America Has Definitekly Become Bizzaro-Land

[Mekong]

Hey'

 

I did 12 months in TX for my sins, was that really 15 years ago now.

 

What always struck me was the gun drop off box at the entrance of every bar, oh and the fact that Spanish was more widely spoken than english, non hablo espanol

[Flashermac]

Every Thai gogo bar and nightclub in Bangkok has a sign in Thai on the door warning that guns and other weapons aren't allowed inside. I presume it is a legal requirement.

 

p.s. I heard gunfire several times when I lived in Phitsanulok, twice in the city's biggest hotel. (The rooftop had a nightclub, and fights often broke out there.) Once I had to drop when I found myself between a fleeing gold shop robber and a pursuing policeman. I also was near a shootout between police and an escaped killer in Bangkok, but fortunately I was out of the line fire. I've never been near a gunfight in the USA.

[Mekong]

51%

 

Now what the hell was all that about?

 

Now being an ignorant limey my take on it was alcohol sales, if a premises took more than 51% of the income from alcohol they have to show a big fuck off sign 51% leave your guns at the door.

 

Flash,

 

I am pretty sure that those signs used to be in English also, or maybe just at Hog's Breath circa 1995 OMG that was 20 years ago!

[Flashermac]

I remember that at Hog's Breath. I think a few other bars had it in English too, but not many.

 

I've mentioned arriving at Patpong in about 1981 right after the famous grenade attack on a gogo bar. I was told the going rate for a frag on the black market was 60 baht.