IN BAD COUNTRY, PEOPLE ARE SO EVIL THAT IF THEY ACCIDENTALLY HIT SOMEONE WITH THEIR CAR THEY IMMEDIATELY HIT REVERSE TO MAKE EXTRA SURE THEY KILLED 'EM
Americans believe that if a burglar gets injured in your house then they can sue you so you should make sure they are dead. The police would sometimes discreetly advise people to plant a knife on them if they didn't have one.
Theres a cop in oregon on video reccomendinf that people plant a knife on “antifa” that they kill at their militia checkpoints
“Double-hit cases” have been around for decades. I first heard of the “hit-to-kill” phenomenon in Taiwan in the mid-1990s when I was working there as an English teacher. A fellow teacher would drive us to classes. After one near-miss of a motorcyclist, he said, “If I hit someone, I’ll hit him again and make sure he’s dead.” Enjoying my shock, he explained that in Taiwan, if you cripple a man, you pay for the injured person’s care for a lifetime. But if you kill the person, you “only have to pay once, like a burial fee.” He insisted he was serious—and that this was common.
In 2010 in Xinyi, video captured a wealthy young man reversing his BMW X6 out of a parking spot.
Why are nearly half of their examples from people who don't operate under Chinese laws? Seems pretty racist to assume that all of these people are the same.
This is just the General Westmoreland "Life is cheap in the Orient" quote rehashed for the post-Thatcher era.
Why are nearly half of their examples from people who don’t operate under Chinese laws?
Just out of lazy curiosity because I don't want to actually pick through this shit, how many more were in Hong Kong or Macau?
This article is bizarre, and the author seems to have a chip on his shoulder against both Chinese people and BMW.
Also strange, the author is a business lawyer and professor who frequently represents Chinese businesses. What is he doing writing articles like this for Slate?
Geoffrey Sant teaches at Fordham Law School, is on the board of the New York Chinese Cultural Center, and is counsel at Dorsey & Whitney LLP.
the author seems to have a chip on his shoulder against ... BMW.
Maybe he's a fanboy for one of the other bougie car brands? Car guys have their own weird sectarian conflicts just like :gamer-gulag: :heated-gamer-moment: have their sectarian console war bullshit.
BMW is to most asshole intense car brand , and causes the most crashes...
It's from 2015 and already has tons of snapshots of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20210107054452/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/why-drivers-in-china-intentionally-kill-the-pedestrians-they-hit-chinas-laws-have-encouraged-the-hit-to-kill-phenomenon.html
china has much more auto fatalities per capita and per vehicle. i think the actual state of affairs isn't as described in the article, but there is something missing there.
I've seen this before. The explanation is apparently if you injure someone you have to pay for their recovery where if they die you don't have to pay anything.
guessing a newer driving culture with fewer/less stringent regulations? the united states has been in love with the automobile for over a century now, and in its early history they were death traps for everyone involved.
These are some weird takes, if this shit is true it’s a horrifying loophole
Surprisingly there's a decent Snopes on it
Seems that there's no actual evidence for this beyond rumor and several urban legends.
The cases they provide as evidence are completely devoid of context and framed to make the accidents look like intentional homicides when it's very likely that they were actual accidents.
I remember seeing this shit all of the time back in the early years of r/watchpeopledie and they would wholeheartedly believe it because “Asian people bad”
I remember The Economist ran an article a while ago whose premise was that the concept of friendship doesn't exist in China.
Rich spoiled kids with fancy cars killing pedestrians isn't a China specific issue
But wait le epic redditors always said this happens in russia because their insurance systems are so corrupt
Meanwhile in America, we make sure our victims die the old fashioned way
With bullets
Richard Spencer and Patriot Prayer discussed the legality of mowing protestors down with their cars before the unite the right rally where Heather Heyer was murdered.
https://news.yahoo.com/former-far-extremist-testified-unite-192701499.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADjNnw-PgqhR-dWGjDsOMhC5MQLg3MctB2Grmot0Utxejraq-a864Q1kJo-_BapO4wJSVi6cMEbpZR4jcPXrtr_2DDI86AN20urA4V1bwHO9O0V05-V3spe3FJVQ2rqmmgsV--6tiAOxYYqwES4ZKu5g7zPh0u7GX96osTsCCuF1
In the US we pay billions in tax money so a guy can order engineers to build a robot car that runs over people. It even has a people-seeking computer system. Then we praise that guy for saving the world.
This in my opinion is just the bourgeois everywhere, you're just not seeing incredibly racist stories about it.
In american they ask for permission to hit people with their cars for minorly inconveniencing them
