Copet di China Beraksi dengan `Sumpit`untuk Mencuri Ponsel
Pickpocket in China Uses `Chopsticks to Steal Mobile Phone
Editor : Heru S Winarno
Translator : Parulian Manalu
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AKSI pencopet licik di Cina telah terekam kamera ketika mencuri ponsel menggunakan sepasang sumpit.
Wang Hongbo, 32, difoto ketika mencopet ponsel dari saku seorang wanita saat korbannya bersepeda melintas di Zhengzhou, ibukota provinsi Henan, China.
Foto-foto menunjukkan dia berlari setelah pengendara sepeda curiga di tengah lalu lintas yang sibuk.
Mengenakan jas dan celana jins, dia tampak mencopet dengan sepasang sumpit dan hati-hati menarik ponsel dari saku korbannya.
Sebuah foto menunjukkan dia melakukan aksinya, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Copet ini kemudian terlihat memeriksa hasil copetnya sebelum menjual ponsel, yang dianggap iPhone, di toko yang menjadi penadah.
Seorang pelintas memotretnya saat beraksi dari seluruh kejadian. Dia kemudian mem-posting foto-foto itu di internet.
Tertekan oleh berita yang beredar setelah fotonya yang beredar luas, Hangbo menghubungi seorang wartawan lokal, yang mencatat kisahnya dan menemaninya saat ia menyerahkan diri ke polisi.
Menurut Shanghaiist, sebuah situs gaya hidup di Shanghai, Hangbo bekerja jadi copet, karena ia berupaya membesarkan anak tunggalnya yang berusia 12 tahun.
Ini bukan pertama kalinya seorang pencopet beraksi dengan sumpit di Cina.
Pada September 2011, dua pria berjas gelap yang tertangkap kamera ketika mengintai di jalan sebelum beraksi mencopet dengan menyelinap di antara para pengunjung yang berbelanja di pasar tradisional China.
A CUNNING pickpocket in China has been caught on camera stealing a phone using a pair of chopsticks.
Wang Hongbo, 32, was snapped lifting the phone from a woman’s pocket as she cycled through Zhengzhou, the capital of central China’s Henan province.
Photographs show him running after the unsuspecting cyclist along a busy road.
Dressed in a suit jacket and jeans, he is seen reaching out with a pair of chopsticks and carefully lifts the woman's phone from her pocket.
A final photo shows him walking away with his
The thief was later seen examining his ill-gotten gains before selling the phone, which is thought to be an iPhone, in a nearby second hand shop.
A passer-by caught him in the act and photographed the whole incident unfolding. He later posted the pictures online.
Pressured by the circulating news reports after his picture was widely circulated, Hangbo contacted a local journalist, who recorded his story and accompanied him when he turned himself into police.
According to the Shanghaiist, a lifestyle website in Shanghai, Hangbo turned to stealing because he was struggling to raise his 12-year-old child alone.
This is not the first time a thief has struck using chopsticks in China.
In September 2011, two dark-coated men were caught on camera patrolling a backstreet before sneaking behind shoppers armed with the traditional Chinese utensil.
