@SiRrogueKnight@wy7usa I know, right? And he was literally, like, holy shit fentanyl gets you so high! But I'm no junky! I have a prescription! On fuckin' national television 🤣
And you know, just to clarify, a doctor in the Philippines will prescribe you a kilo of coke if you insert a coin 🤣
@SiRrogueKnight@wy7usa IDK. When I was there and while Duterte was still the president it was super weird. You literally had a guy running on fentanyl patches (he wasn't even hiding it), supposedly for his back pain, preaching how drug users need to be shot. And shot they were. Takes a real scholar to comprehend that third world shit, I guess.
@ThatCrazyDude@wy7usa I think he was really going after Mindanao, which is supposed to be a quite nasty Muslim and pirate area. But I'm sure the corruption was everywhere.
I travel a lot... stick to your own alcohol. I rarely mess with pot when traveling, only if it's passed to me. Buying or carrying? Never did or would.
@SiRrogueKnight@wy7usa I was actually living in the fuck's home city, Davao. If it wasn't for the fact that almost entire local cop station was at my place for a barbecue every weekend it would be nasty! The death squads are no myth, man! They really have some legitimate baboons over there
The ladies in the bars in Pattaya are getting chubby due to sugar diets/Starbucks these days and about half of them now sport ugly tattoos. I don't like either development.
@wy7usa@SiRrogueKnight I hear they finally cleaned up ash and pomice in Angeles city, Philippines. I bet ya the brothels, I mean, "lady bars" are lovely these days. Definitely cheaper than Pattaya 🤣
@wy7usa@ThatCrazyDude Booze was pricey in Singapore when I went back there last winter. But I had my second and for sure last No Agenda Social meet-up there, which was quite fun. Just two other expats residing now in Singapore (partial citizen status, I think).
The scenario in the movie is usually a backpacker tourist runs out of money, wants to extend the Thailand dream stay, and get approached to smuggle drugs. Very common.
Jails are worse than depicted.
If you can't buy your way out, you plead guilty for 50% sentence reductions, then serve half of it and wait for a royal pardon, or get ship off to your home country to serve the remainder of your sentence. Usually once home, you get released.
Actually, on my one trip to India way back in 2000, I met a German couple, and the dude spent a couple years in jail there for drug possession... YIKES.