Two Tourists Attack Tuk-Tuk Driver Because He Is Unable to Find Ladyboys for Them in Phnom Penh

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This story has still been going kinda viral on social media for over a day straight now. And still we don't even know who they are our their nationalities.
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It's going to be so exciting when we find out. They are obviously from England.
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John Bingham wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 4:48 pm
willyhilly wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 2:33 pm Wouldn't the tuk just take them to the Candy Bar?
How would the average tuk tuk driver even know about the place?
Maybe he could have tried asking a tuk tuk driver? :facepalm: . They are always advertising stuff like drugs, young girls and ladyboys.
Until you get in, then the drugs turn to detergent, the young girls turn into old women and the ladboys are nowhere to be found. :cya:
Looks like they had an argument over the fare more than ladyboys. The two tourists must have got fed up with the guy changing the agreed price and not negotiating, and tried to just walk away.Maybe the tuk tuk driver got violent and grabbed at the drunk guys shirt and ripped it. I expect he turned around and gave him a slap. Who knows?
I do think there is a 99% likelihood of it being over money as opposed to ladyboys though.
I think the tuk tuk driver was trying to shame them. Which is NOT COOL.
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Алина Анисимов wrote:It's going to be so exciting when we find out. They are obviously from England.
Definitely the dude in the white shirt, but I couldn't hear his boyfriend in the black shirt say anything.
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Abc123 wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2018 7:01 pm
Maybe he could have tried asking a tuk tuk driver? :facepalm: . They are always advertising stuff like drugs, young girls and ladyboys.
You are talking about some of the drivers who ply their trade around the riverside and 136/ 104/ 51. That's a tiny part of the city. The vast majority of tuk tuk drivers work outside those areas and wouldn't know about or encourage any of those things. The worst they'd do is overcharge you. If you can't speak even rudimentary Khmer or where you are going there's fuck all chance you'll get any of those things through them.
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John Bingham wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2018 7:27 pm
Abc123 wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2018 7:01 pm
Maybe he could have tried asking a tuk tuk driver? :facepalm: . They are always advertising stuff like drugs, young girls and ladyboys.
You are talking about some of the drivers who ply their trade around the riverside and 136/ 104/ 51. That's a tiny part of the city. The vast majority of tuk tuk drivers work outside those areas and wouldn't know about or encourage any of those things. The worst they'd do is overcharge you. If you can't speak even rudimentary Khmer or where you are going there's fuck all chance you'll get any of those things through them.
Seriously? :roll:
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Dead serious, many of these guys are country bumpkins and haven't much of a clue. Check your PM. :)
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John Bingham wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2018 8:11 pm Dead serious, many of these guys are country bumpkins and haven't much of a clue. Check your PM. :)
You're dead right on that. Many people here only hang around tourist areas and assume the whole city is like what they encounter.
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Should drive round wat phnom till one jumps out at them.
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Kuroneko wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2018 9:09 pm
John Bingham wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2018 8:11 pm Dead serious, many of these guys are country bumpkins and haven't much of a clue. Check your PM. :)
You're dead right on that. Many people here only hang around tourist areas and assume the whole city is like what they encounter.
yup i have to 3rd this notion :thumb:
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