2 Destitute Brits Sleeping Rough Outside Embassy
2 Destitute Brits Sleeping Rough Outside Embassy
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Destitute Backpackers: the Face of Foreign Crime Victims
Destitute Backpackers: the Face of Foreign Crime Victims
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what,
no family to contact?
no friends?
Bad luck for sure
no family to contact?
no friends?
Bad luck for sure
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How did they take out 15 000 pounds? He wrote his PIN on his card or what? Most banks have a toll free number you call to cancel the card.
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Their story seems unbelievable. A man who has 15K pounds "taken" would be smart enough to contact his bank if he actually had those funds. Two twats fabricating a crap story in which any decent newspaper would just laugh off.
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Yes, I think we should consider the possibility that Singlet and Son are not being entirely truthful with the press. Doesn't every Westerner who ends up sleeping on the streets in Southeast Asia claim that he was robbed and his passport was stolen?
It sounds more sympathetic than "spent all my money on Sihanoukville's finest meth and hookers."
It sounds more sympathetic than "spent all my money on Sihanoukville's finest meth and hookers."
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Story does sound a bit suspect. Obviously they didn't have any travel insurance either...no sympathy from me, and good on the Brit Embassy.
I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
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PSD_Kiwi wrote:Story does sound a bit suspect. Obviously they didn't have any travel insurance either...no sympathy from me, and good on the Brit Embassy.
I thought embassies do repatriate citizens and then charge them for the flight.
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If bandits came and robbed everyone in a hotel it would be in the news.
Also, it wouldn't take 5 minutes to call your bank the next day and close everything, maybe $15 for a new phone and $5 credit and you go.
That said, the British embassy in PP is notoriously shit.
Also, it wouldn't take 5 minutes to call your bank the next day and close everything, maybe $15 for a new phone and $5 credit and you go.
That said, the British embassy in PP is notoriously shit.
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All the need to do is do one naked lap around Wat Phnom and they'll be on the next flight out of here.
Joking aside, I go to a swimming pool shop in Boeng Trabeke fairly regularly, the street ends at what's left of the lake, the area is being gentrified now, but it's still infamous for heroin addicts. I'm pretty sure I saw these two likely lads sauntering out of the long grass next to the lake a few weeks back. In fact I think they were wearing the same costume.
They were Brits also, I know because although I didn't hear them speak the road was deserted so I nodded at them and said "alright" as our paths crossed (that's British for - keep walking dickhead), they nodded and said "alright" back, only Brits to that I think.
Of cause there might be a perfectly innocent reason for them being there, bird watching perhaps? And those infected "mosquito bites" definitely aren't track marks. I bet the embassy does send them home, they don't exactly sit well with all of the "Visit *Great* Britain" posters all over the embassy.
Joking aside, I go to a swimming pool shop in Boeng Trabeke fairly regularly, the street ends at what's left of the lake, the area is being gentrified now, but it's still infamous for heroin addicts. I'm pretty sure I saw these two likely lads sauntering out of the long grass next to the lake a few weeks back. In fact I think they were wearing the same costume.
They were Brits also, I know because although I didn't hear them speak the road was deserted so I nodded at them and said "alright" as our paths crossed (that's British for - keep walking dickhead), they nodded and said "alright" back, only Brits to that I think.
Of cause there might be a perfectly innocent reason for them being there, bird watching perhaps? And those infected "mosquito bites" definitely aren't track marks. I bet the embassy does send them home, they don't exactly sit well with all of the "Visit *Great* Britain" posters all over the embassy.
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Where did they get those matching Adidas and Nike shirts? Are the back and red paint streaks part of the design or did they sleep in black and red paint?
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Given it's the Khmer Times, this story smells like bullshit to me.
The photo doesn't look genuine to me - I smell a heavy waft of Photoshop...
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starkmonster wrote:They don't exactly sit well with all of the "Visit *Great* Britain" posters all over the embassy.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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You're right, definitely a photoshop. LOL, let's get GM on the case. Where were these two actually snapped and why was the background changed?Spigzy wrote:The photo doesn't look genuine to me - I smell a heavy waft of Photoshop...
I just did an image match search on Google and it didn't throw anything up.
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