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scoop · March 17, 2005

my name's allan. i'm a freelance journalist from scotland. coming over next month - april - to bangkok and pattaya. anyone got an interesting tale they'd like to share?

Abandon · March 17, 2005

yeah, and allen has posted everywhere he can to get pulls. Post up in enough threads and you will get a strike rate. Tell a journalist about your business venture in Thailand and 3 days later there will be a story about your wife and Expats marrying bar girls (suggesting a link where there need not be one). If you really want publicity for something then on your own head be it, otherwise check your vanity; it will lead you into all kinds of 'scoop'.

Apologies to the OP if he is genuine, but sour experience tells me to steer clear. Especially when the documenter is freelance - thier articles can go in the Sun, Mirror etc... A shame that it is not all reporters who screw you over, but there are so many of them that they ruin it for the genuine ones.

sriracha john · March 17, 2005

I would think there's more than enough material already posted here at thaivisa....it could easily be gleaned as it's full of hundreds of "tales"...

Godders · March 18, 2005

my name's allan. i'm a freelance journalist from scotland. coming over next month - april - to bangkok and pattaya. anyone got an interesting tale they'd like to share?

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Get yourself down to Hua Hin laddie. Theyve opened a swanky new Royal Rain Making Centre that hasn't produced the goods yet. Not so surprising, really. For a start, the pilots of the 45 planes amassed to conduct cloud seeding operations haven't a clue how to do the job, according to the Nation. Not only that, but Khun Biggles and co work to prearranged schedules, which means they are often scrambled into cloudless skies. Never mind.

"sleeves rolled up" and "armed with "a series of chemical formulas".

If this can't make it rain money for you with the tabloids, Allan, I don't know what can.

Edited March 18, 2005 by george

phuketsiam · March 18, 2005

tell him to get down to kanchanaburi and get the real low down on the real low life there

ray23 · March 18, 2005

Just a fun little experience that you mihgt not have somewhere else.

I've been doing some local village rides around Udon lately and had an interesting one the other day. I'm out in the sticks really wondering where the ###### I was by myself. In this one horse village with dirt roads all of a sudden I run into the place with a huge stage music going like crazy and beautiful dancing girls. Now this ratted a stop and look see. As I get into the area where the activity is I notice a huge surge in the crowd. Now my past experience tells me there is a fight going on and there was. One cop in the place and there is a tug of war going on, some guys are tugging at the guy fighting the others are tugging at the cop. He finally gets some cuffs out and gets one on the guy. Who is not cooperating, but not trying to hurt the cop either. Now half the crowd I trying to help the cop the other half is trying to help the suspect and no one is making progress.

Well it gets real obvous that the cop is not going to pull this one off by himself and he is a very long ways from any help, so he settles for getting the guy to leave, sho is now arguing about that. Some friends step in Thai style and are trying to drag the guy out of the area. Now some people are happy with so thye now have the cuffs in hand as does the cop and they are dragging him to the suspect. Finally progress is made in getting the suspect out of the area, which means dragging the guy by me. Now no one has really noticed that I was there at this point. Now the light goes on, takes a little time wiht me, I'm the only farrang there, speak no thia, the majority of the village is drunk out of thier minds and I have no idea where I am. Probably not best set of circumstances to visit under.

So I decide it might be a good time to get out of Dodge, as I'm doing so I'm about a block from the party when I see this really old guy standing or sort of standing by the side of the road. Sort of because there is a very young Thia man holding him up. Now the old guy is holding a sling shot, for what purpose I have no idea. A I'm driving by he decides that I'm offensive and takes a shot at me. Only problem is he is so drunk he doesn't realize that the sling shot is empty. Boththe Thia guy and I are both laughing so hard he almost dropped the old man and I was bout to drop the bike. I'm now researching a GPS so I will at least no which direction to run.

taxexile · March 18, 2005

I've been doing some local village rides around Udon lately and had an interesting one the other day. I'm out in the sticks really wondering where the ###### I was by myself. In this one horse village with dirt roads all of a sudden I run into the place with a huge stage music going like crazy and beautiful dancing girls. Now this ratted a stop and look see. As I get into the area where the activity is I notice a huge surge in the crowd. Now my past experience tells me there is a fight going on and there was. One cop in the place and there is a tug of war going on, some guys are tugging at the guy fighting the others are tugging at the cop. He finally gets some cuffs out and gets one on the guy. Who is not cooperating, but not trying to hurt the cop either. Now half the crowd I trying to help the cop the other half is trying to help the suspect and no one is making progress.
Well it gets real obvous that the cop is not going to pull this one off by himself and he is a very long ways from any help, so he settles for getting the guy to leave, sho is now arguing about that. Some friends step in Thai style and are trying to drag the guy out of the area. Now some people are happy with so thye now have the cuffs in hand as does the cop and they are dragging him to the suspect. Finally progress is made in getting the suspect out of the area, which means dragging the guy by me. Now no one has really noticed that I was there at this point. Now the light goes on, takes a little time wiht me, I'm the only farrang there, speak no thia, the majority of the village is drunk out of thier minds and I have no idea where I am. Probably not best set of circumstances to visit under.

