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The girl eventually wakes up and walks to the bathroom, still naked. This happens to coincide with one of my glances around the doorframe, and let's just say she's surprised to see me.

I don't <deleted> her that night, or the next. Mainly because she was actually just an annoying pain in the arse. She showed no initiative in getting her passport replaced, no interest in getting a spare change of clothes from her house (she has a huge <deleted> house not 20 minutes away, but she can't stay there because she 'doesn't want to stay alone and her maid isn't there right now'), and she's seemingly content just to sit around in my place doing <deleted> all all day every day. So this girl is wearing the same dress for 3 consecutive days, she doesn't leave the room and eventually my patience wears out and I ask her when she is going to go away. She talks me into going to play pool with her. Well I like pool, it's not something I'll ever turn down. But she has no shoes because one is broken. So we go to look for shoes. Those who know me know that I'm a rational thinking kind of guy, not the sort of person to believe in the supernatural, myths or superstitions, but after this experience I can confirm that there is such a thing as bigfoot. Never could I imagine, and possibly never in the history of worldwide shoe-buying, has buying a pair of shoes been so challenging. She limped around second-hand shoe shops, malls, boutiques, supermarkets, every shoe was like trying to fit a 6-inch diameter bolt into a rawlplug for ikea flat-pack. You could squeeze it in but not without visibly f***ing up the interior of the shoe and 70% of the flesh still hanging outside, like froth overflowing on a pint of beer.

Whilst this is going on I notice that her legs are shaking, like an old woman with arthritis or something. Asked if she's okay, she says she's just tired.  I hand her her ass at pool. 9 to 1 or something and the one she won was only because I fouled the black.

Later she tells me she will leave tomorrow because she knows a guy in the British embassy who will bring her her new passport. She can reschedule the flight that she has already missed, for free, because it was business class. I can't remember if it was before or after this point that she also told me she had worked at the palace with the royal families kids, in the UK. She also has a Ferrari and she's telling me stories of how everybody looks at her at traffic lights. She also has leukaemia (accounts for the shaking legs and her general lethargy). By now I'm starting to think this girl is completely f****ng crazy, but actually I have zero evidence to prove it, and most of her story does stack up. So I don't confront her with it, in case she's actually telling the truth.

She supposedly flies home, she still owes me my £40, but I'm glad to see the back of her. Although part of me wants a go in the Ferrari.

A month later she's back again, and she invites me to a buffet breakfast in a new, nice hotel. She's dressed nice but her make-up is so <deleted> weird. So <deleted> weird. You know that character in some film and his mouth is elongated upwards, like a clown, but more gory? Her lipstick is honestly about an inch wide of her mouth like that? Like she got a blind monkey to apply it for her?

This time I want to send my parents something in the UK so I ask her to post it from the UK for me, because it's perishable, and it's cheaper and quicker to do it that way. She says sure. She still owes my £40 which she doesn't mention, but she pays for the breakfast and the parcel will cost about £8 to post special delivery. I leave her at 10:30am. Her flight is at 11:45am. She says 'her driver' will pick her up in a few minutes. Bearing in mind that this is an international flight, and even with no traffic it's a 30 minute drive, the earliest she can get there is, let's say 11:10am. 35 minutes to clear immigration, walk half a km to the gate and board? And yet she was in no rush, just sitting there waiting for me to leave. That was the closest I got to ever knowing 100% that she was lying about something. I wish I'd hung around outside for another 20 minutes to see if she came out.

That was a few weeks ago and I never heard from her again. My parents never got the parcel and she's ignoring all my messages on apps. I never did figure out what was in it for her. Maybe some people are just compulsive liars.

A tale of deception and lies, so it proved to be.

I was just scouring a dating site, as you do. When I came across an average looking girl with ties to the UK. My interest was piqued as that's rare in these parts. Her profile was weird, a load of paragraphs about being stuck in a hotel with no money and no passport. She'd obviously updated it in the last few hours. But good grammar, good articulation. Naturally, seeing a damsel in distress I sent a message. Over the course of the next hour or two, it transpired that she had been staying in the Hilton hotel and she had gone for an afternoon dip in the pool, leaving all her valuables locked in the pool lockers. Her locker was forced open and everything of value stolen. There were no CCTV cameras in the locker area, but cameras from outside showed many people entering and leaving the changing rooms, making it difficult if not impossible to identify a suspect. She had no money, no passport, no ID of any description.

