and somehow asked him to call the hospital for us. He did. I was in shock and felt frozen. I sat down next to the man lying on the street and in my bad Chinese kept asking if he was ok. I couldn't touch him. Soon other taxi drivers stopped and began surrounding me and the body. They were laughing, chatting, pointing, smoking and no one seemed to bothered about the twisted body lying there. The woman and I stayed until the ambulance came. The body was put in the ambulance, but I know he was dead. From the look of it, he hadn't been breathing in half an hour. She was crying. I walked her to her apartment and we both cried for the loss of a life of a man we didn't know.
One of the taxi drivers who was on the scene smiled at me and waved theatrically to the other drivers as a got into the taxi as if it was some kind of comedy show. They seemed more entertained that they had witnessed a black guy crying than that a man had lost his life. I ignored him, told him my address and sat in the car, wiping the tears from my face. I've never seen a man die before. I feel like I could have done more.
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Chinese displaying lack of morality. What a shocker.
Is anyone really surprised by the Chinese antics? After all it wasn't them (or one of their kids I.E. their pension fund) who suffered, so why would they give a flying fuck?
"Soon other taxi drivers stopped and began surrounding me and the body. They were laughing, chatting, pointing, smoking and no one seemed to bothered about the twisted body lying there."
How would you expect them to act? With sympathy?
You must be new here.
No doubt if the guy's death had given them an opportunity to wave a flag and chant '中国加油' a la the Sichuan earthquake they'd have been more sympathetic.
I hope [REDACTED] and the Brazillian lady are doing OK, from the report it sounds like he did well not to be provoked by the taxi drivers.
this same type of thing happened to me in nanjing last fall. a drunk driver hit a woman on a scooter right in front of my taxi. i ran out to help her and make sure she was ok while trying to triage a bit. tv crews showed up to film the foreigner helping the bleeding woman and only much later was an ambulance called. turns out the large crowd that gathered all thought i was responsible despite the angry man reeking of baijiu that was yelling at me to mind my own while trying to push his car out of the median.
totally shocked when it happened. reading this only enrages me further.
@xiaoerjing
I think a lot of the time when things like this happen, people are worried to help because they know there is a possibility (especially in the absence of reliable witnesses) that they will get blamed for the crime.
It's a scary situation to be in. Our friend was deeply upset by what happened.
@rebekah pothaar
so i heard, after the fact. i talked to some chinese friends about it the next day and they looked at me like i was insane for helping. i guess a couple months before someone got a pretty harsh punishment for hit-and-run when they were just the first to respond on the scene and not at all responsible. it's hard to imagine though what with a whole flock of cabbies that no one would help based on communal vouching.
so much for a good samaritan act in china.
Hi, that is a schocking, very sad story and I think that is not normal in China. I never saw people so rude. Next time most important: first remember the number of the bad car who killed the man. Then call the emergency and police.
"Some numbers you should remember off the top of your head, just in case you have an accident or witness one: Ambulance: 120; Police: 110"
Let's hope the police won't laugh at you when you call 110...
Its not my intentions to bash anybody but this reminds me of a quote from Lu Xun, “The masses - especially those in China - are always spectators at a drama. If the victim on the stage acts heroically, they are watching a tragedy; if he shivers and shakes, they are watching a comedy. Before the mutton shops of Beijing a few people often gather to gape, with evident enjoyment, at the skinning of the sheep. And this is all they get out of it if a man lays down his life. Moreover, after walking a few steps away from the scene they forget even this modicum of enjoyment. There is nothing you can do with such people; the only way to save them is to give them no drama to watch. There is no need for spectacular sacrifices; it is better to have persistent, tenacious struggle.” - Lu Xun-鲁迅
Step 1: take pulse
->
a) dead? call police
b) alive? apply pressure to any bleeding wounds, call ambulance
Step 2: give CPR as needed until help arrives, ignore useless locals who may gather to watch
From the report it does sound as if the man was dead already. These two people already went way above and beyond what is typical in this country and should be commended for their efforts. Even worse then the utter lack of concern by the group of taxi drivers is the fact the person responsible will probably never be caught.
This is a terrible story, but like everyone else, I am unsurprised. Generally, I've found that if Chinese don't know you, they won't do anything to help you, regardless of how dire the circumstances. "It's not my issue," they always say.
@Rebekah Pothaar
Yeah, I'm sure they'd all rush to help if it wasn't for the fact they might wrongly be accused! Everyone, clearly, abides by the Chinese rule that as long as you are standing further than 2 metres away, gawping, cigarette hanging from lips and chuckling vacantly you definitely won't get blamed.
So much for China's "improving social condition". And this country is playing a bigger role in world affairs? And has growing leverage in Africa? The end of times is near and all seven seals have the PRC flag on them.
the regulator: i guess you are being sarcastic???
And i just think you suck, you must have soooo many prejudices that it stops you from developing .
I know there are many Chinese who lack morality just as many in other countries, even western countries, So I'm VERY VERY SURPRISED OF this incident, that the people around just laughed at the situation, VERY SURPRISED.
F*** You nanheyangrouchuan, that was the weakest riposte to date. I expect better.
6357 7913 is supposedly the English language number for police/ambulance/fire emergencies. I thankfully haven't had to call it so I cannot comment on it's usefulness.
China is a filthy, smelly cesspool of barbarism!
YAY!