Beijing, Chongqing...... Surprise "zero yuan purchase"!
It's not the young and idle black people you imagined that they have crossed the ocean and spread the spirit of "calamity" to China. It is the Chinese uncles and aunts who are known as "public pollution".
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Chinese used to make fun of zero-dollar purchases in the United States, but now we have them all around us.
The difference is that in the United States, at least they know that they have to hide from the police, and our zero-yuan purchases, our uncles and aunts are really not afraid.
A considerable number of them have a really high rank, and they are really people who have experienced a special historical era, and their struggle experience is much higher than that of black Americans, and they buy it for zero yuan, and the routine is simply a set of routines, such as fighting guerrilla types, treating stores as home, and being cheeky......
A while ago, "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" exploded, and the three evils are not the same. At present, after the noise of square dances, the collision of porcelain on the road, and the dominance of vehicles, the new zero-yuan purchase seems to have become the fourth major public hazard in China.
I don't know if these four major public hazards are all similar people.
0 yuan purchase of wits and courage
"Zero-dollar purchase" is a kind of ridicule by Chinese netizens about black Americans robbing stores in broad daylight. The police can't control it if they want to, and they can't catch it if they want to.
In China, some aunts and uncles are addicted to stealing supermarket things, and they have evolved into many routines and genres.
The first is to fight the guerrilla type, where the enemy chases and runs, and the enemy advances and retreats.
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The old lady with a red hat in the video, wearing a floral cloth dress, is about seventy. She was carrying a bag full of food, and the supermarket staff chased after her to stop her and prevent her from running out. The old lady kept walking briskly, flexibly shuttling between the shelves, without the slightest intention of stopping to pay, and kept saying "I have a nervous disorder". He didn't look like a septuagenarian.
Seeing someone taking a video, he embarrassedly took off his hat to cover his face and explained that he was "sick", but the food in his hand was still clenched tightly and refused to let go. It wasn't until she slipped two miles away that the old lady drove her tricycle and fled.
This wave of overt robbery operations is really shocking.
The second type is to treat the store as a home, and the arrogance is comparable to that of the United States zero-dollar purchase.
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The red-clothed aunt packed nuts, biscuits and other snacks like a purchase, walked around the store as if no one was around, and left after taking the things. The shopkeeper reported that there were a lot of people in the store at that time, so he didn't find out about it, resulting in a loss of more than 1,000 yuan. Netizens ridiculed that the store was like the one opened by her family.
The third type, Liangshan hero, is only allowed to steal, not to speak, just do it.
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After the gray-haired grandmother was caught stealing, she was not only reluctant to hand over the goods, but also wanted to do something to the staff.
The fourth type, the cheeky type, firmly believes that there is a cheap and does not take advantage of the grandson, and the code of conduct is that if you are thick-skinned, you are invincible.
In the viral video "Security Guards in the Supermarket", all the people who were caught outside the door and did not pay were middle-aged and elderly people of the same age. (For some reason, the original video is no longer available.) ）
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"Is there anything that hasn't been checked", the question is no, what they didn't expect was that the security guards only checked after locking the characters, and some of them were already "old acquaintances" of the security guards. Once it was debunked, they said "forgot to forget", and I have to say that the acting skills are proficient.
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The bag carried by an aunt in the video is really eye-catching, a shopping bag that "commemorates the 60th anniversary of the founding of the country". I didn't expect it to contain unpaid sauce elbows. "Don't intercept, don't intercept, it's been intercepted several times", how cheeky it is to make the security guard not stop her, she has stopped it several times.
Two retired couples from Chaoyang, Beijing, evaded orders six times in three months at the supermarket, each time they were lucky enough to take two things and pay only one price, and who knew that these behaviors were clearly recorded by surveillance. In desperation, supermarket staff had no choice but to call the police to stop the theft.
