so guys have you ever had a license
plate kidnapped before if not it does
happen in China and I thought it'd be
quite amusing to talk about because you
know if you do I would own a car in
China you are actually a little bit more
rich than the average person something a
lot of people don't know because if you
came to China to the big cities you see
a lot of wealth and China has lifted you
know so many millions of people out of
poverty and I'd say in general the
economy is always kind of on the
up-and-up and people are always on the
up-and-up but a huge huge portion of the
country's still very very poor and I
mean dirt poor sort of you know living
out in the rural areas and I get to see
this all the time when I go traveling
through China but these people obviously
they're looking around and seeing the
wealth around them and they feel very
resentful and they obviously try every
little trick possible to try and gain
some of that wealth and one of the
things they're doing now is if you if
you leave your car unattended sort of on
the street or something you may come
back the next morning with your luxury
cars wing mirrors or license plates
missing with a little note saying you
know if you want your license plate back
send X amount of money to this you know
send a home bow on WeChat which by the
way is without a doubt V way to pay for
absolutely everything now in China you
can gamble with it you're not supposed
to but people do that like bet on
matches and put these little red packets
in groups you can pay your rent you can
pay your utilities you can pay for
anything at a restaurant I just went to
a shop and bought something using WeChat
it's incredibly useful but at the same
time it makes it very very easy for
people to just kind of pass money around
so they'll say hey send me a Hong Bao a
red packet for like 200 rmb to this
WeChat account and you can have your
license plate back and you can collect
it at this in this place or your wing
mirrors or whatever so why should you
care if someone has taken your license
plate surely you can just go down to the
DMV or whatever and get a new one it's
not the case in China it's incredibly
difficult to go and deal with all the
red tape and the bureaucracy to get a
new
license plate and in big cities like
Schengen because they have all these
restrictions on license plates there'll
be something like well you have to pay
eighty thousand or a hundred thousand
RMB just to get a license plate so we're
not even talking about the car and this
is to keep down the population of cars
because cars are flooding the streets
the traffic is unmanageable so they have
these sort of license plate lotteries
where people and turn they'll wait up to
a year or whatever before they can
actually get a license plate so you know
you'd rather just pay the 200 rmb to get
your license plate back then you know go
through weeks days possibly even months
to get a new one and of course if you're
caught driving without a license plate
you're going to get a fine so it's just
one of those things people taking
advantage of an easy situation and yeah
that's what's going on so yeah
opportunists everywhere if you have a
nice car don't park it out in the open
make sure it's parked in a nice secure
place anyway it's just a quick little
one from me I'm currently walking around
in the happy Bay here in Jinja which is
kind of a cool place there's a bunch of
artificial rivers there's a big
artificial lake and it's full of you
know really nice restaurants and stuff
and it is a nice place to go for a drink
or go out for a meal with the family or
something like that anyway that's it for
this one
I'll see you in the next one guys thank
you so much for watching and until next
time you know the drill
stay awesome
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