A crook that protects your belongings
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The Chinese notice says:
Jǐngfāng tíshì:
Qǐng tuǒshàn bǎoguǎn nín de xínglǐ wùpǐn, bìng shǐyòng běndiàn wèi nín tígōng de ānquán gōu.
警方提示：
请妥善保管您的行李物品，并使用本店为您提供的安全钩。
"A reminder from the police:
Please take good care of your luggage and belongings, and use the safety hook provided for you by our store."
About twenty years ago, at a table where I was seated with 7 colleagues who were attending an academic conference in Beijing, 5 of us had our belongings that we had put under the table stolen or rifled while we having breakfast.
Use the crook!
Selected readings
- "Unattended luggage" (8/23/16)
- "All clear in kindergarten" (5/30/19) — see the last sentence of the OP
ycx said,
February 22, 2023 @ 8:50 pm
by hook or by crook, indeed!
David Morris said,
February 23, 2023 @ 12:58 am
Many years ago someone I knew here in Australia said his American lecturer inquired as to the absence of a classmate. Someone in the class said 'Oh, he's a little crook today'.
KeithB said,
February 23, 2023 @ 8:30 am
I assume they meant crook as in shepherd's staff.
Off Topic: NPR had a story today about a Weeger expatriate, she has a new memoir out.
Philip Anderson said,
February 23, 2023 @ 4:18 pm
I’m familiar with a crook lock as an anti-theft device, which I‘be always assumed was named for its shape, not its antagonist.