murders near blcu

[got_no_jaffas]

i have heard there were 3 murders, a japanese student & 2 russian female students. it's really hard to get proper news of what is going on, so far it has been gossip & the chinese people i have asked don't seem to be interested.

does anyone know what is going on?

[geraldc]

There's always rumours about foreign students getting raped too.

[roddy]

Unless you are actually getting concrete information - the wheres, whens, whys, hows - then I'd call it a rumor and not bother passing it on. The rate at which rumors amplify and multiply when nobody trusts the press is remarkable.

[Shadowdh]

Kinda like conspiracy theories really... there used to be a game we played when I was very young called "Chinese Whispers" (no idea why it was called that come to think of it) and it would start with one person at the start of a circle being told something in a whisper (thats the whisper part) and then passing it to the next and so on... by the time it got to the end of the circle it usually came out very different and strange... (still no idea where the Chinese part of the name came from...)

[Alhazred]

Funny, we call this same game "téléphone arabe" in French and I don't have a clue where the Arab comes from, either...

[shdwsclan]

That is not uncommon and is many times perpetrated by the chinese police, as in the american english teacher that was slain by police.

[gato]

That is not uncommon and is many times perpetrated by the chinese police

How not uncommon?

[skylee]

As far as I know, the game is called "以訛傳訛" in Chinese.

[Josh-J]

Off-topic but maybe "Chinese Whispers" is because it ends up unintelligable - like chinese (or arabic for the french version); I suppose Chinese is just a conveniently obscure language to english speakers. Compare to: "Its all greek to me"

[shdwsclan]

Well, its more complex than just this.

This can stem from 2 places.

1. Because of the current cold war between the chinese govt and the west, the perps know they will get away with it for 2 reasons. Cops cover their backs, and the state department[or another countries' equivalent] will try to avoid any investigation because this may increase international tensions.

2. Since these people are foreigners, they are considered weak and easy targets. This is sort-of of true in every country. The only difference, in many countries, is the magnitude of such corruption.

Here is a PDF with a transparency chart. Transparency is otherwise known as non-corruption. The higher the transparency score, the less corruption.

http://www.transparency.org/content/download/3221/19540/file/worldmap.pdf

Also, the site has a list that is available at the following...

http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2005

USA is #17

Mainland China is about #78

Hong Kong is #15

In florida there is a lot of corruption, especially clearwater because of the scientology cult.

Chicago also has some corruption and this is evident from police pushing drugs, incompetence and also the influence of the scientology cult. Also, mayor daley(mayor of chicago) has refused to allow film crew from COPS(an american police show) to tag along with the chicago police on bust....i wonder why?