Theft? how common?

First let me say that as far as crime Thailand is much much safer than most other parts of the world. Always hide your passport,money, etc. Do not put all of it in one place, if you think no one can get into your room safe or desk safe deposit box your nuts the people that work in the hotel can get into you safe no problem. The onle prob. ive ever had was once a Bangkok taxi driver gave me a counterfit 1000 bht bill.

well yes hats one tips that your things can be safe.... and aside from that get to know your things really well on where you put those important once......

remember also that a theft does not just have to be from your pockets, it can even come from long distance. the savvy guys that have been travelling in Thailand for a while know better than to send money to whores who don't stop working as hookers, but for every 1 of us there are 10 who get taken every day by some smart-ass ladyboy prostitute. Writing to lonely Joe from Nebraska or Nigel in London whom they met once for a week, and saying that she needs 20,000 baht because her brother is in jail or her uncle needs surgery; and then using the cash for some other stupid shit is just as bad as taking that $500 right from your pockets.

my rule of thumb, always; the money stays in the wallet until someone earns it in some way. if you have to keep the wallet in a safe, so be it, but keep the money out of the hands of anyone until they have done what you are paying them for.

[Tomcat]

A real wake up call there Mousey.

Ive been thinking a lot about this suject since JD pinned it up and wondering how much of my holiday Baht has been evaporating away during Ladyboy sleepovers thse last 10 years.

Usually im a fairly trusting person and dont always stash it in the safe but leave it in my trousers or shirt which have both been hastily ejected upon entering the Bedroom and cast to the floor.


frightning .....

Nice post MM

[wisetraveller]

Once again, to repeat, my simple rule. Put everything valuable in the safe then relax knowing nothing can be stolen.

It's very common. No matter how well you know them and "think" they like you, just assume they will steal from you if given the chance. They view you as a rich foreigner and they feel justified at stealing you blind. I often have ladyboys warn me about taking other ladyboys as they fear I'll take them home and they'll steal something. Even when I do the shoots, I never have more ladyboys (or guys or gals since I shoot them too) at a shoot than I have a pair of eyes to watch them. Since Poo is at all the shoots, that means I can take at most two models. Same story holds true when inviting people over--I limit the invites to no more than 2 at a time and I pick one to watch and assign Poo to keep an eye on the other. We even check the doors and windows after they leave to make sure everything is locked as we normally keep it--and there have been times when we've found a door unlocked which we normally keep locked. Can't have anyone coming back later and just walking in while we are away.

There is this incredibly hot ladyboy who has been begging me to take her home for zero baht every time I see her. I always tell her that I won't take her home for zero baht, but I will shoot her one day and pay her. The other night I'm at the bar talking to a ladyboy friend when this other one walks by. Knowing that all ladyboys know each other, I inform her about the situation and she doesn't speak about that ladyboy in particular, but does tell me that many ladyboys don't care what you pay them as they plan to steal more than any amount you'll pay anyway.

On top of all that, I can't tell you the amount of times I've heard ladyboys openly BRAG about how much money they've stolen from their last guy. It's viewed as a cool thing to do among the ladyboys and many are more than happy to tell me. I've even had ladyboys walk up and "show" me what they've taken! Don't know anyone like that? Don't be so sure...I will say no names, but I meet up with many folks from this site when they come to town and I've seen them go with some of the same ladyboys that have bragged to me about stealing from customers. So, word of warning, just assume they will and take all the precautions you can.

Are you saying you permanently crippled someone over a Walkman?

Yes you bet. And you know something every morning that she have to get off the bed she remenber her mistake.
I broke a chair on her back end of story.

Cheer


Lovelane

hehehehehehehe thanks a lot

just joking of course, Trisha; I thought that was very cool the way you did that and I had never seen that before.

the night I first met Trisha I naturally asked her if she would be a model for the site; she said maybe, and I handed her my cell fone so she could enter her number into it. without me seeing, she called her own fone from mine, and so now my number was in her 'incoming calls' feature and she could save it for future use. the next morning she called me and we became good friends.

I had never seen someone do that before and thought it was pretty clever...........just one more cool feature about a very nice girl from Cebu.

well cuz simple i just want to be one of the models in this site will that makes you ssatify your question??? or you want more ok more well ok i just want to have a web site too...

and what about you, sexy trish? you stole my cell number right from my cell fone??? what is your defense for that, hmmmmmmm??

well that thing is not good so the best thing for us guys if we go around everywhere is to take extra care about our money thats the best way well anayways you cant really denie it that trouble is everywhere not just all about money but anything can be so better be careful ok

oh my god.......does that happens all the time? are there a lot of thieves in thailand? i cant believe it and to think they are ladyboys.........

[Tomcat]

PATPONG
I was in my favourite Go Go bar the other day and wearing tracksuit bottoms which dont have very deep pockets.

As i was leaving the bar i felt something tug on my pocket and turned around to see a big built ladyboy( who i dont know )with her fingertips in my pocket on my money. She said that she was just trying to push the money back in as it was going to fall out .....mmmm.
Anyway i give her the benefit of the doubt, i had to.

Partly my fault i suppose but part of the problem is that after a few beers and with all the pushing and shoving in these places you take leave of your senses and maybe get a false sense of security. The Chang factor definately dont help.

I now keep the folding gear in my top shirt pocket , next to my heart were it belongs.

hey jaidii, i've had two other experiences i haven't mentioned. about two months ago at short time room at soi cowboy. after finishing the shower, LB was in my pants. i caught her with about 40B in her hand. i just told the owner of ST rooms, of course they didn't care.

and two nights ago the same experience you had "on the street" happened to me. i was groped, then noticed later about 200B was missing from my pocket. they are exceptionally slick at this maneuver.