TG Tuesday August 12th, 2025
Tripperhead Gazette
Hong Kong man arrested after piss-poor crime spree.
Elon claims his AI app is #1 in the city. Tripperhead investigates…
Rent rises and falls show the changing dynamic of non-local workers in HK.
And a local darts pairing making waves on the international scene.
All this and the rest of Tuesday’s news that matters 👇
• On Monday a 63-year-old man was arrested for a straight-up gross offence; he allegedly urinated in soft drink bottles and placed them on supermarket shelves.
According to police, he had being doing this over the past year at supermarkets in Sham Shui Po, Mong Kok and Wan Chai. His crime spree only came to an end when a 9-year-old purchased a bottle of Coca~Cola Plus and after taking a drinking, complained about the smell and taste, and ended up in hospital. 🤮
Off to court he went on Tuesday. The shirt choice was an interesting touch…
THAT shirt…
• X owner Elon Musk claimed on Monday Hong Kong time that Grok, the xAI tool and also now an app, was number 1 in Hong Kong.
Sounded like a tall tale to me, so I went and checked. File under “It was baloney when he said it, but because he said, it became true.”
Monday’s App Store rankings:
Tuesday’s App Store rankings:
Still only #8 in Google Play Store though.
Can probably chalk this one up to Chat-GPT not being available in Hong Kong.
• Expats out, northerners in, change in rental map.
• Lingnan University had a good time in the US, picking up 13 awards at the SVIIF.
WEATHER
Podul update: T1 on Wednesday.
SPORT
• HKFP has a long read about two local darts players making it to the big leagues on the international circuit.
A big day when Lingnan University makes the Tripperhead Gazette!