FTFA Authorities blamed overloading for the accident

Do you think?

Were they clowns?

Ah, okay China. Move along, nothing to see here.

Florida tag?

Geez, you'd have to take out the seats, and stack them like cordwood.

News of the crash ignited public anger across China, highlighting an underfunded education system that especially shortchanges students in remote areas.

Michelle Bachmann would be proud.

Prank Call of Cthulhu: Were they clowns?


I'm voting for Duggars

A van with 64 people in it would have made the most awesome Chinese firedrill ever.

Where did they bury the survivors?

coffeecrisp: FTFA Authorities blamed overloading for the accident

Do you think?

I think the giant truck had something to do with it. That's just a guess.

Come on, come on... *flips through stack of papers*

Shiat! All of my "overcrowded vehicle" jokes are related to either mexicans or those weird christian people that keep having kids. Got nothin'.

National Lampoon's Duggar Chinese Vacation?

If only the parents had been cool enough to buy a Highlander instead...

quick everyone, better learn chinese because the u.s. has gone down so far so so far. it's so bad that some people took out large loans to study for advanced degrees!

I'm sure this is going to get flamed, but it's how I feel:

Does anyone else look at China and see the US 100 years ago. Before we started regulating products, before we started having laws on how employers treat workers, before anti pollution laws, etc, etc, etc.

C'mon China. Stop worrying all the time on how to make the quickest amount of money and grow up.

For a culture that is so much older than we are you sure act a lot younger.

Apparently one of the kids' heads was under the brake pedal.

Petit_Merdeux: 64?

Even liquified I don't see how you could fit that many in that van.

You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally.

Petit_Merdeux: 64?

Even liquified I don't see how you could fit that many in that van.

Asians are small people. The preschoolers provided cushion for the other survivors, sheesh.

Wait did Guinness up the requirements for the world record? I didn't think you had to DRIVE the full van, just get the people in and close the doors.

I know China is going to take a lot of heat for this, but really...as a parent you have no business allowing your kid to get in a van like that, and if you do you get a healthy part of the blame if your kid gets hurt or killed. Yeah, I know you are poor and probably starving and didn't want a girl in the first place, but tough shiat.

proteus_b: quick everyone, better learn chinese because the u.s. has gone down so far so so far. it's so bad that some people took out large loans to study for advanced degrees!

What?

Prank Call of Cthulhu: Were they clowns?

Come on lady, its a clown car, not a vagina!

Too soon?

ITT: Hell Class of 2011

Good thing their government provides enough to all.

/sad

What do you expect, they ignore toddlers over a dying hit-and-run.

skullkrusher: ITT: Hell Class of 2011

Graduating with full honors of course.

/summa cum laude all around

Cyno01:
skodabunny: Ah, okay China. Move along, nothing to see here.

I was expecting mexico, but then saw that it wasnt a pickup truck.

I chortled at that.

Conveniently, all the girls on the bus were in the first two seats. WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!

abfalter: I'm sure this is going to get flamed, but it's how I feel:

Does anyone else look at China and see the US 100 years ago. Before we started regulating products, before we started having laws on how employers treat workers, before anti pollution laws, etc, etc, etc.

C'mon China. Stop worrying all the time on how to make the quickest amount of money and grow up.

For a culture that is so much older than we are you sure act a lot younger.

It's pretty much true. I work for a veterinary organization and we were recently talking about how China's veterinary techniques are at least 50 years behind techniques used in the US. They are beginning to work with US veterinary colleges to catch up within the next 10 years. Lofty goal...but seriously, 50 years behind??

And I thought it was impressive when we got 14 people into Al's Pontiac Bonneville 455 back in high school.

abfalter: Does anyone else look at China and see the US 100 years ago. Before we started regulating products, before we started having laws on how employers treat workers, before anti pollution laws, etc, etc, etc.

That can't be true because regulations are killing America and America is the greatest so regulations are bad.

abfalter: I'm sure this is going to get flamed, but it's how I feel:

Does anyone else look at China and see the US 100 years ago. Before we started regulating products, before we started having laws on how employers treat workers, before anti pollution laws, etc, etc, etc.

C'mon China. Stop worrying all the time on how to make the quickest amount of money and grow up.

For a culture that is so much older than we are you sure act a lot younger.

The Chinese will agree with you on the first paragraph. They run editorials in their papers basically saying that in less than 50 years they have went from "U.S. circa 1870" to "U.S. circa 1970" (i.e., advanced twice as fast as the US did), and that the world criticizes their human rights record, prisons, etc, but that they are democratizing and making advances every day and will soon catch up and then surpass everyone else. They acknowledge that things aren't perfect, but just give em a few years and they'll beat everybody! that's the gist.

Their "culture" is older, but their culture has also went through very distinct phases where the clock was "reset" multiple times, especially recently (last 200 years): dynasties, communism, pseduo-capitalism...

regarding the article, the Chinese acknowledge that they have a huge population and it is very crowded (including Kindergarten busses), but they just give it the 'ol Chinese "shut up and accept it, that's life"

abfalter: I'm sure this is going to get flamed, but it's how I feel:

Does anyone else look at China and see the US 100 years ago. Before we started regulating products, before we started having laws on how employers treat workers, before anti pollution laws, etc, etc, etc.

C'mon China. Stop worrying all the time on how to make the quickest amount of money and grow up.

For a culture that is so much older than we are you sure act a lot younger.

If you catapulted a 20th century America back in time...you'd be in West Virginia.

China and other countries are being forced to "grow up" due to a world economy. There was no world economy pre 1940's. Hell, even the 70s was pretty local, sans oil. It's all about the dollar, and there are no days off, and there is electricity now. 24/7 365.

Those two adults must've had a lot of candy.

They'd have to blame overloading for the accident because it's not like they could agree on which side of the road either the van or the truck was supposed to be on at the time of the accident. Even on paved, marked roads in China everyone does pretty much whatever they want whenever they want at whatever speed they want.

From stories told by people I know who have lived there (and one who thought it would be a good idea to own a car of which the purchase is a whole other mind-boggling tale) traffic laws pretty much consist of "rubber side down, yo".

With that many screaming kids in the van, perhaps it wasn't an accident.

Growing up in Tennessee back in the 70's, the day care center I stayed at took us all one day to go see "Benji".

So the owner packs us all (about 15 kids) into her 1965 dodge van, seated on wooden chairs in the back. That's right, wooden chairs. Not fastened in any way to the floor of the van, no seatbelts, no restraints whatsoever. She's got a van load of 5 to 8 year old kids.

So, of course, God can't overlook that, and on the way there some kid pops out in front of her (on a big wheel IIRC) causing her to swerve and hit a telephone pole. I was pretty young at the time, but I think she was doing something between 35 and 40 miles per hour. I remember her running over a few bushes and then WHAM! Next thing I know part of a chair is trying really hard to break my leg. I distinctly remember her jumping out and watching her run around to the back of the van. I'll never forget the look on her face. Terror, horror, and plain, rank fear.

Happy ending though. No fatalities. The worst injury was to an unfortunate girl who broke her skull open trying to fly through the windshield. Everyone else seemed to make it through with just scrapes and (lots of) bruises.



/Still got a dent in my shin after all these years
//No, no one sued AFAIK, this was the 70's
///Cool Story Bro

"Amusing" tag strangely absent.

Pork fry lie