Don't chase away another knowledgeable poster
[QUOTE=NattyBumpo;1988116]You guys should be careful what you wish for. Syzygies is a significant valuable asset to the BKK forum. Sure, not all of his posts knock it out of the ball park, whose do? But when he is on point there are few better informed and more giving than him. This thread would surely feel the loss if he suddenly decided to clam up. That's my two baht anyway.[/QUOTE]Agree 1000%. I have learned much from Mr. S. and others who have a very large number of posts. Let's all be nicer to each other and move on. It is easy to skim past posts or posters that do not interest you. I suggest we all do that as needed.
Giotto and Giotto's Lodge
What has happened with Giotto and his lodge?
Moved from Bangkok Hotels thread
[QUOTE=Zauberfee;1997052]well . . . I had a similar incident many years ago. I threw out a "non-performing" (at least for me) out of my room with "taxi money", because I was not willing to pay for bad service. She didn't came back with her pimp or someone similar, but with the police. So I had to deal with a furious girl and some police officer in the middle of the night right in the hotel lobby. In the end we were forced to compromise by the officer, but if things had turned out bad I could have ended up in a cell at some police station at Sukhumvit area. Much later I realised that was kind of lucky that night.
Never again I will let something like this happen to me.[/QUOTE]You never want to get into seriously ugly altercations with Thai people. You don't know who their friends are and how badly they want revenge. Example. A Thai person I know was bickering with a Thai woman who was her neighbour. Don't know what they argued about. Turns out the woman was minor wife / GF of big policeman in Lumpini. So the woman arranged to have the Lumpini police come (even wrong district) and plant a sizeable quantity of Ice. Someone ended up doing a prison stretch for these planted drugs, since quantity was deemed sufficient to be a dealer. Could have been a million Baht bribe needed to get out of that one. Police are corrupt but courts seem to believe them. Consider the Burmese guys at Koh Tao sentenced to death, for something where evidence was changed and manipulated by the police. Very likely they were set up for it.
I never take girls back to my apartment. I use ST Hotels to be safer, especially with freelancers, or any girl not very well known by myself.
I saw a Farang exiting the Thermae arguing with a Thai girl, and being unwilling to let the issue drop. He subsequently got beaten up by a pack of Thai boys.
Always try not to be in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. Above all don't be a big asshole. Shit happens.