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On November 20 2012 19:08 coloursheep wrote:Show nested quote +On November 20 2012 17:34 yandere991 wrote:On November 20 2012 12:52 TheDraken wrote:On November 19 2012 12:40 aintz wrote:On November 18 2012 04:40 Enders116 wrote:On November 17 2012 22:41 ReachTheSky wrote:On November 16 2012 06:09 eltese wrote:On November 16 2012 06:07 Warlock40 wrote:Is there any chance at all of him being able to get his money back? They might never catch the robbers, but can he go to the bank and say he was coerced? On November 16 2012 06:05 larse wrote:
I'm surprised that none of those casters, players, and media people bought a VPN before they went there. A what? He says on reddit that he has called the bank and that they are launching an investigation. So hopefully! He will call the bank but not the police. Interesting. Calling the police in China does JACK SHIT. I've said this numerous times before. Police will even steal a foreigner's passport in China and hold it hostage while the foreigner coughs up 5000 RMB for it. I know guys that have been in that situation before. proof or bullshit. take a trip to china like the rest of us have. then accuse us of bullshit. I still accuse you of bullshit. Are you kidding me the police will never steal your passport because that is property of your government and if you go to your embassy and tell them that the chinese police took your passport and refused to give it back without a bribe that would be an international incident, there is just no way that a police officer would even consider doing that.
It is pretty funny how naive some people are :D
I have no expierence with asian countries, but african and latin american.
Do you really think a little cop who gets paid less than a mcdonalds employee in europe would care about something like embassy and goverment?
They just take it away and tell you to give them some proof(money) that you really are who you are and shit.
If you (could) go to your embassy and say they "stole" it from you, the cops will just decline everything and out of nowhere some random dude found your passport in some dumbster and evantually "Here you go! Have fun".
The world is not My Little Pony place. People who have very little and think you have a lot will try a lot to get a little of your a lot.
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On November 20 2012 19:08 coloursheep wrote:Show nested quote +On November 20 2012 17:34 yandere991 wrote:On November 20 2012 12:52 TheDraken wrote:On November 19 2012 12:40 aintz wrote:On November 18 2012 04:40 Enders116 wrote:On November 17 2012 22:41 ReachTheSky wrote:On November 16 2012 06:09 eltese wrote:On November 16 2012 06:07 Warlock40 wrote:Is there any chance at all of him being able to get his money back? They might never catch the robbers, but can he go to the bank and say he was coerced? On November 16 2012 06:05 larse wrote:
I'm surprised that none of those casters, players, and media people bought a VPN before they went there. A what? He says on reddit that he has called the bank and that they are launching an investigation. So hopefully! He will call the bank but not the police. Interesting. Calling the police in China does JACK SHIT. I've said this numerous times before. Police will even steal a foreigner's passport in China and hold it hostage while the foreigner coughs up 5000 RMB for it. I know guys that have been in that situation before. proof or bullshit. take a trip to china like the rest of us have. then accuse us of bullshit. I still accuse you of bullshit. Are you kidding me the police will never steal your passport because that is property of your government and if you go to your embassy and tell them that the chinese police took your passport and refused to give it back without a bribe that would be an international incident, there is just no way that a police officer would even consider doing that.
Yea he's either a complete idiot or troll. Always tough to tell when somebody is that stupid.
Although I must admit that the Chinese government just took my passport and made me pay 900 yuan to get it back...
and extend the visa 
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I've been travelling the world for 15 years with my job and something along those lines happened to me in Shanghai as well, not exactly the same but involving credit cards and getting ripped off. I travel to China 2-3 times a year so when it happened I was pretty shocked as I consider myself pretty street smart. China is still my favorite country to visit anyway and something like this can happen anywhere. I got all my money back (£2000) through a claim with the CC company, hope you do as well.
It's something that is pretty shitty to happen but you live and learn 
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On November 18 2012 01:53 kolofome wrote:
so did anyone else forget about how ToD apparently got "so fucked up" that all he knew was his name was ToD when he woke up at a random place in china? or are we going to completely forget about that just like how stephano beat a 14 year old in sc2
How the hell is this post okay?
Stephano never even beat up a 14 year old; it was a joke.
I think reddit would be a more appropriate place for you.
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Good to hear he got out of it okish. Wouldnt want to have been in his place....you never know what those people are capable of. For the same he had entirely refused and got shot or stabbed.