Many cases of elderly people's "zero yuan purchase" behavior in supermarkets were exposed, and netizens exclaimed, "I finally know why so many supermarkets are yellow", "I feel so nervous that I am suffocating through the screen", I am embarrassed to scratch the ground with my toes, how did they do it so naturally, their faces are not red and their hearts are not beating.
Chinese-style "zero-yuan purchase" is not an isolated phenomenon, judging from the revelations on the Internet, whether it is in a big city or a small county, supermarket theft is common.
For this reason, some supermarkets have set up a "loss prevention department" to hire loss prevention personnel to keep an eye on those who want to steal. "Basically, there is a harvest every day, and there are far more things stolen from supermarkets than everyone thinks."
Since most of the people who are holding hands are old people, on the one hand, when arresting people, "you should pay attention to the tone of your voice, and if you make the uncle and aunt angry, you will be miserable". On the one hand, the elderly usually steal food, oil and salt and other things, the amount is very small, if the police are called, the heavy penalty is three times, and the light one may not be able to be punished on the grounds of old age.
The relevant laws and regulations cannot be controlled, and they cannot be used, resulting in the "zero yuan purchase" of the elderly occurring again and again, and it has not been effectively curbed.
Hegemony, square dance, and porcelain are three major public hazards
In addition to the Chinese-style "zero-yuan purchase," what are the three of the other four major public hazards? If we want to take stock of the uncivilized behavior of the elderly group, then we have to say something.
I believe that many people have been troubled by the noise of square dancing. Square dancing was originally a cultural activity for fitness and entertainment, but it has gradually become a social problem with the changes of the times.
Square Dance Uncle and Aunt is a magical organization, with a stereo that plays songs for middle-aged and elderly people, from the countryside to the city, from the basketball court to the high-end community, everywhere and pervasively.
The first is to grab territory. "First come, first served", take a good position.
It doesn't matter if you are a basketball court, a football field, an airport, or a five-star hotel, as long as it is a place that aunts fancy it, they must give way unconditionally.
Source: Douyin
Auntie's sentence "I'm an adult" wants to bully students who are playing basketball and seize the basketball court.
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Aunt Yi stomped her feet with her fingers and scolded the young man who was originally skateboarding here. The young man can only fight back with the same moves, and the scene is not too funny.
The empty road was taken care of, and even the cars had to give way.
It doesn't matter if the plane is delayed, come and square dance, Auntie doesn't care if it will affect the rest of the others. If you want, you can also dance square dancing abroad, such as the Louvre Museum in France.
Some elderly people have a kind of love for square dancing regardless of the life or death of others, regardless of the occasion or time.
The square dance has a strong sense of rhythm and a large decibel level, and the hearts of nearby residents are about to be shaken out.
Jumping tirelessly day and night, the adults in the community work hard all day and cannot rest properly, the children cannot study with peace of mind, and their daily life is seriously disrupted.
The residents who were driven crazy came up with their own tricks to stop them, but instead they were ridiculed by the aunts, their attitudes became more arrogant, and the volume of the stereo was turned up higher.
Generally speaking, square dancing has a performance costume requirement, which requires a lot of time to practice, and it is really not everyone who has the conditions to dance. Most of the uncles and aunts who are keen on square dancing have pensions and are carefree in their later years, so they can only have some fun to kill time.
The problem of noise nuisance from square dancing has been a long-standing complaint. Some netizens couldn't stand it, and bluntly said that these old people were too full and idle, and built their happy lives on the pain of others.
In stark contrast, "touch the porcelain old man". It is a social phenomenon in which the elderly deliberately collide with vehicles and people in order to defraud compensation and extortion.
"Don't dare to help" is not because of numbness, but because I am afraid that if I lose the "bet", I will lose my family and property.
The representative event is the "Nanjing Peng Yu Case" in 2006. The old lady was knocked down and fell into a fracture while waiting for the bus, which constituted a grade 8 disability after identification. Peng Yu, who was passing by, kindly helped the old lady up, but was accused of hitting someone, and the old lady sued the court for more than 130,000 yuan. In the first instance, the judge ruled that Peng Yu lost the lawsuit based on reasoning and paid 40% of the victim's losses, totaling 45,876.6 yuan.
