Rich Kid in Car Accident

First, most of you might have heard about this. For me I was still in school and learning economics, so I was under a rock. I am reading the WSJ today, and I realized that this douchebag Hu Bin in Hangzhou hit and killed a 25 year old man, and was only given 3 years? What the hell happened to China? 3 year hitting someone with a car? I mean isn't it illegal to race in China? China seriously need to cut the corruption, and give this kid the bang bang to the dome.

I am sorry, but if it were my son, I would have torn off this Hu Bin's arms and legs off with my bare hands.

This story is horrible. The rich kid probably made a reckless error that killed someone, not an intentional murder. The rich kid or amazing moron should have been forced to perform community service for the rest of his life for every weekend. The rich kid or his parents should pay substantial compensation to the victim's parents for the rest of the rich kid's life. My take is if you screwed up, you do your best to fix the problem, even if the problem cannot be completely fixed.

Sh_t like this happens in America as well. Same with Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, etc. Rich people screw up and hurt lots of people or commit major crimes, and these rich criminals "suffer" light sentences. Middle class people or poor people commit accidents or crimes, and they get a beating.

If you are poor and you are caught using drugs by the police, you are in serious trouble. You may even be thrown in jail. If you're rich and doing drugs, no biggie. If you are poor and you steal $2,000, you could be thrown into jail. If you're rich and you steal $100,000, you could hire good lawyers and financial experts to make up a good excuse for you. Madoff and Enron are the exception, and many of their relatives and coworkers still made off with huge thefts. You struggle in school, get accused of plagiarism, and dodge the draft, but you come from a wealthy and connected family, you become a US congressman and VP (Joe Biden). You engage in prostitution and drugs, including with underage prostitutes, but you are wealthy and connected, you can escape your crimes (Roman Raymond Polanski). You lead a nation into bloody, expensive, and misleading wars, then you break many American and international laws, but you come from a ruling family, then you retire in luxury (Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and their mafia circles).

This is why I hate the legal/court system in EVERY country I know of. It's not about justice or morals. It's about who can game the legal system the best, and the rich people have a huge advantage in wealth, influence, and connections over middle class and poor people.

You can come to the states and play football, then killing someone with a car nets you a whopping 30 days imprisonment, but if you have any "luck" on your side, you get to walk away a freeman and serve 40 year in the senate, representing the people of Massachusetts.

Well, if it is any consolation, if he's that hated on the outside, he won't last long on the inside

in most states in america, 3 years is well within the limits of a vehicular manslaughter charge.

I my town a weary reach and important man killed 3 others and live the place of accident, because he was with a woman (who was not his wife)
In the end of the whole process he escaped unpunished…

panzerkom said:

in most states in america, 3 years is well within the limits of a vehicular manslaughter charge.

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well, the general consensus in china is that you get death sentence for killing people, doesn't really matter how it happened. or at least a life imprisonment.

the other guy who killed 3 people while drunk driving got sentenced to prison for life in china.

The kid got a traffic violation, I mean come on. China is turning into a killing people theme park, I mean this thing is not the first, so many rich people are getting away with this. I mean I should be rich and power one day and go around running people over in China.

Happens everywhere, . The type of justice you receive, depends on ones ability to pay. I remember even in India which models itself on the British justice system, bollywood celebs getting off lightly for wrongdoings.

I get the feeling that the laws favour the criminals in general, although it helps if he or she is rich too. There are just too many cases where the criminal got away with 5 or 7 years in jail for killing another person. What happened was the lawyer was able to prove the killing was not premedidated, and to give such reasons as: it was in the heat of the moment and to ask for mercy such as the accused have many mouths to feed or the victim is a prostitude anyway . It seems those reasons are more important than the fact that the criminal actually took a weapon such as a knife to stab the victim a number of times in order to kill him or her. It gets on me when I come across such news every now and then.