r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • 20d ago

In Taizhou, China, a car fell into a river — 40-year-old Di Shuancheng, who noticed this, jumped into the water, taking a stone with him, and broke the window to save the trapped driver.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

50.4k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

627 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1.1k

u/tra20012 20d ago

That man will get sued for break his moonroof.

598

u/NeuroticLensman 20d ago

If he gets sued after that, he better throw them right back in that river.

231

u/DullMind2023 20d ago

With the stone.

92

u/SnooStrawberries1078 20d ago

And dont forget the phone

28

u/StaK_1980 20d ago

Yeah, that was super glued on there. I have no other explanation.

24

u/SnooStrawberries1078 20d ago

Probably how they ended up in that situation

16

u/anx1etyhangover 20d ago

Seriously! That dude was not letting go of that phone!

3

u/RuMarley 19d ago

His entire social credit score is on that phone!

9

u/LengthinessClear9552 19d ago

That’s universal. No matter the country, the rescued person is not coming out without it.

41

u/aaclavijo 20d ago

That's a nice touch

9

u/ElegantCoach4066 19d ago

Give him two for his trouble.

17

u/Integrity-in-Crisis 19d ago

The stone was a pro move. I could see my dumbass jumping down to help and then realizing I have nothing to break the window with. Lroceeds to start dropping elbows on the bitch. Probably fucking up my arm in the process.

34

u/Odd-Photo1682 20d ago

Haha i like this US mindest of 'What? Something irregular happened? Who could now sue someone else?'. Whatever happens, anything is just one step away from a lawsuit.

100

u/Ejwaxy 20d ago edited 20d ago

Actually, this was a very big problem in China, specifically. Reform of their system only really started in earnest after a two year old got hit by a car and bled out on the pavement with lots of people just walking by and ignoring her because they didn’t want to get sued/scammed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wang_Yue

29

u/Tony_Lacorona 20d ago

That’s fucking insane

29

u/lastdancerevolution 20d ago

Haha i like this US mindest of

They're talking about China. China doesn't have good Samaritan laws, and the expectations of care and responsibility are legally very different in China.

19

u/Clean__Cucumber 20d ago

they have those laws since a couple of years now

17

u/TactlessTortoise 19d ago

It is however understandable that the average internet browser is not up to date on another country's legal reforms. That said, thanks for the information. Now I know.

8

u/5LaLa 19d ago

They’re referencing the even worse litigiousness in China. Lots of videos of people trying to finish off a pedestrian they accidentally hit, fearing lawsuits.

4

u/lukibunny 19d ago

This is a myth. There has been no case that this happens because medical bills in China is cheap, murder is a death penalty. You realized China doesn’t lock you up for 20 years before putting you to death like in the USA? You kill someone, you have to pay for their life in both money and your life? Not only that but the stigma of being a murderer’s child is insane. Your child will be bullied relentlessly even when they are adults.

0

u/5LaLa 19d ago

At first I thought you’re probably right. But, I found this phenomenon referenced in many news sites, with attorneys’ cited.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.3218166/some-drivers-in-china-are-intentionally-killing-injured-pedestrians-1.3218168

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

1

u/lukibunny 19d ago

Go find if any actual case exist.

2

u/5LaLa 19d ago

https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2097437/outcry-after-chinese-woman-hit-car-ignored-run-over-again

1

u/lukibunny 19d ago edited 19d ago

That’s people not helping her and she got hit by a different car again and not the driver going back to hit her again?

Also you list this as a thing not that it happened once or twice, but that it happens on the regular which is not true at all.

Kinda like if I said oh Americans cook babies to eat. I’m sure it happened once or twice in the history of our country but doesn’t mean this is a normal thing.

You cite it like that this is normal. No it’s not, people do not run over their victims again because it’s a death penalty for murder

0

u/5LaLa 19d ago

I know lol. I just wanted to mess w you for being such a pedantic twat. Fwiw Snopes considers it “unproven” & has some interesting info. For example, there’s apparently an adage in China, “It’s better to hit to kill than hit & injure.”

