Originally Posted by
bruce80
Having just returned from Beijing, I have the feeling that those "Hello Sir, please wait a moment, Sir" kind of incidents have almost vanished from the streets. I haven't once been approached (but being in company of a woman most of the time might have helped), nor were I able to spot the typical kind of person usually waiting to pull off something like that.
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Role Reversal
“Changsha resident Mr. Tang took the No. 402 public bus to work in the morning. When the bus stopped at Liuchengqiao station, he noticed a tall Laowai getting on the bus. Without inserting a coin into the automatic ticketing machine, the foreigner showed a board saying “Help, wallet stolen, borrow 20 yuan” to the passengers one by one and begged for money in crude Chinese.”
“Because he is a foreigner, many passengers 'lent' money to him”,
http://www.hugchina.com/china/storie...013-05-20.html