I Was Held Up at Gunpoint in Broad Daylight in Phnom Penh: Warning Tale from a US Man

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Re: I Was Held Up at Gunpoint in Broad Daylight in Phnom Penh: Warning Tale from a US Man

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frank lee bent wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2019 2:27 am Sounds like a Philippino card scam and the victim made up a cover story so he did not look a credulous fool.
Nailed it Frank!
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atst wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2019 6:37 am
A 6 ft 1 second dan black belt terrified....
Yeah, the 1st Dan in Cambodia would have made sausage meat of the gunman...

hohoho
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I'm a 2nd Dan black belt in karate
Can somebody please check his Facebook profile to verify this claim? I tried to verify it myself but the only thing I found was a quote from his own blog where he says
I would spend my day with Mr. Miyagi because he is in one of my most favorite movies of all time, The Karate Kid. The day would be spent driving around in old, classic cars and preform karate and beat people up.
https://jacob22lutz.weebly.com/blog/if- ... be-and-why

You guys understand that nobody serious in the arts would ever dream of "beating people up", right? One of the most important rules of any dojo is that you keep that shit where it belongs: in the dojo, unless absolutely necessary for self defense.

I trained a style of karate for nearly a decade. If I type my name into a search engine the results include old photos of me wearing my belt, results from competitions me and my dojo participated in and such things. This is from nearly 20 years ago.

The only related matches to searches about Jacob Lutz and karate in a search engine is for a little kid training Taekwando in Florida who coincidentally has the same name. Again, this kid's training is easily verifiable, but for some reason this "2nd dan black belt" Jacob Lutz does not exist anywhere.

2nd dan is a title rank given to instructors. You'd think a karate instructor and his dojo would be easy to find, but no. The internet does not know of any sensei Jacob Lutz.

Please ask him what style he trains and which dojo he belongs to. I never got a black belt myself so I'm curious how someone could get so far without a single mention.

Stolen valor pussy motherfucker
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Reads like fiction.
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Now I'm STILL working it all out with the bank. I asked why bother with having ATM daily withdrawal limits for debit cards when somehow they were able to charge my debit card as if it were a credit card for several thousands of dollars, and it actually went through. My main bank's account balance is current ~$-30,
This makes no sense. Debit cards have daily limits PLUS in any event, you can't withdraw more than what is in the account.
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got to this, " .....whilst pulling out a revolver with his other hand and pressed it against my stomach. "
and stopped... pure bs

PS: showing ur passport will NOT allow you to exceed your cc spending limit!!!!
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"He commented on my shirt. " Phillipino. 🤣😂
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Actually an ATM withdrawal limit is exactly that. The card can be swiped with a provided ID to withdraw more. Unless the account is empty of course but some banks allow your account to have small negative balance.
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When those fucks ask me where I got my shirt I always tell them I won it from the chief of police in Manila in a card game. They fuck off quick.
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fax wrote: Thu Jul 04, 2019 8:00 am Actually an ATM withdrawal limit is exactly that. The card can be swiped with a provided ID to withdraw more. Unless the account is empty of course but some banks allow your account to have small negative balance.
Yeah, i thought he was implying that they were able to use it (aka buy jewelry) like a credit card ie run up credit.. But maybe he actually had several thousand $$ in his debit card account..
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