‘Contact me if...’: ‘Kind’ China thief steals only watch, MacBook from company, leaving pile of phones & laptops on desk

A bizarre case of burglary was reported in China. A thief robbed an office in Shanghai and then left a note asking the owner to improve their anti-theft system.

According to the South China Morning Post, the incident took place on May 17. The man, surnamed Sang, scaled the building’s outer wall before gaining entry, and stole a watch and an Apple MacBook from the office.

However, the thief gathered mobile phones and laptops, piled them onto a desk, wrote inside a notebook, left it open and stuffed it under the pile of digital devices.

“Dear boss, I took a wristwatch and a laptop. You should improve your anti-theft system. I did not take all the phones and laptops, fearing it might hurt your business,” the man wrote in the note, as per report.

At the end of the note, he wrote: “Contact me if you want your laptop and phone back,” and left his number.

The police apprehended the thief a few hours after the crime. They tracked down him using public surveillance cameras and the phone number he left.

This bizarre burglary has caught the attention of mainland netizens and called him ‘kind thief’.
One user said, “He committed the crime of being too cocky.”

Another commented: “Rather than asking the company to improve the anti-theft system, he should have improved his getaway skills.”

“Just like the old saying goes, ‘There is honour among thieves’,” a third user said.