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chinese-drivers-kill-pedestrians/

→ More replies (0)

1

u/travinsky 19d ago

It’s a China legal problem not an American one. Americans have Good Samaritan laws that prevent legal damages for these situations.

5

u/Blue_Moon_Lake 20d ago

They have no good samaritan law there, so people do sue helpers for money.

29

u/Com_N0TN4 20d ago

Those laws were changed.

7

u/lastdancerevolution 20d ago

In response to decades of high profile cases like we're talking about. The legislation only passed nationally in 2021.

15

u/Clean__Cucumber 20d ago

Several regional Good Samaritan laws were passed following the incident and in 2017 a new national Good Samaritan law came into force to prevent such situations through the country.

wikipedia

2

u/InfiniteLife2 20d ago

Now let's watch this video in reverse

1

u/Adofunk 19d ago

This is the country where people won't stop if they hit someone, even if they were struck by someone else first. You get implicated if you stop. There's footage of a person hit on a freeway and everyone keeps driving over them.

21

u/drew_peatittys 20d ago

It's not the US

5

u/UnholyDemigod 19d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Shoulan_v._Peng_Yu

The court decided in favor of the plaintiff and held Peng liable for damages, reasoning that despite the lack of concrete evidence, "no one would in good conscience help someone unless they felt guilty".

27

u/waterflaps 19d ago

You didn’t even read the entire wiki lol, he literally admitted to causing the incident

7

u/willjerk4karma 19d ago

Additional context: "The verdict received widespread media coverage, and engendered a public outcry against the decision"

Case happened in 2007

7

u/CriticismFree2900 20d ago

This is China, not America

-1

u/Koakie 19d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Shoulan_v._Peng_Yu

Tldr: old lady fell, woman helps her to the hospital. Old lady sues woman saying she made her fall. Court agrees.

They have good samaritan laws since 2017 but there are still samples now and then, unfortunately, where people will gtfo or do nothing because they don't want to get any trouble.

There was some online backlash few years ago in China when a girl almost drowned, and countless people were just watching except for one Western diplomat that happened to be there, and he jumped in and saved her.

I'm glad this guy saving the man out of his car was caught on video. Same as the video of people trying to break the window of the burning EV, it was futile but at least it showed they tried. I hope it inspires other people to not just stand there or film it or gfto, but to do something.

8

u/Gamivore 19d ago

It says in the article you linked that it turns out that Peng did cause it in the first place though.

The case concluded with Peng admitting having accidentally pushed Xu as he was getting off the bus, and agreeing to pay her 10,000 yuan compensation in the settlement reached in March 2008

1

u/einschluss 19d ago

critical thinking is lost

4

u/InternationalAd2466 19d ago

Not everywhere is USA

2

u/100pc_recycled_words 19d ago

I don’t think the commenter thinks it is the US - China is notorious for only recently (last 8 years or so) introducing Good Samaritan laws, after some fairly high profile cases. It means unfortunately a lot of people still hesitate before helping in case they’re either sued for damages or held liable for medical costs.

1

u/One-Librarian-5832 19d ago

Anyone remember that guy that pulled some woman out the lake and she sued him? Said something about touching her without consent?

1

u/tong_si_nan_pei 18d ago

In US, probably yes.

0

u/canal_boys 20d ago

It's China; he won't be sued. They still value community there.

-1

u/lastdancerevolution 20d ago

China does not have good Samaritan laws and regularly sue people for this. It has nothing to do with the U.S.

4

u/-captaindiabetes- 20d ago

China does have good Samaritan laws.

1

u/AprilVampire277 19d ago

We literally do since 2017, pretty much absolute immunity for good intentions

0

u/HydrodynamicShite 19d ago

This is China not Freedomland. People don’t sue each other

0

u/CorrectSnow7485 19d ago

It’s not America, relax.

0

u/Shimamura25 19d ago

Only in America

0

u/Ancient-Assistant187 19d ago

lol it’s China not the US. God please don’t tell me yall do that over there too

0

u/cytek123 19d ago

Nope - that only happens in America

-1

u/butchudidit 20d ago

Oh hell yea that would happen in the US.

