In the English teaching business in China, a runner is when a teacher runs away from an intolerable school usually in the middle of the night.
I have just heard a story of some Chinese who pulled a runner over the Spring Festival holiday. What apparently happened was that the owners of a restaurant, that wasn't doing well, raised a lot of cash over the holiday by getting a lot of food on credit, had the usual lucrative CNY dinner business, and then ran away. They took the cash and left their suppliers in the lurch.
Where did these people go? Apparently, they can go to another part of China and not have to worry much about being tracked down.
So there is an ex-pat pub owner in Wuxi who does not have a landlord to whom he can pay rent.
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