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WTF: No one helps injured Chinese toddler

By Catherine Toth Fox • October 18, 2011 • Musings, The Daily Dish

I was literally brought to tears at my desk at work.

A 2-year-old girl in China gets hit twice by two trucks. She’s laying in the street in a pool of blood. And at least 18 people walk or bike past her and do nothing.

This poor child.

Never mind the bastards who hit her and ran off. How can that many people literally walk right past her bleeding body — and not even stop to help?

It’s shocking, it’s disturbing, and it makes me wonder WTF is wrong with us.


WARNING: This surveillance video contains graphic images

The toddler, named Yueyue or Wang Yue, had wandered outsider her family’s shop in the Chinese city of Foshan. People walk, bike and drive by. Finally, a 58-year-old female trash collect stops, lifts up the girl and asks people if anyone knew who she is.

She’s in critical condition with massive head injuries. She may die.

I was literally weeping at my desk this morning, completely disgusted by the lack of empathy and compassion shown by these neglectful passers-by.

Who does that? Who walks past a dying child?

It’s stories like these that make me wonder what our world has become.

I know these things happen all the time — and they’ve been happening long before we could blame technology or social media or the Millennial Generation.

But technology and social media have made the public display of these horrific, inhumane acts visible to the world. And the world is responding.

We’re disgusted, we’re pissed off, we’re sounding off in blogs and around water coolers.

We can’t stand for this.

So what do we do?

We do better.

We vow never to walk past someone in need. We promise to help our neighbors. We live by the philosophy that a simple gesture of help is a gift of hope.

And we never condone this kind of behavior. Ever.

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8 Comments

  • Reply Brandon October 18, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    I heard about this, it sickens me.

    • Reply Catherine Toth October 18, 2011 at 3:05 pm

      I honestly can’t concentrate at work. It’s really bothering me.

  • Reply Nakeli October 18, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    I read about this yesterday and it still bothered me all day today. I have a 3 year old little girl so this really had a personal effect on me. I could not believe that no one would help this poor child. This is so despicable. I prayed for her and her parents.

  • Reply Alex October 18, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    For starters, China needs a Good Samaritan Law. But Good Samaritan Law or not… it’s unbelievable that they’d leave someone, especially a child, dying in the street like that. Is it too much trouble to call for help?

  • Reply David Jackson October 18, 2011 at 3:33 pm

    This is so painful to watch. And I know it is so hard to help others, especially those in the deepest need. You have to dig deep. You have to find a way. I’ve intervened, stuck my neck out and had things go horribly wrong and amazingly right. Regardless, you still have to try. It is what you would want others to do for you. This is so sad. I hope it helps change this remarkably screwed up planet we live on. I pray the girl comes out OK. I love my son so much, I could not imagine no one helping him if something like this happened to him. It breaks my heart to think of it.

  • Reply myama99 October 18, 2011 at 3:50 pm

    Amen Cat!!!! This is seriously F’ed up. I know China has that 2 child rule (don’t me started on that), but really!! Have we as a species gotten this incompassionate?

  • Reply hawaiiobsessed October 18, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    Actually China has a 1 child rule and people are forced to have an abortion, are forcibly sterilized, infanticide is rampant. You have to wonder if that mentality has had an effect on people. So disturbing that people would leave anyone, let alone a child to die in the street. So disturbing.

  • Reply MaxMaxMax October 19, 2011 at 12:10 pm

    Horrific and disgusting! But it doesn’t surprise me at all… and it’s not just China, but even here as well.

    About 20 years ago I had a very bad spill on my bike near 24-Hour Fitness (Gold’s Gym back then). I was actually unconscious for a few seconds, (not from a blow to the head, but something that happens to me when I get a shock to my bones from an accident or injury). NO ONE helped me… NO ONE!!! I picked myself up, bloodied and all, and limped to the gym to call a friend to take me to the hospital.

    A couple of years ago I was biking Tantalus and I came across another biker limping with his bike–clearly injured. I stopped and asked if he was OK. He said he think he broke his leg. I turned around and rode back down to the triangle park parking area and went back up for him. Surprisingly when I got back to him, he said NO ONE else had stopped and asked him if he needed help. I was the only one… I guess blood just frightens people. I took him to Straub. Later his wife texted me his and her thank yous and told me that his leg was indeed broken.

    It just makes me sick!

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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