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Q: Man badly beaten by foreigner while sitting in taxi at red light
A Shanghai resident riding home in a cab last night was beaten by a foreigner, leaving his brow ridge cracked and nose fractured, eastday.com reported today.
The victim surnamed Zhang was attacked around 11pm when the taxi stopped at Jiangsu Road and Wuding Road W. for a red light, the report said. A foreign man laid his bicycle down in front of the taxi, walked over to where Zhang was sitting beside the cab driver and began to punch Zhang in a rage, the report quoted Zhang as saying.
The assault left Zhang with a fracture above one eyebrow, a broken nose and multiple bruises, according to the report.
Zhang said he had no idea why the foreigner beat him so badly because he did not know the man, who fled after the attack.
Police are investigating the case.
Do you think the " foreigner " beat him for no reason at all? I thing the Chinese man was mouthing off and got a beating.
That would be my guess too. I've had guys in cars yell abuse at me as they sped away before and I would have loved to catch up with them at the traffic lights.
That, or the taxi driver was driving like an idiot and it was a case of the wrong guy getting bashed, which would be stupid and unfair.
Either way, I doubt that it was a random attack.
Shanghaiist: Laowai attacks Shanghai man in cab for no reason
Well, that title sounds pretty decisive, considering this story is the account of one Chinese person. You know, if Chinese people weren't so honest and forthcoming, all the time, I might think this article was thin on evidence.
But seeing as A) Chinese drivers are exemplary in their behaviour and B) Chinese people would never make up stories to suit themselves, what other explanation could there be?
Of course the attack was unprovoked.
coineineagh:
Technically, it's two Chinese. The victim, and the driver who witnessed it. Probably some nutter, or a feud over a girl they were competing for at the KTV. But I agree that the 'unspecified wrongdoing foreigner' theme is very prominent here.
The police is investigating the case.
The police is investigating the case.
THE POLICE IS INVESTIGATING THE CASE.
Making conclusions before knowing anything of what actually happened.
Scandinavian:
didn't you mean
the police is doing jack-shit
the police is doing jack-shit
THE POLICE IS DOING JACK-SHIT
DrMonkey:
I'm those kind of really, really, stupidly naive people who won't accuse and make explanations with two figments of information. I read "a taxi driver have been beaten. The taxi driver says a white man riding a bike did it, for no reasons". Find testimonies or cameras footage. Don't care the guy is white, yellow, brown, or green.
Stiggs:
You're quite right, we don't know what happened and shouldn't say that we do.
I don't think there's anything wrong with speculating about what did happen though, which I think the comments here are. Speculation, nothing more.
Scandinavian:
unless we where there, all we can do is speculate. I don't think a foreign man would be more or less likely of committing this, provoked or unprovoked. I completely agree with The Doctor, that the skin color doesn't matter (although this story would not have been brought up had it not been a Laowai)
DrMonkey:
The attitude "I'm pretty sure a foreigner would no do that without reason", in my eyes, is equivalent to "a Chinese would not do that, surely a Foreignistanese did it". A bit like "The locals are terrible drivers who don't give a damn about others and rules", and then driving exactly the same way as the locals. I see that often.
Stiggs:
Generally, people don't just attack others at traffic lights without some sort of reason. It might not be a good reason but there usually is a reason. Foreign, Chinese whatever, it doesn't matter. If I hear that someone gets punched at a traffic light my first guess is it's some sort of road rage thing.
Didn't MasqueX just tell the same story and everyone called him a fake ?
http://answers.echinacities.com/question/what-do-you-do-when-china-pushe...
DrMonkey:
From the Shangaiist : crossroad of Wuding West Avenue and Jiangsu Road in Shanghai's Changning district. Our Masked X I spent about a minute beating a man into submission on the sidewalk today- in full-view of an onlooking crowd in Tianhe Guangzhou.
Scandinavian:
maybe add "almost" to my post :) You get to chose where !
Why is everyone either defending the foreigner? We have no idea what the "foreigner " even is. White? Black? Hell it could be another xinjiang attack. Lots of chinese think the minorities here are foreigners. I have been verbally abused by many a people in cars. But never a passenger in the taxi. Generally when the taxi driver is being a dick. The passenger keeps his head in his iphone.
Maybe the guy deserved it. May be the "foreigner" was crazy. Who cares? Im getting tired of these chinese and foreigner stories. A man punched another man, why is this news?
Where i come from it is considered rude and backwards to mention peoples ethnicity or nationality in a story. Granted people in Vancouver have been shamed enough to feel nervous talking about anything race related.
We all know chinese are dumb and will report anything that will make a foreigner look bad. We know that. But why do WE care? Why continue to push these stories? All it does is push an antinchina sentiment which is just as irresponsible as the chinese doing it to us.
I don't know guys, but cyclist don't strike me (pun unintended) as being the raging violent types. It just doesn't seem likely that a cyclist decides... "Fuck this, I am going to beat me some Chinese passenger!" and then attack the guy for no reason.
I am not going to jump to conclusions but given my experience of China and experience of cyclists as a whole, I think this is what pretty much happened:
Foreign person was having a bad day... cycling through crappy Chinese traffic... and was almost hit by a taxi or knocked down. Passenger puts his head out the window and yells someone like... "Ni gan shen me? Sha bi lao wai ma?" (What are you doing? Are you a stupid cunt foreigner?" - Foreigner loses it and starts belting him in the face.
That is just the most probable situation but who knows... there are some wackos both foreigner and Chinese in China. But if I was going to bet my money, I would bet it on that... but meh.
What I DO care about.. is every time a foreigner does anything it ends up in the papers. This is getting ridiculous, let me ask all of you... because I am curious:
In your home country do you see headlines like "Immigrant punches man in the face... man doesn't know why!" or "African man cheats local, for no reason at all!" or even "Chinese man spits on local woman, a mob of local men attack him!"?
I doubt it.
Another thing I am curious about...
Why didn't the taxi driver get out and help is passenger? Why didn't he drive away (stuck in traffic?)? Don't most taxi's have a dash cam in Shanghai? Where is that footage..?. so we can see what REALLY happened.
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http://www.china.org.cn/china/2014-06/12/content_32643101.htm
Well they found him, he claims the passenger provoked him.
LOL, lost count of how many times I was called "white devil" and other names by locals, I usually reply with "yellow devil" in that case, they are pissed, shamed, humiliated, face losing, ... and I laugh while walking away.
