Millionaire mistook two-finger gesture

Dressed as police, four knife-wielding men from Jixian, a county in Shanxi province, broke into a millionaire’s home with the intention of robbing him of two million yuan ($285,660). But, the robbers got 10 million yuan after the man misread the robber’s gesture of two fingers as 20 million. Wang bargained with the robbers for half the sum, fearing they would harm him and his family. The robbery is the biggest ever reported in Shanxi. The robbers were captured last month, and the money has been recovered.

Chinese Business Morning View

Don’t hire this guy if you want a good deal…

Where’s my mouth?
A restaurant where diners eat in complete darkness to experience blindness recently opened in Chengdu, Sichuan. Diners are led into the 700-square-meter restaurant in Dongdajie by waiters wearing night vision equipment. Eating in the dark, diners, most of whom are young people curious about the restaurant, have to eat bread, salad and rice fried with chicken with their hands. After they finish their meal and leave, as they adapt to the light outside the restaurant they may find their faces covered with food.

China Daily

Mistress makes the most out of philanderer’s IOU
Xi, the manger of a company in Dongying, Shandong province, wrote an IOU for 100,000 yuan ($13,700) for his mistress, surnamed Pang, as a demonstration of his desire to divorce his wife and marry her instead. After he failed to divorce his wife, however, his relations with Pang soured. Enraged, Pang brought Xi and his wife Sun to court, asking them to hand over the promised sum. Last Thursday, the court ruled in Pang’s favor, ordering Xi to honor the IOU as there was no reason to believe it was invalid.

Qilu Evening News

That’ll teach him a lesson. Or two.

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10. People only shout hello to you on the street if they actually know you.

9. Crazy things may actually have logical explanations.

8. There’s grass out there. And you’re allowed to walk on it…

7. Traffic lights mean something.

6. White lines separating lanes mean something.

5. Driving on the wrong side of the road is usually only performed by stunt drivers in films.

4. You don’t see people’s big, pink underwear hanging from trees when you walk down the street.

3. You don’t see dead chickens hanging on clothes lines when you walk down the street.

2. No one ever congratulates you on your skills of using knife and fork.

1. People still don’t understand you when you speak Chinese…

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10. You can fit your suitcase in the trunk of the taxi that picks you up outside the airport and the taxi driver doesn’t laugh at you when he sees the amount of luggage you have.

9. The taxi ride from the airport almost ruins you and you now understand why the driver can afford a big trunk for you to put your luggage in.

8. Every time you go to the supermarket in your underwear you get arrested and you can’t understand why. Isn’t this normal??

7. You can see stars in the sky even though you live in a city. Yes, they’re still out there…

6. You get to use your legs more than your elbows when you go jogging in the city.

5. You are wondering why no one is staring at you and almost feel a bit insulted.

4. No one asks you anymore if you’ve had your breakfast, lunch, dinner yet. Boo hoo, where’s the love, people??

3. People don’t assume that all you eat is bread.

2. When you report a crime to the police they don’t ask you for USD10,000 and a car so they can “solve the crime more quickly”.

1. The newspapers actually write interesting things about China and you find that you learn more about China outside China than inside China.