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Q: What's more common to get stolen here?
Between a bike, a wallet or a cell phone. Which one of these are you likely to lose first?
i have an idea in ur case, but smartly u didnt mention it....wonder how you eat though, always standing?
There's a saying that you aren't an adult in China until the fourth time you have your bike stolen. I haven't lost my phone or wallet yet. The most common thing for me to lose here is my appetite, right as I walk by that row of orange refuse bins lining the sidewalk with a few guys hawking in front of me.
Never owned a bike. And never had anything else stolen.
But, my best guess at what is most commonly stolen from foreigners would be their "innocence". (From a world traveling perspective.)
...had two bikes stolen.... one was very much my fault,,,, I didn't lock it. parked it maybe 5metres from where sitting.. had a couple cervezas,, looked around,, bike gone...
thankfully it was a 700rmb ren ren la bike. i had owned it over a year,,, no great loss.
Never lost a bike or a cell-phone, but i've lost three wallets.
And that is why I shouldn't drink.
Bike is number one I think, I read somewhere that an estimate of 20,000 bikes get stolen in China every day.
I lost 2 phones, one out of my pocket on a bus, the other my GF fell in love with my locked iPhone. It's still locked but works with wifi or camera.
I gave her my scooter which has batteries under the seat. The bike was smashed and batteries stolen twice in one month.
Only ever had a camera stolen, in Guangzhou in 2003.
Another time, I had a guy reaching into my empty jacket pocket on a bus, obviously looking for something. He started screaming like a girl when I got him in a wrist lock, then ran from the bus at the next stop. Bystanders looked quite amused.
In Harbin, I had two friends (Canadian and Australian) buy two motorbikes at the same shop just days apart and they both were stolen ...just days apart.
wildcat77:
Did they pay the locks at the same place where they bought the bikes? The sellers usually keep spare keys with them, track you down after you buy the bike, to steal and re-sell it again. To minimize such risk, you should always buy the locks at a different shop, which is as far away from your home as possible.
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