hi guys Simon here welcome new subscribers so
we're going to do a dark story today and do Tim the Trump and his friend
colleague just sung who lives in the same building as him and haven't got a
name for him it is a dark story so in this story is a mention of HIV drugs
illegal activity so I was just this in over 18 video never done one of these
before this is a happens in every country in the world but this is about a
couple of guys both English living in Pattaya illegally no passports no
paperwork no visas Kim's case just couldn't leave Thailand
so when I have my bar when I was managing my first bar in soy BJ which is
off walking streak walking streets in Petare so halfway along walking street
Escalades on right lane on the other side really now a narrow street only
about four meters across then on the left hand side halfway down the SOI was
my bar an opposite was a little convenience store selling alcohol
cigarettes household goods really small little shop but I had a table sat
outside on the concrete section then it's a couple of steps down to the road
that's where Tim used to sit all the time Tim the Tramp I'm gonna call him
Tim was in probably three or four years before I
got there and got into that manager's job he being married in the UK got
divorced and sold everything put about five or
six days and painting together bought a one-way ticket to Tyrone
doesn't know he had been before never got that out of him but he arrived in to
tear it is that for four years ran out of money sold his passport didn't know
you could do that I had a girlfriend works in the go-go bar on walking Street
he shared the room his room with her the bottom of that saw
him be tbj a little a couple of short time room hotels but he had one room
full design with girlfriend and the other guy I'm going to talk about how to
room next to in with his girlfriend Tim used to sit on the steps opposite my bar
and that's why got chatting by the a-site on the cigarette we were only a
few meters apart he was probably about 40 years old Tim but he looked a lot
older always looked unshaven and as if his hair and washed his similar clothes
all the time scruffy he lived on those steps drinking
he was not a drug addict he was in his past and he'd given up totally off drugs
but was drinking heavily skill friend was working he was keeping him I believe
he was up to some activity to make a bit of money but I'm not sure because every
time any official came at the end of the lane ordained he would be gone there was
a cut through down the lane to it cuts through to Marine marine the disco that
he was called so any sign of officials and he'd be gone and then he'd be back
later a nice guy pleasant to talk to he was there when I left the bar scene a
few years later he was still there probably still there today
how either stayed in there I'm over state these are done that is a warning
quit if your visa runs out a couple of days okay you can go to the airport pay
a fine you're going to slap on the wrist you start over staying for time sitting
out weeks you could get expelled from Thailand and never be let in again so
you don't want to overstay don't do it he's got problems when you're there go
to immigration and talk to them so ya got I got to talk to him quite a bit and
that was his story he was didn't welcome back to the UK we're surviving
somehow without visas and passport keep her under the radar bill helping no
future couldn't do anything he ever got into health problem or trouble he would
be spotted as no passport visa he could get back to the home he just article the
embassy the UK embassy and they would put him on a plane and so was he might
but he didn't want to he wanted to stay there and he had no future very sad but
whilst talking to him this other guy appeared probably in my first few weeks
of a bar in walk history this other guy was an ex-professional snooker or Paul
Anka remember player and he had gone to Thailand doing competitions or something
fallen in love with the country and contracted HIV from a girl through
sexual activities the girl is was still with him and he'd been there for four or
five years still with him they'd stuck together she hadn't done it on purpose
he found out and his health started deteriorating he was
overstay again fastball gone illegal doing something
with drugs something with alcohol now I didn't know this a bit about the HIV the
drugs and the alcohol he was quite well dressed taking care of himself but he
came to the bar when we first opened and it turns out later he was in the bar the
night that the previous owners got closed down for illegal substances etc
in the bar and he told me the story of what happened etc and so that's how I
find out about all that previous owners bar shut down but he came in and he
didn't have money didn't have much money but he challenged me I remember honors I
think the second or third day I was in the bar - again a pool and if he won for
me to buy him a beer ah now in those days I was and I still class myself as a
good pool player good snooker player by Handsome myself as a pork there and I
don't learn some competitions around to tear he wiped the floor with me he was
amazing on the pool table absolutely brilliant
played him over the coming months so many times he beat me eight out of ten
times but I learned so much and it improved my game so he got a lot of free
drinks of me and I got to know him quite well but then it's only towards the very
end of our friendship before I move that bar but I found out about the HIV his
girlfriend had HIV she was getting treatment because she was tie system and
he was sharing the drugs the antibiotics and evidence he was on but his health
was deteriorating one week he was sad talked to Kim
sometimes and I'd be sat in front of my bar and I talked to them enough they
were nice guys but both illegal a week before I moved by
offenses i7 this guy the pro player got into an altercation at the end of the
road by walking Street something happens I don't know please
rested it now and then it was found out that he was no passport or rest of it he
got sent to the hilton bangkok so that's the type of prison in thailand and he
never came back he is helped was really he was getting
thin and his health he was in a bad way the last I heard he was still there and
but that was 12 years ago the last time I heard anything so he was there still
and health but never came out I fear the worst for him his girlfriend she
disappeared a few months later according to Tim he moved but she wasn't good
either health they kept themselves to themselves a bit and they were don't
know what they were doing but back in 2000 when I was there 2001 2002 the HIV
thing was big news it was in the news a lot and there was all sorts of stories
going around so that was the first time I heard anything about it really in
secondhand from somebody got it and did the research as you do but you don't in
the moment in the last 10 years I've never heard any stories in Thailand
about HIV that's all heard stories of drugs and things but never had anything
more on the HIV so so whether it's being pushed underground or kept quiet or it's
getting a lot better like most places in the world I don't
know but there those two guys became people I talked to and it showed me that
there are foreigners in Thailand that end up there and will not go home that
take the decision to finish their time there and then there's the sad side you
see of a newspapers where they've gone up to the top floor and things have
happened very sad twelve years on since I've seen
those two guys I can't imagine Tim still there
illegally and I can't wait any other guys that are ranked to be honest but
that's a bit of a dark story you know people are asking me have I ever seen
the the reason for this story of subscribers saying to me you know what's
in HIV situation well I don't know where an I'm in Thailand is usually in the
village and there's nothing there people have asked me about overstays these two
guys have done it for years but you will end up in in trouble if you do it's not
worth doing and if you ever get to the stage where you're there you fall in
love with the country and you're out of money go to your embassy talk to them
talk to the immigration Thailand they'll help you get to the embassy as people in
Thailand that will help you they don't want you living on the streets or
causing problems they will help you get back to your own country and hopefully
then your country will be able to help you get back on your feet stay positive
anything that happens with you and the towpath know if it all goes wrong you
can always restart your life and get going again
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