Recently, a theft took place at an esports hotel in China. Several young guests stole Ryzen 9 9800X3D processors and RTX 5070 graphics cards from multiple gaming PCs along with several gaming mice before checking out. The hotel owner has filed a police report. Translation of the audio in comment.
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Should’ve taken the ram, too. Not much more bulk and way easier to take out.
The hotel owner basically said the following:
“Oh my god, the guys who checked in a few days ago just left. I messaged them on WeChat asking if they’d broken anything, only to find they’d blocked me. Right then, I knew something was wrong. I rushed upstairs to check and everything was gone. The 9800X3D and 5070… OMG. Even Logitech GPW was stolen. But they didn’t take the RAM sticks… maybe they didn’t know how to remove them? They even had to buy a screwdriver on the spot!”
why not just take the whole thing?
what a bunch of dumbasses, chinese law do not play around, super easy to track too with how much power their government has with surveillance
no way these people will get away, they’ll have to pay an arm and a leg, and most likely face jail time
most asian countries, you do not want to steal, its not a slap on the wrist like in the west
🙄🙄A
Chinese hotels take all the details. These guys are done.
They didn’t take the ram, cmon man.
I’ve seen this happen to pre-builts at Sam’s Club & Walmart.
some people are about to absolutely get cooked
I lived in China for three years. My gut says they’ll catch who did this in a week, and they dont treat thieves quite the same way as the West. Every hotel in a major city has CCTV, and that was in 2009.
They really did it in effing China.
This has to be tourists.
They should put all the computers behind a locked server room
An esports…hotel?
hmmm…
Imagine going to labor camp for a 5070 lol
Thieves are so stupid. If I stole those, I’d have taken the memory also for another 6 seconds per machine.
However, I’m not stupid enough to steal, so I’m just an average middle class guy with morals, not a rich guy or a politician.
They can’t get away with that shit lol
A smarter finesse would be to switch the video cards with older cheaper models. The hotel might not notice for a couple of days or weeks. By then you have plausible deniability. Taking the CPU is just greedy.
-social credit score. Have fun bringing shame to your families…
And they didn’t take the memory too? Stupid to risk if just for the processor.
Damn. This some shit I thought only happens on LA or Detroit!
They got cameras every where surely they’ll get caught
Can’t have shit in China…
#Fingerprints! The fingerprints from the screwdrivers box!
never steal anything but never ever steal digital item. they are trackable once u put in pc and its china they have tech tech to identify who will be future criminal thru cctv. bad move very bad move. dnt frgt they have huge survelliance throughout.
imagine stealing a 9800x3d…….