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NovaKart · Joined: 18 Nov 2009 Location: Iraq

Maybe you've been listening to LaToya Jackson too much. Why don't you read the original post again. He said the shopkeeper was beating him and left a scar. The police then arrested the OP but that wasn't enough for the guy. He got a goon squad to try to prevent him from leaving the station. He then goes on to try and extort money from him. What the OP did was wrong but it doesn't justify that kind of reaction.

Steelrails · Joined: 12 Mar 2009 Location: Earth, Solar System

kabrams · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Location: your Dad's house

I feel bad for the guy, too. But you can't go to another country and just expect to be treated exactly the same as if you were back in your own home/country.

I would be pissed if I had to work at one of those annoying vendors where nearly everyone is drunk and there's vomit and piss everywhere. And THEN I have to deal with some entitled drunk kid taking stuff of my cart, while his buddy throws more of my stuff around.

No, the OP didn't throw stuff, and he's probably a good-natured fellow. But at the same time, he was in the wrong.

badpat · Joined: 16 Feb 2009

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yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

I've been arrested twice and have had to go in for financial disputes on at least 2 other occasions. One of those times they told me that I had to pay 100,000 won or spend the night in jail. Just on the word of the other (Korean) person (woman). What a crock. Everytime I've been in the police station it had to do with a dispute/fight with Koreans and they always take the side of the Koreans.

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

Sounds like a story that could happen to anybody. Or at least anybody i know. So, OP, did you make them cease and desist or stand and deliver?

badpat · Joined: 16 Feb 2009

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

Beware: theft, even petty theft of minor objects.. is regarded as a worse crime than rape in this country. They used to knock peoples toes off for it, beat them on the soles of their feet..

Corporate theft and embezzlement, though, is much more acceptable.

Forward Observer · Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Location: FOB Gloria

machinoman · Joined: 12 Feb 2010

This story is fantastic. He steals a teddy bear from a one-legged man, but its O.K. ...

BECAUSE IT WAS CHRISTMAS

the old christmas defense, classic. (btw, if a one legged man breaks his fake leg trying to recover stolen goods from you, drunk or not, it is your fault. you are lucky you got away with this. it was truly a christmas miracle.)

Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Location: Not Korea

Hey Paper. How about the replacements? Are they going to stop you from supporting your family too? What will happen when there are more Indian teachers than both European & North American? Please post on every individual instance when someone new or old comes to SK to make life easier or harder for you. Curious.

thatlizamac · Joined: 16 Jul 2010

I just pretty much had the exact same thing happen because a shopkeeper claimed I stole her dog.

Her dog dashed out of the store when I opened the door. When I got outside, I scooped it up and turned around to put it back in. At that point, the insanity set in.

Five hours later and probably seventeen policemen later, I paid up and gave some elaborate apology so I could get OUT of the police station. 100,000 won is well worth sleeping in my own bed tonight, not getting deported and not having to deal with this anymore. Here's hoping it's actually gone. They do, after all, have my finger prints. And my director's number.

So, dude, my sympathies. What you did may not have been perfect, as everyone else has been so willing to point out, but I'm still pretty sure the police here suck.

Hotwire · Joined: 29 Aug 2010 Location: Multiverse

WTF?

This story about the guy getting busted for stealing the stuffed toy is like 5 years old.