Khao Sarn Road Characters

[2long]

For years there's been a man who sometimes rides a big sports bike, sits in restaurants with his feet on the furniture and drinks tequila. His origin is difficult to guess. I was once told he is Iranian, but he could come from South America. He has a shaven head and wears lots of silver and turqoise jewellery. He drinks in the daytime and leaves his bill unpaid for unspecified lengths of time. Does anyone know where he's from and what he does here? My interest is purely personal curiosity, mainly through annoyance at him disrespecting Thais, their culture and not allowing other, paying, customers sit on 'his' table at a well known Khao Sarn Restaurant. My guess is that he may supply people with consumables that our parents used to warn us about, but it is just that; a guess.

Thanks

[jezchesters]

If you're talking about the guy that often hangs out in Khao San centre, I was once told he was Thai - can't be sure though...

[Briggsy]

Foreigners who don't pay their bills on Khao San run the risk of being beaten up by a mob. This guy must be well-connected if he does this with impunity.

[2long]

Jez is correct.

The guy could have connections with bosses in the Center, but may just take the mickey as the daytime staff aren't the most active, or watched by their boss. I guess he pays, but late in the day and after he's done his 'deals.'

I'd be very surprised if he's Thai, but he could be.

[jezchesters]

I've seen him chatting away with the night-boss in Thai on many occasions, and the night-boss seems to show him a lot of respect...

[jezchesters]

Just asked my GF and she reckons half-Thai...

[2long]

So anyone have any ideas what he does for a living? My old man and I reckon it's neither legal nor healthy.

[alexth]

So anyone have any ideas what he does for a living? My old man and I reckon it's neither legal nor healthy.

Why don't you go ask him personally?

[2long]

Good question, Alex. However, I don't know him, don't think I like him and don't expect a straight answer. That was the whole point of this thread. Also, to just check that it's not just the few people I know and drink with that have noticed him.

[Couthy]

Good question, Alex. However, I don't know him, don't think I like him and don't expect a straight answer. That was the whole point of this thread. Also, to just check that it's not just the few people I know and drink with that have noticed him.

Yawn big time:

Why not just say 'Hello' sometime?. Strike up a conversation like?.

And why are you hanging around the arse end of Bangkok anyway?.

And why ask daft questions?.

No dodgy people in your native country?.

Dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Who actually gives a fig?.

[jezchesters]

Good question, Alex. However, I don't know him, don't think I like him and don't expect a straight answer. That was the whole point of this thread. Also, to just check that it's not just the few people I know and drink with that have noticed him.

Yawn big time:

Why not just say 'Hello' sometime?. Strike up a conversation like?.

And why are you hanging around the arse end of Bangkok anyway?.

And why ask daft questions?.

No dodgy people in your native country?.

Dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Who actually gives a fig?.

OK - no bother...

I'll just pop out and return with a report in the morning...

If I don't come back I bequeath all of my remaining beer tokens to the Leeds United Supporters Trust

[3billygoats]

Sorry, unCouthy, if it was such a bore to read/care or whatever, read a different thread. there is obviously at least one other person out there who'c curious like myself.

[Jockstar]

If you're talking about the guy that often hangs out in Khao San centre, I was once told he was Thai - can't be sure though...

I've been drinking there for about 5 years. My ex used to work there as a beer promotion girl. Finished with the ex years ago but still drank in there. And also the Irish bar up stairs. I know most of the staff upstairs as they used to work downstairs. I have met the owner on a couple of occasions. I also know the managers to say hello etc. Helped them out one night when the power went off. I think i know the guy you are talking about but not sure what he does. Probably best not to ask.

[backflip]

"He drinks in the daytime and leaves his bill unpaid for unspecified lengths of time."

I assume that you know about the first thing because you saw it with your own eyes. On the other hand, how do you know about the second thing, and why would it ever be your business? Perhaps he runs a tab. Perhaps the establishment provides him with free liquor. But, as other posters have asked, why would you care? Evidently, you're bored out of your mind. He rides a bike and drinks tequila...in the morning. Stop the presses! Alert the media!

