Boy gets noted for videoing wrongdoing

Photo taken on June 29, 2012 shows the ladies' parking places marked in pink in the underground parking lot of a building materials mall in North China's Tianjin Municipality. Many underground parking garages in Tianjin have designed special parking places for ladies to provide convenience for them. (Photo/Xinhua)

A middle school student in the Haidian district of Beijing was recently scolded by four adults, who had illegally parked their car in a bicycle lane, for shooting a video of their action. The irritated four even said the boy had no right to do so. Comments:

It is law enforcers, not citizens, who need to correct such public misbehavior, after all this is their duty. Parking properly should be common sense as it is a safety issue. The student who fought this wrongdoing on his own deserves respect. The four loud wrongdoers, on the other hand, should receive due punishments.

Beijing Youth Daily, Mar 30

Of course, one can hardly judge from this whether the student is of higher moral standards, maybe what he did was just to express his anger because the car blocked his way. Yet he is nevertheless worth praising for fighting against this violation of the traffic rules in his own way.

Xu Fuxiang, a guest commentator with rednet.cn, Mar 30

Many are aware of both the incorrectness of parking in bicycle lanes and the importance of the student's videoing the incident, but they will turn a blind eye to both as long as their own interests are safe and sound. Such an attitude reflects the loss of a sense of citizenship, which makes the student's behavior even more valuable. Citizens in a modern society are obliged to protect public interests from being harmed.

Beijing News, Mar 30