Then she tells me she is staying at another hotel. This is the hotel that she is stuck at. That she has moved to, after the Hilton. In hindsight this was the first red flag, how is she paying for it? Pretty much every hotel requires payment upfront or a credit card, right? She told me her friend had promised to come and bail her out but then had let her down. The bill wasn't so much, about 2000, I guess she'd just stayed there for one night. I'm a nice guy, I like to meet new people, and I figure I can probably c** in her if the mood takes me, so I go there later and meet her. I'm naturally suspicious, that's just my nature, I assume everybody is lying until proved otherwise. But everything checks out. She's sitting in the lobby with a damp t-shirt over her head, her make-up is <deleted> and she looks totally exhausted. She has an English accent and she looks half-cast - white/asian. She's dressed in a white dress and heels, one of the heels is broke. Apparently she's been sitting there since midday (check out time). It's now about 7pm.

The plan was for her to go and stay at my place until she can get a new passport and replacement cards. Prior to speaking to this girl I was already going to see another girl at a bar, "for drinks", but this is a Saturday approaching 3pm UK time, I'm really just going there to watch football. Let's call her Nirin. Because that's her name. This girl is really nice, I like her a lot, she has a really cute voice and she's small and pretty. I used to f*** her but we broke up for a while because she was too busy with work and I got p*ssed off when she kept cancelling on me. After a period of stubborn silence, we agreed to stay friends. I trust her because she works on a yacht with a good wage so I know she's not just talking to me for money.  Not that I don't mind talking to girls with no money, but I don't want them as my friends, I'm sure you understand.  When I was seeing her she had bad acne on her back (none on her face), she was self-conscious about that and that's probably what gave me the opportunity to f*** her, without it I think she would have felt too good for me; probably 1-2 points ahead out of /10. She's taken some medication for it since and it's almost completely gone. Anyway I say sorry to her and tell her I'll meet her later, about 1-2 hours late.

The girl at the hotel, we get a taxi back to my place. In the taxi she's expressing her gratitude and telling me if I ever need help with paediatrics, I can go to her, because she's a paediatrician in London. I don't have any kids, or even know anybody with any kids, so I politely 'oh really' and ask her what she's doing here. She tells me she comes every month to visit and look after her grandparents. But this month her grandparents are in Japan, but after a 10 hour flight, her Mum forgot to tell her that, so she has nothing to do for the next week until she flies back to the UK.

I dump her in my room and go to the bar to meet my friend. I just grab my cash and figure the most she can nick is a battered old laptop. My room, it's cheap, about 3000 a month plus utilities, because I don't spend much time there.  I travel about and really I just use it as a base to store my stuff.  There's no aircon, just a couple of fans. To a girl used to the Hilton, this place must feel like a dump. I check her reaction, but she's either got a good poker face, or these surroundings aren't unfamiliar to her.

I tell my friend about the girl and she assumes there's something dodgy going on. I admit she could be right but my instincts tell me otherwise. United won 1-0 by the way, a last minute winner against Hull. Harsh on Hull but Rashford pulled it out of the bag. So I'm in a jubilant mood.

I catch the nightbus back to my room, open the door, the light is on and this girl is spread out on my bed completely f***ing naked, pills strewn on the bed beside her; she 's either asleep or dead. Without checking for a pulse I assume she is asleep and anticipate f***ing her (when she wakes up, obviously). Her t*ts are small but fanny is fanny. At this moment I wasn't sure what to do, I tried to wake her up by taking her hand and shaking it a bit. That didn't work. I took a shower and text my friend from the bar, because she's a girl and I figured she would know what to do. She said I should try and wake her up again. Well that still didn't work, but she moved a bit, so at least she isn't dead, that would have been a situation. I go to eat on the balcony, every now and again leaning around the door to check out her fanny which is peering towards me like the eye in lord of the rings.

I'll finish this thread in a minute.

Not as pretty as yours but there's another one here:

https://spost.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/khao-yai-national-park/

It's a cave centipede.

I put this in general since it applies anywhere where there are crowds at Songkran, but this happened on Silom Road in Bangkok.

This post is just to describe to other people how it can happen, so you are more likely to realise in time, if it happens to you.

I had one of those waterproof pouches with cash and a phone in, in a velcro pocket on the front of my shorts.