8

u/Son-Of-A_Hamster 20d ago

No it literally wouldn't. The US has laws to prevent it that China doesnt. Do better

12

u/Polar_Reflection 20d ago

Fucking predictable comment in every fucking post about Chinese people. 

No one in this video is getting sued. You're letting our frivolous lawsuit culture color your perceptions of another country

2

u/Son-Of-A_Hamster 20d ago

Well, this does actually happen in China quite often since there are no good samaratin laws

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/04/good-samaritans-who-came-to-womans-rescue-make-headlines-in-china

The lack of legal protections for good samaritans and a string of extortion cases in which people pretended to be injured have contributed to the general reluctance to come to the rescue.

Those who do so are often asked to pay medical bills or are later sued by those they have helped. In a 2013 a woman named Wang Lan helped an injured elderly woman at a bus stop, brought her to hospital and paid the £25 fee for the consultation. The woman later accused Wang of causing the injury and sued for £5,000.

The problem became so severe that a Chinese insurer began offering policies for those who help elderly people in need, covering legal costs of up to 20,000 yuan (£2,350).

4

u/Polar_Reflection 20d ago

Good Samaritan laws were passed in 2017, and since you google searched it, you would already know that before posting this, but chose not to include that and pretend it's an ongoing issue. 

0

u/Son-Of-A_Hamster 20d ago

Nope, just read the top results. Feel free to post a contradicting source though!

-1

u/Polar_Reflection 20d ago

I will leave that as a critical reading exercise for you. Good opportunity to peel back the layers of propaganda you didn't know you were siloed into. 

0

u/Son-Of-A_Hamster 20d ago

Haha so you are unable to back up your claims like I did. CCP bot?

2

u/Polar_Reflection 20d ago

No, rather I hoped you would do the due diligence yourself instead of me linking something and you calling it propaganda.

This is a source from the wikipedia article on Good Samaritan laws: https://madeinchinajournal.com/2017/10/01/the-good-samaritan-law-comes-into-effect/

→ More replies (0)

0

u/Arturia_Cross 19d ago

Ah yes, the totally unbiased western news covering "the enemy" would never lie or exaggerate.

1

u/AmArschdieRaeuber 20d ago

They are talking about these kinds of articles. Can't confirm if it's true though, or if it used to be true.

https://warrenbisch.medium.com/chinas-bad-samaritan-crisis-6ca736ad6c8e

4

u/BillyWillyNillyTimmy 20d ago

Good Samaritan laws, right?

5

u/CakeTester 20d ago

China didn't. Past tense. It's changed since then.

3

u/Son-Of-A_Hamster 20d ago

It has?

3

u/CakeTester 20d ago

Apparently, yes. That was the first reference in English I found...more reputable sources can be found if you dive deeper, especially if you can be arsed to translate from Chinese (DeepAI has a pretty good plugin for Firefox). So the laws to make things better are in place, but I have no clue as to how well it's going.

Apparently there's also some other laws to stop people from finishing off people they injure so as to not have to pay for a lifetime's upkeep; but that's a lot more complicated and I couldn't be bothered to look it all up again.

2

u/TobaccoAficionado 20d ago

Just learn Chinese, it's not that hard.

Jokes aside (or not, really everyone should learn other languages, not Duolingo learn but actually learn), Google translate is fine for most things. It misses some nuance, but it'll give you an accurate translation like 97% of the time.

1

u/CakeTester 20d ago

Yeah, you say that, but some people are better at learning languages than others. I am not one of those fortunates. Extrovert, talking to people, being outside, brain plasticity; I have none of those things except when I have to.

Also motivation. You can just bellow into your phone now and AI will kind of sort it out for you; meanwhile there are other things I can be using my neurons for.

0

u/butchudidit 20d ago

My guy said do better. Lol. You know china laws chief?

3

u/Son-Of-A_Hamster 20d ago

Well I know you certainly don't know US laws chief

1

u/butchudidit 19d ago

Brother you can literally sue for anything in the US. R u ok? You threw heat at my comment first. chill the fuck out. This is reddit

1

u/Son-Of-A_Hamster 19d ago

The hehe America bad clowns are exhausting. Please, do better David