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Early last Sunday morning, a 29-year-old female worker was mauled to death by two big dogs in nearby Nanjing. Most frighteningly, over ten bystanders watched without doing a single thing.
The woman had been returning from the restroom outside the workers' dorms at the Jinghu Bridge Bureau when she encountered the two dogs, according to Netease. The "criminal" dogs were beaten to death under police supervision after the incident.
A reporter went to the factory she had been working at to investigate. A manager of a convenience store near the scene said that many people had run out to watch as the poor woman struggled with the dogs. When the woman's husband arrived, he and other workers found sticks to beat the dogs away - by that time, it was too late for the woman. She had been injured severely and died the next morning.
The happening evoked a long discussion among netizens as soon as it was posted online. Questions have raised around why the dogs were not locked up and why there wasn't people to help.
Many people thought that the owner of the dogs should've been punished instead of merely killing the dogs while also expressing their doubts of the working conditions in the construction company.
"很不理解为什么 非要打死狗呢？ 人为的监管不利该狗什么事？！ “不咬人的狗不是好狗。”“咬人的狗不叫唤。” 1.狗的主人 或监管人 管理不当致使狼狗冲出伤人 2.工地厕所建设，只考虑工作中方便吗？不考虑宿舍休息区吗?" "I just don't understand why they killed the dogs? It's the owner's fault! ‘A dog is not a good dog if it doesn't bite people.' 'Barking dogs seldom bite.' 1. The owner or supervisor of the dogs are the ones to punish -- they did not manage the dogs well. 2. The toilet in the construction area is so far away from the workers' dorms. Did the construction company consider how inconvinient for the workers to go to bathroom? Or they just didn't care.""狗不过是尽忠职守，在主人给他定的位置防御侵入，还是临晨，不知道有什么错，错在那个单位的傻逼规划，非要把厕所修到狗棚子另一侧，估计小时候脑袋让门夹了"
"The dogs were doing their duties. The incident happened early in the morning; the dogs were trying to protect their owner. However, the stupid construction company left no choice but built the toilet on another side of the dog cage? The people who designed this must have serious head damage."
But what really got people heated was that bystanders watched but didn't try their best to help, a common problem it seems in China.
"强烈建议：如果围观几十人中有男人最好去死！“ "Strongly suggested: If there were men among the people who watched, they better be killed!”
After reading the story, we're not really afraid of dogs so much as the attitude of those who might watch us in trouble.
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How is it that so many Chinese have the social consciousness of an autistic child?
welcome to China
To be concerned with your own safety is human nature. It is extremely noble to risk one's life to save a total stranger's, but think about whether you'd be able to do it (and be honest) before you criticize others.
hibean, I'd do it in a heartbeat, you coward.
Clintom stood by while the Rwanda Genocide was raging.
BBC1, that is just an idiotic comparison. There are so many things wrong with that argument, I'm not even going to bother destroying it. Suffice it to say that your statement, aside from sounding very uneducated, is just a typical Chinese-style ad hominem attack wherein you do not wish to discuss the topic on its own merits so you make a counter-accusation at what you perceive to be "the West." And as I've already noted, in addition to being underhanded and disingenuous in argumentation, you've chosen a particularly stupid example.
if i'd ever see that lil-bitch, i'd kick it into next week.
Domesticated dogs only attack people as a result of being trained and/or abused. The owners are definitely responsible and should be tried for murder (their weapon was the dogs).
What a shit ball country.
the (lack of) action by those bystanders doesn't surprise me at all. That's your average Chinese for ya. They don't care, though what bothers me the most is although they don't care, they'd like to watch anyway, as if it was a side show. That's culture, sad but true. The owner should be punished, the dogs should be put to sleep but not beaten to death.
What no video? Cowardly AND lazy.
That's why we eat dogs.. they're dirty animal and good for nothing but as food.
Interesting how it's the dogs that are "good for nothing" while the people were behaving no better than animals there selves.
Seriously, How hard is it to help a person in need?