Chinese Tourists Caught Stealing In-Flight Silverware

Not content with pissing everywhere, carving their names into ancient Egyptian relics, torturing a dolphin to death and eating endangered species, Chinese tourists are once again in the headlines for stealing knives and forks off an airline.

Upon finishing their meal, the tourists told an astonished flight attendant that when relatives of theirs had flown with Singapore Airlines, they had been allowed to keep the stainless steel cutlery.

The flight attendants told the tourists the stainless steel tableware could not be kept because it was going to be re-used - unlike plastic disposable items. But the tourists refused to hand them over. The tourists explained that relatives who had flown with Singapore Airlines in the past told them they could keep the tableware, the report said.

After asking the group's guide for assistance, who said that the tourists (who came from Zhejiang, a province that we are seeing all to much in reports of this kind) should stop "hurting the Chinese reputation abroad", the travelers agreed to hand back the stolen silverware.