QUOTE(poooky @ May 11 2025, 09:40 PM)
Very scary, but can't blame the man when the society he lives has proven to punish good Samaritans. Precedent ady set when old woman fell down, young man go help, old woman play scam claim young man knock her pain here pain there got broken bones, etc, and then the courts side with old woman and sentence young pay to pay for her living expense for life.
After this precedent, can you expect anyone to help? If this man helps, later the parents accuse him injured their child. Then court side with them. Then how? Anyone in his shoes will also think twice.
They changed the law almost a decade ago lo. But their culture never changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law#ChinaQUOTE
China
There have been incidents in China, such as the Peng Yu incident in 2006,[13][14] where good Samaritans who helped people injured in accidents were accused of having injured the victim themselves.
In 2011, a toddler called Wang Yue was killed when she was run over by two vehicles. The entire incident was caught on a video, which shows eighteen people seeing the child but refusing to help. In a November 2011 survey, a majority, 71%, thought that the people who passed the child without helping were afraid of getting into trouble themselves.[15] Following the event, China Daily reported that "at least 10 Party and government departments and organizations in Guangdong, including the province's commission on politics and law, the women's federation, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Communist Youth League, have started discussions on punishing those who refuse to help people who clearly need it."[16] Officials of Guangdong province, along with many lawyers and social workers, also held three days of meetings in the provincial capital of Guangzhou to discuss the case. It was reported that various lawmakers of the province were drafting a good Samaritan law, which would "penalize people who fail to help in a situation of this type and indemnify them from lawsuits if their efforts are in vain".[17] Legal experts and the public debated the idea in preparation for discussions and a legislative push.[18] On 1 August 2013, the nation's first good Samaritan law went into effect in Shenzhen.[19] On 1 October 2017, China's national Good Samaritan law came into force, Clause 184 in Civil Law General Principles.[20]
That case also in court they found out the guy pushed the old lady.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Shoulan_v._Peng_YuQUOTE
The case concluded with Peng admitting having accidentally pushed Xu as he was getting off the bus
This post has been edited by JohnL77: May 11 2025, 09:45 PM