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Q: Why does it seem like every new thing here gets vandalized?
The new subway line that opened up I noticed someone had destroyed the rubbery part on the door. They completely slashed it with what it looked like a key of some sort. I believe that line is only 1 or 2 months old.
To be honest I think there is more vandalism in other countries than China
however if you want to talk about theft ?
it is lucky the doors were not stolen
mArtiAn:
You're not kidding. I once forgot to pull my flies up after using a public toilet, and by the time I got home my underpants were missing.
There is a difference between vandalism and theft. In China the rate of vandalism seems a lot lower than Australia from my observations. The most obvious form of vandalism in Australia is graffiti and there is far far less in China. I cant believe the mindless tools that still persist in my country with this visual vandalism. All of the rail corridors fences peoples side walls of their houses and many other public and private spaces are targeted. Judges treat these morons very lightly in Australia while the taxpayer foots the huge bills for it's removal. Absence of graffiti is one of the things I like about China.
having so many people around should be a deterrent but nobody cares here, so they have cameras to see who the people are that dont care. very sad
I suspect some of the vandalism is in fact poor quality. E.g. here in town the city busses go from looking new to being old and rattling in no time. Maybe sometimes people have been mean to parts of the interior, but I think it is also a combination of many people using them and poor quality.
I can't speak for all of China, but around my apartment building a lot of bikes and motorbikes have been vandalized or stolen.
My roommate's boyfriend often comes down to stay the night at our place. For the first few weeks, he'd park his motorbike outside the entrance by the other bikes. Then one night the wireless alarm was triggered and he went downstairs to find some of the local bao'an trying to steal the bike, so he moved it inside the entrance by the elevators (where a few other bicycles are normally parked. A few days later, he found that the tires had been slashed by someone so he moved it into the stairwell on our floor. So far so good with that, but we'll see what happens next.
My roommates bicycle (an old rusty 1980s frame) was stolen from outside the subway one night last fall. Her new bicycle, which she parks inside on our floor by the elevators has had the tires slashed. I have a pretty nice bike now, and I keep it in my room.
I don't have much "big city life" comparison to go off of, but the rate of bicycle and motorcycle theft vandalism in Beijing really pisses me off.
Many other things like Scandinavian said I'd chalk up to poor quality.
I see plenty of theft (or more accurately the results thereof), but very little vandalism, in fact about the only vandalism I have seen in 2 1/2 years in Nanning has been a little bit of Graffiti.
I've actually seen very little vandalism in China compared to most western countries.
Things do fall apart and get ruined a lot quicker in China though. I think part of it is due to poor quality and part of it due to so many people using it.
It's quite annoying and sad how fast things get ruined out here. Recently a small outdoor basketball court opened up down the street from me. It was was really nice.....within 2 months it looks like shit, the nets are missing or broken, the hoops are crooked, etc etc.
