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@ Dazzer: I don't think neighbor residents do this much in Kunming - at least I haven't heard of it. Could happen if you've got an annoying foreign neighbor, I suppose.
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Forums > Living in Kunming > Update your locks
Sorry bout that, off track, but I love the thing.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Update your locks
A somewhat philosophical view.
Paroles de Stances Au Un Cambrioleur
- Georges Brassens
Prince des monte-en-l'air et de la cambriole,
Toi qui eus le bon goût de choisir ma maison
Cependant que je colportais mes godrioles
En ton honneur j'ai compose cette chanson
Sache que j'apprécie au sa valeur le geste
Qui te fit bien fermer la porte en repartant
De peur que des rôdeurs n'emportassent le reste
Des voleurs comme il faut c'est rare de ce temps,
Tu ne m'as dérobe que le stricte nécessaire,
Délaissant dédaigneux l'exécrable portrait
Que l'on m'avait offert au mon anniversaire
Quel bon critique d'art mon salaud tu ferais!
Autre signe indiquant toute absence de tare,
Respectueux du brave travailleur tu n'as
Pas cru décent de me priver de ma guitare,
Solidarité sainte de l'artisanat.
Pour toutes ces raisons vois-tu, je te pardonne
Sans arriére pensée après mur examen
Ce que tu m'as vole, mon vieux, je te le donne,
Ça pouvait pas tomber en de meilleures mains.
D'ailleurs mi qui te parle, avec mes chansonnettes,
Si je n'avais pas du rencontrer le succès,
J'aurais tout comme toi, pu virer malhonnête,
Je serais devenu ton complice, qui sait?
En vendant ton butin, prends garde au marchandage,
Ne vas pas tout lâcher en solde au receleurs,
Tiens leur la dragée haute en évoquant l'adage
Qui dit que ces gens-la sont pis que les voleurs.
Fort de ce que je n'ai pas sonne les gendarmes,
Ne te crois pas du tout tenu de revenir,
Ta moindre récidive abolirait le charme,
Laisse moi je t'en prie, sur un bon souvenir.
Monte-en-l'air mon ami, que mon bien te profite,
Que Mercure te préserve de la prison,
Et pas trop de remors, d'ailleurs nous sommes quittes,
Après tout ne te dois-je pas une chanson?
Post-Scriptum.
Si le vol est l'art que tu préfères,
Ta seule vocation, ton unique talent,
Prends donc pigeon sur rue, mets-toi dans les affaires,
Et tu auras les flics même comme chalands.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Update your locks
The French poet and songwriter who wrote and performed the song about the burglar was Georges Brassens, but I still don't know the song title, would like to have it, if anybody knows.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Update your locks
Lockpicking skills known and practiced worldwide, Fox Mulder did it regularly; can be worried about wherever you go.
If you're home when somebody breaks in, I'm pretty sure they'll leave in a hurry, which is probably what you want them to do, though you could run down the stairs after them and tackle them. Note that burglars are not looking for violence, it's bad for their business. The police rule, if that's the real one - crackers and cheese, I like that - probably cuts down on violence, but I guess you can have it if you want it.
If you're not home, then of course they won't have to leave. Good that you were home, I doubt they'll be back, will figure you've seen them, there are other flats to burgle and there's no reason to think they are stupid.
Pretty simple, really. I don't know that home burglary is particularly prevalent here, or that it particularly targets foreigners, though I know a western foreigner to whom it has happened. Better locks are indeed better locks.
Georges Bressins (pretty sure I've got his name spelled wrong, but he's famous) wrote & performed a wonderful song about being burgled, can't remember the name.
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