Comments on: Chinese Student Scammed, Overcharged $4,000 For Cab Ride From O’Hare http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/chinese-student-overcharged-4000-for-cab-from-ohare/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: benji http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/chinese-student-overcharged-4000-for-cab-from-ohare/#comment-231896 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:45:52 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=17592#comment-231896 Its a clever plot by the great leaders to reduce the trade deficit.

]]> By: Chinese Netizen http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/chinese-student-overcharged-4000-for-cab-from-ohare/#comment-231886 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 06:21:36 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=17592#comment-231886 If he’s the kid of an official, he’ll never fail. Unless daddy gets the shuanggui sms…

]]> By: narsfweasels http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/chinese-student-overcharged-4000-for-cab-from-ohare/#comment-231883 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 03:44:06 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=17592#comment-231883 Ah, Schadenfreude. :D

]]> By: luke http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/chinese-student-overcharged-4000-for-cab-from-ohare/#comment-231882 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 02:31:48 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=17592#comment-231882 Nothing in this story makes sense. What student doesn’t make any plans or do research on how to get from the airport his destination in a foreign country? And why is he in the U.S. if his language abilities are so limited that he can’t ask “how much” or for help at the travel desks that line the walls at pickup? And once he gets into the taxi, how does the driver even know that the student has $4000? Does the kid flash him a wad of bills? “Hey kid, how much do you got there?” “$4000.” “I just realized that the ride cost $5000, but I’ll do you a favor and take $4000.” “Ok!”

The kid is a class A moron. I’m sympathetic to people taken advantage of, but the student seems devoid of all common sense and preparation. He was bound to fail one way or another in the U.S.

]]> By: Garbo http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/chinese-student-overcharged-4000-for-cab-from-ohare/#comment-231881 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 01:49:21 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=17592#comment-231881 Cheat foreigners and you too will get cheated abroad.

]]> By: Chinese Netizen http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/chinese-student-overcharged-4000-for-cab-from-ohare/#comment-231875 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 18:44:29 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=17592#comment-231875 If he was, in fact, scammed, then it’s a hard lesson that there will be a-holes everywhere on this planet and not just in Washington DC and Zhongnanhai.

]]> By: name http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/chinese-student-overcharged-4000-for-cab-from-ohare/#comment-231873 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 16:30:31 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=17592#comment-231873 When reporting a “crime” for which one has only one story, and it is from the “victim”, the word, Mr Tao, is “Allegedly”. The guy could have spent the money in gambling, whoring, eating and booze and lost his mobile in the process, we wouldn’t know. Would we?

]]> By: wafflestomp http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/chinese-student-overcharged-4000-for-cab-from-ohare/#comment-231871 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:18:11 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=17592#comment-231871 The problem with this story is we need to trust what a Chinese person says happened. I just can’t take his word for it. Also too upset to REMEMBER HIS PHONE? Fucking moron

]]> By: Harland http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/chinese-student-overcharged-4000-for-cab-from-ohare/#comment-231867 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:35:34 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=17592#comment-231867 What kind of student walks around with $4,000 in cash in his pocket?

I suppose he missed this idiom on his last English exam: “A _____ and his _____ are soon _____.”

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