Step one towards executing the perfect crime is to get rid of the evidence (or so we’ve heard).
And yet, two criminals in Chongqing ignored this basic advice with their stolen loot of RMB 5,100. Enjoying their spoils with a stay at a hotel, Deng and Tang of Rongchang County could not contain themselves and decided to share their joy with everyone. And they did — by posting pictures of themselves with the stolen cash on online social platforms.
And to symbolize their devotion to “thug life”, Deng and Tang didn’t just spread their winnings over the bed like some neophyte purse-snatcher. No, the photograph captures one of the thieves posing with their money spelling out the Chinese characters for “poor people”, and then in the next photograph using the leftover cash in his hand, adds to the second Chinese character to spell a backwards variation of “not poor”.
We can only imagine what Deng and Tang mean by this strange set-up of words, but the Liangshan police are able to ask them personally since the thievery and calligraphy enthusiasts have since been arrested. Armchair pundits may have seen this coming, but the main clue that led police to suspect Deng and Tang were their online photographs.
The last two photographs (of the gallery) show Deng and Tang individually, pointing at the scene of the crime and proving their guilt. And it’s a good thing too. The Chinese characters for “innocence” would require far more Chinese yuan bills to spell out.
