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Mrbitter mugged in china - Page 18
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lisward
Singapore959 Posts
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shadymmj
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On November 16 2012 19:58 Arnstein wrote: You are right, Mr.Bitter should have gone to Hong Kong and just abandoned BWC. no offense, it's not a tournament to get excited over...there's like, 2 contenders? | ||
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Linwelin
Ireland7554 Posts
On November 16 2012 20:16 shadymmj wrote: no offense, it's not a tournament to get excited over...there's like, 2 contenders? He is casting... | ||
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WArped
United Kingdom4845 Posts
On November 16 2012 19:35 FakeDeath wrote: FYI Hong Kong/Macau also has these type of cases. Hong Kong infamously is known for having a lot of triad gangs. yeah man, have you not played Sleeping Dogs!? | ||
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Grollicus
Germany287 Posts
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Linwelin
Ireland7554 Posts
On November 16 2012 20:20 Grollicus wrote: Bitter mugged, Grubby food poisoned.. china doesn't look good eh? Yeah man, these things never happen in other countries. Ever | ||
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Giku
Netherlands368 Posts
On November 16 2012 19:59 LeGeNDz wrote: Most EU countries have less than 40% homicides by gun and US is at 60%? I don't know the gun laws in all of the EU countries but I assume they're mostly banned. If they are banned and most gun homicides with some over 40% and some maybe a little less than 40% even with a BAN shows gun banning doesn't stop gun crimes for one thing. The next thing it means is who is getting those guns but criminals and who is unarmed at the same time? Ice-T is for Gun rights. He is correct that our right to own arms is to prevent tyranny and to not have dictators. Sure he said "If everyone else didn't have any guns then I'll put my guns away too" roughly, but the reality is we don't live in that kind of world, its like trying to get all of the countries with nukes to not use their nukes anymore, they won't. You're looking at it wrong. You get over 5 times more homicides by firearms than we do. That's 60% of your homicides in total. We get over 5 times less homicides by firearms than you do. That's 40% of our homicides in total. Thus. We get less homicides, and the ones that DO happen, have 20% less firearms used. 20% is a huge number in these kinds of statistics. In most European countries: everyone else did put their gun away, so did many others, ofcourse there will be a small minority using guns, but that's mostly for extreme cases. Robberies don't need guns anymore. Nukes are a different story, and you know it. | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10126 Posts
On November 16 2012 07:28 Melaine wrote: I go to China often for work, I'm, not sure if you have a clue on how it works in Asia. Or any turistic place for that matter. | ||
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lisward
Singapore959 Posts
On November 16 2012 20:17 WArped wrote: yeah man, have you not played Sleeping Dogs!? Triads are based in Hong Kong | ||
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Confuse
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LOLingBuddha
Netherlands697 Posts
the director of the company basically assigned one of the campanies employees every day to accompany us wherever we went. (except for the hotel) this was in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. China is really an astonishingly beautiful country but you really have to be weary of everything around you, if your spine is tingling telling you somethings wrong, listen to it! anyway, sad to hear this Mr Bitter, i hope you called your bank and had the funds returned to you seeing as it was a mugging. it also sucks that your experience there has possibly been tainted by this experience, because China has a lot to offer. | ||
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AJ-
United States316 Posts
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ReachTheSky
United States3294 Posts
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AgniKai
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Shallot
United States58 Posts
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Inzan1ty
1163 Posts
you should expect the unexpected, aka better treat it like a 3rd world countty (it isnt, but it might be in terms of criminal activities) However you are rather safe in Japan and South Korea. | ||
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derpface
Sweden925 Posts
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Kanaz
Denmark658 Posts
I mean, you will most likely get the 1600$ back, and you are unhurt. You made the right choices, after you made the wrong one to stay in the cab. Hope this will not affect you further and GL with upcomming tourney casting! | ||
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Dreamer.T
United States3584 Posts
On November 16 2012 21:30 Inzan1ty wrote: China (the majority) is still very poor you should expect the unexpected, aka better treat it like a 3rd world countty (it isnt, but it might be in terms of criminal activities) However you are rather safe in Japan and South Korea. What a ridiculous statement. SK and Japan have just as shady locations as the one Mr. Bitter was in. It can happen in any country. | ||
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Destro
Netherlands1206 Posts
they take me down a scary ass hallway with flickering hospital lights.. looks like a scene from saw. promptly start shitting bricks. go upstairs and 10 very thug looking guys stare at me while the other 2 walk me to this room which is a plywood box with a mattress and blood stains everywhere.. oh and the stripper. I tell her i dont want anything and id like to leave and make up an excuse about my friends looking for me. she walks out of the room and tells me to wait, 5 or 6 of those huge thugs walk in, close the door. tell me i owe them for the time in the room. i said i didnt do anything and want to leave.. big mistake.. guy throws me back into the wall and says he doesnt care, its his room and i owe him money. I ask how much and he says 5k american. I explain i didnt have that kind of money. guy throws me into the wall and says they are taking me to a bank machine. luckily they didnt have a card swiper thing like in your story... so they walk me across the street to the bank, and a theres a bunch of american tourists standing around waiting for their turn.. the moment i see them i start to say HEY GUYS WHATS UP and pretend they are my friends. they see the panic in my eyes and go with the story.. so the thug guys say they are leaving and want me to pay tomorrow and ask me my hotel room number so they can come visit me. I lie about the hotel and the room, they ask the tourists if its true and they go with it and say it was. I ended up only losing about 200 usd through the whole ordeal. TLDR; similar thing happened to me, some tourists saved my ass tho It sucks that you lost that money ben, but considering that you are safe is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more important. after a while you can start to joke about it, and having such a scary/crazy story might end up being worth the money.. i know mine was :D | ||
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