Crime in China

[Kaige]

This was not in this town it was in GZ with some locals I guess, I was staying in the motel by the airport, but a van pulled up into the parking lot and a lot of argueing was going on inside the van and a women got out and was talking to the driver, language unknown, chinese, the motel security came over and tried to speak to the driver and he hauled --- out of there leaveing the women, the gaurds took off after him but didn't catch him, think they got the plate number though. I didn't leave the motel grounds after that as I was by myself staying and waiting for 2 days to get a flight home, missed the first one due to weather, I should have bought a ticket and flew back to ChonQing for two more days with the wife

[nousername]

and the taxi guys can be real mean as well.

I also went out into the nether regions one time to visit my friend at her school- I forget what it's called now- but I took a motorcycle taxi to her house and ended up driving out into who knows where- probably not the guys fault- probably the fault of my Chinese- but I have never been more frightened.

I had a friedn who had a rather dangerous situation with a motorcylce taxi too. He was in Dongguan (this is near shenzhen??? yes? someone correct me..). He had been regularly going to this gym across town, and had always taken motorcycle taxis to get there. One day his driver went in the opposite direction from the start.... my friend new something was up, but just gave him the benefit of the doubt hoping the driver knew a short cut or something... well, this was no short cut. the driver ended up taking him to the opposite side of town and drove him down an long alley... at which point, you can imagine my friend was getting a little scared. then at the end of the alley the taxi let him off, but asked for .... here's the kicker... a whopping 30 yuan instead of the standard 3 yuan fare!!! at this point a bit of relief came over my friend, but i don't know if it was arrogance or what (on my friend's part) but he decided to argue with the driver about the fare... saying "bu yao... bu yao ... 3 yaun!! ... 3 yuan!!" (maybe "bu yao" is the wrong thing to say, but it's what he said.) well, this didn't sit too well with the driver and he turned to his motorcycle, grabbed a knife and held it out to my friend and said "30 yuan" .... at which point, i think, my friend threw him a 100 yuan note and took off running....

[Shosetsuin]

yeah...

 

Dong Guan is a really evil place (worse than shenzhen, and thats bad). I traveled there with some friends once and ended up being chased by a band of beggars...they were smart though...while we made a straight dash for the nearest restaurant, a segment of the overall group broke off and took a shortcut. We ended up being surrounded and had to push our way through. Fortunately for us we had age and lack of disability on our side and made it to safety (no offense to disabled bums everywhere).

 

This is a true story...jeesh.

 

I discovered that I must be the #1 target for this type of stuff in China...no one seemed to have had the trouble I have.

 

strange...

 

nate

[sylinchinastill]

I swear I think that is where I was headed to as well- some of my friends taught in a school outside the Shenzhen city limits. That place is crazy- and they told us about it like it was the suburbs- not what I imagine when I think about the suburbs at all.

[tonyontherock]

Dong Guan is a crazy place, known as the new redlight district. A few things you really got to watch out for.

1). Never, never get on one of those motorcycle cab.

2). Never order a girl over the phone

3). Never show a lot of money or camcorders, etc in a remote place

4). Never fight back if some one is holding a knife or if there are more than one against you.