Adventures In Thailand - Rocco

[DamianMavis]

I have a friend named Rocco, we don't know each other real well yet but so far he is one of the nicest coolest guys I've met here. And if you saw him you certainly wouldn't think so! Shaved head with a fully tattood scalp, grey and black beard, muscles on his muscles and earings INSIDE his earlobes so big they have stretched his ears out like a..... well ###### like I don't know what, I've never seen anything like it! He looks like a muscular killer dwarf from a sci fi movie but he's actually very nice.

A month or so ago (written 3 years ago) he was up in his apartment in Pattaya when he heard a loud "BUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDABUDDA!" coming from downstairs and outside. He runs downstairs half naked (wearing nothing but shorts) and lying in a bloody heep is the security guards body, he had been shot 8 times with a machine gun. The other doorman was freaked out but seemed ok. The one that had been shot was still alive and having trouble breathing so Rocco rolled him over a bit and held him up to help him breathe. He just kept encouraging him to breathe. The cops showed up and threw them all in the back of the cop truck to rush them to the hospital. Rocco just held the man tight while they bounced insanely along over speed bumps at full speed, these trucks are already a bumpy ride, Rocco said they were air borne from the bumps over and over. If Rocco hadn't been holding him he would have been bashed around pretty badly... don't think that would have helped the 8 bullet wounds. This is when the other door man realises that he too has been shot, guess he was so freaked out he didn't notice that bullet in him! Shock.

When they finally get to the hospital there is a news crew waiting for them and they film them getting out of the truck and running into the hospital. Rocco was covered in this mans blood, it looked pretty scary, he was topless and muscular and smeared in blood all over. The newsmen were shouting "Falangs been shot! Falangs been shot!" Apparently that would have made much better news! Rocco just kept saying "no I'm not shot". They take the wounded men away and that was that.

The man survived amazingly which is what makes this story worth reading. Maybe Rocco saved that mans life by holding him during the bumpy ride and encouraging and helping him to breathe, I think it must have made a difference. I talked to someone who saw it on the news, poor Rocco missed the broadcast, he was a hero.

Damian Mavis

**At the time of writing this I didnt know Rocco very well, now I know him alot better and he's still a very cool person and he's the only one to help me get into showbusiness here and I'll always be thankful to him for that. He got me my start.

[DamianMavis]

No he's not THAT Rocco!

Damian

[tijnebijn]

Now I remember where I heared this name before .

I think That Rocco has got massive muscles on a different part of his body !

[geevlus]

I think that the price of travel needs to increase.

[dttk0009]

Sounds like a pretty similar experience I went through about 5 years ago. As I was driving home one friday night, I honked the horn as usual upon reaching the gate to the compound, as to wake the guard to open it. He's usually either awake anyway, or it takes him no more than 5 seconds to get up, so I was a little surprised when he didn't appear after a minute of waiting. I got out of the car, and pushed the gate open myself, and as it swung open, I noticed that the guard was lying on his back, staring at the sky, twitching with the most disgusting smelling thing I have ever smelled coming out of his mouth. Needless to say, I ran inside my house and woke my parents, telling them to call an ambulance (as I was still in high school then), and I went to turn him on him on his side and hold him there until the ambulance arrived, so he wouldn't choke on his vomit. Turned out the next day that he had tried to commit suicide by drinking pesticide, because his girlfriend broke up with him. His chances of survival were quite low, but he managed to pull through.

[kmart]

I think if some tattooed body-mod afionado like"Rocco" cradled me in his arms, I would pray for death.

[luckyluke]

I think if some tattooed body-mod afionado like"Rocco" cradled me in his arms, I would pray for death.

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Is appearance everything?

[kayo]

I don't care how unconcious or even comatose a victim is. I've been on deaths bed and I don't remember who visited or stayed at my bedside during those first few days, but it makes a difference to have loved ones about. Or in this (Rocco) case not a loved one but somebody who gave a darn.

Can make the difference between life and death, when your on the doorstep of the afterlife, to have somebody re-affirming their will for you to live.

[DamianMavis]

Ya Rocco comes off as a little gruff and rough but when the poop hits the fan his true colours come out, I think he shows the kind of person he is to try to keep a bleeding dying stranger from dying or dying alone. Would I have done the same? I hope so.

Damian

[kayo]

Totally agreed.

BTW, I earlier wrote: I've been on deaths bed and I don't remember who visited or stayed at my bedside during those first few days, but it makes a difference to have loved ones about.

I don't remember, but I forgot to mention that I DID have many loved ones and friends around in my comatose state. Even my folks came to visit within two days, which was totally unexpected as they'd rarely strayed outside of europe.

[thaijigga]

I knew this Rocco fellow, he was an extremely interesting character. I saw him in Thailand and last in Pnom Phen, Cambodia. I heard that he later went to Laos. He was always good to me, and Im glad to have known him.

If anybody knows how to contact Rocco, or has any info on this guy I would love to have it, he was one in a million.

May Rocco RIP if he is already dead.