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[quote=CHERRY07,385790]The reporter: “If you saw an old lady fall on the street again, would you help her stand up?” 
Li Kaiqiang: “Definitely not. I would go away as soon as possible.”

Respecting for the old and love for the young is a traditional virtue of Chinese people. However, Li Kaiqiang said that he wouldn’t help the old to stand up if he saw him/her fall on the ground. Why does this young man refuse to help the old to stand up? Let me explain it.

On August 21st, 2008, Li rode his electric bike on his way to his relatives. Suddenly, an old lady who rode a bike hit his bike from the rear. Li turned around and found that an old lady sat on the ground with her bike lay beside her. Li realized that the old lady might get hurt and then tried to help her stand up. When he raised her up, the old lady grabbed him and said “You hit me and my waist got hurt”. Li explained “I am helping you stand up. How could you say I hit you?” However, the old lady still didn’t let him go.

The old lady and Li quarreled and some passers-by stopped to see what happened. A woman with two kids told Li “We all saw what happened. You didn’t hit her. Just go away”. After a while, a patrol man came to them. The old lady told the patrol man that Li drove through a red light and hit her on the waist. The man explained to her that there was no red light. One passer-by reminded Li that the old lady just set him up and that he should go away. However, the old lady called her son to come here. Li also called his father. When the old lady’s son came, he insisted that Li should pay for the medical expenses. Li and his father agreed and accompanied the old lady to the local hospital.

Li and his father both believed that the problem was solved after they sent the old lady to the hospital. But it didn’t go as they wished. In November, the local court sent him a subpoena. Li realized that the old lady sued him to the court. On September 3rd, 2008, the local transportation department issued a report. According to the report, it was the old lady’s fault. However, the local court judged that Li needed to burden 50 percent responsibility and paid around 80 thousand yuan to the old lady because Li couldn’t find a witness to prove that he didn’t hit the old lady.

Currently, Li is looking for those passers-by who witnessed the “accident”. If he failed to find out the witnesses, he would give 80 thousand yuan to the old lady. Luckily, a man has contacted Li and told him that he would be his witness.

Peng Yu, another guy who helped an old lady to stand up at a bus station in Nanjing, was not as lucky as Li Kaiqiang. He sent the old lady to the hospital but the old lady accused him of hitting him when he got off the bus. The Nanjing local court judged that Peng Yu should burden 40 per cent responsibility and pay 45876.36 RMB to the old lady. According to the local court, Peng Yu was guilty for hitting the old lady so that he sent her to the hospital. 
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