Common sense and decency when travelling abroad will reduce your risk. Sometimes we need to be reminded.

Yeah, can relate to the "Don't escalate" and Muay Thai message! A (fellow) Aussie friend and I were in a bar on our first night in Bangkok (Murray Head starts singing). There was a little disagreement with security and next thing I knew I woke up on the floor, after being king-hit by another. In my blurry vision and ringing ears I saw the original security laying into my friend with a baseball bat, and I heard a Portuguese friend calling something like "Run! A knife! Knife!". I got up and ran outside, but we noticed another security with a knife heading for my friend on the ground, and started yelling at him which luckily made him go away, and went in to help my friend up, and out. By then I noticed blood was all over my face from the earlier hit (to an eyebrow) i'd taken. We found cops who seriously didn't give a damn, and just told us to go to hospital emergency, which we did, and spent the night there. The next day, after seeing the cops again, I negotiated for the bar to pay for my hospital (just some stitches which were pretty cheap anyway) and didn't pursue further, but My friend had a badly broken jaw from the baseball bat, and couldn't close his mouth. He tried to get them to pay for him to fly back to Perth, but they refused, and the cops said no chance as we would never be given a fair trail against locals like that, so he dropped it and flew home. Moral of story. Even if you're pushed around by security, don't retaliate in any way. Just find a friendlier place to enjoy. Thailand's still a great place, and I'd go back again for sure.

@thailandwithalex

2 ай бұрын

Wow. Almost speechless . Thanks for sharing

Great video as always 👍Thanks.

@thailandwithalex

2 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

I just want to walk on the beach and play golf in Hua Hin.

These were actually amazing tips

Good job 👍

🙏 Nice work.

@thailandwithalex

2 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

Hey Alex great content where was it filmed

@thailandwithalex

21 күн бұрын

Jomtien Beach. I film early in the morning.

Will be interesting to see them try to repeal the weed thing, I am indifferent either way, but there are SO many shops, the commercial tenancy rates would tumble, also and I spoke with a German that owns a few weed shops in Bangkok, he said even I they repealed back to medical usage, all that happens is there is a computer with a web cam, on the other end of the web cam is a "doctor" ( and by the barest of legal definitions) who will consult anyone and ask a few questions and within 3 mins give you. a medical prescription..

I am wondering if the locals have any guilt feeling when they make a mistake.

If Karen can't escalate things in public then she may as well stay home

wait I think I saw your filming this when you did it, are you down in Na Jomtien ?

@thailandwithalex

Ай бұрын

Na Jomtien it is... You saw an old, tall, goofy dude with a slightly injured knee?? Then that was me.