- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Oct 17, 2011 06:11 JST
- Tags: Accidents, Bizarre, Cars, China, Crime, Guandong, Guro, Murder, Video Gallery

Chinese and non-Chinese alike have been sickened to see security camera footage of a Chinese motorist knocking over a toddler and then driving over her and off, with a subsequent vehicle not even bothering to swerve to avoid her, instead crushing her legs to a pulp.
Meanwhile, pedestrians witnessing the atrocious scene merely walk around the writhing infant – the kindliest drags the child off the road and then abandons her as mere roadkill.
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Chinese are aghast at the launch of a luxury riverboat which sank during its launch ceremony and was subsequently claimed as a successful launch by the authorities.
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China’s manhole covers have lately been scything through the air as a result of mysterious underground explosions.
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A man has been arrested for killing his girlfriend and putting another girl into a coma after their kinbaku shibari threesome went tragically wrong.
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A couple are at death’s door after having decided to dine on fugu they caught and prepared themselves, liver and all.
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The better part of a Chinese apartment complex has been menaced by explosions, after a power surge caused most of the electronics at the site to explode at once.
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The landfall of Typhoon 12 (aka Tropical Cyclone Talas) has seen parts of Japan subject to severe flooding, with scenes of inundation reminiscent of the tsunami which devastated Fukushima earlier in the year – although at least this time there was fair warning and only two fatalities so far.
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The operators of the ruined reactors at Fukushima are under fire for claiming that the recent death of one of their reactor cleanup workers from cancer of the blood had “nothing to do with” his work amidst the radioactive ruins of the plant and that they have “no plans” to investigate it further.
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China’s world-beating manufacturing standards are once again under scrutiny after an exploding monitor incident, with the maker claiming that this is the first exploding monitor it has encountered “but there have been cases of the PCs themselves exploding.”
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A young woman who accidentally killed herself and her husband by digging a 2.5m deep pitfall trap in the sand is currently the subject of tragic ridicule throughout Japan.
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A kitten has stopped a train, inconveniencing 23,000 commuters and inciting both criticism and approval.
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