So I decide it might be a good time to get out of Dodge, as I'm doing so I'm about a block from the party when I see this really old guy standing or sort of standing by the side of the road. Sort of because there is a very young Thia man holding him up. Now the old guy is holding a sling shot, for what purpose I have no idea. A I'm driving by he decides that I'm offensive and takes a shot at me. Only problem is he is so drunk he doesn't realize that the sling shot is empty. Boththe Thia guy and I are both laughing so hard he almost dropped the old man and I was bout to drop the bike. I'm now researching a GPS so I will at least no which direction to run.

STOP THE PRESSES

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE !!!!!

SCOOOOOP !!!

Neeranam · March 18, 2005

my name's allan. i'm a freelance journalist from scotland. coming over next month - april - to bangkok and pattaya. anyone got an interesting tale they'd like to share?

I have MANY an interesting tale!

What money are you offering?

Do you write for the Huntly Farming Gazette? If so, I guess not much cash.

I could write a good story about lonely single buffalo farmers in Nong Kai.

The Tomintoul times?

The Clachnacuddan Chronicle?

Pattaya_Fox · March 18, 2005

my name's allan. i'm a freelance journalist from scotland. coming over next month - april - to bangkok and pattaya. anyone got an interesting tale they'd like to share?

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I could tell you my story...a real heart wrenching event....how I had to evade the clutches of the non law abiding fox hunters....and I barely escaped with any fur left on my brush.......but it`s just another tail

andy50 · March 18, 2005

perhaps he could go and interview Sergeant somchai who slaughtered the two brit back-packers

FreedomDude · March 18, 2005

Go visit Sergeant Somchai Wisetsingh in Kanchanaburi. He sits outside every day at his restaurant enjoying the fresh air. Ask him about the British man and woman he killed last year.

andy50 · March 18, 2005

scoops odviously a one post wonder

ProfessorFart · March 18, 2005

How many wannabe 'Journalists' have turned up in Thailand over the years looking for that 'scoop'?

I remember a few years back every second Westerner I met was a 'Journalist' ......but they all wound up teaching!

udon · March 18, 2005

my name's allan. i'm a freelance journalist from scotland. coming over next month - april - to bangkok and pattaya. anyone got an interesting tale they'd like to share?

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You're going to have to be more forthcoming than "my names Allan"

Try a full name and refs, otherwise, erm....... go away!

PS, I guess you don't like using upper case....... hmm, you're not a Kiwi English teacher known as Sickman are you?

johnnyk · March 18, 2005

Hey Jock,

Real journalists, aka reporters, find their own stories.

Or is that too much like work?

ProfessorFart · March 19, 2005

Hey Jock,
Real journalists, aka reporters, find their own stories.

Or is that too much like work?

I bet he'd find himself stunned that there are bars in Thailand with women for hire in them!

ray23 · March 19, 2005

I've been doing some local village rides around Udon lately and had an interesting one the other day. I'm out in the sticks really wondering where the ###### I was by myself. In this one horse village with dirt roads all of a sudden I run into the place with a huge stage music going like crazy and beautiful dancing girls. Now this ratted a stop and look see. As I get into the area where the activity is I notice a huge surge in the crowd. Now my past experience tells me there is a fight going on and there was. One cop in the place and there is a tug of war going on, some guys are tugging at the guy fighting the others are tugging at the cop. He finally gets some cuffs out and gets one on the guy. Who is not cooperating, but not trying to hurt the cop either. Now half the crowd I trying to help the cop the other half is trying to help the suspect and no one is making progress.
Well it gets real obvous that the cop is not going to pull this one off by himself and he is a very long ways from any help, so he settles for getting the guy to leave, sho is now arguing about that. Some friends step in Thai style and are trying to drag the guy out of the area. Now some people are happy with so thye now have the cuffs in hand as does the cop and they are dragging him to the suspect. Finally progress is made in getting the suspect out of the area, which means dragging the guy by me. Now no one has really noticed that I was there at this point. Now the light goes on, takes a little time wiht me, I'm the only farrang there, speak no thia, the majority of the village is drunk out of thier minds and I have no idea where I am. Probably not best set of circumstances to visit under.

So I decide it might be a good time to get out of Dodge, as I'm doing so I'm about a block from the party when I see this really old guy standing or sort of standing by the side of the road. Sort of because there is a very young Thia man holding him up. Now the old guy is holding a sling shot, for what purpose I have no idea. A I'm driving by he decides that I'm offensive and takes a shot at me. Only problem is he is so drunk he doesn't realize that the sling shot is empty. Boththe Thia guy and I are both laughing so hard he almost dropped the old man and I was bout to drop the bike. I'm now researching a GPS so I will at least no which direction to run.

STOP THE PRESSES

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE !!!!!

SCOOOOOP !!!

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Hey give me a break here just a fun story, about the real Issan not Pattaya. If I wanted to write for living I probably should keep my day job. LAUGHTER

taxexile · March 19, 2005

scoop · April 29, 2005

Thanks for all your messages - and the piss takes - I'm now back in UK and have some stories - all found by myself!

