http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/ ... haracters/A pasty-faced computer geek with bad facial hair, the 27-year-old was cut out of a different cloth than the hardened criminals and sexual predators who typically drift here, earning Cambodia its reputation as a sunny country for shady characters.
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More good press:
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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There's a hyperlink to our original front page arrest report in that piece too.
Also, can anybody name the other 440 poster named in the article apart from Gottfrid? Clue - we're going back a few years.
Also, can anybody name the other 440 poster named in the article apart from Gottfrid? Clue - we're going back a few years.
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Ah yes, Roger Graham, the euthanasia dude in Kampot. Memories...keeping_it_riel wrote:There's a hyperlink to our original front page arrest report in that piece too.
Also, can anybody name the other 440 poster named in the article apart from Gottfrid? Clue - we're going back a few years.
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Well done, JC - hole in one.Jacked Camry wrote:Ah yes, Roger Graham, the euthanasia dude in Kampot. Memories...keeping_it_riel wrote:There's a hyperlink to our original front page arrest report in that piece too.
Also, can anybody name the other 440 poster named in the article apart from Gottfrid? Clue - we're going back a few years.
And from what I recall, Graham was an absolute fucking nuisance on this forum with his crackpot rants.
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Okay, one quote from the article which claims how bad Cambodia is, and it mentions events in 1997. The shooting of plane tyres.
Then it mentions the issue of Mr. T, who as far as I remember was a democratically elected leader overthrown by a military coup. I'm just mentioning facts here, not going into the right or wrong.
Patrick Devillers was never charged with a crime in China, and was questioned and released. No chargeswere ever pressed against him.
A very bad piece of writing, by the journalist, and possibly bymyself as well.
Then it mentions the issue of Mr. T, who as far as I remember was a democratically elected leader overthrown by a military coup. I'm just mentioning facts here, not going into the right or wrong.
Patrick Devillers was never charged with a crime in China, and was questioned and released. No chargeswere ever pressed against him.
A very bad piece of writing, by the journalist, and possibly bymyself as well.
Dictated to a slave and sent by carrier pigeon.
Yeah, I read that and started laughing. The guy who wrote it is trying to sell this fantasy of his, one that he's clearly attached to, and it's totally adolescent and juvenile. He wants people to think that Phnom Penh is like the Mos Eisley Spaceport in Star Wars - "a wretched hive of scum and villainy" - and he's the fucking Han Solo of journalism, braving it all to make a buck. What a dick.Uncle Monty wrote:
A very bad piece of writing, by the journalist, and possibly by myself as well.
It's crap like this story that lures the weirdos out here in the first place. He describes this lawless playground for perverts and addicts. Well, guess who the only people on Earth who see that as an endorsement and not a condemnation are going to be? Perverts, addicts, and assholes like him who live vicariously through them just by being in proximity to squalor. What ... a ... dick.
"The place’s ultimate appeal, though, is its well-documented culture of impunity."
What? Appeal to who? Like 2 super rich foreigners that he names - Thaksin and Trofimov? Certainly not all the poor motherfuckers teaching English here who'll get shaken down by the cops if they forget to put their moto helmet on, and will probably lose everything if they commit an actual crime. Impunity? In a country where thieves occasionally get beaten to death by angry mobs? Is he fucking joking? The culture of impunity is a grave threat to the 99% of expats here who aren't rich. It means that the rich can (and occasionally will) do anything they want to us without a care in the world. That's not appealing.
How much art can you take?
Just left a link back here in the comments section... let's see if they publish it.
i knew doctor death in kampot. got deported after he succeeded in luring a very pleasant english woman over,to her death. she was just depressed about her recent break up with her husband,and got onto his site. killed herself in her gh. shame.
i dont think he actually took money from that lady,but more that he felt good about helping her to an early death. he seemingly was already financially sound.
Fair go,chaps.He is not that far off the mark,is he? And full points for the sunny country for shady characters line.
I am sure we all know of shady types who drift through the kingdom,the place would be boring without them.I have known one convicted pedo,one electrician turned killer,a french garage proprieter breaking bad and robbing a bank.
Then there was the other pirate.
I am sure we all know of shady types who drift through the kingdom,the place would be boring without them.I have known one convicted pedo,one electrician turned killer,a french garage proprieter breaking bad and robbing a bank.
Then there was the other pirate.
Yeah, I'm not that familiar with his work, so maybe I didn't need to trash him *quite* that badly, but that was my immediate reaction to reading that article. That the guy should know better, and probably does know better, so he's intentionally misleading people because it makes for a better read back home. Bleh.LTO wrote:Terrible article by Luke Hunt. Supermarket tabloid trash by an otherwise informed and insightful reporter. Shameful, really.
It is pretty far off the mark. I've met some "questionable" people here, but I've met a lot lot lot more people who weren't anything like "hardened criminals or sexual predators," more like eccentrics and creative types, or young idealists working for NGOs, or older guys who've realized how much further their retirement or vacation funds are going to go here (and how much younger they feel at the same time, I feel 10 years younger and I'm only 35).ken svay wrote:Fair go,chaps.He is not that far off the mark,is he? And full points for the sunny country for shady characters line.
I am sure we all know of shady types who drift through the kingdom,the place would be boring without them.I have known one convicted pedo,one electrician turned killer,a french garage proprieter breaking bad and robbing a bank.
Then there was the other pirate.
Career criminals and drug addicts? No, few to none of the former and only slightly higher population of the latter. Not more of them than I've met in America, per capita, that's for sure. Maybe they're easier to spot here for some reason, less likely to hide it. The fact is, wherever you have poverty you have marginal people engaging in marginal behaviors. Cambodia is very poor and very marginal.
I guess if you've known plenty of "shady characters" back home, meeting a few of them here (in the developing world) doesn't strike you as very odd or unusual.
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