Hostage Negotiations: Chinese-Style
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Chinese Hostage Negotiations
A Recent Case Study

In this country, we would block off the street, take 12 hours to talk him out of it, spend $5 million giving him a fair trial, and pay his food and lodging for life.
No wonder their products are cheaper than ours.
by RidesAPaleHorse
images: RAPH
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Works for me.
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Great lesson in geometry and life- the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line.
I haven’t laughed so hard in a long while!
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someone in pain dead, ya great. same for trolls i hope and prey (sic).
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So much easier and faster.
If there is someone dumb enough to do something like that, they don’t deserve to be held in prison and PAID for by the citizens through tax.
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Clearly time has passed. Daytime in the first two, night in the rest….your all idiots
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That’ll be “You’re all idiots”, Zach. Idiot.
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Yes, there is clearly way too much democracy in your glorious nation. The USA should become more like China. Or North Korea.
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“Someone in pain dead” — opeongo
Yes, I’d have more compassion for that “someone in pain” if that someone didn’t threaten to kill another innocent someone. There are consequences for actions, no matter what you “feel”.
My compassion disappears for anyone “in pain” when they intend to inflict pain or death on someone else. I have even less compassion if that “poor soul” makes demands on others. It’s not being “in pain”, it’s called being “whiningly selfish”.
While I don’t think Cops should be trigger-happy, I do say that the USA no longer punishes criminals for criminal behavior. This notion of “rehabilitation” is inexcusable. There are consequences for actions, and there should be punishments for violations of law. The punishment should fit the crime, and when the punishment is finished, you can then rehabilitate. Criminals need to understand that punishment is punishment.
Once upon a time criminals were given appropriate punishments for their crimes. Once upon a time there were chain gangs, and hard labor punishments, not group sessions. Once upon a time the crime rate was lower. Justice is robbed all too often in the USA.
With that said, I think all punishments should have a period of rehabilitation training after the punishment is over, or certain times or days between punishment times. Rehabilitation should never replace punishment. It should supplement it.
I have no problem punishing someone and teaching them a trade at the same time.
As for the above pictures, I’d call that cop a hero. He saved a child’s life from a completely selfish whining jerk.
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No one cares about your opinions, so do something more productive with your life than type it away defending a position.
I don’t even care about my opinion on these opinions and in my opinion I’m done with this!
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What’s wrong with the internet? People taking things too seriously. It’s a set of pics, it’s funny, laugh and move on, if you don’t like it, fine, don’t laugh and move on, either way, I doubt these pics were intended to incite everyone’s dissertation on justice, politics, and the American legal system.
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That’d be great if we dealt with hostage situations like that. If a few innocent hostages were accidentally killed per year, what does it matter so long as we save time and money.
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My only thought was that he could have pulled the boy out of the window with him after being shot. Looks like a close call to me if you check out where his legs were.
He had them almost wrapped round the kid and his body weight could have brought the poor little sod down with too.
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Once upon a time, our society actually still believed “innocent until proven guilty.” Apparently not anymore.
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idk, i mean, i’m pretty sure he was proven guilty at that moment, bro
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Cheering on socialist China? Right wing isn’t the same as authoritarian.
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No, in this country we’d block off the street, spend 5 hours talking him down, and send in the swat team. Tear gas the entire complex, including hostages, toss in a flashbang, send 4 guys with a cumulative 50,000 dollars worth of equipment on them, and escort everyone out.
In china, they use a rope and pistol. They just use cheaper products.
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what a great idea! lets follow ALL the chinese government’s examples - after all, they are FAMED for their compassion and justice… :S
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that is why skilled snipers all work for the west and in the east they tie a rope to get close enough har har
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I dislike the original poster. He wastes my bandwidth with useless crap. Kill him. He deserves it cause I decide so. He may not speak up against my verdict. I have decided that his crime is worth my punishment and do not tolerate anyone unrightfullya claiming otherwise.
Great.
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good work. Bravo
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Anyone who takes a child hostage deserves to die, period. If my kid was in that school, I’d have been the first one there with a rifle and a scope. And yes, I am a trained police sniper. My only regret is that the beauracrats spend too much time talking, and not enough action.
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The problem with doing this is, what if he has the gun pointed at one of them? What’s going to happen when you walk out of the other window and point a firearm at him? If this is the best way to defuse a crisis, then so be it; he’s threatening the lives of children, and even though I’m not one to call for blood, any means necessary have to be taken to protect innocent life. This could have ended very badly, though. They probably should have used a trained police sniper, at least.
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I am so tired of websites that give you the FULL PAGE ad break….
Never going to come here again.
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Pissed,
Sorry about the ad break…it comes up every 100th visitor to a story.
Gotta pay the bills somehow.
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Buncha fucktards. The photos are of chinks, so what the f**k’s all the discussion about the “f**ed up” American system. That’s a f**king chink cop shooting a f**kbag chink endangering a f**kung kid’s life. Next asshole is gonna say its photoshopped from Chinatown in SanFran. Keeristalmighty.
[Note: edited for gratuitous vulgarity]
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I’m glad that I never had to see someone shoot my dad in the head for him using bad judgment.
Who is the real victim here?
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Photoshopped!! lols
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anyone else notice his shirt changing color…
<.<
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In China if you’re caught with a Bible in your house, they throw your Christian ass in jail and then do a live organ harvest on ya the next time a Saudi needs a liver. So, what’ your point?
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The Internet: the paradise of contextless pictures
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I wonder what the boy will remember. Will he aspire to be a window-climbing assassin? Or is he destined to become another desperate hostage-taking fuck-up?
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You’re right we should eliminate due process and allow the police to act as judge jury and executioner. I hope when that day comes you don’t have any momentary lapses in judgment.
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I love how people are calling the threatening of the life of a child, a lapse of judgment. Seriously? I’m as liberal as the next person but boo hoo for the guy who threatened to kill a child.
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Hey guys!
Check snopes. The Chinese police actually tried to negotiate w/this guy for two hours. They felt he was on the verge of injuring the 2 children hed had hostage w/ two kitchen knives(he was armed). The police also put a huge airbag on the ground to attempt to protect the child and the man f/falling. The guy lived!
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