Torneyboy Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 So ..don't leave the Hotel? Just keep your wits about you and you will be fine .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Scrutinizer Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Good Point OH. I should revise my position to I don;t know how many times I have been robbed, defacto, with BG's getting the nic of my money in Mo Chit! I've been to Mo Chit Bus Station... No a place for the Farang! What the hell are you going on about? I've used MorChit for over a decade and never had a problem there. Not a place for farang? Get a grip and go make yourself a new tinfoil hat. Plenty of farang use Mor Chit daily and I see farang waiting for their busses every time I am there, and I use it fairly frequently. More BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I was robbed (pickpocketed) in the wee hours of 22nd July 1988. I had arrived in LOS for the first time the previous afternoon and was walking along Patpong 1 looking for a shag when a girl came out of the shadows and wrapped her arms around my neck. I declined her advances but it was only later, when I tried to pay bar, that I realised that my money that had been in my shirt pocket was gone! Other than that I had a watch and a camera stolen from my house in 1993. Don't know if it was an overnight chum or the maids daughter who knicked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Ditto to what Cent said. HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man at Work Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 So what's your point? You haven't been nicked yet. We all know that people will try - everywhere where tourists go... I presume everybody here on the board has several stories of attempts being robbed in SE-Asia. But you can tell the same stories about any tourist destination in the world (except Japan maybe). A guy in Tunesia tried to steel valuables out of my bag, a team of pickpockets stole my (almost empty) purse in the Paris Metro, three weeks ago I had to push off a girl who approached me quite aggressively and grabbed my front pocket for to check for valuables at 2am at the river quai in Phnom Penh. As I said, this kind of things can happen everywhere. The only dangerous incident happened in my hometown. I was robbed once by two guys with a butterfly knife. It happened in Bonn, the former capital of Germany, in front of my apartment not far from the foreign ministry, which means it was in a kind of high security area. In '89 I was travelling through the Phillies and had a night out in one of the little tourist islands. I was wearing a light but tight pair of trousers, in which I was carrying a role of paper and a pen to nod down things I could use for my tripreport. When I returned to the ressort, I noticed an L-shaped cut in my front pocket and the paper was gone. The thieve must have taken it for a role of cash. I could not help to admire his/her craftsmanship :thumbup: as I did not feel a thing and I was sober. MaW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 I had my heart stolen once in Wichienburi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 That must have been very costly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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