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KoDo
United States683 Posts
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SupLilSon
Malaysia4123 Posts
On November 16 2012 06:39 KoDo wrote: I don't feel bad for Mr.Bitter there I said it. This stuff happens all the time, he wasn't hurt and he's a overly opinionated dick Wow... is this really the place to shittalk him? It's cool that you don't like him or w.e, but no reason to post that kind of crap... | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10363 Posts
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xsnac
Barbados1365 Posts
On November 16 2012 06:39 KoDo wrote: I don't feel bad for Mr.Bitter there I said it. This stuff happens all the time, he wasn't hurt and he's a overly opinionated dick did anyone asked you to feel bad ? hope bitter gets his money back | ||
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MasterCynical
505 Posts
but he might be a bit bitter... | ||
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bootoo
United States23 Posts
Where is MC when you need him? He coulda chased them down and got it back! :D | ||
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KoDo
United States683 Posts
On November 16 2012 06:45 SupLilSon wrote: Wow... is this really the place to shittalk him? It's cool that you don't like him or w.e, but no reason to post that kind of crap... Ah yea my mistake what was I thinking posting personal opinions in a starcraft2 forum my mistake. | ||
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
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reikai
United States359 Posts
Is anyone else sick of the back seat modding? Are you really so insensitive to a community member being in danger that you can't even have it on the list of threads? Are you really so tough that it's not worth ”cluttering” your view of the thread list? I don't know why this makes me so angry; but if you don't like it, just ignore it. (I guess I should follow my own advice, but I really hate these kinds of posts.) Does anyone else feel this way? | ||
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Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
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CursedRich
United Kingdom737 Posts
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President Dead
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Anyway, glad you're okay Bitter! | ||
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Dr.Sin
Canada1126 Posts
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MrBitter
United States2940 Posts
I'm more embarrassed about this whole situation than anything else. Here's the story. I was out at a bar in a nice part of Shanghai with Rotti. Beautiful place, very nice. We were both having a good time, but as it was getting later, I started wanting to take off. Kev wanted to stay out a little longer, so I just bailed around 11 PM. Walked to the street, got into a cab (it was parked in a row of other cabs) and started handing driver my hotel card with the address of the place we're staying. As I'm doing this another guy gets in the car and says something in Chinese to the driver. This is the point where I should have just gotten out of the car, but I was so "wtf!?" that I just sorta sat there. After like 2 seconds cab driver just starts driving. We go for 5-10 minutes down some random roads on random ass Shanghai and stop in this kinda shady looking place with literally nobody around. At this point I know I'm in a shitty situation and trying to calculate what to do. Random dude that got into the cab tells me in broken English to come with him. This is the second point where I guess I could have just walked away, but I had no idea where I was, and this cab driver was the only other person in sight. If I just walk off, I'd literally be walking the streets of a pretty ghetto part of Shanghai alone and in the dark, and just about all other prospects seemed better, so I'm like "fuck it" and I walk with the guy into some little hole in the wall. I'm assuming we were in a whore house, as there were naked pictures of girls on the walls, and really nasty looking girls walking around in dirty outfits. Dude from the cab walks me into a room and tells me to wait. Few minutes later 4 guys walk in. One had really funny hair. Apparently he was the boss. He starts telling me that I'm in his club and I have to pay him. This is the point where I know I'm pretty much fucked. He has three other dudes who literally look like they came out of a bad gangster movie. One of them has a taped up hand, the other is all buff and mean looking, and there's a third old looking guy who is introduced as the head of security. (lol?) Funny hair guy tells me to empty my pockets. I can either comply or try to fight... in these situations I think its always better to just give the dudes what they want than to try and do something stupid. They weren't trying to rape me, just rob me, and it was pretty obvious. They wanted me to give them 40,000 RMB. I had about 1,000 RMB cash on me and my debit card. Funny hair guy says something in Chinese to one of the other guys. Dude leaves, and a few minutes later comes back with a credit card machine. Funny hair guy asks me what the limit on my card is. I'm like "well fuck." I tell him $300 US. Because it is. I have a $300 daily withdrawal limit on my checking account. This is very deliberate. I like to play poker, and I'm bad at stopping myself, so I had my bank limit me to $300 per day. lol. Embarrassing but true. He punches in 5,000 RMB, which is like $800 US and scans my card. Then he tells me to enter my pin. "Fuck it." I do. "Transfer Approved" Great. Now I've lied to this angry little gangster, and I'm out $800. He starts to yell at me. "WHY ARE YOU LYING TO ME" "Honestly dude, I've got a $300 withdrawal limit." He punches in 5,000 again. I enter pin. Approved. "double fuck." Now he makes me write down my pin code and my name. He's pissed that