Thread: Has Anyone Ever Bought A

water buffalo? I know a guy (not me) that actually bought two. Seems the first one was rather sickly and died after only six months in that horrid Issen weather. Then the family pick up truck went on the blink and had to be repaired in order to get the sugar cane crop in to harvest or the entire family would perish!

Anybody else have a favorite scam from bar girls?

Grandmother / grandfather / sister / brother/ mother/ father needs an urgent operation for a life-threatening illness. Common story through much of Asia.

Originally Posted by peter000

Grandmother / grandfather / sister / brother/ mother/ father needs an urgent operation for a life-threatening illness. Common story through much of Asia.

Yeah, heard that before. Another one: My brother needs money to finish his last year of college.

Come on, fess up - I bet a few of you have bought one before

Originally Posted by peter000

Grandmother / grandfather / sister / brother/ mother/ father needs an urgent operation for a life-threatening illness. Common story through much of Asia.

Well, yeah. Probably because its a common story in countries with little or no institutionalized health care policy....

Originally Posted by tsicar

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Originally Posted by peter000

Grandmother / grandfather / sister / brother/ mother/ father needs an urgent operation for a life-threatening illness. Common story through much of Asia.

Well, yeah. Probably because its a common story in countries with little or no institutionalized health care policy....

kerrapp!!
30 baht max for urgent operation for life threatening illness.

Oh dear. Now, go get out a map, look at it, and say to yourself ten times (slowly mind, so it can sink in), "Thailand does not equal Asia".

Never bought one....caught 25 though a long time ago and kept them.

There are some great stories here.

http://moneynumberone.net/

I,ve read them many times but I still laugh.

Also tried to catch a white one once...but he dragged me to far.

Huh...

Originally Posted by Nawty

Also tried to catch a white one once...but he dragged me to far.

Originally Posted by ossierob

Huh...

Territorian, mate.

Originally Posted by Nawty

Also tried to catch a white one once...but he dragged me to far.

With or without the choppery thing ?

With....but i was outside with a lasso

Originally Posted by gingsa

Come on, fess up - I bet a few of you have bought one before

No. Never. But out of interest, how much did you pay, gingsa?

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Originally Posted by gingsa

Come on, fess up - I bet a few of you have bought one before

No. Never. But out of interest, how much did you pay, gingsa?

Came close once but backed off in time

Did have one gal ask me to repair the family pick up truck and pay for food for her brother who was in prison.

I bought a tuk tuk once but it wasn't for a bar girl (Or a bar boy before anyone starts!)

here's one i have seen many times and works very well for thai girls living abroad with their farang husbands:

"my brother him no good.
him gambering and take houf paper of mammy and geeb anudder man to bollow money.
him lose money and now dis bad man waan to take house and land of my mammy.
my mammy veddy poor, seek also- no can working.
must we can send 100000baht before friday or my mammy no have houf and land."


another good one is the "brother knocks over and kills small child who ran in the road in front of his pickup and he will go to jail forever if the sucker farang doesn't pay the compensation to the deceased's family" scam.

Originally Posted by tsicar

"my brother him no good.
him gambering and take houf paper of mammy and geeb anudder man to bollow money.
him lose money and now dis bad man waan to take house and land of my mammy.
my mammy veddy poor, seek also- no can working.
must we can send 100000baht before friday or my mammy no have houf and land."


.

Sounds mexican

Originally Posted by tsicar

here's one i have seen many times and works very well for thai girls living abroad with their farang husbands:

"my brother him no good.
him gambering and take houf paper of mammy and geeb anudder man to bollow money.
him lose money and now dis bad man waan to take house and land of my mammy.
my mammy veddy poor, seek also- no can working.
must we can send 100000baht before friday or my mammy no have houf and land."


another good one is the "brother knocks over and kills small child who ran in the road in front of his pickup and he will go to jail forever if the sucker farang doesn't pay the compensation to the deceased's family" scam.

What's bemusing about this sort of scenario is not only that people marry uneducated women from predominntly rural backgrounds and are somehow surprised and perplexed when they act like uneducated women from a rural background, but that they actually fall for it. Some many times over by the sounds of it.

What does that say about the allegedly more 'intelligent' and 'culturally superior' Western men (who then go on to compound their own silliness and self-inflicted misfortunes by making the assumption/generalisation that all women from Thailand are uneducated and from rural backgrounds out to scam them).

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Originally Posted by tsicar

......................... by making the assumption/generalisation that all women from Thailand are uneducated and from rural backgrounds out to scam them).

BECAUSE: (with the notable exception of course, of td members' wives and girlfriends),
MOST women from Thailand are uneducated and from rural backgrounds out to scam them.


actually, it has little to do with the "uneducated and rural background" thing:
more of a cultural (thai) thing, plus the fact that most visitors to thailand are unlikely to meet many thai women of high moral and ethical standard, if any such thing actually exists in thailand.
(with, of course the notable exception of wives and girlfriends of td members!)

Originally Posted by tsicar

MOST women from Thailand are uneducated and from rural backgrounds out to scam them.

I am sitting in my place of work in Thailand. There are 10 women working as part of my team. Two of them have PhDs. One has an MD. Four have Masters degrees. The other three women are currently studying Masters degrees.

My secretary (in another office) has three degrees. Two Bachelors degrees (one in accountancy), and a MPA (Masters of Public Administration).


..remind me of your point again?

it is better to just replace the water buffalo rether than repair it from genuine parts.

a friend of a friend of mine had to replace the horn on one once and the price was astronomical.

met people who had prostheses provided FREE for limbs that were amputated FREE after contracting gangrene.

And why did they get gangrene in the first place ? not first class health care ?