Beijing Miracle: A Crippled Man Walks!

Christmas is the time for miracles, which makes it only fitting that Beijing is experiencing its own winter wonders. A Chinese blogger has captured the amazing feat of a crippled man miraculously gaining the ability to walk.

The blogger, who refers to himself as Yuan Shengtai, captured what many know to be the reality of some beggars in China. He introduces the incident saying, “Yuan Shengtai was crossing the pedestrian bridge in front of Zhongguancun Building in Haiding when he witnessed an old beggar who lay on the ground pretending to be crippled. When he was photographed and exposed, he twice stood up to yell at Yuan Shengtai.”

Many people know that not all beggars are truly blind or crippled, but it’s unusual to see such hard evidence of the truth. Additional photographs and commentary can be checked out in English on chinaSMACK and in Chinese on the original Sina blog.

While the idea of faking injuries or disabilities for begging outrages some, it seems a better alternative to the practice of deliberately disabling people for the sake of begging, or else using children to beg on behalf of adults.