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phuketrichard wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:35 am Image

why not eliminate the bus an just do walking Pub Crawls?
most of the bars ( hostess) are in a few block range
as i recall, per coivd, didn't someone do this?

Think of the $$$ that could be made ( "we will bring you 15 customers for a drink, how much commission will you pay?" )
advertise on FB an other social medias<
instant success
It has been done in most cities but eventually a bar owner, who is not on the crawl, will get pissed off and complain. Many people have tried and they all get shut down, just look at SR when the dirty dancers were all arrested. That was for the same reason; someone (a local) got pissed off that they were not coming to their bar.
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phuketrichard wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:35 am
why not eliminate the bus an just do walking Pub Crawls?
See those almost every day. Mostly backpackers so I do not think the itinerary includes girlie bars. Mad Monkey offers it for $10. There was another company doing it, but they seem to have disappeared.
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hanno wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:58 am
phuketrichard wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:35 am
why not eliminate the bus an just do walking Pub Crawls?
See those almost every day. Mostly backpackers so I do not think the itinerary includes girlie bars. Mad Monkey offers it for $10. There was another company doing it, but they seem to have disappeared.
when weed became legal, an old friend of mine suggested we do weed crawls, (Patong has over 20++ of them)
i countered with after visiting the first one, it would be hard to get people to get up and move on to the next one :beer3:
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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hanno wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:58 am
phuketrichard wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:35 am
why not eliminate the bus an just do walking Pub Crawls?
See those almost every day. Mostly backpackers so I do not think the itinerary includes girlie bars. Mad Monkey offers it for $10. There was another company doing it, but they seem to have disappeared.
I know just the guy to fill the space.

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The photo from Kung-fu Hillbilly could start a new thread on "Whatever Happened To....."
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Kahuna wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:31 am The photo from Kung-fu Hillbilly could start a new thread on "Whatever Happened To....."


What are you seeing ?
I see a word “ image “ but there is nothing to see
They are asking me to put in a photo .
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HaifongWangchuck wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:26 pm
hanno wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:39 pm
You seriously think this is a crackdown on drunk driving?
There seems to be. The current government has made it a priority to tackle drunk driving since Cambodia has a relatively high fatality rate for motorists as well as pressure from publications like Phnom Penh Post (which has always taken a hardline against alcohol)
Coppers have been provided with breathalyzers and have found out it's a gold mine. A guy living close to me was fined 1.000.000r (about 250 $) last week for drunk driving, and he was caught after sunrise, so coppers are indeed taking it seriously.

ABC radio has been warning their listeners for weeks for this to happen.
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Kammekor wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:16 pm
HaifongWangchuck wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:26 pm
hanno wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:39 pm
You seriously think this is a crackdown on drunk driving?
There seems to be. The current government has made it a priority to tackle drunk driving since Cambodia has a relatively high fatality rate for motorists as well as pressure from publications like Phnom Penh Post (which has always taken a hardline against alcohol)
Coppers have been provided with breathalyzers and have found out it's a gold mine. A guy living close to me was fined 1.000.000r (about 250 $) last week for drunk driving, and he was caught after sunrise, so coppers are indeed taking it seriously.

ABC radio has been warning their listeners for weeks for this to happen.
Such initiatives have emerged periodically since 2014 and have always fizzled out after 4-6 months so let's see how this one stands the test of time
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Kammekor wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:16 pm
HaifongWangchuck wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:26 pm
hanno wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:39 pm
You seriously think this is a crackdown on drunk driving?
There seems to be. The current government has made it a priority to tackle drunk driving since Cambodia has a relatively high fatality rate for motorists as well as pressure from publications like Phnom Penh Post (which has always taken a hardline against alcohol)
Coppers have been provided with breathalyzers and have found out it's a gold mine. A guy living close to me was fined 1.000.000r (about 250 $) last week for drunk driving, and he was caught after sunrise, so coppers are indeed taking it seriously.

ABC radio has been warning their listeners for weeks for this to happen.
As Jerry said: not the first time. As with so many things here, all initiatives seem to eventually die a quiet death.
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If anyone is sceptical about the local police force it's me, but the combination of available breathalyzers, serious fines (increased about ten fold) and greed make me consider this time it might be different.
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