^ When it's dark does the the person's sex really matter?

HuaiQiao wrote:i got chloroformed in a a taxi in CBD bangkok then they threateneed to gut me unless i told them the correct PIN codes for my cards. was in a coma for 2 days


arghhh thailand, the land of smiles....

holy crap! I bet that was a gypsie cab...the worst thing that I ever experienced with Bangkok cabbies is that some of them think they are formula-1 drivers on the airport highway, and driving around a few extra blocks for a couple more baht.

it is a beautiful

fully agree, very beutiful!!!

I do think this is a pickpocketing attempt, because the guy actually followed me a few steps, and then try to put a in my pocket. In a reflex, I spun, grabbed his wrist. Only then did not happen, I think it would be a very bad is so easy to detect pick-pocketing. But it is fun to see those annoying guy recoil in fear card. Maybe he will be a little less aggressive next time.

A guy called to our apartment the other day and rang the doorbell, said he wanted to show the Apartment to somebody who might buy it from the landlord after our lease was up.

I was stupidly about to let him in when my missus grabbed the speaker and said she was surprised to hear the landlord was selling the place, was he sure? He said he was sure, and already had interested buyers.
Then she asked him the landlord's name and he said he forgot.

So she asked him to tell the landlord to get in contact with us personally and arrange a time for any viewing. The man never came back.

Not really sure what the scam was here, but sounded very fishy.

^ My policy - I don''t let ANYONE in. I tell my girlfriends to give ZERO information out about me, where I work, where I'm from and what hours I keep. If someone comes to the door I just say NO! and close it. One day a man in a uniform came to the door and said he was there to collect the gas money. He looked official and all but the owner had paid the gas bill recently and provided me with a copy so I knew the dude was full of shiiit. And the owner said he pays the gas only every 2 or 3 months. ( I cook a lot and am surprised that I only use 14 rmb of gas for 2 months.)

I consider myself lucky. The owner of the apartment is very nice to me and provides me with the original invoices for all utilities and he pays them and I pay him back. (For two months it only cost me 170 rmb for gas, electric and water.)

PICKPOCKETS!

Operating on the strip of Changshu between Changle and Julu. I was biking up Julu this evening, and a Xinjiang dude ran up alongside me and tried to pick my pocket.

小偷!!

i actually saw this incident . tall skinney xinjiang guy with long hair around 27 wearing a white kappa jacket.

lazyyorkie wrote:SC3 wrote Another scam is for a bar or restaurant to take your RMB100 note, then bring one back telling you it's fake. In actual fact the one you gave them was fine but they will have swopped it on you. I have heard of this happening in Guangzhou. A pain to deal with this one as the only way to deal with it is to remember distinguishing features of every note you hand over (e.g. small rips) or write down the serial number each time.

A friend asked to borrow my pen last night, he was marking all his 100rmb notes.

i just read the first page of all the answers and it's quite late to give an answer after 5 years :/
but a friend told me to fold the 100rmb notes 2 times (by getting 3 equal areas) so the taxi driver or the guy in the bar knows he can't trick you.

yamari wrote:i actually saw this incident . tall skinney xinjiang guy with long hair around 27 wearing a white kappa jacket.

That's him!

Were you the American dude who went into Subway straight after?

I've been seeing the xinjiang women and their strap on kid a lot lately around Dapuqiao area ... so watch out for those mustache waidi looking peasants walking back and forth the street pretending to be lost.

Just make sure your pockets are zipped, or keep your phones and iPods in an inner pocket.

Taxis for me also, catch a cab to work few days in a row - 25RMB.\

Last 2 days seems to take longer - 36RMB.. couldn't be bothered complaining

And again at the coat room at The Shelter, girl says its 5rmb, give her a 20, she moves on to the next person, I try to argue and she repeatedly says I only gave her a 5... *sigh*.

It's everywhere for lowai.

^ that happened to me as well. Payed with a 20 and they gave me change for a 5 for a 3 rmb drink.