[alexth]

I don't why the word "bugger" comes into my mind right now

[pampal]

I've seen this guy, but he's not Iranian.

The Iranian guy rides a bicycle with many stickers on it.

I've seen him all over the place.

[backflip]

I think Oliver Stone could make a movie about this. For all of you who haven't read this thread, the story thus far:

2long: who is he, what does he do?

jez: might be Thai

briggsy: no, he's mob

2long: might be Thai

2long: I won't talk to him, I don't know him, I don't like him, he's a liar

jex: mob

jez: half-Thai

2long: unhealthy illegal alien

3billygoats: I'm curious too

jockstrap: be very afraid, don't talk about him

pampal: he's not Iranian because the Iranian guy has a bike with stickers

Who said that there was no intelligent conversation in Thailand? Why not sneak up on him, shoot him with a tranquilizer dart, put a tag in his ear, and follow his every movement with a GPS-tracking website.

[pampal]

I think Oliver Stone could make a movie about this. For all of you who haven't read this thread, the story thus far:

2long: who is he, what does he do?

jez: might be Thai

briggsy: no, he's mob

2long: might be Thai

2long: I won't talk to him, I don't know him, I don't like him, he's a liar

jex: mob

jez: half-Thai

2long: unhealthy illegal alien

3billygoats: I'm curious too

jockstrap: be very afraid, don't talk about him

pampal: he's not Iranian because the Iranian guy has a bike with stickers

Who said that there was no intelligent conversation in Thailand? Why not sneak up on him, shoot him with a tranquilizer dart, put a tag in his ear, and follow his every movement with a GPS-tracking website.

 Hey Backflip

Do you know where I can get a good GPS for a good price in BKK?

[2long]

Gossip, and interest in others' lives in human nature.

Joining in on others' conversations to inform them how boring, or crap it is, is just a lack of manners.

Let us be. We're happy, and not hurting anyone.

[alexth]

Gossip, and interest in others' lives in human nature.

Joining in on others' conversations to inform them how boring, or crap it is, is just a lack of manners.

Let us be. We're happy, and not hurting anyone.

Yes, but usually after you get 60 yo and even then, most of the gossip fans are the ladies...

Edited January 28, 2007 by alexth

[jezchesters]

I think Oliver Stone could make a movie about this. For all of you who haven't read this thread, the story thus far:

2long: who is he, what does he do?

jez: might be Thai

briggsy: no, he's mob

2long: might be Thai

2long: I won't talk to him, I don't know him, I don't like him, he's a liar

jex: mob

jez: half-Thai

2long: unhealthy illegal alien

3billygoats: I'm curious too

jockstrap: be very afraid, don't talk about him

pampal: he's not Iranian because the Iranian guy has a bike with stickers

Who said that there was no intelligent conversation in Thailand? Why not sneak up on him, shoot him with a tranquilizer dart, put a tag in his ear, and follow his every movement with a GPS-tracking website.

Maybe backflip is the gentleman in question and this is a cunning ruse to put us off the trail?

Edited January 28, 2007 by jezchesters

[Couthy]

I am weeing myself over this useless speculation.

Jeez...................why not watch Crossroads or Emmerdale or Coronation Street?.

Psss....a little secret, in our wee Soi nobody knows what we do either and I am sure nobody cares either.

We all get on just fine and the lady with the shop across has already given me an account.

(I didn't even ask).

So, here we have a farang who sometimes stays here and some times does not who may or may turn up from day to day in an office full of Thai guys who may or may turn up from day to day, and, who spend most of their free time playing snooker and getting well wired into the grog.

What does that make me then?.

Answers on a plain postcard plse.

Once a suitable response has arrived - I'll let you know. (Clue - it is exteremely legal).

Enjoy Sunday!.

Couthy.

[Briggsy]

Couthy

You'd be surprised what your neighbours know about you. Farang-watching is a national sport. They've been through your bins, you know that, don't you?

