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A pregnant woman intentionally tripped a child at a restaurant in China because
he was annoying her. Welcome back to What's Trending, I'm Shira Lazar. be sure
to like this video and subscribe for more social media news daily. This story
takes place in the town of Baoji in the Shaanxi province of northern China.
Judging from a surveillance video that has gone viral, the boy accidentally
whacks the woman with a door curtain as he runs into the restaurants, so on his
way out she trips him and then goes back to her meal. The boy's father owns the
store next door to the restaurant. He had sent his son next door to get some
chopsticks. The child apparently suffers from a heart defect and required
hospitalization for a concussion after the fall. This is horrible! According to
several news outlets, he was still in the hospital over five days after the
incident. Now, the woman who tripped the boy turned herself in to the police on
4/20 (smoke weed everyday), but the child's mother says she's not going to press
charges since the tripper is soon to be a mother
herself. That explains it! She doesn't know how to treat kids
because she's childless. You know all those childless folks. Don't know how to deal with kids,
those things, those aliens. The mother responded: "The police said they would
detain her for 10 days and penalize her 1,000 yuan but she is seven months
pregnant. We do not wish to affect her. I have
children myself. I can understand." I mean that's kind of nice actually like
finally someone in the world with empathy. That said, the woman has offered to pay
for the child's medical expenses, which come out to around $530
U.S. dollars. The mother posted a video of her son in the hospital to WeChat
telling her friends not to pass it along or bring any extra attention to
the woman who tripped him. But, of course, you know social media and the social
media in China right now they are not having it.
The surveillance video has been viewed over 67 million times on Weibo and one
comment says this: "As someone who is soon going to be a mother, this act is really
shameful." That received 21,000 likes, and now that the story is going viral in
the U.S., a lot of people are debating how responsible a parent should be for
how their child acts in public. LeslieMash says: "I don't think that she
is mature enough to have complete responsibility for a child - she has some
anger problems, and little kids are easy
targets. Not that anyone will do anything about it -
just my soapbox." JamieInDenver says: "People need to control their children.
Not condoning what this woman did, but it wouldn't have happened if the kid wasn't
allowed to run around unsupervised. I hope that kid's mother learns her lesson."
I mean I could totally see both sides like it's easy to make a generalization
about leaving a kid unsupervised and like take responsibility for what
happens there but it doesn't seem like this kid was making a whole scene. I
don't think he deserves something like this. Once again, I don't think it would
help any sort of situation to like do something bad to a child and like
tripping them that seems very underhanded. And it's a kid! Adults should
know better because there are bigger fish to fry in life. You obviously
don't have a lot of problems if a kid doing that it's your only issue. Hate
your life and so like little things like that bother you. You know those
people like they're at the grocery store and like something comes up on their
receipt they're like ah! Like a *** storm happens that's pretty much because
they're probably unhappy with themselves and their lives so just saying. Work on your
life. So what do you think? Who's at fault here? The pregnant woman or the annoying
little boy? Let us know in the comments below, be sure to like and subscribe for
more of What's Trending.