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pkang0202
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comm
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 Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:19 pm Post subject: Re: Chinese Woman in accident, bystanders take pictures |
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| As she lies on the road bleeding the bystanders just stand there and take pictures on their phones. |
Naturally, they were well payed for these pictures by news organizations like the one you linked to. |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| So many stories like this seem to come out of China |
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PatrickGHBusan
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Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:37 am Post subject: |
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| China does have some different rules and laws concerning intervention in the case of an accident....you do know that right? |
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BobbyOrr
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:49 am Post subject: |
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There was a terrible accident on a rural road in Ontario a few months ago, involving migrate farm workers in a van and a transport truck. 11 people died. I read an article in my local paper and one of the first people to arrive on-scene commented on how many people stopped by the accident to take pictures. Before the ambulances arrived.
So, it's ain't just China. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Professor Bill Nye, popularly known as �the science guy� on TV, collapsed on stage out of exhaustion as he prepared to give a lecture. Instead of helping him, many students in the audience took out their cell phones, snapped photos, texted and tweeted. |
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Swampfox10mm
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Professor Bill Nye, popularly known as �the science guy� on TV, collapsed on stage out of exhaustion as he prepared to give a lecture. Instead of helping him, many students in the audience took out their cell phones, snapped photos, texted and tweeted. |
That's embellishing on the truth...
He fainted several times, but wanted to continue. He recovered without issues.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20443083,00.html |
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pegasus64128
Joined: 20 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:33 am Post subject: Re: Chinese Woman in accident, bystanders take pictures |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
http://www.segye.com/Articles/News/International/Article.asp?aid=20120402022316&ctg1=01&ctg2=&subctg1=01&subctg2=&cid=0101040100000
The article is in Korean, but from what I can gather a woman was riding a motorcycle/scooter and got in an accident. As she lies on the road bleeding the bystanders just stand there and take pictures on their phones. |
That's the kind of dystopianism I expect from there. "human resource unit down. Activate revenue stream." |
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cuorev
Joined: 10 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| China does have some different rules and laws concerning intervention in the case of an accident....you do know that right? |
what are these different rules and laws? |
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Buddah's Slipper
Joined: 12 Mar 2012
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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I've always been of the mind that population density and human empathy have an inversely proportional relationship.
That or the Chinese are just evil. |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:03 am Post subject: |
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I recall a similar type of thing happening in Derby, I think.
Some person was going to jump to their death from the top of a building. A crowd below gathered to watch. Some shouted at the person to jump. When he (think it was a he) jumped people took photos of the body with their phones. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| madoka wrote: |
| Professor Bill Nye, popularly known as �the science guy� on TV, collapsed on stage out of exhaustion as he prepared to give a lecture. Instead of helping him, many students in the audience took out their cell phones, snapped photos, texted and tweeted. |
That's embellishing on the truth...
He fainted several times, but wanted to continue. He recovered without issues.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20443083,00.html |
What "embellishment?" It's how the LA Times reported the event. And even though the People Magazine article you linked to still supports what I said, I trust the LA Times a lot more. Here's what they had to say:
Tristan Camacho, a USC senior who attended the lecture, said Nye was walking toward the podium when he collapsed mid-sentence. "Then after about 10 seconds, he popped back up with much gusto and asked everybody how long he was out for and went on with a story about how a similar thing happened to him that morning."
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"Nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he first collapsed -- that just perplexed me beyond reason," USC senior Alastair Fairbanks said. "Instead, I saw students texting and updating their Twitter statuses. It was just all a very bizarre evening. |
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northway
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| "Nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he first collapsed -- that just perplexed me beyond reason," USC senior Alastair Fairbanks said. "Instead, I saw students texting and updating their Twitter statuses. It was just all a very bizarre evening. |
Did you to to his aid, Alastair? |
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JustinC
Joined: 10 Mar 2012
Location: We Are The World!
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In North Korea they shove puppies and kittehs into the road and hope to photograph them being run over. Unfortunately they have no roads, vehicles or cameras but I can show you a heavily pixelated random shot of a road, a camera phone and an 'Asian'.  |
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Dodge7
Joined: 21 Oct 2011
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| China does have some different rules and laws concerning intervention in the case of an accident....you do know that right? |
t doesn't matter, it's a moral thing. Some people would rather have a pic to show their friends rather than call police or doing anything they could to help. |
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