I read this post today, and find it very interesting to share with you.
The ending is emotional pregnant woman paid 1000 RMB to the victim guard, after three true witnesses give evidence against her. She admit her fault and should not slap his face and kick at his right upper leg, but felt unfair that the witnesses who only saw half story, forced her into that big payment.
It all happened that the woman wanted to fly kite in the park, but the guard said no. Seeing some kites flied above a nearby shop, she decided to give it a go. The guard found out and started argue, during which angry mom-to-be slapped and kicked him; the guard refrained and called his colleague.
It looked like a legal process. There were witnesses, both sides of the fight, and police. The only part missing is hospital check to decide how bad the damage. Concerning a hospital check cost similar count, the woman paid as asked.
To my surprise, all 7 response critised the woman for not obeying rules, and hitting guard first. No matter how improper the language he used, the woman losed the battle first. No one discussed whether it was fair to pay 1000 RMB as an apology, since the woman insist she did not hit him badly, and take in count that the emotinal woman was 3 months into pregnancy.
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1 The Masked Millionaire // Apr 13, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I guess the guard has nothing better to do then give pregnant women flying kites a hard time.
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2 Rick in China // Apr 13, 2008 at 11:16 pm
While Americans (especially) have a reputation for bringing about lawsuits for ridiculous reasons, I’ve experienced and seen far more attempted small-money grabs by people who play the role of being Victimized here in China on a regular basis. Even if it’s their own fault, they’ll try to find ways to justify their actions in order to siphon small cash payments from each-other. There isn’t a small incident which passes without gathering an enormous crowd, and he/she who wins the crowd gets the payment.
There is a massive illness plaguing China - that of “lookie-lou” syndrome, everyone seems to want to gather around anything that seems like an incident so they can throw in their two (usually uninformed and biased) cents. Sometimes they even end up getting involved in the problem itself. The only thing that surprises me about this story is the fact that only 7 people threw in their opinions on the situation, I’d guess there were another 15 or 20 gathering around who decided to stay quiet.
That being said: the “security guards” in China are far from being much in the way of security, most are either very young or very old, I’ve never seen one who looks like he works out, I’ve never seen one “quick-to-react” to any situation or give much of a care to anything really…but then again, the majority of them are also very underpaid migrant-ish workers from the countryside communities around the cities in which they work. You get what you pay for, eh.
The guard is clearly a pussy for trying to muscle a woman into something as ridiculous as “not flying a kite” when other people are flying them freely - the woman is clearly an idiot for trying to ‘get away with something’ told to her by a man with little to no power, but a uniform - that’s like saying “You want a little respect in your shitty job but I’m going to give you NONE” - and here, that leads to Bumpkins Gone Wild footage, sorry to say, and she’s a local so has no excuse for not realizing what’s going to happen when she “slaps” and “kicks” a “guard”.
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