I've lied to him twice. He walks off with my card and is gone for 20 minutes. Eventually he comes back, and tells me he tried to withdraw 10,000 RMB more from my account, but thankfully it was declined. He gives me 200 RMB cash for a cab and tells me that I'm going to go with two of his "staff" to an ATM and I'm going to withdraw as much money as I can. "triple fuck" I walk out of this shitty little whore house or whatever the fuck it is and get into a cab with these two short little Chinese gangsters. I'm pretty pissed myself at this point, and seriously am considering trying to fight, but I suck it up. I had no idea if they had weapons, and I was pretty sure I didn't have any more money for them to steal. We drive for like 20 more fucking minutes away from Shanghai to an ATM. We get out, I give my card to one of the gangster dudes, punch in my pin for him, card gets declined. He tries again. Declined. Makes me try once. Declined. They walk me back to the cab, put me in and say in perfect english "where is your hotel sir?" I give the hotel card to the gangster dude, he gives it to my cab driver, and presumably tells him to take me home, and that's where we went. Once back at the hotel I called the back to see if I could stop payment on the 10,000 RMB transactions they pulled. Of course there will be a bank investigation. Haven't called the cops because I don't know wtf I would tell them. I still have no fucking idea where I was, or who stole from me. In hindsight, they were pretty polite about it. TLDR: Didn't get out of car when strange Chinese guy got in. Ended up costing me about $1600 US. Hoping for the best. What I learned: Never travel alone. China's a beautiful country, and Shanghai's an amazing city. I do think I'll be spending my evenings at the hotel from now on, though. On November 16 2012 07:11 President Dead wrote: It's a drag he was in personal danger. Must've been really scary. I'm glad he is well. While this may sound harsh, however, the financial loss is petty and I really have no sympathy financially, (much sympathy for danger however) simply because MrBitter is loaded. He himself said he owns 8 houses and he pretty much grew up without having to worry about money at all. I'd take that and get mugged down the road anyday! Anyway, glad you're okay Bitter! I am successful outside of e-sports, but I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. We never had money when I was young. Both my parents are self made successes. I've worked in construction, in factories, and in sales jobs making my way. I'm not loaded. $1,600 is a lot of money. It won't kill me if I don't get it back. But your post is largely misinformation. On November 16 2012 07:11 CursedRich wrote: Ive spent time in China and Hong Kong, this usually happens to people who are very drunk and alone, having seen Mr Bitter on Kings of Tin, I hope he wasn't that drunk because he couldn't handle his drink on that show and you become a target in many cities globally if you're in that state alone, Ive got be honest though, Hong Kong's much safer on the whole, glad he's not hurt Had been drinking. Was not drunk. Was stupid to try and go home alone. I've been around the world a couple times and this is the first time I've had something like this happen. I was completely to blame for being by myself, and for not just bailing out of that cab immediately when the random dude got in. Live and learn. | ||
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Qwyn
United States2779 Posts
On November 16 2012 06:02 iiAreJordan wrote: That's terrible, I hope he's doing alright God damnit, I didn't even know SOTG was happening until you posted that T_T. That fucking sucks (Bitter getting mugged), and I'm going to try very, very hard not to get irrationally angry right now... | ||
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farvacola
United States18835 Posts
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
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Melaine
United States56 Posts
On November 16 2012 06:19 Gosi wrote: I doubt he was in a bad part of Shanghai since the party location and the hotel have to be paid by Blizzard, no? If so, I can't really see them being in bad areas at all. I just think it is easy to scam foreigners in China if the person is suffering from language barriers and ain't so streetsmart. there is no such thing as "good" or "bad" places in south east Asia/China......It's not like in USA rich spoiled kids can avoid certain areas and feel "safe" China has massive crime all over the place, and China is not very friendly towards UK/USA folk, seems like something Mr Bitter should of been aware of, diff if he was at a "party" China is known for doing this sort of thing to traveler's who get to drunk at parties, does not matter what area u are in at China, something you always have to be a aware of. China/North Korea and other places like these in Asia can be very scary if you don't know what you are doing, not exactly the most friendly places in our world. I been to China many times for work and you always have to be aware of people as a American/UK/Euro there. But glad to see he is ok.......these thing does happen all the time and almost 100% certain to happen act stupid or get drunk @ a party and get isolated from your group. | ||
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ragz_gt
9172 Posts
From my experience and what I heard from friends Shanghai is pretty safe (though the bars, especially where foreigners tend to go, were packed with hookers), must be shitty luck. | ||
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Just_a_Moth
Canada1961 Posts
On November 16 2012 06:39 KoDo wrote: I don't feel bad for Mr.Bitter there I said it. This stuff happens all the time, he wasn't hurt and he's an overly opinionated dick User was temp banned for this post. But seriously that sucks. Good luck to him recouping his money in future endeavors | ||
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