On my first trip on a tram, there was a wallet left behind. We were boarding at a terminus stop. I sat down first and saw it. An older man saw it next. I watched to see what would happen. It was like a scene out of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'. He pointed at it making high sounds letting people around him know it was a wallet. He said the he was going to go report it. He didn't want to touch it. An older women around him said in Chinese, "Are you stupid? Pick it up and hand it in." It was heavy laden with money. He took it downstairs and gave it to the conductor. The two conductors then went thru the wallet in the booth.
We all know that they were looking for ID and counting the amount of money as a distinguishing feature. The people observing from the tram did not. Although one of the conductors was on the phone obviously reporting it in, the people on the tram staring shouting at them, "Are you reporting it? Make sure you report it!" Further, the conductors went red humiliated to even be questioned! One yelled back, "Yes, we're doing it now. Do you want to check yourself?"
Surprised on many counts.
The older man on the tram chatted to me afterwards saying that this is the 2nd time he has found a wallet and he has always reported it. He didn't even want to touch it because he is so honest.
Last edited by Laksa Girl; 20-11-2011 at 01:45 AM.
You seem to look at the situation differently through what you noticed.
It's almost not about Hong Kong as he was reacting to you a bit too much. More about your non-verbal interaction with him than it is about what he would have done without you being the first to see the wallet and subsequent eye gestures.
Last edited by Creative83; 20-11-2011 at 02:02 AM.
But, I was talking about the homicide rate.
To be a pedant, it's not my list. It does not belong to anyone. And, if you had looked a little carefully at the list, you would see that the homicide rate for Monaco has been zero for the past couple of years, so, if any city can make the claim to being the safest, then perhaps it is that city, rather than Hong Kong, as nat4zk argued.
Last edited by drumbrake; 20-11-2011 at 07:37 PM.
The problem with that argument is sample size. As Concorde demonstrated by going from "the safest" to "one of the most dangerous" aircraft through a single crash.