Chengguan shames lying beggar with math quiz  

女孩假扮高中生路边乞讨 城管出数学题将其识破

File photo of Lan Qichao. [Photo: dnkb.com.cn]

Wearing a school uniform and carrying a school bag, the girl tries to solicit sympathy and money from passers-by. [Photo: dnkb.com.cn]

(ECNS) -- A young urban management officer, or chengghuan, in Fujian province has used a math quiz to expose a beggar who pretended to be a high school student.

Lan Qichao is a chengguan in Nanping. He said that while on patrol he noticed a girl kneeling on a roadside, surrounded by people.

Wearing a school uniform and carrying a school bag, the girl tried to solicit sympathy and money from passers-by. Her sob story was written on a piece of paper in front of her.

It is forbidden to beg in that area, Lan said, but I also suspected that she wasn't being honest.

Instead of driving the girl away, he wrote out a math problem and gave it to her, saying "If you really are a high school student, then solve it."

After her deception was revealed, the girl left of her own volition.

Chengguan have a very bad reputation in China, and are often accused of brutality against vendors and squatters while enforcing urban management laws.

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