Two Ladyboys arrested in Walking Street bar

[Mai-Kee]

(Snick @ Jun. 21 2006,10:55) Lock up your wallet and passport.

Put only the amount of money you will need in your front pockets, best bet is split it between both pockets.

Bring more than one ATM card, keep them seperate, lock one up. Avoid carrying and using credit cards.

If you are suspicious or in a very crowded place (like a chatuuchak), walk with your hands in your pockets.

I do it exactly as you describe it here, Snick! I have never been robbed or pickpocketed in my life and I traveled around half of this planet for the last 20 years - and probably about 90% just by myself. I absolutely hate group tours and would without a doubt prefer getting pickpocket than waste my time in a group tour!

.... although I periodically loose my mobile phones. My clumsiness is far more effectful than all those streetmuggers....

MK

[69billy]

I think, because off the low season there becoming very desperate....
I have been to LOS 8-9 times and I havent lost anything yet..
But I was kind of robed by a hairdresser,at my first time payed 500bt for a hair cut.. Then I find out,the normal price was 50 bt

[donnnnnny]

(rob69in @ Jun. 21 2006,15:37) I am afraid the clueless & unaware wonder around the world in ever increasing numbers, i see them all the time on my numerous travels, just waiting to be robbed. I have been traveling to Asia & South America for over 25years & can count the muggings / steamings on one hand. Some people just invite trouble.  

Anyone who thinks they are going to get fair treatment off the local police in a foriegn country are living in cloud cuckoo land themselves, especially Asia & Latin America. The Thais will always adjust things so that the whole story doesn't come out or put them in a bad light, face saving exercises. They will of course also try to make it look like they are doing something about the problems so the tourists $$$'s keep coming.

You are back to "money number one". You are just an ATM machine to have money taken off you, doesn't really matter how. Your job is to try & make it in your favor & reduce the risk factor. Information not provided in holiday brochures or the misleading lonely planet books. I love the one liners about Pattaya's night life in holiday brochures, "vibrant & robust nightlife".

A little common sense will ensure your visits to foriegn lands are pleasant enough.

rob don't get me started on lonley planet crap)

[Mai-Kee]

They write Lonely Planet exactly for those who should read it: Backp ckers! And that's good so!  

MK

[donnnnnny]

(Mai-Kee @ Jun. 22 2006,16:24) They write Lonely Planet exactly for those who should read it: Backp ckers! And that's good so!  

MK

=mk

lmao

[rob69in]

(donnnnnny @ Jun. 22 2006,14:42)

(rob69in @ Jun. 21 2006,15:37) I am afraid the clueless & unaware wonder around the world in ever increasing numbers, i see them all the time on my numerous travels, just waiting to be robbed. I have been traveling to Asia & South America for over 25years & can count the muggings / steamings on one hand. Some people just invite trouble.  

Anyone who thinks they are going to get fair treatment off the local police in a foriegn country are living in cloud cuckoo land themselves, especially Asia & Latin America. The Thais will always adjust things so that the whole story doesn't come out or put them in a bad light, face saving exercises. They will of course also try to make it look like they are doing something about the problems so the tourists $$$'s keep coming.

You are back to "money number one". You are just an ATM machine to have money taken off you, doesn't really matter how. Your job is to try & make it in your favor & reduce the risk factor. Information not provided in holiday brochures or the misleading lonely planet books. I love the one liners about Pattaya's night life in holiday brochures, "vibrant & robust nightlife".

A little common sense will ensure your visits to foriegn lands are pleasant enough.

rob  don't  get me started on lonley planet  crap)

Donnnnny,

 the lonely Planet books are such excellent reading, so informative, always leading the reader into a false sense of security & not telling it how it really is! least of all how dangerous some places really are!

 As Mai - Kai says written by backpackers    for backpackers  

[Randyman]

oh yeah???

well where else can get the expertise to find a
31 baht room???
I think I made my point!

randyman

"what's a s h o w e r ??"

[Mai-Kee]

It's also because they never get robbed - because there is nothing to rob..... dirty sloggy panties of some fat chicks from East Germany.....?? Thailand might be a 3rd world country, but there are borders not even the toughest streetmugger in Pattaya would ever cross!

[Randyman]

(Mai-Kee @ Jun. 22 2006,10:26) It's also because they never get robbed - because there is nothing to rob..... dirty sloggy panties of some fat chicks from East Germany.....?? Thailand might be a 3rd world country, but there are borders not even the toughest streetmugger in Pattaya would ever cross!  

I don't have enough time to add all of the laughing smilies that post needs

randyman

[rob69in]

Backpackers really do wind me up, they also belong to the do "gooder brigade" wondering around making a nuisanse of themslves & pulling stunts like disrupting Land Rovers production lines & putting fake parking tickets on 4X4's. In the LOS even the locals look down on them, sharing large bottles of the cheapest beer, never tipping, staring at clean polite people who are enjoying local company.

Backpackers

[BAM]

(Snick @ Jun. 21 2006,20:49) I keep acting out a monty python skit.

That just made me laugh.... thinking of you and Gav that night at the dinner in Jomtian... monty python talk.

[Torurot]

>>>dirty sloggy panties of some fat chicks from East Germany.....??

BASTARD, you should see my keyboard and lower half of my monitor. That should have come with a health warning.. put your drink down BEFORE you read this post!!!!!!

[Road Runner]

That'll teach you not to compute with your mouth full  

RR.

[SamplerDoc]

(Road Runner @ Jun. 23 2006,17:36) That'll teach you not to compute with your mouth full  

RR.

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