Category Archives: scam

Bangkok Duty-Free Thrives despite Tourist Downturn

June 30, 2009 – 7:58 pm

Bangkok Airport or Cobra Swamp Sanam-Krueng-Ban was empty of tourists at midnight. My flight was the only one landing at the showcase of Thai technology. The usually lengthy immigration process took less than two minutes and the officials were actually smiling. No one was buying anything at the duty-free shops monopolized by King Power. Tourist […]

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Moscow Street Scam

May 21, 2009 – 6:47 am

Last week Johnny Zombie sent me to Russia. Three of his company’s clients were not paying this debts. The internet mogul from Palm Beach thought my visit would show that he was not forgetting or forgiving their obligations. $500/day plus expenses. I could use the money, but when I mentioned to trip to my cousin […]

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Moscow Taxi Touts

May 12, 2009 – 7:00 pm

New York newspapers used to report about naive visitors paying excessive fares into Manhattan. The record was set by a Japanese tourist. $2500 and the driver dropped him Harlem when he wouldn’t cough up another $500. Things have improved at JFK, however the age-old practice of soaking the uninformed has a global reach. This evening […]

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Most Popular Youtubes Video

April 2, 2009 – 5:11 pm

Avril Lavigne’s first CD sounded punky to me. I bought it for $2.50 at Pattaya’s Wat Chai market. This purchase should have diminished my old geezer status, except my 15 year-old niece groaned when asked about Canadian singer. “She’s a fake.” I threw the CD into the swamp behind my house after that comment, but […]

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150 to Life

March 14, 2009 – 5:06 pm

A New York City judge is on the verge of sentencing convicted swindler Bernie Madoff to prison. The maximum penalty is 150 years. A life sentence for a man in his 70s. Many of his victims feel this punishment as unsatisfactory. Most would pay for him to be abducted into a CIA rendition program, if […]

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