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

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 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 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?

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.

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.

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.

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 ?

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".

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."


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Sounds mexican

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

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 ?

They thought it was gangrene...it was just paint flom the loof...

I have never bought a bargirl anything more than a bottle of beer.

A girl I know (not a bargirl) has lost her purse at least 3 times this year - and needs to pay her rent etc..

I admit to giving her 5k the first time....

But the second time she had forgotten she had used that excuse before...