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Originally Posted by biggles69
Agreed. The Russians made quite a splash (literally) on Pattaya beach with several nude copulations taking place in full public view (too much sun and Wodka !) The cops clearly could not allow this to become the latest "must do " tourist event and wasted no time in fining those concerned. ... however I suspect in a gay bar (where the moral majority are never going to venture) it would be nothing that a BT 1,000 note couldn't fix ... but like you, I would not want to be the first to in that situation.
I wonder if any cruisers have ever used the folding stuff to extracate from a tricky situation?
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Not sure that 1,000Baht only would suffice in all situations / with all the BIB. Plenty would take advantage of the 'situation' and squeeze a lot lot more than 1,000.
I'm sure there are other long-timer members who can recall many such stories where hundreds of thousands were extorted.
A twist to this is a situation a gay farang work colleague got himself into about 15 years ago. He picked up a cop at Sanam Luang, took the guy to his apartment, then the cop started demanding lots of cash and frequently. Even established when the farang was paid and waited outside of the farangs place of employment on pay day.
Many times the cop took his own friends to restaurants / karaoke bats etc., ran up large bills then would call the farang, often at 3 o'clock in the morning, and demand the frarang come, now, and pay the bill, usually with a threat involved.
Also would ask the men in his drinking party if they wanted a farang to suck their cocks, and of this discussion in front of the women in the party. (The farang concerned spoke very advanced Thai and understood every word.)
The farang concerned was quite frightened of the guy. Eventually he changed jobs (lucky he was able to), changed apartments etc., and was careful to not leave any trail.
The 'harrassment' from the cop did then stop, but I guess for about 8 months or so the farang went thru hell.