A somewhat biased view on China…
This story happened recently in Jinan (济南, Jǐnán), Shandong Province (山东, Shāndōng). Pan Aiying, teacher at Wutou Middle school got her bag stolen while riding her bicycle back home. Her bag contained her mobile phone, bank cards and 4,900 RMB. Instead of calling the police, she decided to contact the thief on her stolen mobile. She first called the thief but her call was rejected. She then started to send the following SMS:
“Hey, buddy. I’m Pan Aiying, a teacher from Wutou Middle School. You must be going through a difficult time. If so, I will not blame you,”
“Keep the 4,900 yuan if you really need it, but please return the other things to me. You are still young. To err is human. Correcting your mistake is more important than anything,”
And so on…
After 21 SMS, she gave up and decided to call the police the next morning. The next day, before she called the police, she found her bag with everything inside in her courtyard. Within the bag was the following note from the thief:
“Dear Pan: I’m sorry. I made a mistake. Please forgive me. You are so tolerant even though I stole from you. I’ll correct my ways and be an upright person.”
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Source:
China Daily, 2007-01-23
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January 23rd, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Thanks for the news, Chris!
January 23rd, 2007 at 4:28 pm
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January 23rd, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Remind me something that happened to me something like 4 years ago. A guy stole a bag from a lady in Brussels. I ran after him and after running 2 minutes he stopped, asking me to get away. I asked him the same as this chinese teacher, that is to take to money in the bag, but to give back the rest. He quickly searched after money inside, found like 2 Euros and throwed the bag angrily on the floor, not able to find more… Couldn’t find the lady directly, so as I had a lesson, I gave the bag to a merchant who called the police. The funny stuff is that there were 400 Euros inside some hidden pocket of the bag.
I prefer the chinese story though
January 24th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
trop adorable, ton histoire! comme tu dis, il n’y a plus qu’en Chine que cela se passe (parfois) comme ça.
February 7th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
there are so many unbelievable things in China, here you read another I got from friends ,but totally not as above, it is concerned one lady alone shopping in the south of China深圳, there were a group of people in conflict around her, after she got fainted and be operated by someone and her one kidney and some part of liver were stolen!!! she dicovered this when she was brought back to Hong Kong .BE CAREFUL ,not be alone in CHINA even in shopping centre. read more details in Chinese as below:
以下是一件最近發生的真人真事, 主角是我經理的一位女性朋友 ,
三十多歲.這位女士自認是深圳的地膽, 常愛往那兒購物消費,
早前,
她相約一班朋友去深圳,由此自持熟路 , 所以有次她拋下大夥兒,
自己獨自去東門買東西. 忽然路上有一群人在爭執,她為怕牽涉其中,
所以躲在一旁 , 之後, 她就不醒人事了, 到她甦醒過來,
已經在醫院了
……….她的朋友們心急如焚, 於是報了公安. 兩天後, 公安在一條路邊
找到這位女士,她當時是不省人事的, 像是被人打了針一樣, 而且肚上
有兩條縫了針的手術痕．她的朋友們立即送她回港就醫,
入住東區醫
院, 後來證實沒有生命危險, 穩定下來之後，按病人意願, 轉了去一所
私家醫院繼續療養．經本港的醫生證實 ,這位女士被人割去1/3個肝,
和一個腎, 但下手的人刀法正規, 簡直是醫生的刀法, 按推斷, 估計是
: 有一群人聲東擊西,引開這位女士的注意後, 把她迷暈, 然後送她去
了一間與\”黑店\”醫院，割下她的１╱３個肝臟和一個腎，在她麻醉
葯仍未過的時候將她棄置在路旁．即使是我們一班見慣大場面的護
士，聽完之後也個個起了雞皮疙瘩！去大陸真的要小心！
February 8th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I’m not sure we are talking about the same country here. Your story is scary!
February 9th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
I hope that is not true neither, but I know there are organs sale illegally in China, so it is quite convincing!!
of course, that wouldn’t happen always and to everybdoy( luckily),by the way ,wish you 出
入 平安 in China,(chu1,ru4,ping2,an1),that is a common saying in Chinese New Year, I translate it like that: wherever you go, may you be in peace and safe. for the songs, hope thaat i might finish them in few weeks later,because i’ll leave for holidays also in my homeland –HK^.^