The whole thing took about 10-15 seconds. You have to picture a big crowd, with not much space to move. You can walk but not walk fast. You definitely can't run. At first I didn't really suspect anything. 2 or 3 youngish Thai guys were in front of me and they weren't moving forwards even though there was some space in front of them. But this is normal in Thailand right? People have little spacial awareness here and everybody is enjoying themselves, so I just wait. This lasts about 10 seconds and I start to politely try and push past them. They don't let me do that and there are people to either side who, at the time, I think are people just like me, trying to get past. But they aren't, they are in on it. Then in an instant, the crowd around me breaks up, and that's partly what makes me realise something is wrong, it's an immediate and coordinated dispersal - if they had just kept up their act a little longer, or dispersed gradually, maybe I wouldn't have any idea. So this is the first time I take my mind away from Songkran and think to myself, what's going on here? My senses are heightened and something in the back of my head thinks, did I just feel my pocket getting lighter, and moving slightly? I check my pocket and sure enough it's empty.

We're talking only a second or two after they've all split, I'm now fully aware of what's happened and I grab the nearest one to me, she's small and shaped a bit like a christmas tree. I think she's the one who took it, but I think she passed it to somebody else as soon as she took it. I could be wrong though. My immediate reaction is that it's gone, there's no way I'm getting this back because there were at least half a dozen of them that scattered, and I don't know who has it.

She starts pointing somewhere else and about 20 seconds later another foreigner who she was pointing in the direction of, hands it back to me, he says it was on the floor.

I think that the group had seen that I'd grabbed one of them, and either she, or whoever she passed it to, just dropped it and cut their losses to avoid me dragging her off to the police (lots of police around there by the way but they just sit around at equally spaced intervals, leaving the area in between free for these people to operate).

I think they bottled it. They had it and I didn't know who had it. They'd already won.

To be fair to the police there are signs around prominent points e.g. BTS exits warning about pickpockets. These people operate in groups - bigger groups than you think, you cannot be aware of who is around you all of the time, you need to take precautions before it happens. Don't take much cash. Don't take your phone unless you have to. Wear that pouch thing around your neck. If you are drunk you have no chance. There's no way if I'd have had even a couple of beers my mind would be thinking clear enough to notice a slight movement in my pocket.

I also noticed afterwards; this woman and at least one of the others had no gun. Who goes to the biggest water fight in the world with no water gun?

I flew back to BKK a few days after and didn't continue the jabs. If it happened again and the area was declared rabies free as Phuket is, I wouldn't get jabs. I know people will disagree, but doing the maths, it isn't worth the cost even at 3600 baht. I get the "how much is your life worth" argument.

The chance of the dog being rabid are probably one in 1000, probably less. I had access to the dog so could check it again for rabies signs. The chance of the dog infecting me are probably slim as well since this bite barely broke the skin and there was no puncture wound at all really. The dog was old and most rabies is in younger dogs. The dog was not imported into Phuket recently. The combined odds are so slim that they're negligible. BKK would be a different matter since so many more of the dogs there are rabid. Any dog in Phuket which I couldn't observe, or if the wound was deep, I'd possibly think differently.

The original bill (invoice) was itemised but it was mostly in Thai and the parts that were in English was unreadable. The receipt (after I gave the bill to the cashier) was in English but just said "medicine" as the 2800 baht cost. The other few hundred baht was doctor fee, paracetamol (which I clearly didn't need, there was no wound for there to be any pain) and some other things. Since this was a government hospital presumably the doctors aren't taking a cut so with hindsight I think the extra charge is over-caution rather than anything dishonest.

I didn't receive any treatment until I got the cost, apart from an initial vaccination which is the thing that you get before you start the rabies jabs.

Yes I could exercise my right to go somewhere else where I may or may not have got a lower price but by this time it'd already been about 6 hours since the bite and I have no idea what government hospitals are still open at 11pm at night or where they are (I don't live here). Of course that isn't their problem though, they can charge whatever they like and I can decide whether to pay it.

The problem is that had they told me what I was actually buying, I would have refused to buy it and/or gone elsewhere. Because I did not need or want what they gave me, and I had told them that. There was no miscommunication, the doctor could speak English fine. The same doctor then wrote the notes for the pharmacy to prescribe me the jabs.

You go into a shop and ask for bread, and say you do not want milk. The shopkeeper sells you the bread and puts a bottle of milk inside the bag but doesn't tell you. And then charges you for both. That's okay in your world, right?

