Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway power outage 3 hours old farmers take the blame for the netizens angry official unreasonable

On May 1, in the territory of Dingzhou City, Hebei Province, high winds whipped up a piece of mulch, causing the entire Beijing-Guangzhou line to be offline and without power for up to three hours, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded at the station. The official notification said that the perpetrator was a 57-year-old farmer Zhao Moumou. The netizens are angry: this arable land film was blown away by the wind, and caused damage to Zhao Moumou, need to be responsible for the evil gale, irresistible factors?

According to official media reports, at noon on May 1, the Beijing-Guangzhou line of high-speed railway in Dingzhou City due to high winds blowing film, resulting in contact network failure, resulting in some trains late. The Beijing Railway Public Security Bureau’s Shijiazhuang Public Security Office seized arable land user Zhao Moumou (male, 57), who was using mulch to cover his planting near the line, and is now conducting an investigation in accordance with the law.

Netizens ridiculed: “High winds scraping up a piece of mulch will cause the entire Beijing-Guangzhou line out of network and power, this system is too fragile!”

An old man took the blame.
Mulch caused a massive power outage on the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed rail. pic.twitter.com/Z8gGBGEk6r

  • The power of reticence (@2mmbPkM00IJwIUV) May 2, 2021
    Netizens have spat out the emergency measures at Beijing West Station: “Is this briefing good enough? A piece of plastic film, Beijing’s largest passenger transport hub is in disarray. I’m not talking about late, it’s normal to be late. The door stops everyone from entering, no late passengers in large numbers car gone, people did not go in.”

Comments from mainland netizens.

“Near the line…that’s very vague, depending on whether it’s within the limits.”

“Farmers are not easy to grow land, not earn a few dollars, his own mulch or bought to use in the ground, and not intentionally!”

“This TM can still be blamed for covering the mulch, but also to investigate, it is difficult to cover the land mulch is also illegal? Why don’t you go and find out who caused the gale?”

“So the wind blew up the mulch, why don’t you go after the wind, or the farmers are wrong? Do you have your own emergency response capabilities?”

“Although I did not return to Dingzhou because of the late, but the old folks with mulch planting is also illegal? Is it appropriate to use the word “seized”?”

“Thousands of years of farming, high speed rail is only a few years old, not a generation at all. The safety of high-speed railway people to do their own, planting people which have that leisure.”