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Q: Been hearing stories about houses getting broken into over CNY. Has that ever happened to you?
I've got my doors and windows barred shut and my valuables hidden away after I keep hearing about these Spring Festival thieves. Know anyone who actually had this happen to them?
I had a couple of ladies - one older, one younger, knock on my apartment door one night.
They told my wife that they were representing Walmart and wanted to demonstrate the cleaning products that Walmart offered.
I asked my wife, "Do they have any Walmart I.D? Do you think that Walmart does such a thing?" Out went the two women.
I have heard countless tales of people whose apartment has been entirely cleaned out during Spring Festival. People move, people marry, guards are too drunk or busy...
Make sure that your door has a dead bolt and that said dead bolt cannot be easily be pushed through or dug out.
Tell the security of your building that you aren't moving or having electronics repaired during the holiday (and make sure that you give them a decent red envelope or bottle of baijiu).
And back up your computer files now! Get an external hard drive or upload to a cloud service but get those files backed up! Everyone cries blue murder when their phone or laptop goes missing but it only takes a few minutes to back those puppies up.
Scandinavian:
....or maybe not tell security that you will be away for CNY. If I wanted to break in to my own apartment I would go pay off a security guard to help.
Last CNY they did put up notices in our building about potential for burglaries during CNY, as far as I know there has only been 2 break ins in our community in the two years we've lived here. It is several thousand apartments (OK; I might not know of all of them)