[backflip]

"Maybe backflip is the gentleman in question and this is a cunning ruse to put us off the trail?"

I'm a cunning linguist.

Our forward intelligence officers have never spotted him with a computer. If they had, they would have reported the type and model of it, and that his activity was "suspicious".

[Thug]

Couthy

You'd be surprised what your neighbours know about you. Farang-watching is a national sport. They've been through your bins, you know that, don't you?

I second that

I have been living on the same Soi here for about nearly 5 years and it seems that they really behave like big owls

What about the motocycle Taxi drivers in front of the soi?

Always trying to start converstation with farangs, asking things "Hey you! Pai naiiiii" "Beer chang chob mai"

Edited January 29, 2007 by Thug

[DirkGently]

leave the OP alone. Idol gossip is not bothering anybody.

I may have seen this guy but I'll ask a freind who is 'in the know' on Kao San. I doubt he doesn't pay his bills or he would be most unwelcome. I presume he has some arrangment with the boss. Maybe a tab or friend.

I'd like to add an Odd-Bod to this thread. Does anybody know the identity of the Dutch 'backpacker' who sits around with a yellow sign saying something like "Please help me get home. Please donate some money for my air ticket."

I saw him a year or so ago and a Thai friend said she had seen him at least 6 months before and I saw him near a mall a few weeks ago. He is certainly a con-artist.

[leisurely]

Dirk, he is such old news and the cause of much argument on these boards. On the subject of koh Sahn Road, I was delighted to see a Brit stumbling down the centre of the road drinking out of a bottle of coke on Saturday and ranting and raving. makes one so proud to be a subject of her Majesty queen Elizabeth

[3billygoats]

How does Alexth know that the OP isn't a 60+ year-old lady?

[alexth]

How does Alexth know that the OP isn't a 60+ year-old lady?

It's magic...

[steveromagnino]

I think Oliver Stone could make a movie about this. For all of you who haven't read this thread, the story thus far:

2long: who is he, what does he do?

jez: might be Thai

briggsy: no, he's mob

2long: might be Thai

2long: I won't talk to him, I don't know him, I don't like him, he's a liar

jex: mob

jez: half-Thai

2long: unhealthy illegal alien

3billygoats: I'm curious too

jockstrap: be very afraid, don't talk about him

pampal: he's not Iranian because the Iranian guy has a bike with stickers

Who said that there was no intelligent conversation in Thailand? Why not sneak up on him, shoot him with a tranquilizer dart, put a tag in his ear, and follow his every movement with a GPS-tracking website.

Nah, it is more of a Kevin Smith type thing.

2long: who is he, what does he do?

jez: might be Thai, snoochie booches

briggsy: no, he's mob.

2long: might be Thai

2long: I won't talk to him, I don't know him, I don't like him, he's a liar. He kisses like a man.

jex: mob. Buuuuung.

jez: half-Thai, I gots to get mine.

2long: unhealthy illegal alien

3billygoats: I'm curious too

jockstrap: be very afraid, don't talk about him

pampal: he's not Iranian because the Iranian guy has a bike with stickers. Stop it with that jedi mind trick.

Or Samuel L Jackson in a Tarentino feature

2long: who is he, what does he do?

jez: might be Thai, no one is going to hold that motha f**ker on this mother f**king website

briggsy: no, he's mob, you can see that for miles. I's just saying that in Thailand, because of the metric system, we can't say he's mob, so he is like a gangster royale with cheese.

2long: might be Thai

2long: I won't talk to him, I don't know him, I don't like him, he's a liar. Everyone help me get the lying mother f&*Ker off this motherf&*King Khaosan.

jex: gangster royale.

jez: half-Thai, but a half is a whole lot different to giving a motherf&*king massage, that's all Ise is sayin.

2long: unhealthy illegal alien; get those motherf&*king aliens off this motherf&*king thread.

3billygoats: I'm curious too

jockstrap: be very afraid, don't talk about him

pampal: he's not Iranian because the Iranian guy has a bike with stickers. Iranians is like that.