This is a very sad case of good
Samaritan gone wrong and
makes people think twice before
helping those in need. ….Wu Weiqing,
46, from Dongyuan in the southern
province of Guangdong, was riding his
motorbike on New Year’s Eve when he
came across an elderly man who
appeared to have been knocked over,
Wu’s widow told the Southern
Metropolis Daily newspaper.
Wu helped the man up and drove him
to a local clinic, she said, where he
paid 3,500 yuan ($580) in medical
fees for him. “My husband never
imagined that the old man and his
family would turn around and insist
that he was the one who struck him
down and demand that we pay
hundreds of thousands of yuan in
damages,” Wu’s widow said.
His daughter Wu Haiyan told the
Guangzhou Daily newspaper that two
days later her father said to friends
and relatives that the old man’s family
was demanding a huge sum for
“medical fees.” “My dad called me
and said that he didn’t want to die,
that he was being hounded to death,”
she said.“He felt vexed that he
himself would be asked for money by
the same old man he had helped, and
he thought it better to die to prove his
innocence rather than drag his family
down.”He gave her instructions for his
funeral, she said, and hours later his
body was found in a pond.
The family of the old man, surnamed
Zhou, denied to local media they had
requested huge sums and maintained
Wu had hit him.“If he hadn’t hit my
father with the motorbike, why would
he be so kind as to bring my dad to
the hospital and pay for his medical
expenses himself?” the old man’s
eldest daughter told the Guangzhou
Daily.
Authorities have opened an
investigation, the official Xinhua news
agency said.
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