Bad Samaritan: China waiter who stopped mother hitting girl with chair forced into US$1,400 payout for posting ‘mentally damaging’ video online
- Mother poised to strike daughter with chair over spilled ice cream when restaurant worker steps in
- Woman loses cool after seeing video of incident online, threatens to kill herself, wins compensation payout, costs waiter job
A restaurant waiter in China who stopped a mother hitting her daughter with a chair then posted footage of the incident online has lost his job and been forced to give the woman 10,000 yuan (US$1,400) in compensation, sparking anger on social media.
In a viral video, the mother is seen losing her cool with her crying daughter in a Western restaurant in Changsha in the central province of Hunan.
The situation turns ugly when she picks up a nearby chair, which she clearly intends to use to discipline her daughter, before a waiter, surnamed Jiang, and his colleagues intervene.
It is understood that the mother, surnamed Hu, was angry because her daughter spilled ice cream on her clothes.
The video was posted online by Jiang, angering Hu, who confront him at the restaurant on several occasions.
Jiang told the Public Channel of Guizhou Radio TV Station: “After I posted the video, she came to the restaurant the next morning to create a scene. Following that, we negotiated at the police station the entire day.
