Elderly Man Runs Into Parked Car to Create False Traffic Accident

It's an all too common way to exploit people for money in China

A man in a traffic accident in Beijing, China. Cancan Chu/Getty Images

An elderly man flung himself on a car in an attempt to create a fake traffic accident to exploit money from the driver. The incident was caught on a closed-circuit camera, which were able to prove that the elderly man’s actions were feigned.

In China, a traffic accident is almost always ruled in an absolute manner and whoever is smaller in the collision is considered the victim, no matter who is at fault.