It's gotten so bad that most NYC Chinese restaurants have started using Mexicans! If it's any consolation, City Councilman Liu was able to get his black and hispanic fellow councilmembers to offer a ~$10K reward. Personally, I think what Jimmy Cheng of the United Fujianese American buttociation called for is right: stop making door-to-door deliveries until their lives are no longer endangered -- IOW, just stop offering the service. Why the f*** are Chinese so desperate? So f***ing desperate for a dollar. This is an aspect of contemporary Chinese culture I find disturbing (though in other contexts it translates into "ambition" and "drive," etc.)...this guy was shot 'cause he tried to hold the door closed in order to trap the robbers. I ain't blaming him at all for not being a victim -- though he wound up one anyway (actually, "two"...mugging and mandissolution) -- I'm saying he should have been packing a piece himself! Are they all illegal or something? I know NY has the toughest gun laws -- thanks to all the liberals who live in nice neighborhoods, of course -- but come on, Chinese ought to take a page from the Korean-American handbook on dealing with urban violence! Korean shopkeepers still get robbed, but at least word is out that some of these grocers have a shotgun on the premises and they ain't afraid to use them!
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