I'm off to bed.

Yes. There's no chance of reading it though because the handwriting is so bad.

What would you call it if not 'scam'? It's misselling and it's dishonest. I couldn't have been any more clear about having already had the tetanus injection even though nobody bothered to ask me.

Maybe people are always complaining because they always are 'victims'. Fire makes smoke.

It cost 3300 baht and I'm 70kg. 4 more jabs to go.

My best guess is they've jabbed me for tetanus as well because I had about 5 injections and 2 of those were in my arse.

I told the doctor I'd already been vaccinated for tetanus when she asked me if I'd been vaccinated for rabies, even though she didn't ask. And I queried it before paying but they assured me it was for only one jab and for rabies and that it really was that expensive (I thought at the time they were charging me for all 5 rabies jabs which would be about right at 5 x 500 baht plus extras).

So what can you do, refuse to pay it and just settle the bill for the initial vaccination and trek across Phuket to another hospital and try your luck there? No matter how cautious you are and how much research you do beforehand, there always seems to be a subtle scam.

On a side note I could sit all day in the emergency room watching people come in and out. It's absorbing in a morbid sort of way. All the smokers and heavy drinkers on Thaivisa should do it, a few hours watching overweight farang coming off ambulances on trolleys with heart and chest problems, then the emergency beeep beeep beeep sound as they go into some sort of cardiac arrest or have a heart attack. They'd never smoke or drink again.

Alright I'll go over there now. Hopefully quiet at this time.

Had a dog bite today whilst riding a motorbike along a dirt path. It's not a serious bite (hardly broke the skin) but worried about rabies. I know where the dog lives and spoke to the 'owner', he said it was a private road (no signs that I could see) and that the dog is not his, that it was a jungle dog when he came there 4 months ago. Standard responses to absolve him of any responsibility, which may or may not be true. Dog seemed pretty normal and I guess the bite wasn't totally unprovoked if I was indeed driving down a private road where the dog isn't used to strangers.

Googled a bit and found

"Phuket is rabies free"

"there have only been 3 deaths from rabies in all of Thailand last year"

"rabies has a 100% fatality rate"

I think I'll be getting the shots unless answers to this thread are overwhelming in advice not to.

I looked up cost on various forums and it ranged from 50-600 baht a shot. I don't care much about waiting times or English-speaking nurses - anybody know the cheapest place in and around Phuket Town/Kathu/Patong?

Heading there in a few days but the length of my stay is going to depend on whether they charge you 500 baht daily i.e some park ranger comes around to take money from you, or whether you just pay once at the national park office when you arrive and then after that they forget about you. Interested in knowing not what should happen but what is likely to happen.

p.s. couldn't see a Phang Nga forum so put it in Phuket.

Cheers.

Thanks for the helpful replies. I can only speak basic Thai and it's my gf doing most of the talking (Thai). The bike has scratches and scrapes and scuffs, no cracked panels. The damage is across the exhaust protector, mirror, brake lever and all down the panels on one side. In my opinion the panels in particular need replacing, especially since it is a new bike.

We waited 1-2 days for a call back from the police. No call. So we called them again and speak to the same officer who came out to us after the accident, and he says that they didn't find the van, despite having the exact plate number. We ask to see the cameras, they umm and ahh and say you will have to come to the police station 'more than once on a few different days'... It didn't really make sense and I think what he was trying to imply was that you will need to pay or we aren't going to help.

I Googled a bit and found a municipal building where I think the cameras for the city are and we went there and they weren't really any help and simply referred us back to the police. I'm still not sure if the cameras are in there, they seemed a bit cagey about answering.

At this stage I went back to the renter, who seems really nice in fairness, with a view to asking their advice and trying to get the ball rolling. First thing they do is check out the damage, which as written above, to my mind is at least 2,500 baht and probably much more if they are buying new parts, really at this stage I am expecting 5000+ plus.

"500 baht". "You mean the mirror?" "No everything".

I can only assume they took pity on us. The bike doesn't need repair to drive it, I guess, but aesthetically it is clearly more of a mess than it was before and if they wanted to get it back to how it was before, it would cost considerably more than 500 baht.

At this stage there seems little point pursuing it further, ideally I'd want them to find the guy, but the cost of doing so is going to be more than what we will have to pay, with no guarantee of any good result at the end of it. I have little confidence in the police doing their job even if I pay them and maybe the camera isn't a good angle/broken.

