# WTF!!! (Bystanders ignore child run over by truck in China)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 4, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918 "2012-05-04T20:06:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/1 "2012-05-04T20:06:23Z")
[http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543\_162-20121691-503543.html](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20121691-503543.html)
Someone mentioned this at a party last night. I thought it had to be bullshit.
WTF is wrong with these people!!!
Words fucking escape me, I just keep spitting.
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### Author:  [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/2 "2012-05-04T20:06:48Z")
Uh, not clicking on the link. Need more description.
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### Author:  [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/3 "2012-05-04T20:13:42Z")
It’s the old story of the toddler getting hit by the cars and the bystanders doing nothing. All I can say is, Damuri, you have lived a very sheltered life.
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### Author:  [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/4 "2012-05-04T20:13:45Z")
We were outraged about this last year. Where were you?
[China is one f\*cked up society](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=628000&highlight=china+toddler)
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### Author:  [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/5 "2012-05-04T20:16:20Z")
We did this a while back - it’s the story of the child in China hit by a truck, lying in the street as people pass by without helping.
It’s pretty disturbing so don’t look unless you’re uncontainably curious or that kind of thing doesn’t bother you.
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### Author:  [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/6 "2012-05-04T20:18:49Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#):
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> Uh, not clicking on the link. Need more description.
Sorry. I was fucking shocked and so the title is crappy and the description is non-existent.
A toddler is standing in the middle of a narrow one lane street and a truck driver is moving along at maybe 20 miles per hour and runs over the toddler with his front wheel. Stops. Then runs over him with his rear wheels. there are a slew of passersby and another truck comes along and runs over the toddler laying in the middle of the street. Finally a poor old woman drags the kid out of the street. Then the mother shows up and take the kid to the hospital. The kid dies.
I can’t believe this could happen anywhere in the world, not even in the middle of war torn Iraq do I think a toddler would get run over twice while several people just walked by.
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### Author:  [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/7 "2012-05-04T20:24:51Z")
Welcome to Obama’s America.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/8 "2012-05-04T20:29:04Z")
China, **Rand**. China. Did you miss that part? China.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/9 "2012-05-04T20:29:13Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> Welcome to Obama’s America.
Wrong macro?
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/10 "2012-05-04T20:37:39Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> Welcome to Obama’s America.
I laughed.
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/11 "2012-05-04T20:39:43Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> Welcome to Obama’s America.
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/12 "2012-05-04T20:39:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> China, **Rand**. China. Did you miss that part? China.
Obama has a China now?
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### Author:  [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/13 "2012-05-04T20:41:44Z")
Wow, over a half-dozen laughs in the first 12 posts. This is quite a different pitting.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/14 "2012-05-04T20:44:32Z")
> [@Gedd](#):
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> Wow, over a half-dozen laughs in the first 12 posts. This is quite a different pitting.
Squashed foreigners are always funny…
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/15 "2012-05-04T20:52:14Z")
This is just terrible. Why didn’t someone alert us of this earlier?
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/16 "2012-05-04T20:54:01Z")
This is clrealy good news. Now the parents can have a second child.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/17 "2012-05-04T20:56:54Z")
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/18 "2012-05-04T20:58:32Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> [Modding]
> I’ve edited the title to make the content more clear.
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The rant which can be named is not the eternal rant.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/19 "2012-05-04T21:00:37Z")
I was shocked too, at first. Now I don’t even glance up from my paper unless it’s a freight train going through a daycare center.\* We all learn to adapt.
- What? It could happen. Shut up!
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### Author:  [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/20 "2012-05-04T21:24:30Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#):
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> Obama has a China now?
No, Obama _has china_. It’s symbolic of the crass materialism that leads people to ignore dying toddlers.
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