Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Vigilantism in China and in UK

a Chinese man fight 2 robbers
it is on Chinese TV news, a cyclist wielding his bicycle to tackle two escaping robbers on a motorcycle. Obviously this kind of vigilantism is encouraged by Chinese authority and cheered by public. the news reader told the story how the bicycle man threw his bicycle to the 2 robbers after he heard a distress call from a woman whose purse had been snatched. After the fall, two robbers got up and chased the cyclist, then they were caught by a few nearby security guards. CCTV footage shows everything.

it provides a good contrast to what happened in London: a businessman has been jailed for two and a half years for taking on a knife-wielding burglar who held him and his family hostage in their home.

too bad it happened in China. If happened in London, the two failed robber could have claimed a lot of compensation from the cyclist if not put him in jail for a few months for serious bodily harm.

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