I think we got lucky with the integrity of the bike renter and unlucky with the integrity of the police we were dealing with.

It's Friday again tomorrow, a week on, so I'm going to go back to the same place and sit there for an hour and see if he comes past again, with it being a van I figure he might ply the same routes. After that I'm going to give up. Sorry I had to cop out half way through for anybody who was interested in a different outcome. Maybe it would be a different story if we were both Thai.

Thanks for the helpful replies. I'm going on a quest today to try and find this surveillance room.

Sure, I'll post back later.

What would the police do? Not what should they do but what would they actually do. Type the numberplate into a database, or just circulate it on radio?

What is the typical amount of work they would do on something like this, if any?

How to go about tactfully paying them to find the guy?

Was driving in a straight line coming up to a junction. A white minibus comes up too fast from behind and front end of the minibus cuts in front of us, middle-back end of the minibus hits us and the bike goes down fairly heavily.

Minibus didn't stop, I made sure I memorised the number plate and gave that to the police when they arrived. There's a camera in a perfect position to see the whole thing, and with it being right next to a busy junction I think there's a high chance it will be a working camera.

Bike is a rental bike from our hotel and is brand new, 150km driven.

Neither of us are badly injured, just cuts and a sprained wrist, but I don't want to have to pay for the damage to the bike so what are my chances of the police finding the guy in a case like this? With it being a minibus I would guess maybe not privately-owned so hopefully address on the green book should be up to date? Am I right in thinking there will be a national database of vehicles along with their addresses which would enable them to find the vehicle/driver?

If for whatever reason they don't find the guy, the bike will be insured and the camera footage will clear us of any wrongdoing - if we have the footage. How to ensure we do actually get it? Will police assist and if not, who to contact?

Any advice appreciated.

Yes that's the Tesco, and on a motorbike. I think it's more likely I left it somewhere at the market, maybe 75% likely there and 25% likely on the road somewhere.

Going to tourist police today to see if I can get a computerised report..

Hello, I lost my wallet today, lost either in the big Tesco Lotus carpark (in and around the market), or whilst driving from Tesco to the night bazaar (I had it at the market and didn't have it at the night bazaar).

It has my UK driving licence and other documents with the name Paul Dunn and a large amount of cash in THB and GBP and also some travellers cheques in GBP.

5000 baht for anybody returning it to me.

Already made a police report. What if it is handed into a different police station, I'd hope they'd have a computerised system but the officer didn't input anything into a computer whilst I was there, I just got a handwritten piece of paper? Any advice on anything else I can do to heighten my chances of being reunited with my wallet?

Thanks

Thanks. 900 is a bit steep. I'll check out the dongle option, I had one of those in the UK a while back and never thought about that here.

Cyberpoint is run by DTAC I think, they have routers in a lot of the big condo buildings and you can buy an internet card (like a scratchcard with a password on it) for a month for 300 baht. But it seems poorly run because at least here about half the times I ask they don't stock the cards so you can't buy their product... It would be too simple to let you buy a card online or at a main office in BKK, they insist you buy it from an agent on site; ours is a laundrette.

3G or wifi, whatever works. But there's no good wifi signal here, at least going from the wifi connections I can see. No True which I see pretty much everywhere else in BKK.

Don't buy from sellers using the Global Shipping Program. As with everything eBay introduce it's poorly thought out and overpriced. It isn't your sellers fault, it's eBay's/DHL's fault (probably eBay's).

Thanks x2

All the websites are useless for this because there's no/little English and Google translate doesn't work because the text is in images not text form.

I'm in a condo now at On Nut which has Cyberpoint connections but the only shop downstairs that sells the cards for it never has any actual cards.

So I want to buy a month's worth of internet, I have no landline phone connection. I don't want any limits and I want the speed to be good enough for Skype to work.

Any suggestions/recommendations?

I've used a 19 baht thing on my phone (after making a hotspot to laptop) which is good for a day but the speed just isn't quite good enough to hold a Skype call. Something like that would be good if there's a month's package with faster speeds and no limits?

bump

Obviously it's not in season now, but anybody seen any? Where abouts, specifically? Usually there's a lady on a fruit stall in between Nana and Asoke BTS but she doesn't have any, she was saying it was costing her 300 baht a kilo to buy it right now and I guess even drunk farang in Nana aren't dumb enough to buy rambutan at over 300 baht.