Trip Report: Getting Robbed at Knifepoint.
 

Last night an English acquaintance of mine invited me over for dinner and I brought along a friend. We had fun, drank a lot, and ended up crashing at his place because of the intense rain. I wake up to my friend trying to suck my dick. Not cool. My hotel isn't too far away so I get the [censored] out. As I'm walking, some guy offers to give me a ride. This has happened several times before with no problems.

The guy takes me two minutes down some road, hops off the bike, and holds a knife to my throat while his friends go through my pockets, stealing my phone, cash, and debit/credit cards. The knife is so dull
that I literally grab it by the blade and take it away from him without cutting myself. He then pulls out a a taser and I realize there's no way to win this and I give him the knife back. In retrospect I'm probably lucky they didn't kick the [censored] out of me.

So I'm now totally [censored] and have no way of getting money even if someone gave it to me. I'll have to have my family fly me back to the US or give me enough money to last me until I can get new cards. I'm not sure which part of this sucks the most. I'm not even going to bother filing a police report because this happened with four guys I couldn't pick out of a lineup on a street I can't pronounce.

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wake up to my friend trying to suck my dick.

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I think you missed a trip report here.

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I think you missed a trip report here.

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what country are you in?

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what country are you in?

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IIRC hes in Thailand.

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Well that explains everything

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what country are you in?

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IIRC hes in Thailand.

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I think he's in Laos given his listed 2+2 location.





Also, frankly I'm shocked that such crimes occur in the blissful utopia of southeast asia that many posters describe.

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what country are you in?

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IIRC hes in Thailand.

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yeah right there's not a single mention of how crappy american food is or how awful american women are.

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hahahaha... nothing like stupid white kids getting robbed in foreign countries. i'm sure you were asking for it.

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what country are you in?

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IIRC hes in Thailand.

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yeah right there's not a single mention of how crappy american food is or how awful american women are.

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easy killer

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You could probably make an easy fifty if you went back to your buddies place.

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If you had a baseball bat could you have beaten him in a fight?

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In a TR full of very weird, inexplicable, under explained events, are you seriously in the habit of accepting unsolicited rides from strangers even when your destination is not very far away?

Do you have a younger sister?

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If you had a baseball bat could you have beaten him in a fight?

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winner

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if you had a bat you could have won that fight

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yeah bat pawns 2 guys w/ tasers and knife.

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if you had a bat you could have won that fight

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Very original man.

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Moral of the story is sometimes it pays to go gay!

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if you weren't such a homophone you'd still have your mobniez

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I think you missed a trip report here.

[/ QUOTE ] It happened exactly the way you'd think it would. Just use your imagination. Or don't.

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I think he's in Laos given his listed 2+2 location.
Also, frankly I'm shocked that such crimes occur in the blissful utopia of southeast asia that many posters describe.

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Yeah in Laos. All things considered, they were pretty nice about it. In the US I probably just would have gotten jumped.

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Just use your imagination.

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Oh I am.

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So how much are taxis or rickshaws or whatever the hell they have in Thailand?

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Seriously though, how big of a bind are you really in? Do you have any money at all? Can the embassy help you with ID so you can get money wired or anything?

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...hops off the bike, and holds a knife to my throat while his friends go through my pockets....

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How did 4+ of you fit on a bike?

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If you had a baseball bat could you have beaten him in a fight?

[/ QUOTE ] I could definitely have taken on the one guy with dull knife since it would only have the stabiness and none of the cuttiness.

I don't think I would have been able to take four guys armed with a knife and taser unless they came at me one at a time, movie style. An aluminum bat would have given me like another 4 hitpoints.

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Seriously though, how big of a bind are you really in? Do you have any money at all? Can the embassy help you with ID so you can get money wired or anything?

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I emailed a bunch of my relatives. It's 2am in the US so I probably won't hear anything for a few hours. Some of them think I'm a total degen for playing poker, but they're not about to let me starve. I have literally around $.40 right now so I probably won't be able to eat until tonight, but that's not too big of a deal. I have my passport so no problems there. The thing that really pisses me off is that I usually leave my epassporte card in my room in case something like this happens. I happened to have it with me yesterday because I made a withdrawal earlier in the day.

My other problem is that this gay dude lives like two houses down from where I'm staying. I saw him about 20 minutes ago and confronted him. This guy is significantly bigger and stronger than me and has a reputation for getting into fights, but I scared him badly enough for him to lock himself in his house. He works for the government (Ministry of Justice) and claims he his going to make my life hell if I stay in Laos. There's a strong possibility that that he's not BSing here. This is what I'm most concerned about now. It's possible some cops could show up or something and I'd have no way to bribe them.

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OP,

Gay dude needs some loving and you need cash. You know what needs to be done.

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...hops off the bike, and holds a knife to my throat while his friends go through my pockets....

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How did 4+ of you fit on a bike?

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There were two or three guys on another bike. I accepted the ride because I didn't know exactly where I was, just the general area, and I was happy to not have to wander around semi-aimlessly. The Lao people are generally very helpful and similar things have happened before without incident.

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You need to got to youtube and look up Bas Rutten's Self Defense lessons. You could have used that knife to make the assailant slit his own throat.

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if you weren't such a homophone you'd still have your mobniez

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NT: What made you decide you wanted to suck my dick while I was asleep?

Gay Dude: Hmmtumomuooummgmm

NT: Interesting...but did you ever consider how I might feel about your actions?

Gay Dude: Mmmnnnn

NT: I think we're making progress here.

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THE KNIFE WASN'T SHARP YOU [censored] MORON, PAY ATTENTION.

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srsly this story has so many holes please fill in all the gaps.

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srsly this story has so many holes please fill in all the gaps.

[/ QUOTE ]Like what? The whole thing was over in under a minute. They didn't starting reading passages from Foucault's "Discipline and Punish" or anything.

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Wow, sounds like a really bad situation.

I think the lesson here is no matter how friendly everyone seems In a foreign culture you will still always be seen as a walking ATM and an outsider.

I have read many of your posts and I am very surprised at your actions seeing as you seemed like a savvy traveler. Not taking rides from strangers seems like traveling in a third world country 101.

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I wake up to my friend trying to suck my dick. Not cool.

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^ Like this

You basically half-explained everything. Maybe you're just really bad at articulating yourself through the English language and we should give you the benefit of the doubt, but the TR is lacking.

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I'm not saying what I did wasn't stupid but I was still pretty drunk and wasn't in my right mind because someone I considered a good friend of mine TRIED TO SUCK MY DICK WHILE I WAS ASLEEP. That whole situation forced me to walk around an unfamiliar area at something like 3:30 in the morning.

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Hahaha never thought a thread titled "TR: Getting Robbed at Knifepoint" would make me laugh so damn hard.

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How succesful was he at trying?