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Caught On Tape: Teen falls through sidewalk (Communist China)
WKRG website (CBS) ^ | April 24 2012 | Video

Posted on 04/26/2012 5:52:15 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network

A rather jarring video.

Warning, not graphic, but disturbing.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: china
Words just fail.
1 posted on 04/26/2012 5:52:24 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

what they make sidewalks out of paper in China?


2 posted on 04/26/2012 5:57:20 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

They showed this on Fox this week and they made it sound like its bad to text and walk. But clearly the issue is the repairwork isn’t clearly marked. They also made it sound like it was in NY (I think).


3 posted on 04/26/2012 5:59:42 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Surprising to see people come to her aid so quickly. Many times they would just walk on by. Sorta like driving past a car wrecked in the ditch. The value for human life in China is very very low.


4 posted on 04/26/2012 6:10:09 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy (Trust in God, but empty the clip.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Those commies are really tough on texting


5 posted on 04/26/2012 6:10:57 AM PDT by badpacifist (Romney campaign slogan ..Complete your left turn)
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To: for-q-clinton

Ah So.


6 posted on 04/26/2012 6:11:32 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Step on a crack...


7 posted on 04/26/2012 6:21:22 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: for-q-clinton

Exactly.
I couldn’t see a hole until she made it and she couldn’t either, regardless of what she was doing. Cell phone had nothing to do with it.


8 posted on 04/26/2012 6:23:16 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: yldstrk; mikrofon; martin_fierro

Ancient Chinese Sakrete. . . .


9 posted on 04/26/2012 7:17:45 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (The Great Fall of China.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Is this is an example of that famous Chinese infrastructure that Obama was so envious of, and wanted us to emulate?


10 posted on 04/26/2012 7:24:21 AM PDT by mwilli20 (BO. Making communists proud all over the world.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Give the bystanders credit for unhesitatingly assisting but I wouldn’t have rushed right up to the edge of the hole like they did anymore than I would rush right up to the edge of ice someone had just fallen through..


11 posted on 04/26/2012 7:32:15 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Charles Henrickson
Ancient Chinese Sakrete. . . .

Funniest thing I have read today! Sending you a bill for a new keyboard and a Starbuck's coffee...

12 posted on 04/26/2012 7:35:59 AM PDT by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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To: Charles Henrickson
Ancient Chinese Sakrete. . . .

That's genius!

13 posted on 04/26/2012 7:38:55 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

I hate that you thought of this and I didn’t.

This has completely ruined my day.

No, actually, my life.

YOU HAVE DESTROYED MY LIFE!


14 posted on 04/26/2012 7:54:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Admin Moderator refuses to let me hit it. -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2875871/posts)
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To: Lazamataz

Don’t hit me, Laz!


15 posted on 04/26/2012 8:07:49 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (No, not THAT way. . . .)
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To: yldstrk

doubtless construction standards in China are lax, but from a news article I read on this yesterday it was a sinkhole that had opened up below the pavement which was to blame. In fact the taxi driver who went down to stay with the girl recounted that the earth was still moving around while they were down there, thus making it difficult to climb back out.


16 posted on 04/26/2012 10:01:55 AM PDT by battousai (Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Having read the article and watched the video about this I was impressed by how quickly everyone came to her rescue. Had it been in NY, LA, KC, SF, or any other US major city she would have simply

disappeared forever.

The taxi driver was simply the one willing to jump in and attempt to rescue her before anyone else had. Others called for help. She was scared (like, really?) and had to be coaxed out but all in all she came out in pretty fine shape.

And like someone already said, it was a hole caused by water washing away the road's foundation. Along with rescuing her, now they know about a hole that needs to be fixed.

17 posted on 04/26/2012 12:35:54 PM PDT by egfowler3 (Heavenly Father is just a prayer away. Call home often.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Several years ago, before my wife and I swore off foreign travel, we were in Cabo San Lucas. We noticed that there were traps all over the place, waiting for the unwary.

Concrete walls surrounding a school had rebar sticking out of them into the sidewalk area at eye level. On the same sidewalk there were unmarked gaps in the sidewalk at least 18 inches deep.

With challenges like this we found we had to take very small steps and check our surroundings thoroughly before proceeding. Evidently the locals have better use for their money, what little they have, than to spend it on instituting building codes and enforcement.

It's a "tourist beware" environment.

18 posted on 04/26/2012 6:43:50 PM PDT by William Tell
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