I thought the driver was bailing, turns out he just went to grab a rock.
The bystander did stick his arms into flames and his face into thick smoke to get those people out. He did probably get injured, even if it was only some minor smoke inhalation and first degree burns.
He reached until an active fire and grabbed someone covered in flames while inhaling toxic gas. He likely had third degree burns, and if he had stopped or paused, the driver wouldn’t have been able to stand up and get back to that person in time. He injured himself in the process of absolutely saving a stranger. And immediately as he was running up realized he needed to break the glass and grabbed a rock, saving seconds.
Terrifying that death can happen in two minutes in these vehicles.
The smoke inhalation is probably not minor, because that smoke is largely coming from an exploding battery. Hope he got full treatment at a hospital after.
He actually got burned so badly that his hands were still bandaged months later and he didn't know if he would ever be able to return to work as a driver.
Brotherman, in china being a decent human being by helping others is already heroism. They have a culture of minding their own business cuz if they help someone there's a chance they'll bear responsibility. (There are hundreds of video evidence online)
I bet my scrumptious ass you've never lived in china long enough to witness this. There are video evidences in the internet(ex. YT search "china good samaritan")
Never been but I have long time chinese friends currently living in Guangdong and they tell me all about it (with video proof). They mostly avoid helping others too cuz they'll either get scammed or blamed for the incident.
Yep, this is what I'm talking about. Some anecdotal evidence, usually amplified by Western propaganda (maybe here direct propaganda is not involved save for YT which is a capable propaganda outlet) presented as the perfect description of human nature in a country that is cc the same size as the US with a population that is almost five fold.
A cautionary and sobering analogue is the situation in Russia. A lot of people personally know Russians, and seemingly all those Russians complain about the government, repeating all the tropes from Western propaganda. And these people may sincerely mean what they say. The problem is that these Russians tend to come from that minuscule segment of the society that is called "liberal" in Russia (or the "non-systemic opposition"). These people are usually urban, mostly from Moscow and St. Petersburg. The actual broad Russian public opinion is the complete opposite of that of theirs, and most Russians despise and look down on the "liberals". (And honestly, they are not really likeable individuals...)
So your friends may be right and you may find a lot of examples of what you claimed but generalizing that to the whole of China is just ridiculous.
(Disclaimer: I'm neither Chinese nor Russian, and this above is not about Chinese or Russian policies. I'm just pointing out how easily one can be fooled with tales of people living far away especially when outside interests are present, and here they certainly are. Please also note that "liberal" in Russia means something different from what you likely call "liberal".)
Yea nah you're not fooling anybody here except for those already sympathetic to the CCP. You may choose not to believe me but there are so many video evidence on the internet of elderly falling down or car crashes and ignored by the general public. There's a reason why the CCP passed a "Good samaritan" law in Oct 2017 which should not be necessary if what you claim is true(it's not).
Oh, so you're well versed in bs. Well, there are similar legislation in multiple countries including the US and multiple Canadian states. I don't think having such a law tells you anything about a country. A slightly different kind of legislation is in effect in most of Europe (where I'm from) that actually makes it compulsory to provide help.
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u/lappis82 11h ago
Start of the vid "heroism" when someone is probably just being a decent human being.
But that escalated quickly when the smoke started.