Warning 2: Watch your bag
This is warning 2 of 3 to be issued this week. Also see Warning 1: Watch your nuts.
Someone stole my mobile phone last weekend. Sometime between me being bumped into by a group of guys in one bar and having paid for a drink in another, my beloved K-Touch B922 was nabbed. Hardly an isolated incident, my friends, but a good reminder scumbags do prowl among us.
Consider someone who recently had her laptop stolen in a restaurant / bar. The computer sat near a table’s edge, beside a sofa. She arrived when the place was quiet, did some work, and stayed on to meet friends as things got progressively more crowded and louder.
Several men came in and moved expertly throughout the room. One of them spotted the laptop and noticed the woman was distracted. He walked over, bumped it onto the sofa, then served as a shield as an accomplice approached, covered the laptop with a jacket and headed for the door. How do we know? A security camera caught the scene. Let’s hope the lady gets her laptop back.
The obvious lesson: watch your bag, your phone, your laptop, your wallet, and anything else of value you take out in public in Beijing.
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