Getting arrested in Thailand

[cdnmatt]

Thanks....I don't wish to be without a mobile while I'm in prison.

What are you talking about? They have a payphone in the gym that you're allowed to use the one time a week they let you out of the cell for exercise.

You can make collect calls from there, and they'll contact your embassy for you, so what more do you need?

I'm still pissed off about that. Throwing a blind guy in a cell in Bangkok with 100 other people. What a dick move. I remember many of the other inmates were completely dumbfounded they actually put me in there. I remember they didn't even tell me where I was going when they moved me from the initial holding cell to the main cell. They just said "we're taking you to a better room", shoved me in and closed the room. I'm blind, so I'm absolutely terrified, because I have no idea what's going on. Assholes.

If you're going to get arrested in Thailand, makes sure it's in Issan. The cops in Nong Khai were awesome and really good folks. The cops in Bangkok were assholes and can fuck off.

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[gerefan2]

Don’t do the crime if you can’t take the time....

[cdnmatt]

Don’t do the crime if you can’t take the time....

I did do the time. Doesn't change the fact that they were assholes who threw a blind guy into a locked room with another 100 people without telling him where they were sticking him.

I'm not alone in that. Many of the other inmates thought that was a dick move on part of the police.

[arsenal]

I definitely think the life that Matt has written about here is worth a two part mini series. I'm not sure what genre it should be.

A Carry On style comedy with lines like 'Ooohhh; those lychees look juicy.' ...cue camera zooming on naked Matt with his privates hidden by fruit.
Or.
A thriller with a slow burn towards Matt's capture and incarceration. Unbearable tension as a police motorbike glides slowly past Matt looking at him suspiciously.

[gerefan2]

I definitely think the life that Matt has written about here is worth a two part mini series. I'm not sure what genre it should be.

l

I’d go along with that two part series Arsenal, but my take would be

A fairy tale along the lines of a certain Mr Walter Mitty, for the first part
And.
A Mystery set along the lines of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the closing part.

[Armando]

I definitely think the life that Matt has written about here is worth a two part mini series.

Oh Gawd! Haven't we heard enough already? Seems like we must be up to Series 8 by now!

[cdnmatt]

PS. Arsenal, I think you're an Aussie, right? Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt3vns42Nd8

I have an Aussie client baed in China who won't shut up about China starting WWIII. Apparently, in his mind the invasion of Tiawan is going to start any day now.

I keep trying to tell him it's nothing more than propoganda and nobody is starting WWIIII but he doesn't want to listen.

[StevieWonders]

PS. Arsenal, I think you're an Aussie, right? Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt3vns42Nd8

I have an Aussie client baed in China who won't shut up about China starting WWIII. Apparently, in his mind the invasion of Tiawan is going to start any day now.

I keep trying to tell him it's nothing more than propoganda and nobody is starting WWIIII but he doesn't want to listen.

Remind him that as a result of the One Child Policy Chinese soldiers are a bunch of Mummy's Boys whose parents won't support a government that robs them of their one and only child

[arsenal]

What!!! No. I'm of fine English stock. I went to Australia once.Terrible place. Man eating sharks in the sea and some of the rivers, 6 meter long crocodiles in the lakes and rivers, venomous snakes everywhere and murderous spiders hiding in your shoes and a bird that can disembowel you with it's foot.. Lucky to get out alive.

[a447]

Man eating sharks in the sea and some of the rivers, 6 meter long crocodiles in the lakes and rivers, venomous snakes everywhere and murderous spiders hiding in your shoes and a bird that can disembowel you with it's foot.. Lucky to get out alive.

We like to live dangerously!

Not knowing if you will live to see tomorrow is quite stimulating and adds excitement to our sometimes dull lives.

On a serious note, I live across the road from the beach and wouldn't dream of going for a swim. Shark attacks are a regular occurrence not far from where I live.

As for getting arrested in Thailand, there's a tv show here about how our embassy in Bangkok tries to help Australians who get into trouble in Thailand and end up in prison. The scary thing is how easy it is to find yourself in trouble. Although far from paranoid, I am very careful about what I do.

For example I'm aware that bars have CCTV so any "fun activities" with the guys are always carried out behind cushions (like in Eros) or we sit in a dark corner. At Golden Cock the door was always locked. And if there were any policemen enjoying a coffee in the lobby of the Tarntawan Hotel, we always waited until they left before going upstairs.

Better to be safe than sorry.