When your parents won't buy name brand snacks...
Via - Veronica
Thursday, November 26, 2015
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Monday, August 24, 2015
Don't Waste...
My parents never told me to waste things...
via - http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1852142/gan-bei-chinese-woman-chugs-180-euro-bottle-cognac-boarding-gate
A Chinese woman passenger who downed an entire bottle of expensive cognac at Beijing’s main airport was barred from boarding because she was “too drunk to fly”, a local newspaper reported.
The woman, surnamed Zhao, was found rolling on the floor at a boarding gate at Beijing Capital International Airport, shouting and screaming, according to a police officer who attended the scene.
“She was so drunk… she couldn’t even stand up herself. We took her to a room in a wheelchair so she could rest,” the officer told The Beijing Times.
The captain of the Wenzhou-bound flight refused to allow Zhao on the plane on Friday as she was travelling alone, and was concerned that her condition could affect safety on board.
According to the report, Zhao was stopped from bringing a bottle of Rémy Martin XO Excellence in her hand luggage.
Passengers are prohibited from bringing liquids over 100ml in their hand luggage in China.
Fearing the prized liquor would go to waste – a 700ml bottle costs about US$200 (HK$1,500) – she downed the entire bottle.
Zhao, who is said to be about 40, bought the bottle at a US airport and was transferring to a domestic flight in Beijing.
Zhao woke up some hours later and thanked police for taking care of her. They contacted her family members who took her home.
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Bootleg Special: Dubs Edition
Suspiciously low-priced T-shirts that Warrior fans snapped up during the team’s championship run probably won’t survive the first wash cycle, according to federal officials.
Seeking to keep counterfeiters from biting into NBAprofits, Homeland Security agents in San Francisco announced Monday that they seized almost $500,000 worth of bogus basketball memorabilia in a monthlong operation.
They said vendors throughout the Bay Area marketed the goods to often unwitting Warriors fans — though some fans knowingly buy knockoffs because of the hefty price tags on the official stuff.
Beginning with the Western Conference finals on May 19, the customs agents cracked down on roughly 100 vendors — some repeat offenders — who sold more than 14,000 items ranging from T-shirts with faulty stitching to hats with tags missing the official NBA holograms, officials said.
The estimated value of $500,000 represented the suggested retail price for bona fide merchandise.
Tatum King, deputy special agent in charge of investigations, advised fans to second-guess great deals.
“We ask the buyer beware, because when you’re getting a T-shirt three for $10, that’s a clue,” he said. “If it’s too good to be true, it usually is.”
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Who Needs a Time Machine When You Can Eat This 40-Year-Old Meat Instead?
Shady...
"The China Daily reported that officials from Guangxi, an area in southern China, found meat dating back to the 1970s. Screw your local steakhouse, these guys got dry-aging down! Apparently, the shadowy meat-men of China were kind enough to leave behind evidence of their misdeeds; they forgot to remove some incriminating stamps on the packaging, dating back to the 70s."
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Monday, May 25, 2015
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Monday, April 6, 2015
Hong Kong's underground cookie trade
There's a booming black market in Hong Kong, but it's not for fake Apple Watches, or the iPhone.
Instead, people are going crazy for tins of butter cookies. Tourists and locals line up around the block for several hours just to get their hands on Jenny's cookies -- at $9 a tin.
Its popularity has spurred bakeries to make and sell knockoffs, and the original store has signs warning against buying 'fake' Jenny's cookies. The tiny shop, located in Tsim Sha Tsui, one of the city's main shopping districts, is swarming with people handing over wads of cash for the "little bear cookies" as they are known across Asia. People are even hired to stand in line to buy the goods and are later resold at a 70% mark-up yards away, something the bakery also tries to discourage.
A few meters away from the long cookie line, old ladies hold up paper signs advertising the cookies for sale. But when they see cameras approaching, they scurry away, only to reappear on another street corner.
The frenzy in Hong Kong over the buttery treats is by no means an isolated example. In other parts of the world, food mania has erupted, swiftly winning people's hearts and stomachs, only to fizzle out in a few months. From cronuts to ramen burgers, here are some foods that people around the world have spent hours of their lives waiting for. Were they worth it?
via - http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/06/asia/food-frenzy/
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Hotels Where Wealthy Pregnant Chinese Give Birth Raided By FBI
In a major sting early this morning, FBI agents raided 20 SoCal "maternity hotels" allegedly involved in a scheme that arranges for wealthy pregnant Chinese nationals to give birth to their children in America so the children can garner U.S. citizenship.
At different locations throughout Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties, Feds raided apartment complexes, aka "birthing centers," they believed were housing the pregnant women, as well as the homes of the masterminds behind the "birth tourism" scheme, reported the L.A. Times. Officials said there were three businesses they targeted.
The feds didn't arrest the women, but are treating them as material witnesses and interviewing them, according to NBC News. While birth tourism isn't illegal, the operators of the alleged schemes are in hot water and could face criminal charges. They're being accused of taking part in visa fraud and conspiracy by coaching women on how to obtain tourist visas, falsifying records and giving them pointers on how to talk to immigration officers at LAX, according to search warrant affidavits unsealed today.
Birth tourism operators charge foreign nationals tens of thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the U.S., according to the affidavits. Pregnant women reportedly paid $40,000 to $80,000 to stay at one of the birthing centers, a fancy, resort-like apartment complex in Irvine called the Carlyle, which comes along with amenities like a pool and cabanas. The women are pampered at these fancy digs with handlers acting as their chauffeurs, taking them around to restaurants and stores.
When they go into labor, they're sent to local hospitals, where they pay discounted rates: instead of $25,000, some of these women are only forking over $4,000 to nothing through claiming that they're uninsured, low-income patients, the affidavits said. Hospitals are apparently losing lots of money over these births.
These operations allegedly advertise the benefits that would come out of having a child with U.S. citizenship, which include free education, better air quality and a way for parents to eventually immigrate to America themselves.
One pregnant woman questioned who only went by her last name Wu, told the L.A. Times she wanted a better life for her future daughter. "If things were good in China, why would we need to come here?" she asked.
As for how widespread of a practice this is, a study mentioned in the affidavit found that 40,000 children a year were born to women on travel visas.
via - http://laist.com/2015/03/03/birth_tourism_fbi_raid.php
Friday, January 30, 2015
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