Chapter 834 Professional Bank Robber
News of renowned Chinese billionaire Xiao Peng being robbed spread like wildfire across the globe. After all, he'd just been doing a livestream and he was being robbed? Such an incident at this time was truly remarkable, especially since billionaires being kidnapped isn't a common occurrence. This incident captivated all media attention.
Of course, there were even more people gossiping, saying that Xiao Peng deserved it - there is never a shortage of people in this world who are either angry or laugh at others.
But what happened later was interesting: Russia was the first to condemn the incident! They publicly condemned the Americans for failing to guarantee Xiao Peng's safety and demanded that the Americans investigate the whole matter as soon as possible.
This is puzzling. Xiao Peng made his fortune in France and has been active in Europe ever since, never having been to Russia. The closest he's been to Russia was at the Black Sea. Why did Russia come out in support of Xiao Peng first? Shouldn't China have been the first to speak out?
The attitude of China is even more interesting: they did not mention Xiao Peng at all, but instead said that China will cooperate with Russia to salvage a sunken ship off the coast of Sochi in the Black Sea: no matter what the matter is, as long as China and Russia cooperate to do something, it will definitely become the focus of the world.
The attitude of the Americans was even more shocking: they announced the results of the investigation with unprecedented efficiency.
The investigation was actually quite easy. By the time the American police arrived at the Luna, the seven robbers had been tied up with ropes and submerged in the sea on their dinghy, with only their heads sticking out. Their weapons were neatly arranged on the boat. The seven robbers were probably desperate for the police for the first time in their lives: they were swollen from being in the sea, and they were afraid they would perish if the police didn't show up.
When the police learned that Xiao Peng had used golf balls to take out their group, they were speechless: Seven armed gangsters couldn't take on a guy with only golf balls? Was this a Marvel movie?
In fact, just as Xiao Peng guessed, these people were not official American officials: they were a group of professional robbers who had robbed six banks, but the gains did not satisfy them. They wanted to do something big, and billionaire Xiao Peng became their target.
Sometimes when watching Hollywood crime movies, it seems that American criminals always rob banks. This is simply unimaginable in China. In China, you basically never hear of anyone robbing a bank. Even if there are some, they are basically the kind of people with mental problems who rush into the bank with a kitchen knife, and they usually end up in failure.
Why are American movies and TV shows filled with bank robbers? It's because bank robberies are rampant here: Across the country, an average of over 20 bank robberies occur every day. And that's due to improved public safety. Just ten years ago, there were over 10,000 bank robberies annually.
Of course, these bank robbers target small banks in remote towns. Robbing such banks is safer and easier to succeed, but it also means that not much money can be stolen.
Chinese people should be the ethnic group that hates crime the most in the world, and Americans have the highest crime rate in the world. This is the most difficult thing for many Chinese people to adapt to when they come here. There are really too many crimes such as robbery and theft.
In recent years, the US has introduced a number of pro-crime laws and policies that favor the criminal population. For example, California's famous Proposition 47 deems crimes under $950 a misdemeanor, up from the previous $400. And Seattle has a rule that if a crime is within a certain amount and the person can prove the money was used for basic living expenses, then they are considered innocent.
What does a misdemeanor mean? The highest sentence for a Class A misdemeanor is no more than one year, for a Class B no more than six months, and for a Class C no more than one month. Even after the police have worked so hard to apprehend someone, they might be released in court.
Anyway, the lawmakers here are all those crazy congressmen who are doing all sorts of "troublemaking" to improve their resumes. Everything here is about "political correctness," and all these proposals are ostensibly "helping the poor" or "alleviating poverty." Who dares to refuse them? And the passage of these bizarre bills is driving crime rates ever higher.
The most interesting thing is about Councilwoman Lisa Herbold from Seattle. She proposed that "if people are unable to make ends meet due to poverty, robbery and burglary carried out in order to survive are legal," and she received the approval of countless people.
Look at China's efforts to escape poverty, with its numerous poverty alleviation policies. But what about the Americans? "Never forget our original aspiration!" They haven't forgotten how they came to America! It seems the poverty here stems from a lack of courage to rob... Thanks to this bill, Seattle has leapt into the top ten crime-ridden cities in the US.
Lisa Herbold, who proposed this bill, became a "hero" in the eyes of the poor people in Seattle. As a token of gratitude... they snatched Lisa Herbold away.
At this time, Lisa Herbold changed her attitude and called the police directly, saying that such crime was unacceptable and asked the police to solve the case as soon as possible - it seems that being robbed by others is different from being robbed yourself.
Anyway, no matter what, the crime rate in the United States is indeed quite high, so if we don't have something, we can just steal it: How can the "Singles' Day Sale" in China be better than the "zero-yuan purchase" here?
What did you say?
"The timid die of starvation, the bold of gluttony." To be a ruthless criminal, one must be prepared to love whoever they love. Just like when Cheung Tze-keung kidnapped Li Bancheng's eldest son, he ran to Li Bancheng's home covered in explosives and demanded a ransom. Later, he kidnapped Hong Kong's second-richest man, Walter Kwok. The ransoms for both kidnappings earned him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
As "dream-loving" robbers, this group of people also planned to make a big move.
Xiao Peng and his girlfriend were on a luxury yacht at anchor, with no bodyguards around. Wouldn't that make him a perfect kidnapping target? Wouldn't kidnapping him be more satisfying than robbing a bank?
Several people came here after seeing the news about Xiao Peng in Atlantic City. After a period of investigation, they found that Xiao Peng was indeed on the yacht with his girlfriend.
The first to strike is the strongest, and the last to strike will suffer. Now there are more people watching Xiao Peng in Atlantic City than just their own group. So they hurriedly slipped onto the ship and prepared to take action.
Just as they'd investigated, there weren't any bodyguards on board. They boarded with ease. This luxury yacht's security was just so-so!
Several people were extremely excited. Their dream of getting rich overnight was about to come true. Then they fell into a deep sleep - they were all knocked unconscious by the golf balls!
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