Recently, some media reported that in the beautiful Jingwan Community, Luyang District, Hefei City, Anhui Province, when a woman was working at height, the owner downstairs took out a sickle to cut the safety rope. The party was frightened and weakened, and then called the police to deal with it. On September 25, the reporter of Jingshi Live contacted the party Ms. Tao. Ms. Tao said that the owner's behavior was incredible, and she did not accept the other party's apology and waited for the police to deal with it.
Ms. Tao told reporters that at the time of the incident, she was carrying out high-altitude waterproofing operations on the exterior wall of the 12th floor. During this time, she noticed that the safety rope was shaking badly, and when she looked down, she found that someone on the 9th floor was cutting the safety rope she was tying to her body with a knife. "I asked her not to cut the rope, but she didn't listen, and I panicked." After that, Ms. Tao safely climbed into the head of the household's house, and by this time the safety rope had been cut.
Ms. Tao found out that the person who cut the rope theorized that it was an old lady who cut the rope. "The old lady's wife said that the rope was hung on the outer wall of his house, and it was going to be cut, and I heard that the wife was 68 years old."
Photo / Courtesy of the interviewee
Subsequently, Ms. Tao called the police, and the police and Ms. Tao went to the old man's home to investigate and collect evidence.
Photo / provided by the interviewee
On September 25, the Luyang Branch of the Hefei Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a police report: On September 24, 2024, our bureau received a report from Tao (female, 38 years old), saying that when he was carrying out exterior wall maintenance operations in a community in Luyang District, he found that someone was cutting ropes, and the police immediately rushed to the scene to deal with it. After investigation, Wang Moumou (female, 68 years old), a resident on the 9th floor of the building, was dissatisfied with the stainless steel exterior windows of his home because of the maintenance of the upstairs façade. At present, our bureau has filed a case and the case is being handled.
So, what kind of responsibility should Wang, a resident on the 9th floor, bear in this matter? Wu Xingjian, a lawyer at Hubei Chisheng Law Firm, said that the old lady cut the rope, which was an act of intentional harm to others, and although it did not cause serious harmful consequences, it was of a bad nature. According to article 43 of the "People's Republic of China Public Security Administration Punishment Law", whoever intentionally injures the body of another person is to be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days and fined not less than 200 yuan but not more than 500 yuan, and where the circumstances are more minor, he is to be detained for up to 5 days or fined up to 500 yuan.
Cai Wei, a lawyer at Hubei Yicheng Law Firm, believes that if the old man knows that cutting the rope will cause the person working at high altitude to fall to death but still cuts the rope, he may be suspected of intentional injury. "The specific situation needs to be determined and handled by the public security organs."
In addition, Li Xiaofeng, a lawyer at Beijing Laishuo Law Firm, believes that even if the elderly's behavior did not directly cause injury or death to the person working at height, his behavior still poses a serious threat to public safety. According to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, those who endanger public safety by other dangerous means and have not yet caused serious consequences shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years; Whoever causes serious injury or death or causes major losses to public or private property is to be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death. (Jingshi live broadcast reporter Zhimin and lawyer Li Xiaofeng's views come from their social accounts)