A young boy in northwestern China has amused social media by calling the police to report that a “bad guy”, who turned out to be the youngster’s father, had robbed him of his Lunar New Year lucky money.
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It is a ritual practice in China that during the New Year holiday period for adult relatives to give minors red envelopes or red packets containing cash to express good wishes for the younger generation.
In many families such gifts from relatives are kept by the child’s parents.
At the beginning of February, police in Lanzhou, Gansu province, received a call from a boy who said: “A bad guy is in my home and he has robbed my money.”
The unidentified boy’s age was not revealed in a report by the news outlet The Paper.
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