What separates losing 10,000 dollars from not losing it? The honesty of the person who finds the money, nothing more. In Hong Kong, 23-year-old pub manager Lin Ho-kit fell asleep on a bus and dropped a small bag containing HK$74,000, or about 59,000 yuan ($9,500). Other passengers, probably not knowing there was a small fortune inside, kicked the bag off the bus, where it was scooped up by 60-year-old Chan ...

A residential building fire on Monday near Yuegezhuang Bridge in Beijing forced one particularly desperate man scurrying out of his fifth-floor window and onto a very thin ledge, where he held on for several white-knuckle minutes. Then, at the 5:07 mark of the above video, he falls — simply falls. People gasp, then scream. Throughout all this, a woman behind the camera can clearly be heard asking, “What’s t ...

The woman in the video, reportedly pregnant, would have had her wallet (or something) wrested out of her hand if not for the guy who walks out of a nearby store and intervenes just as she's calling for help. The mugger, dealing with someone his own size and gender, succumbs quickly. Good on you, man. ...

Ah, the classic China story: toddlers falling off balconies. I've gotten a bit complacent and let a few of these tales go unblogged, but this one from Zhongshan, Guangdong province has to go up. On March 21 at about 11 pm, a small girl crawled or walked out of her sixth-floor apartment balcony. She clung onto the ledge for dear life. Seeing this, about 10 passersby quickly grabbed a tarp in expectation of c ...

We've seen people behaving poorly upon finding wads of cash floating in the wind. This is the obverse of that type of story. In Shanghai on Saturday morning, a drunken man threw 10,000 yuan ($1,608) into the air at the intersection of Gonghexin and Baode roads, according to Shanghai Daily, reason unknown (repeat: he was drunk). Upon finding the money returned to him -- mostly collected by two local middle-a ...

On the morning of Saturday, February 9, an American named James suddenly collapsed at the Liede station of Guangzhou Metro Line 5. The video of the incident was just made available, which you can watch above. A subway attendant, Zhang Jie, supported James's head while her colleague rubbed his chest. He remained unresponsive for a minute, at which point, while waiting for rescue personnel to arrive, Ms. Zhan ...

On March 1, a tourist fell into the Pearl River in Guangzhou while taking pictures. Police officer Zheng Yilong, who happened to be passing by, dove into the water after him and managed to corral him to shore. You can watch part of the dramatic rescue in the video above. But while people pulled the tourist to safety, officer Zheng drifted away from their grasp, and disappeared underwater. His body has yet t ...

Thousands of friends, classmates, and strangers, many of them wearing white flowers, gathered on Gangtie Road in Xingtai, Hebei province at 9 am on Wednesday to bid farewell to Ren Wei, a 16-year-old who drowned while trying to save a man who fell through ice on February 16. Even sanitation workers held banners that read, "RIP Ren Wei," and "Ren Wei, we'll always cherish your memory." ...

"Finders, keepers." Perhaps you've found yourself, in the throes of prepubescence, uttering this phrase to a classmate or friend as you pocket a nickel or dime, or pack of fruit candy, or nub of pencil eraser. In Shanghai's Changning district recently, this playground idea of "finders, keepers" was taken to the illogical extreme, as a migrant worker who fell off his moped and saw 18,000 yuan in cash go aflu ...

Recently in Chongqing, an 87-year-old man surnamed Wang stumbled and fell outside his building in a residential community. He laid there for a full five minutes before a security guard helped him up. A surveillance camera recorded 45 people, reportedly, ignore him. Near the end of Wang's ordeal, a group of people surrounded him and rubbernecked as if he were a car accident. Finally, two security guards help ...

Evil exists: primeval notions of violence, vengeance, as impossible to stamp out as the biological markers in our DNA that shape us as the wonderful and pathetic creatures we are. Yet out of every reprehensible, sinister act, we are simultaneously given the chance for redemption: an opportunity for a correlating heroic measure. Since the dawn of storytelling, we've been mesmerized by this idea. And even aft ...

In this video, a woman in Taipei's Songshan subway station -- whether distracted by a phone call, drunk, or what -- walks off the edge of the platform and appears to make a hand landing on the track. A man from the opposite side sees this and quickly goes in for the rescue, with the help of attendants and other passengers. ...

In Yongkang, Zhejiang province last Friday, a 31-year-old millionaire named Du Guanghua had dinner with an employee who got a bit too drunk and fell into a river. Du dove after his colleague, 20-year-old Zhao Shengxi. Only one of them came out of the water alive. ...

If our faith in humanity is to be restored, we can do worse than starting here. On Saturday at about 9 pm, a man fell onto the tracks at Sihui station on Beijing's Subway Line 1. With a train rumbling down the tunnel, passengers rushed to the edge of the platform -- "almost in unison, waving," reports Qianlong Net -- and managed to alert the conductor that a man was on the tracks. The train came to a stop j ...

In Tongxiang county, Jiaxing, Zhejiang province recently, a five-year-old boy named Yan Zhe was killed when he wandered in front of a parked bus whose driver did not see him before accelerating. In the video, you see the driver leave his vehicle, realize what he's done, and then... nothing. ...

The best part of this video is definitely when the Swedish man, a tourist visiting China for the first time, jumps into the water to save a drowning woman. But if we had to pick a second best part, it would have to be the heavily accented voices of the locals saying, "And it's a laowai!" The shock of what they just witnessed, we're sure, could have made their heads explode. The townsfolk have begun calling ...

Note: You probably don't want to play this video if you'd like to avoid seeing cars drive over a dead body. Early Monday morning in Hengyang, Hunan province, a woman was knocked down in the middle of the road. After calling the police, some helpful passersby shone lights around the area as a warning to passing vehicles. Shockingly, however, not only did cars not slow down, but some proceeded to run right ov ...

You'll have to pardon the first half-minute of this video; I'm not sure either why someone felt it necessary to play the accident back and again, back and again. But everything about this story, which happened in Ningbo last month and was recently publicized, gets better: four women who were passing by immediately went to the victim and tried to resuscitate him. We're not sure exactly what they did, but the ...

The person who took this video was out with his colleague on Sunday in Tianjin when he saw two men steal a woman's phone and attempt their getaway on a motorcycle. Our videographer was in his car, mind you, so he did what any person would: pursue. Pursue recklessly, if need be. The chase ends with him knocking down the thieves' motorcycle, but it wasn't exactly mission accomplished. As he writes in the vide ...

You want to know why people are sometimes reluctant to help strangers? Take this incident from Monday in Shenzhen, as reported by Hebei News. It's a sad reflection on society when even a lost toddler can pose a hazard to one's health. A 33-year-old man surnamed Chai was with some friends on a public plaza just opposite Shenzhen's city hall when he went off looking for a bathroom. Unexpectedly, he encountere ...