I have been in nepal once...and talked with a guy, who i was told later was the leader of a gang who robbed tourists. In nepal 100 euro is enough for those people to feed themselves with for more then a year...i can understand that they get tempted to do those things because of poverty..but you need to be carefull with them..wouldnt have been the first time someone got stabbed. I think mrbitter had pro decision making, what he did was probably the best way out if the situation, because its not worth doing heroics...only fools try to be heroic in those situations (atleast when you are outnumbered and dont have a escape route :D).
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On November 20 2012 22:59 boxman22 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 20 2012 19:08 coloursheep wrote:On November 20 2012 17:34 yandere991 wrote:On November 20 2012 12:52 TheDraken wrote:On November 19 2012 12:40 aintz wrote:On November 18 2012 04:40 Enders116 wrote:On November 17 2012 22:41 ReachTheSky wrote:On November 16 2012 06:09 eltese wrote:On November 16 2012 06:07 Warlock40 wrote:Is there any chance at all of him being able to get his money back? They might never catch the robbers, but can he go to the bank and say he was coerced? On November 16 2012 06:05 larse wrote:
I'm surprised that none of those casters, players, and media people bought a VPN before they went there. A what? He says on reddit that he has called the bank and that they are launching an investigation. So hopefully! He will call the bank but not the police. Interesting. Calling the police in China does JACK SHIT. I've said this numerous times before. Police will even steal a foreigner's passport in China and hold it hostage while the foreigner coughs up 5000 RMB for it. I know guys that have been in that situation before. proof or bullshit. take a trip to china like the rest of us have. then accuse us of bullshit. I still accuse you of bullshit. Are you kidding me the police will never steal your passport because that is property of your government and if you go to your embassy and tell them that the chinese police took your passport and refused to give it back without a bribe that would be an international incident, there is just no way that a police officer would even consider doing that. Yea he's either a complete idiot or troll. Always tough to tell when somebody is that stupid. Although I must admit that the Chinese government just took my passport and made me pay 900 yuan to get it back... and extend the visa
The following is a casual email that a friend of mine sent me less than a year ago. The police stole his passport in Changzhou.
http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k1/eye_am_ben/?action=view¤t=Reliable.png
On November 20 2012 22:58 bluQ wrote:Show nested quote +On November 20 2012 19:08 coloursheep wrote:On November 20 2012 17:34 yandere991 wrote:On November 20 2012 12:52 TheDraken wrote:On November 19 2012 12:40 aintz wrote:On November 18 2012 04:40 Enders116 wrote:On November 17 2012 22:41 ReachTheSky wrote:On November 16 2012 06:09 eltese wrote:On November 16 2012 06:07 Warlock40 wrote:Is there any chance at all of him being able to get his money back? They might never catch the robbers, but can he go to the bank and say he was coerced? On November 16 2012 06:05 larse wrote:
I'm surprised that none of those casters, players, and media people bought a VPN before they went there. A what? He says on reddit that he has called the bank and that they are launching an investigation. So hopefully! He will call the bank but not the police. Interesting. Calling the police in China does JACK SHIT. I've said this numerous times before. Police will even steal a foreigner's passport in China and hold it hostage while the foreigner coughs up 5000 RMB for it. I know guys that have been in that situation before. proof or bullshit. take a trip to china like the rest of us have. then accuse us of bullshit. I still accuse you of bullshit. Are you kidding me the police will never steal your passport because that is property of your government and if you go to your embassy and tell them that the chinese police took your passport and refused to give it back without a bribe that would be an international incident, there is just no way that a police officer would even consider doing that. It is pretty funny how naive some people are :D I have no expierence with asian countries, but african and latin american. Do you really think a little cop who gets paid less than a mcdonalds employee in europe would care about something like embassy and goverment? They just take it away and tell you to give them some proof(money) that you really are who you are and shit. If you (could) go to your embassy and say they "stole" it from you, the cops will just decline everything and out of nowhere some random dude found your passport in some dumbster and evantually "Here you go! Have fun". The world is not My Little Pony place. People who have very little and think you have a lot will try a lot to get a little of your a lot.
This is so true.
EDIT: I didn't want to bring this up in the original post that everyone just pyramid-stacked but here's another viable example: Pornography in China. It is illegal to possess, produce, or redistribute porn in China. Yet every single DVD store in China sells it. Doing this is punishable by 1-3 years in Chinese prison. Or it's like how prostitution in America is illegal, yet people still do it without getting caught (at least for a short amount of time).
BTW: Not every single city in China has embassies. Theoretically, that's like telling a Chinese person in Oklahoma to go to the Chinese embassy to get their stolen passport replaced. And then let's take in to account their wallet and every other form of ID was also stolen. They have virtually no way of getting to the nearest Embassy (houston, texas) unless a friend drives them to the embassy in person.
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I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else
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How beta can you be
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