Compiled by C. ARUNO, OON JUN-YANG and R. ARAVINTHAN
INSPIRED by the plot in a detective novel, a student in China managed to break into a safe at school using only chalk dust to trace fingerprints on the number pad, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The incident took place at a high school in Shenzhen on Nov 14 when a student decided to crack the password combination on the safe in his classroom.
Having taken inspiration from a detective novel, the student applied chalk dust on the number pad and managed to identify the numbers which had been pressed.
Two of his classmates helped crack the password, one of whom recorded a video of the process and posted it on social media.
The combination soon got circulated among other classmates.
Five days later, a fourth student opened the safe and stole all the phones stored inside.
When school staff discovered what had happened, they summoned all four culprits and punished them.
It was reported that as a boarding school, it prohibited the use of mobile phones on school grounds and students can only have access to them during weekends.
Following the incident, the password on the safe was changed and it was moved to the teachers’ office for safekeeping.
> A woman in China’s Shaanxi province developed a hoarding habit due to the Covid-19 pandemic and has stuffed her wardrobes with 4,000 packs of tissue paper which her husband jokingly calls the “Great Wall of Tissue Paper”, reported China Press.
The frustrated husband, known by his social media handle Yiben Dou, shared footage of the mind-boggling amounts of daily necessities stored at their home in Xi’an city including dishwashing liquid and disinfectants.
In one of the videos, the husband opened their bedroom wardrobe which revealed packs of tissue paper stacked as high as the ceiling.
Shopping receipts showed that his wife had bought them in 2023 for 2,600 yuan (RM1,506) along with another 4,000 packs of toilet paper.
“Even if you set them on fire, it would take a week to finish burning,” he quipped.
The man’s video went viral and sparked a discussion online.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
