It began like any ordinary moment at a small street-side stall in Vietnam. A couple stood browsing clothes, a child in the woman’s arms. The vendor, busy and unsuspecting, turned her back for just a few seconds.
That was all it took.
She stepped away to fetch items for them. The man bent down and picked something from the ground. In one quick move, he handed it to the woman. She slipped it away quietly, without anyone having a sniff of what was going on. The man kept browsing. Moments later, the woman took another item from the vendor’s display.
They didn’t buy anything.
The entire act was caught on a security camera, according to reports. The video soon found its way online, first through Vietnamese accounts, then across platforms like Reddit and X. Within hours, it had gone viral.
Users on X identified the couple as Indian. News outlets were unable to verify its authenticity.
Many online condemned the act. A user wrote that tourists often stay in luxury hotels but steal the very souvenirs they’ll remember forever. Another said this wasn’t just theft, it was a pattern of behaviour. People, they said, treat stealing a Rs 500 item like an accomplishment.
One user added that if you can’t afford something, you simply don’t buy it. To travel the world in style but rob a poor vendor, they said, was the lowest form of hypocrisy.
Others warned that such incidents fuel growing resentment against Indian tourists. “Most Indians do such things abroad,” one comment read, “and then they cry racism.”
This is not the first such case in recent weeks.
Earlier this month, another video went viral, this time from the US. An Indian woman was seen weeping in a police interrogation room after being caught shoplifting from a Target store.
Two videos. Two countries. A similar story.
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