After that, the number of old people who touched porcelain gradually increased. For example, 65-year-old Granny Jiang in Sichuan blackmailed passing primary school students to claim 1 million.
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Because some of the elderly who fell down tasted the "sweetness" of slander, once they succeeded, they could get compensation, which also gave birth to the most deformed industry of China's elderly group - the porcelain industry.
Sun Wanxiang, the "most awesome old man who touches porcelain", directed 156 cases of "porcelain" fraud, and the income from porcelain-touching reached more than 130,000 yuan. In 2001, he was hit by a taxi and received several hundred yuan in compensation. After tasting the sweetness, he began to become a "porcelain professional". It wasn't until 2010 that he was sentenced in a nursing home at the age of 66.
In 2013, the "suicide after being falsely accused" incident completely broke the heart of the society. Brother Wu picked up an old man who fell on the side of the road and sent him to the hospital, but the old man testified that it was Brother Wu who injured himself by driving a motorcycle. Brother Wu was falsely accused by the old man and his family, demanding hundreds of thousands of yuan in compensation. A few days later, Brother Wu chose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the pond in a fit of anger to prove his innocence.
Most of these old people like Sun Wanxiang live at the bottom of the society, receive a monthly subsistence allowance, and some may not have any income, so they are forced to embark on this road of no return, holding a fluke mentality to extort money.
There is a phenomenon that is common to all old people of any class, that is, hegemony.
Whether it is in buses, trains, high-speed rail, or airplanes, hegemonic behaviors are endless.
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In the online video, an aunt can't buy a ticket by train, only a standing ticket. After the train started, the aunt asked the young man next to her to give up her seat in the name of respecting the old and loving the young. The young man may wonder why he spends money to give you a seat, who knows that before anyone can react, the aunt suddenly began to give a passionate speech and began to teach the young man a lesson.
He also said the words "what does China want young people to do, young people eat shi", and offended all young people by himself.
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The incident of "the uncle fanned the boy and died suddenly after not giving up his seat" caused quite a stir. Xiao Chen may be tired and napping on the bus, and a septuagenarian woke up Xiao Chen after getting on the bus and motioned for him to give up his seat. Xiao Chen saw that there were still vacant seats, so he didn't get up.
The old man who was ignored suddenly became angry and insulted. Xiao Chen just retorted, and was slapped four times in a row by the old man. In order not to cause a greater conflict, he had to consider himself unlucky and get off the bus early. Later, the old man died suddenly on the bus due to emotion, and Xiao Chen got into a lawsuit.
Netizens commented spicily, it was Xiao Chen who was woken up and scolded for being fanned, "The family of the old man should compensate the guy for mental damages, and he beat people in vain."
There are also high-speed trains and airplanes as their own homes, where they want to sit.
Source: Douyin
An elderly man occupies the seat of a passenger next to him and refuses to give up his seat after being persuaded by the flight attendant and the seat owner. "I've been sitting", "How can I dominate the seat, I'll sit one, not two", putting on an attitude of what you can do with me.
There are also two old men who occupy the seats of the two girls, and let the girls find another place to sit by themselves. In the face of persuasion, he also retorted, "I have to let you do what I do, I sit in this position, I don't care if he is right or not." After being warned by the flight attendant, the old man was still indifferent, and scolded the girl for being shameless.
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An old lady at Shanghai Pudong International Airport did not sit down in her seat after getting on the plane, but wanted to enjoy the scenery in the window seat, so she looked at the safety exit position and cheekily occupied it. For safety reasons, this seat can only be reserved for young and strong young people. The flight attendant's persuasion was fruitless, so she could only call the police, and after the police came, the old lady began to sprinkle and yell.
