Chinese Road Show Involves Dislocating Child’s Arms, Reactions

From QQ:

Road Show Group Cruelly Demonstrates Dislocating Boy’s Arm

2013 February 14, the fifth day on the first month of the lunar new year, on a square in Fangchenggang City in Guangxi province, two men driving a “caravan” with a “豫”-prefixed license plate [indicating a vehicle from Henan province], along with two children and some animals, presented dangerous “performances” and then collected money selling medicine for bruises and giving out blessed amulets. Pictures are of a man with the assistance of a big boy “ripping a little boy’s arm off”, dislocating both of the little boy’s shoulders and rotating them 360 degrees.

Pictures are of a man tightly winding a steel bar as thick as a pencil around and around the big boy’s neck.

A monkey forced to perform smoking.

Comments from QQ:

腾讯嘉兴市网友 蛇年大吉:

What day and age is it, and something like this still exists? Poor child, look at the second picture!

腾讯贵阳市网友 红梅傲雪:

They also came to my city to perform before. It’s completely scamming money and abusing children. The one who’s shoulder was dislocated is also a small boy. My son was still in elementary school at his age. A child that little should be at school. I hope the relevant government departments will pay attention to this. I suspect that they were abducted homeless children, or stolen [kidnapped] ones. I’ve seen this kind of thing before, where they steal the children, cripple them, and toss them on the streets to beg money for them.

腾讯南宁市网友 谷底葫鼎:

These two children are definitely not the natural children of the group’s leaders. These children are so pitiful.
Hope the government can show a little concern, and give back to these children a normal life.

腾讯网友 燕子:

My heart aches after seeing this. I’ve seen some similar performances last year. Actually the children don’t make much money, all the money is taken by the black-hearted bosses. They are using children’s lives in exchange for money. Last year when the metal bar was wrapped around that boy’s neck, his face choked red, two boys rushed up to remove the metal bar. Afterwards, many people watching became upset. I wonder what the children’s parents would think if they knew their children were being abused like this…

腾讯网友 ゛婉ル 财迷:

If one day I have the ability to put a stop to this, I’d put an end to it completely. This world is too horrible to look at.

腾讯晋中市网友 滚烫小豆浆:

One look and you can tell they’re fucking Henan scum. All they know is torturing people for fun. Road shows like this should’ve been stopped long ago.

腾讯网友:

Every time there’s a show like this on the street, I dare not watch. I think it’s too cruel!

腾讯网友 奋斗.exe:

They’re relying on their own abilities to make money and feed themselves, not stealing or robbing, so why can’t they do what they do?

腾讯网友 喜欢夜的黑: (responding to above)

How can you not have the slightest bit of sympathy? Don’t you not see, that the children are being forced into this?

腾讯网友 情谊无价: (responding to above)

Since ancient times, the “second floor” [first reply to a post/comment] is always a SB. Do you guys not have your own subjective consciousness? Whatever the editor/writer writes, you just go along with it? If he says they were forced, then they were forced? If he says their arms were ripped off then they were ripped off? Those people are all professionals, and in movies, things are even more ridiculous, yet how come you guys don’t go talking about that every day? Maybe his arm was already able to rotate 360 degrees anyway. Many things can’t be judged just by looking at the surface. Your sympathy is a blind sympathy. A person without his own views and opinions is the one that deserves sympathy [pity], so the fact is that I actually feel sympathy [pity] for you.

腾讯东莞市网友 KING♂khq:

So inhumane, just to make money. I don’t agree with this, I wouldn’t give them my money. Dislocating the child’s shoulder + the monkey smoking.