Anyone here have any experience driving in China??

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:47:28 -0800, "Michael Snyder"
> wrote:

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>"pardon'em waars" > wrote in message
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>> Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:
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>> > I'm reading a book that says in china it's routine for drivers to run
>over
>> > pedestrians even if the peds are in a crosswalk. The law does nothing to
>> > the drivers, the attitude being it's up to the ped to watch out for
>cars!!!
>> > Anyone else ever hear that?
>>
>> You dont see many bodies laying around - I wonder where they go? To
>America to
>> be sold for fertilizer Iwould think. How does your garden grow?
>
>Must be parted out for kidneys and such.
>
>All seriousness aside, I've spent time in China, and I never
>once saw a pedestrian run over by a car. In fact I never
>witnessed a single auto-pedestrian altercation.
>
>

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:47:28 -0800, "Michael Snyder"
> wrote:

>
>"pardon'em waars" > wrote in message
...
>>
>>
>> Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:
>>
>> > I'm reading a book that says in china it's routine for drivers to run
>over
>> > pedestrians even if the peds are in a crosswalk. The law does nothing to
>> > the drivers, the attitude being it's up to the ped to watch out for
>cars!!!
>> > Anyone else ever hear that?
>>
>> You dont see many bodies laying around - I wonder where they go? To
>America to
>> be sold for fertilizer Iwould think. How does your garden grow?
>
>Must be parted out for kidneys and such.
>
>All seriousness aside, I've spent time in China, and I never
>once saw a pedestrian run over by a car. In fact I never
>witnessed a single auto-pedestrian altercation.

I knew a fellow from Hong Kong who said that pedestrian fatalities
were not only common in Hong Kong, but that the bodies would lie in
the streets for days before the authorities picked them up. Perhaps
it was Hong Kong, and not China, that was being referred to?

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> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:47:28 -0800, "Michael Snyder"
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >"pardon'em waars" > wrote in message
> ...
> >>
> >>
> >> Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm reading a book that says in china it's routine for drivers to run
> >over
> >> > pedestrians even if the peds are in a crosswalk. The law does nothing
to
> >> > the drivers, the attitude being it's up to the ped to watch out for
> >cars!!!
> >> > Anyone else ever hear that?
> >>
> >> You dont see many bodies laying around - I wonder where they go? To
> >America to
> >> be sold for fertilizer Iwould think. How does your garden grow?
> >
> >Must be parted out for kidneys and such.
> >
> >All seriousness aside, I've spent time in China, and I never
> >once saw a pedestrian run over by a car. In fact I never
> >witnessed a single auto-pedestrian altercation.
>
> I knew a fellow from Hong Kong who said that pedestrian fatalities
> were not only common in Hong Kong, but that the bodies would lie in
> the streets for days before the authorities picked them up. Perhaps
> it was Hong Kong, and not China, that was being referred to?

Sorry, this just sounds anecdotal and not at all realistic.