Terrace Dandy
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cheeseroll
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Superb post Dandy. I enjoyed it so much, I got another cup of tea to read the rest of it and got to work half an hour late.
Just as an after thought i take it you have read some Jack Kerouac ?
Looking forward to the Bankok, Bali instalments, although by comparison and as you have said it would be more conventional (ala UK) compared to Cambodia.
Just as an after thought i take it you have read some Jack Kerouac ?
Looking forward to the Bankok, Bali instalments, although by comparison and as you have said it would be more conventional (ala UK) compared to Cambodia.
Shizuoka Dolphin
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TD - why so angry? It's an interesting post and a worthy one, but by posting anything at such length and so O/T you've got to accept not everyone's going to be interested and not hesitate in telling you so. This is NSC afterall, not a backpacker's journal site. Keep 'em coming I say and just ignore any nagative feedback, you're getting far positive responses. And chill! You're reaction to CK scared me a bit! Wouldn't want to spill you pint! 
watsongooal
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cheeseroll said:
Am reading Jack Kerouac at the mo. Nor sure what the book is called though!
Really good post.
Brighton Breezy
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Brighton Breezy
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BANGKOK: A teenager arrested in Thailand with a large haul of Ecstasy said today he would plead guilty to the charge to save his life.
Michael Connell, 19, from Bury, was arrested at Bangkok airport on Monday.
"I'm innocent but I have been told if I do not explain the whole story I will be found guilty and get the death sentence. So I am pleading guilty to save my life," he said after being remanded in custody to Khlomg Prem jail, known as the notorious Bangkok Hilton.
He said that before his trip he bought two tubs of body cream at a Tesco store in Bury. "Somehow when the tubs were opened by Customs the pills were inside. I do not know how they got there. The tubs did not look like the same ones I packed.
"Tell my mum and dad that I love them and not to worry about me, I'm more worried about them than they should be about me."
Michael, who had been receiving unemployment benefit, added: "This was my second trip to Thailand. I came here for the ladies. I came here in April for a week."
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The former Darby High School pupil could face death by lethal injection if convicted of drug smuggling. His taxi driver father Derek, of Almond Avenue, Bury, is separated from Michael's mother Maureen and did not know his son was in Thailand.
"The last time I saw him was a week ago, he came round and wanted to borrow £5,'' he said.
"About two weeks ago he came to me and said he needed £350 because he was being thrown out of his flat.
"I said `I'll give you £200 but you'll have to get the rest off your mother'. It looks like he's used the money to go to Thailand instead.
"I will support him as much as I can but if he's done something to do with drugs I can't support him because it can kill people."
Maureen, of Massey Street, Bury, said: "It's a shock, I don't know what to think, all I can say is that he is a love."
Michael's aunt Jean Connell, 55, said: "He's a lovely lad. We will do all we can to help him but it is very frightening because it's the worst place possible. I don't believe he's done it."
Source: Manchester Online
Michael Connell, 19, from Bury, was arrested at Bangkok airport on Monday.
"I'm innocent but I have been told if I do not explain the whole story I will be found guilty and get the death sentence. So I am pleading guilty to save my life," he said after being remanded in custody to Khlomg Prem jail, known as the notorious Bangkok Hilton.
He said that before his trip he bought two tubs of body cream at a Tesco store in Bury. "Somehow when the tubs were opened by Customs the pills were inside. I do not know how they got there. The tubs did not look like the same ones I packed.
"Tell my mum and dad that I love them and not to worry about me, I'm more worried about them than they should be about me."
Michael, who had been receiving unemployment benefit, added: "This was my second trip to Thailand. I came here for the ladies. I came here in April for a week."
Shock
The former Darby High School pupil could face death by lethal injection if convicted of drug smuggling. His taxi driver father Derek, of Almond Avenue, Bury, is separated from Michael's mother Maureen and did not know his son was in Thailand.
"The last time I saw him was a week ago, he came round and wanted to borrow £5,'' he said.
"About two weeks ago he came to me and said he needed £350 because he was being thrown out of his flat.
"I said `I'll give you £200 but you'll have to get the rest off your mother'. It looks like he's used the money to go to Thailand instead.
"I will support him as much as I can but if he's done something to do with drugs I can't support him because it can kill people."
Maureen, of Massey Street, Bury, said: "It's a shock, I don't know what to think, all I can say is that he is a love."
Michael's aunt Jean Connell, 55, said: "He's a lovely lad. We will do all we can to help him but it is very frightening because it's the worst place possible. I don't believe he's done it."
Source: Manchester Online
perth seagull
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I have a friend who is travelling through Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam at the moment. She's travelling on her own. After reading TD's post now I'm worried about her!
Brighton Breezy
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TD pm or email me as soon as you read this!
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Terrace Dandy
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Re: Re: Cambodia
dougdeep said:
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Re: Re: Re: Cambodia
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ro's pants said:
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Stumpy Tim
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perth seagull said:
I wouldn't worry about it - these things happen. They recently discovered a drug-rind in Singapore where airport staff were putting drugs in teenage visitors back-packs. In Singapore, if you're convicted on Tuesday you're dead by the end of the week. They now believe they could have executed up to 50 people wrongly.
I've been to Vietnam & Thailand, & I'm told Cambodia is similar. I have never felt safer than when I was in Vietnam
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Interesting stuff. 
eastlondonseagull
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Haven't read it all, Terrace, but the bits I did sound similar to my trip to Cambodia, though I wasn't nearly as shocked by the poverty, limbless kids and potholes as you. But then I had a month there after a month in Laos and six weeks in Vietnam, so you're sort of immune to it after a while. Didn't find the Cambodia border a problem at all, no bribery or anything and we only used public transport all the way.
We did a trip from Sihanoukville on the coast to a tiny, dusty town called Banlung in the middle of nowhere. Took 16 hours from Sihanouville to PP, on the train, should've taken four hours I think, and then three days to do the rest. Think the pick-up truck we hitched a ride on negotiated pot-holes that were twenty-feet across, and the road in its best part resembled a very dried up ploughed field.
S21 was harsh, to think it used to be a primary school, and to then be confronted by motorbike taxi drivers offering you cows to shoot was a bit difficult to comprehend. One of the guys I was with asked, to test all the horrific rumours about there, whether he could shoot a child and the bloke said no problem, as long as he had the dollars. Think the Pol Pot regime has permanently f***ed up a lot of peoples' psyches.
Enough. Fantastic place to visit, though. Would LOVE to go again. Prefered Laos, though, all in all.
We did a trip from Sihanoukville on the coast to a tiny, dusty town called Banlung in the middle of nowhere. Took 16 hours from Sihanouville to PP, on the train, should've taken four hours I think, and then three days to do the rest. Think the pick-up truck we hitched a ride on negotiated pot-holes that were twenty-feet across, and the road in its best part resembled a very dried up ploughed field.
S21 was harsh, to think it used to be a primary school, and to then be confronted by motorbike taxi drivers offering you cows to shoot was a bit difficult to comprehend. One of the guys I was with asked, to test all the horrific rumours about there, whether he could shoot a child and the bloke said no problem, as long as he had the dollars. Think the Pol Pot regime has permanently f***ed up a lot of peoples' psyches.
Enough. Fantastic place to visit, though. Would LOVE to go again. Prefered Laos, though, all in all.
pishhead
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good bounce, I enjoyed reading that!
eastlondonseagull
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pishhead said:good bounce, I enjoyed reading that!
Bloody hell, I didn't even realise it was a bounce until you wrote that
