# WTF!!! (Bystanders ignore child run over by truck in China) **URL:** \ **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:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/61 "2012-05-09T01:27:23Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Anyone have updated information on this? The only thing I found was a report that the girl died: [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202\_162-20123555/chinese-toddler-left-bloody-in-hit-and-run-dies/](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-20123555/chinese-toddler-left-bloody-in-hit-and-run-dies/) > > If someone has a reputable link, please post. > > Given the amount of play it had at the time, I’m pretty surprised there hasn’t been coverage of the drivers getting convicted. I’m still skeptical that this event. You don’t consider _CBS News_ to be reputable? One of the big four networks? It’s not some dinky little newspaper. WTF??? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/62 "2012-05-09T01:43:48Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > The first Google link for Recreational Outrage is a band name? 😃 I’m sure it was started by a Doper. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/63 "2012-05-09T05:59:04Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > You don’t consider _CBS News_ to be reputable? One of the big four networks? It’s not some dinky little newspaper. WTF??? Reposting of the Chinese report. CBS is reputable but didn’t actually do the reporting. There’s a difference. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/64 "2012-05-09T19:41:51Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Here’s the thing, at least as I see it: The world is a very big place, with many billions of people. Hundreds of these sorts of tragedies take place every single day. If you were so inclined, you could find some news story that would be just as outrageous any time you wanted – simply because there’s so much stuff of all kinds going on all the time. > > So unless it’s truly a national or world level tragedy (e.g. Darfur, Katrina) or it affects you or someone you know, it’s not worth getting worked up about. IMO, of course. And China is a large place. This isn’t the isolated act of one deranged psychopath, several people ignored this dying child as they walked by. The implication is that THIS is China now. A place where people will watch a child get run over by a truck and just say “its none of my business” and when a second truck runs over the kid they still don’t think to pull the kid out of the road because its none of their business. > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You’ve written more than 8,000 posts in 6 years, How many have you read? Good thing you missed the thread about [the baby and the parking ramp](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=621751). One deranged psychopath does not usually indict an entire culture. > [@China\_Guy](#): > > Anyone have updated information on this? The only thing I found was a report that the girl died: [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202\_162-20123555/chinese-toddler-left-bloody-in-hit-and-run-dies/](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-20123555/chinese-toddler-left-bloody-in-hit-and-run-dies/) > > If someone has a reputable link, please post. > > Given the amount of play it had at the time, I’m pretty surprised there hasn’t been coverage of the drivers getting convicted. I’m still skeptical that this event. I used to go to China in the 80’s and 90’s and it wasn’t this bad. there was always a level of “mind your own bsuiness” but mostly when it came to crime and domestic violence not when it came to children. When it came to children it was a lot more “it takes a village to raise a child” ---
**Author:** ![Sasquatch\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Sasquatch\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sasquatch_1)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/65 "2012-05-09T20:08:48Z")
Seeing this at the top of the list made me check the thread for dead baby pills jokes. I was disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/66 "2012-05-09T20:34:27Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You’ve written more than 8,000 posts in 6 years, How many have you read? Good thing you missed the thread about [the baby and the parking ramp](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=621751). > [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > …One deranged psychopath does not usually indict an entire culture… No it doesn’t. But my comment was about Doper culture, which DOES commonly make jokes about what deranged psychopaths do, and DOES commonly snark about horrible tragedies. Yet you seem to have been blissfully unaware of this for 6 years, and only now shocked when you find it. Which is why I assume you just don’t read much of the content here. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/67 "2012-05-10T03:12:27Z")
> [@Sasquatch](#): > > Seeing this at the top of the list made me check the thread for dead baby pills jokes. I was disappointed. I just read about that this week - that was truly a WTF moment. Pills with ground up fetus and infant in them, to give you boners for a longer time? That seems really fucked-up to me. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/68 "2012-05-10T05:04:02Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Which is why I assume you just don’t read much of the content here. No, Damuri is just an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918/69 "2012-05-10T05:25:16Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > No, Damuri is just an idiot. Who cares? I wanna hear more about ground up boner babies! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-bystanders-ignore-child-run-over-by-truck-in-china/620918.md?page=3)