Re: pickpockets / nice

On Jun 12, 2:35 pm, Magda <magda@fr> wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:28:05 -0700, in rec.travel.europe, "j...@xxxxxxxxxxx"
... When I am playing tourist, I keep a decoy wallet in my back pocket.
... It has Monopoly money, Chinese funeral money, other fake bills, and
... lots of generic credit-card-sized things (old pocket calendars,
... expired room keys, fake credit cards, etc.). I keep my real wallet
... hidden in an inaccessible place.

What's funeral money?


There are superstitious Chinese who believe that if you burn special
"hell money", your relatives in the afterlife will receive it. They
are colorful bills, usually with a lot of red (the Chinese good luck
color), and with huge numbers on them (often involving the Chinese
good luck number 8, like $888,888). In Hong Kong, I saw stores which
carried cardboard models of cars, jewelery, and VCRs which you burn
for the same purpose.

.

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