I gave the guy a hundred at Shanghai Brewery monday night and he took off with it for ages, couldn't even see him behind the bar. Came back about 10 minutes later with my change. I was sure he wasn't coming back, haha.

Last week at the local Mini-supermarket I had to pay 17 RMB, gave 50 and the guy returned me 63 RMB for Change. As if I would be to stupid to count. I bet he planed on me missing this. I was so angry. You can't trust anybody nowadays. Of course I complained immediately ... (much to the fun of that guys father). Beware people!

Subordinate Claws wrote:

yamari wrote:i actually saw this incident . tall skinney xinjiang guy with long hair around 27 wearing a white kappa jacket.

That's him!

Were you the American dude who went into Subway straight after?

yes that was me but if you call me american i might have to help the xinjiang guy out next time.

tao_tao wrote:Last week at the local Mini-supermarket I had to pay 17 RMB, gave 50 and the guy returned me 63 RMB for Change. As if I would be to stupid to count. I bet he planed on me missing this. I was so angry. You can't trust anybody nowadays. Of course I complained immediately ... (much to the fun of that guys father). Beware people!

.... What?

yamari wrote:

Subordinate Claws wrote:

yamari wrote:i actually saw this incident . tall skinney xinjiang guy with long hair around 27 wearing a white kappa jacket.

That's him!

Were you the American dude who went into Subway straight after?

yes that was me but if you call me american i might have to help the xinjiang guy out next time.

Come on yamari, you are the foreigner, so obviously you must be american....

jeffinflorida wrote:^ that happened to me as well. Payed with a 20 and they gave me change for a 5 for a 3 rmb drink.

Colloquially it's called honesty with Chinese characteristics.

RioBravo wrote:

tao_tao wrote:Last week at the local Mini-supermarket I had to pay 17 RMB, gave 50 and the guy returned me 63 RMB for Change. As if I would be to stupid to count. I bet he planed on me missing this. I was so angry. You can't trust anybody nowadays. Of course I complained immediately ... (much to the fun of that guys father). Beware people!

.... What?

+1

Neville_Bartos wrote:

RioBravo wrote:

tao_tao wrote:Last week at the local Mini-supermarket I had to pay 17 RMB, gave 50 and the guy returned me 63 RMB for Change. As if I would be to stupid to count. I bet he planed on me missing this. I was so angry. You can't trust anybody nowadays. Of course I complained immediately ... (much to the fun of that guys father). Beware people!

.... What?

+1

I swear, it happened that way! (and sorry for the spelling mistakes)

TIC wrote:

yamari wrote:

Subordinate Claws wrote:

yamari wrote:i actually saw this incident . tall skinney xinjiang guy with long hair around 27 wearing a white kappa jacket.

That's him!

Were you the American dude who went into Subway straight after?

yes that was me but if you call me american i might have to help the xinjiang guy out next time.

Come on yamari, you are the foreigner, so obviously you must be american....

Well since he spoke to me with an American accent, I'm guessing he was American.

You sarcastic little ****.

I also had a friend get her iPod stolen in front of Subway on Changshu road near Julu road...be careful there. Packs of XJ hou zi with babies strapped to their chests

HAVE TO SAY, IN THE CASES WHEN THEY TRY TO OVERCHARGE YOU IN A TAXI, ONCE YOU TELL THEM YOU KNOW sHANGHAI AND WILL ONLY BE GIVING THEM THE PROPER AMOUNT, THEY NEVER SEEM TO ARGUE. LIKE THEY KNOW IT WON'T WORK.

(sorry bout caps lock）

I tihnk that's what he's saying.

"Beware, people!"

I've never been scammed here on the streets. I walk around shanghai at 110% the speed of a normal person with a 1000 yard stare in my eyes. Never even once had someone try to talk to me, any time of day or night.

Just don't talk to people and don't avert your gaze, and you can walk up and down east nanjing lu 100 times a day without a problem. When you are just walking alone, there is no reason for anyone to talk to you, unless they want something. Maybe i'm too anti social to be scammed.