For the record for those of you who don't like journalists and English teachers, I am the former not the latter and my full name is Allan Caldwell. If you know how to use the net properly you'll find me!!!!

HarryHacker · April 29, 2005

Thanks for all your messages - and the piss takes - I'm now back in UK and have some stories - all found by myself!
For the record for those of you who don't like journalists and English teachers, I am the former not the latter and my full name is Allan Caldwell. If you know how to use the net properly you'll find me!!!!

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Condescending pr1ck as well!

Boon Mee · April 29, 2005

Get yourself out to the Tescos in Suphanburi for the great Farang takeover of the food hall!

See the Central Thailand thread for more details.

dr_Pat_Pong · April 30, 2005

HTF did he miss interviewing Scampy ?

thaiflyer1 · April 30, 2005

Thanks for all your messages - and the piss takes - I'm now back in UK and have some stories - all found by myself!
For the record for those of you who don't like journalists and English teachers, I am the former not the latter and my full name is Allan Caldwell. If you know how to use the net properly you'll find me!!!!

Militant homosexual, Garry Otton gunning for fair play again

Version: Full article

A "catalogue of filth" that "features full-frontal shots of men and women wearing cut-away clothing" so upset prudish reporter Allan Caldwell that Glasgow's Evening Times gave him the front page to vilify the "SECRET OF SCOTLAND'S PORN KING." Even the Milngavie and Bearsden Herald had to join in. Russell Stirton's "seedy sex business..." sent Caldwell into a fit of the vapours. This was a "vile trade in adult sex... Lust, perversion and masochism... Thousands of products for perverts, sadists and the sexually depraved... (a) vile mail order trade... (with) all forms of lust to satisfy the perverts." My mouse was clicking like a cricket on http://www.loveboat-products.com! But as Russell Stirton tried to explain, what was the difference between his business and Ann Summers or Lovecare? "Most of those in the trade buy from the same people." But it would have taken more than a bottle of room odourises to revive poor Allan Caldwell who sniffed: "Neither (of those) contained any full-frontal shots..." Caldwell even thrust a copy of Loveboat's catalogue in front of one of Russell Stirton's neighbours who promptly declared it: "'filthy and disgusting......

http://www.scottishmediamonitor.com/articles2.cfm?ID=51

Now i wonder what type of article he is going to write about Thailand..............

Edited April 30, 2005 by thaiflyer1

lampard10 · April 30, 2005

. anyone got an interesting tale they'd like to share?

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I would think most people here have a million tales

lampard10 · April 30, 2005

Hey Jock,
Real journalists, aka reporters, find their own stories.

Or is that too much like work?

I bet he'd find himself stunned that there are bars in Thailand with women for hire in them!

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SSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Farty. The good doctor might be listening.

udon · April 30, 2005

Here's a few anecdotes

dr_Pat_Pong · April 30, 2005

Thanks for all your messages - and the piss takes - I'm now back in UK and have some stories - all found by myself!
For the record for those of you who don't like journalists and English teachers, I am the former not the latter and my full name is Allan Caldwell. If you know how to use the net properly you'll find me!!!!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Militant homosexual, Garry Otton gunning for fair play again

Version: Full article

A "catalogue of filth" that "features full-frontal shots of men and women wearing cut-away clothing" so upset prudish reporter Allan Caldwell that Glasgow's Evening Times gave him the front page to vilify the "SECRET OF SCOTLAND'S PORN KING." Even the Milngavie and Bearsden Herald had to join in. Russell Stirton's "seedy sex business..." sent Caldwell into a fit of the vapours. This was a "vile trade in adult sex... Lust, perversion and masochism... Thousands of products for perverts, sadists and the sexually depraved... (a) vile mail order trade... (with) all forms of lust to satisfy the perverts." My mouse was clicking like a cricket on http://www.loveboat-products.com! But as Russell Stirton tried to explain, what was the difference between his business and Ann Summers or Lovecare? "Most of those in the trade buy from the same people." But it would have taken more than a bottle of room odourises to revive poor Allan Caldwell who sniffed: "Neither (of those) contained any full-frontal shots..." Caldwell even thrust a copy of Loveboat's catalogue in front of one of Russell Stirton's neighbours who promptly declared it: "'filthy and disgusting......

http://www.scottishmediamonitor.com/articles2.cfm?ID=51

Now i wonder what type of article he is going to write about Thailand..............

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They are a strange lot the Scotties

dr_Pat_Pong · April 30, 2005

Here's a few anecdotes

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I love the Cap's way with words John. He should write that book.

HarryHacker · April 30, 2005

"Runaway Scots fraudster who duped investors out of £10m is back with sparkling new scam

By Allan Caldwell

Costa del crime: Interpol have released these pictures of conman Miller and wife Maria, who have been living it up at the £1million Villa Ocio in Marbella"......................................and so on! SUNDAY MAIL (a jock newspaper)

OK so no guessing the type of <deleted> this parasite will be writing about in the near future, another Andrew Drummond for sure!

Edited April 30, 2005 by HarryHacker

udon · April 30, 2005

Here's a few anecdotes

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I love the Cap's way with words John. He should write that book.

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Agreed, at first clance It looked boring but he 'hooked' me. Good stuff.

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