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not what those skanky boys at Good Boys told me...
Sexual Deviant wrote:
"not what those skanky boys at Good Boys told me..."
I believe you. As you probably offered 50 baht for a quick one in the toilet I'm sure they told you to fuck off. After a few nights in your hospice/hostel and a bus journey you no doubt smelt like a walking care home. So who is calling who 'skanky?'
gee...so personal...so hurtful...have u finished pulling all the wings off butterflies...
The "buffalo me die" is from the old How-To-Scam-Farang handbook.
Now they have very few buffaloes in the villages and numerous iphones.
This is the era of rapid sharing of info and "narratives around" the sudden onset of diseases with long names like Thalasemia requiring expensive daily medication not covered by the Taksin card and so on, are shared on a mass scale.
The dried-out mamasans who inevitably return to the villages and set up as mentors and guides to wannabe bargirls/boys are robbed of that noble role now.
I know you are all experts on Thai scams but, in case we forget any, here's a list:
Taxi Scam
Closed Attractions Scam
Cheap Tuk Tuk Ride Scam
Helpful Stranger Scam
Restaurant Advice Scam
Tailors Scam
Guest House Scam
Tourist Information Scam
Two Menu Scam
Boat Scam
Skin Tax
No Change Scam
Fake Goods
Border Crossing Scam
Police Scam
Gem Scam
Motorbike Scam
Card Game Scam
Time share Scam
Bar Girl Scams
Bar Bill Scam
Jet-ski Scam
...and who said Thais arent innovative and clever and wiley...if only the olympics had a scam games...Thailand would win super gold all day long...
In most western countries we at least pretend to believe in the rule of law. All people are created equal and have an equal chance of succeeding through hard work and following the rules etc..Whether it is true or not..I do not know. In a country like Thailand I suspect..this is nothing more than speculation..where the rich and powerful can take what they want, a scamming mindset develops. The rule of law is weak and to get ahead a person needs to be secretive. You can not trust the system so it breeds a dishonest outlook.
I am sure many posters here will offer up criticisms but I suspect there are elements of truth to my observations.
not gonna argue with you tere...but even in 1st world countries similar rules apply...some blatantly (like why is is that in some US states blacks r locked up fpr crimes that whites only get a fine for)....in others the bias is subtle...and unless u r in the kniow it all looks fair..
But overcrowding is a real problem, that's why police have to shoot some of the blacks instead of arresting them. Or so it seems.
lego ...think before u type...
You forgot the "Duty Free Shop Scam" at BKK airport....Customer wants to buy 2 items , sales persons adds a 3rd one for free. Later customer gets controled by police and is accused of being a thief, suddenly an interpreter shows up. Customer can choose: Spend the night at the airport police, miss his flight or cough up 50K..or more. This happened many times years ago until police tried to blackmail the "wrong persons" and UK press started extensive reporting.
That's a pretty comprehensive list.
One more business scam;
In Chiang Mai I hired a Tuk Tuk driver to take me to a store to arrange shipping of goods I had bought and paid for on line. After I paid him he followed me into the store and demanded 30% commission on whatever I bought from the Turkish owner though he had no involvement. He got a verbal Turkish kick in the ass instead.
One boy scam;
"Can only stay 10 minutes my friend no have key for room him cannot go inside and him angry with me". This comes up all the time with Gay Romeos especially.
See, this is where all these expats who move out to Pattaya and open a bar and lose everything are getting it wrong, it's a key cutting shop they should be opening as if I'd a 1000 baht for every time the above bullshit was trotted out to me I'd be a rich man - and yes I do understand that boys share rooms and once in a blue moon the above can be true but once you hear it several times in close succession you do start to think "maybe time hmmm time to open a key shop here!" :-)
can only stay for 10 minutes....no problem...it will be a real quick quicky...and he'll only get paid for 10 minutes worth too...soon changes his tune...
From my experience, the key story is true. They are just too stupid/lazy/cheapskate/whatever to cut a second key (cost me 30 Baht to cut a second key for my room, no questions asked).
When a boy tells me has only xx minutes or has to leave by xx o'clock, I tell him I don't like to rush and postpone to another time, when he is not pressed for time. Suddenly, they have all the time I need.
Loan Scam
I'm beginning to think they have a loan scam too...
It happens when you meet a new boy. After a few weeks boy wants to borrow "largish" sum of money and promises to pay it back after pay day. He does.Farang impressed.Farang now trusts boy...maybe too much...
A week later boy asks to borrow again. Farang thinks OK and coughs up. Excuse follows excuse and loan is never repaid.
A small detail that I forgot to add about the verbal kick in the ass the Turkish store owner (furniture store) gave to the Tuk Tuk driver;
I've heard the gutteral swearing of the drunken Russians in Jomtien and it's scary but the utterances of this (sober) Turk was on a different terror scale altogether.