Wendy's Wallet was Stolen
By Jian Shuo Wang on 2007-10-08 21:23 · WendyWendy called me this morning, and told me her wallet was stolen at Xujiahui.
This is bad news.
It is just 100 meter from where I dropped her off, and her office, and the pocket picker steal her wallet easily and quietly. Typhoon hit Shanghai, and everywhere is wet and everyone is watching their steps, and this is the best time for those bad guys.
Wendy lost all his bank cards (credit cards and debit cards), Sodex card (for use in restaurants), public transportation card, and card to enter our residential area. She also has her National ID in it, plus small amount of cash.
She spent quite some time to call all the related bank to claim the lost of the cards, and it may take much longer to get a new National ID.
So friends, be careful.
I hate pocket pickers.
Second Thoughts
Not many people can make us more angry than a pocket pickers. I hate them. However, my second thoughts are, there are many more people other than pocket picker who took more money from our pocket and did it more frequently, but we never really noticed. There are thousands of ways to do it - legally or non-legally. I recently read many books on financial and politics. That is the reason this pocket picking even made more alerted of those invisible “robberies”.
13 Comments
When I travel to China, I always carry two wallets. I put one in my hip pocket with a little cash in it just enough for a day's expanse. Another wallet along with my passport/ID, bank cart, etc, I put them in my passport pouch inside of my pants behind the waist belt. I also store a set of photocopy of my important paper document in home/office. This will make the recovery process much easier if the real thing is lost.
It seems to have a sticker telling whose those found it, he/she may be able to call.
@ILH, good tip, but...... but..... Every time I lost something, I remember these.
Be noted the time, I was walking at a street crowd of people with my father (two men) at noon. That motorcycle just rush toward us and one of them tightly grab the belt of my bag (it was hanging cross my head from my right shoulder to left waist), my poor bag was gone by that kind of huge pulling strength, then they vanished in seconds. Fortunately, I was just hurted my right arm but didn't tumble (I was heard that someone was killed due to head damage hitting on the ground, and someone's arm was stumped since they was dragging with the robber). All my FAMILY's cards and certificates were gone! I was bringing most of my family's certificates to apply for our new born baby's Birth Certificate, which is just kept in hand less than two hours. (people in China may know that to apply for Birth Certificate need almost all relative papers of their parent)
In the same day, I checked out the ATM address in which that robber had withdrew 2K RMB from one of my card (this is a brand new card with password in the envelope). I rush to PaiChuSuo to tell the police what happen, the police show me unconcern except for taking an hour for doing record.
Finally, it took me one month to recover most of the cards and certificates. Be awared, loss of ID card can be very dangerous. First, every card and certificate need ID card to apply for. Second, someone with similar similitude can hold your ID card to apply for changing password in the bank, and then take all your money out! All this just base on the visually judgement of the bank clerk.
Also, I got some of my lost things from the picker, but after most of the recovery.
One night, when it was cold and rainy, he was wrapped up in bed with a quilt (winter night). A thief somehow managed to bend the security bars around the balcony and enter the apartment, but my dad failed to notice. He even went into the same room, where my dad had his head under the quilt. Then, he went out by the front door.
Fortunately, all that was lost were 2 old handphones and some cash