Recently, a Chinese work colleague of mine, who is six months pregnant, was buying pork at a small street market near her apartment. As she was paying for the pork, a man on a bicycle rode by, reached into her purse and removed her wallet. She did not notice the missing wallet until hours later [...]
Posts Tagged ‘crime’
Why Stealing Is So Easy In China
Posted by Robert Vance on November 6th, 2008
Posted in The Vance Report 
Tags: China, Chinese crime, Chinese Thieves, crime, crime in China, Good Samaritan, Robbers in China 
4 Comments »No Hands…
Posted by Robert Vance on March 13th, 2008
R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-U-N-T…is that how you spell it? No, but that’s how I wrote it up on the whiteboard this afternoon. Come on, give me a break. I was tired. I wasn’t used to working the morning shift. I definitely wasn’t on the top of my game today. Besides that, I was hearing some pretty scary stuff [...]
Posted in The Vance Report Tags: China, crime, Criminals, ESL, teach-English, TESOL, Tips, work-abroad No Comments »Petty Theft is not a Pretty Thing
Posted by Robert Vance on March 7th, 2008
It was a snowy, foggy day in Central China as I traveled on a minibus back to my hometown from the capital of the province. I had just dozed off when the bus slowed to a halt and a passenger disembarked. There would have been nothing unusual about his exit if it weren’t for the [...]
