Man sees robbery. Man tries to stop crime. Man is threatened. Man tries to call police. Man discovers police are incompetent.The man who reported the crime was on a bus, and he tried to report the crime in english as to not alert the criminals. Unfortunately, the emergency line operators hung up on him FOUR TIMES because no one could speak english.
Authorities claim that there isn't much need for english speaking operators. This makes no sense. They should at least always have one english speaking operator on duty at all times. The point of an emergency hotline is to help people when they need it most. This incident is just more of China's stupid mentality at work again.
They cut corners on all the wrong places. Its like a car owner saying: oh I drive mostly during the daytime, so I'm not putting headlights in my car. A more extreme case would be: oh the car goes forward most of the time, so I'm taking out the reverse gear to save money. The strive for excellence just isn't there, and it is sad.
Lets just hope we don't hear a flood of these kinds of stories during the Olympics in 2008.
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I haven't been in China for almost over 10 years. Now I have no desire to go visit it again.
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