There was also an old lady who took the little girl's seat on the plane, and after being asked to return to her seat, began to abuse, claiming that she was sick and threatening to vomit the little girl. In the end, the flight attendant had no choice but to upgrade the old lady.
I have to say that the old man's trick of splashing and beating still succeeded.
The three social phenomena listed above seem to subvert everyone's perception of the elderly.
Didn't it say that "there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure", when did this "treasure" become like this?
Bad people get old or old people get bad
It seems that the lack of social morality of the elderly such as making loud noises in public places, molesting women, and destroying public facilities has become commonplace.
"Is it the old man who has become bad, or the bad man who has become old?" has long been a question for the whole society to ponder.
For similar phenomena of the four major public hazards, we should not just look at the appearance and then join this verbal criticism, but try to find the root cause and solution.
There are many analysts who believe that it is the bad guys who are getting old.
From a historical perspective, the times have left an indelible imprint on these old people. Ge Jianxiong, a professor at Fudan University, believes in his reflection on the Cultural Revolution that the bad guys have grown old, and "the whole society has not been morally sorted out." ”
The old people in their sixties and eighties now are the young people of the era of "downthrowing everything", and the mistakes of the times have deprived many people of the right to education.
Simple, hot-blooded young students were organized with ulterior motives, chanting the slogan "Rebellion is justified" and enthusiastically engaging in all kinds of criticism, sabotage, beating teachers, exposing each other, smashing churches, smashing temples, and digging graves......
Even the most basic human humanity such as compassion, tolerance, kindness, justice, sincerity, and gratitude has almost been wiped out. So when they get older, they don't feel any problem doing something that is disrespectful to their old age.
Coupled with the respect for the elderly, they give up moral constraints and are more fearless, relying on the old and selling the old.
We consider the people who were "knocked down" by this group of radical young people as the victims, and today, decades later, the people who are bullied by the same people are the victims.
But if you think about it, aren't those who grew up under that particular historical condition a victim, who were supposed to receive a normal education, but who lost that opportunity and no one told them what justice and goodness were. When they do bad things, they may not even know what they are doing.
They are all victims, so who are the perpetrators?
From the perspective of physical and psychological reasons, is there really enough care and friendliness for the elderly in this society now?
The elderly are weak and slow to move, and in some places where more energy is needed, they cannot compete with the young and strong. For example, standing in line at a hospital or crossing the street at a green light...... There's no way to stay one step ahead.
Life is irreversible, and the psyche of the elderly is fragile. As I get older, I feel that my time is running out, and I will panic and even be anxious.
This age inferiority complex may manifest itself as a distorted type of "self-esteem" that demands adequate respect from society. However, if you demand respect too unilaterally, you will neglect to restrain yourself morally, and thus "kidnap" others.
Therefore, it is possible for the elderly to become bad, but it is very rare.
On the other hand, China's old-age security system is not perfect, and the elderly have not yet achieved medical care.
Chinese society is quietly moving towards an era of moderate aging. As of the end of 2023, the population aged 65 and over accounted for 15.4% of the country's population. It is predicted that in the next 5-10 years, China is expected to have a pension gap of 8 trillion to 10 trillion yuan, and the pension pressure will further increase.
Now that the economy is in a downturn, the pension dilemma is becoming more and more prominent. While the wages of young people are stagnating and rising, the cost of living is rising.
Speaking of returning to the Chinese-style "zero yuan purchase", in the past, the elderly may have taken advantage of the market and only went to the vegetable market to steal melons and vegetables, but now it has been upgraded to "stealing" in the supermarket, isn't this a change of times?
The economy is the foundation, and the current situation triggers people's sense of distress and crisis. For ordinary people to consume, they don't buy what they can buy, and save money for emergency use.
For the elderly, the place where they consume may be only the necessities of life. The elderly are already saving, and they may not want to cause trouble to their children when they are in distress, but they still have to eat. Everyone will grow old one day, and providing more social security for the elderly is the key to the problem.