This happened in last 10 minutes. Sitting in a nice, high end, Coffee Shop off Langsuan with wifey having a coffee. A guy comes up and asks if I speak English. I say yes and he immediately goes, I’m from India, I just had surgery and proceeds to pull up his shirt to show me a bloody bandage (could have been real or fake, I tried not to look, like WTF I’m in a cafe). About that time I just said that I am having coffee with my wife and don’t want to be bothered. I wave him off before he could do the next part which would be ask money (or advance the scam somehow), staff saw what was happening and helped run him off. Staff did a good job and apologized to us for being bothered.
I’m just sharing this story, I am not trashing Indians or tourists in general, but just sharing because this literally just happened.
Foreigners (of any kind) coming to Thailand to beg just pisses me off. Unfortunately this stuff is becoming more common…
