Robbery season
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Robbery season
A little heads-up for new arrivals. Urban dwelling Khmers are expected to take gifts back to the provinces at Pchum Benh or help with financing the revelry.
Many don't have the money, and it's gotta come from somewhere.
Expect more stops from traffic police, muggings, pick-pocketings, etc and only use motodops/ tuk-tuks you know well
Don't carry your passport/ large sums of money
Closer to the actual festival, avoid travelling, roads everywhere will be insane
Phnom Penh is lovely during this time, less traffic and quiet, just lots of trash as Cintri does its annual strike then
Many don't have the money, and it's gotta come from somewhere.
Expect more stops from traffic police, muggings, pick-pocketings, etc and only use motodops/ tuk-tuks you know well
Don't carry your passport/ large sums of money
Closer to the actual festival, avoid travelling, roads everywhere will be insane
Phnom Penh is lovely during this time, less traffic and quiet, just lots of trash as Cintri does its annual strike then
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.
I laugh in the face of robbery season. I grew up on the means streets of, erm...Cornwall and south Devon. COME AND TRY IT YOU LITTLE FUCKERS!
please define a large sum.Don't carry your passport/ large sums of money
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Bastard capitalist pig inflating his earnings to humiliate him!Clutchen Menuts wrote:for Vladimir: $3.00
You know he's never got more than $1!
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A friend of ours got robbed last night at gunpoint. She was just turning into her block and had three guys come up on her, pulled a gun on her. Stole her new moto, her bag with a new Iphone 6 and the $200 that her boss gave her a few hours earlier after laying her off her job suddenly with no advance notice. Shitty, shitty day for her. Fucking thieves...
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Yeah she was terribly shaken up... It was on the news. Around 10 or so in the evening. In Tuol Kork, Tuk Laak area. Three guys on a Suzuki Nex. Her moto was a new Suzuki Lets. she probably wouldn't have been out late other than the fact that she had just been laid off and was pretty bummed out so she was out hanging out with some friends.
When is Pchum Ben exactly this year, one website says Sep 28 and another Oct 11-13.
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The latter.
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My wife got robbed two weeks ago while traveling home, followed and driven off the road by 2 moto's after she visited the bank. Luckily she was not hurt but lost her passport, mobile phone and $1000. Anybody got a good deal on a Glock or AK? In Thailand we could legally own a gun for selfdefence, however it is not cheap...
Tried to go to the police in evening: one post was completely drunk, the others had no interest of helping and she had no interest in paying.
Cambodian cops...
The phone is flagged as we have contacts in Samsung, if it ends up in a repair center we will have it back.
Tried to go to the police in evening: one post was completely drunk, the others had no interest of helping and she had no interest in paying.
Cambodian cops...
The phone is flagged as we have contacts in Samsung, if it ends up in a repair center we will have it back.
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Baffling isn't it ? Ive mentioned this before when my IPhone got nicked. I offered the cop $1000 to round up Freshie Boy Inc and retrieve the phone. I attached a value of paying $200 over market to see the fucker squirm in a squalid room. Nah, Sgt Samnang was more interested in sour mango and chilli.kiiniaew wrote:My wife got robbed two weeks ago while traveling home, followed and driven off the road by 2 moto's after she visited the bank. Luckily she was not hurt but lost her passport, mobile phone and $1000. Anybody got a good deal on a Glock or AK? In Thailand we could legally own a gun for selfdefence, however it is not cheap...
Tried to go to the police in evening: one post was completely drunk, the others had no interest of helping and she had no interest in paying.
Cambodian cops...
The phone is flagged as we have contacts in Samsung, if it ends up in a repair center we will have it back.
Either they cant be bothered, or are ridiculously short termist in their racketeering business plan.
In Vietnam, they've got the property retrieval racket down. They'll even give you a courtesy call with a time and place to retrieve your property.
Haha - my money’s on Playboy
that ^^ is an inside job if you ask me..kansaicanuck wrote:A friend of ours got robbed last night at gunpoint. She was just turning into her block and had three guys come up on her, pulled a gun on her. Stole her new moto, her bag with a new Iphone 6 and the $200 that her boss gave her a few hours earlier after laying her off her job suddenly with no advance notice. Shitty, shitty day for her. Fucking thieves...
but that's Cambodia.
land of the ,,, errrrrr,,, brave.
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She was working for a Chinese real estate firm who suddenly cut two staff members the same day. Obviously anything may be possible but I would rack this up to the regular holiday crime spree before Pchum Ben rather than anything related to her job. But as you say, this is the Kingdom of Wonder...bigphatt wrote:that ^^ is an inside job if you ask me..kansaicanuck wrote:A friend of ours got robbed last night at gunpoint. She was just turning into her block and had three guys come up on her, pulled a gun on her. Stole her new moto, her bag with a new Iphone 6 and the $200 that her boss gave her a few hours earlier after laying her off her job suddenly with no advance notice. Shitty, shitty day for her. Fucking thieves...
but that's Cambodia.
land of the ,,, errrrrr,,, brave.
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