China: 20 tons of pig meat sold as halal to Muslims

I had a meeting with a client the other day who - no joke - sold one of their machines to a company in China.

Their sales rep visited the company in China, and apparently left his briefcase there as we was leaving, so he went back to where he thought the meeting room was to get it.

Took a wrong turn, and walked into a huge room containing more than 20 of "their" machines, complete with brand badges, labels, etc. Pretty obvious what happened....

Same thing happened to my father in law. He is an engineer and designs cranes. Earlier in his career he designed other machinery. People reverse engineer all the time to steal others' designs.