Although this doesn’t paint Chinese pedestrians in a particularly positive image, it’s at least a slight improvement on recent foreigner related news making national headlines here.

During the afternoon of April 10, a young man fainted outside the exit of the Guangrong subway station on Wuhan’s subway line 2, and was described by witness Ma as being “as floppy as a pancake.”

It was then that a Pakistani student named Ahmed Waqas came to the rescue, and took some water from a passerby in an attempt to revive the fainted commuter. After about 15 minutes the man gradually came round, and Ahmed asked him if he had any friends or people close to him that could look after him. The man was eventually helped into a taxi that took him to a nearby hospital.

After the scene concluded, Ahmed told reporters (in fluent Chinese no less!) that he felt it was very strange that most people around him were filming or taking photos of the incident instead of helping. “Why were they doing that? As an ordinary passerby, I felt I just had to do something to help.”

Reporters then asked him if he was worried about being cheated by the man who’d fainted—unfortunately it's an all-to-common scam here for someone to pretend they’re hurt in public and sue anyone who comes to their assistance.

“I wasn’t worried about that,” Ahmed said. “There were many witnesses who saw what happened.”

See also: Guangdong Man Has Live Eel Pulled From Intestines

Source: Ifeng News

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