Another child in China hit repeatedly by truck. Driver's first words are "How much should I pay?"

[FedUpWithIt All]

This was reported on Oct 20th.

Zhang Shifen witnessed the accident. "I saw the truck coming, the children were walking by the side of the road, not in the street." Zhang Shifen recalls the truck didn't hit Xiong Maoke directly, but rather cuffed his ear. "He fell, but after being knocked over, immediately stood up again and bent over to pick up his umbrella. "

The next scene left Zhang speechless, "I saw the truck move back a little and then move forward again, Xiong Maoke became wrapped up in the wheel, and then the truck continued forward another 10 meters." Zhang Shifen said she was standing behind the truck, and clearly saw a child under the wheels had been badly mutilated. She shouted at the driver, "What are you doing? Will you stop!" The driver stopped, got out, swore, and turned away.

He then asked, "How much should I pay?"

http://shanghaiist.com/2011/10/22/yueyue-child-death-sichuan.php

Another story of a 3 yr old run over 4x (in 2010) by the same BMW is listed in the comments section of the original story. The driver was not prosecuted beyond a traffic violation.

http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/bmw-driver-hits-small-boy-runs-him-over-4x-then-walks-away.html

There is real sickness in this trend. Sad and unbelievably disturbing. Hopefully the recent attention to this issue will bring change.

[Kablooie]

1. In the 1920's dead babies on the street in Shanghai were commonplace.

The wealthy would just step over them and grumble at them being an annoyance.

This comes from the book "Shanghai Girls" which is fiction but the writer did a lot of historical research and made her description of the world as accurate as she could.

[stuntcat]

2. k

humanity.

[JI7]

3. so fucked up