Viral video shows girl in China begging on her knees before woman finally gives her lost money back
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A teenage girl was forced to beg after she dropped her allowance of 200 yuan (about $29), with the older woman who picked it up claiming it was hers.
The incident allegedly happened on street in Guangzhou in Guangdong Province, southern China, this weekend.
Video of the incident, filmed by a passerby, shows two teenage girls confronting the woman.
“Whoever collects the money should own it,” the woman says, according to South China Morning Postciting media Xiaoran Video.
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“It’s his money. We saw you pick it up on the road,” replies a friend of the girl.
After the woman refuses to return the money, the student drops to her knees and tearfully begs for her allowance, which she later explained was the entire week’s allowance.
“It’s so wrong for that old woman not to return the money,” the man filming the interaction can be heard saying.
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The commotion prompted pedestrians to step in and help the girl get her money back from the woman.
“We saw you picking up the money,” the man filming tells the woman. “It’s out of the question that you don’t give it back to the girl. Even if it’s 1,000 yuan, you should still return it, let alone 200 yuan.
Another passer-by offers the young girl to call her parents, to which she replies: “My parents don’t live with me. This money is very useful to me.
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She later explained that she lived with her grandmother while her parents worked in another town.
The woman eventually relents and returns the money to the pleading girl after other passers-by gather to help the student.
The clip reportedly went viral, garnering over 25 million views on Weibo and over 5 million views on Douyin.
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Many Chinese social media users condemned the woman for her actions, with one criticizing the woman for having “no conscience”.
“If the old woman had not returned the money, what extreme thing should the young girl do? I can’t imagine that. 200 yuan is a big sum for her. What a poor girl,” one commenter wrote.
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