(male voice speaking in reverse)
(Thai music)
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- [Presenter] What's your cheapest wallet?
Can you cut me a deal if I get three?
- [Shopkeeper] 400 for one.
- [Presenter] 400 for one, so twelve for three.
- Yeah.
- [Presenter] How about, like, 800 for three?
- You have forever.
- [Presenter] I what forever.
- What?
- [Presenter] You saying I'll have it forever?
- Yes.
- {Presenter] I think it's going to get stolen.
Okay, welcome to Khaosan Road,
one of the centers of debauchery here in Bangkok.
Not the only center, there's quite a few.
But if you're a back-packer, traveling on a budget,
this is the spot you wanna go.
Lots of hostels, lots of free drinks,
lots of shops and with all those tourists
comes a lot of Thai people trying to sell you things.
It's not that hard to get scammed in this country,
it happens all the time but for me personally
I've never actually been pick-pocketed.
Ever, in six years of travel,
so I thought I'd try my luck here in Khaosan Road.
If it's gonna happen somewhere in Bangkok,
it's probably gonna happen here.
I have in my back pocket, a wallet
that will be planted with a spy camera
and inside this wallet, for the lucky pickpocket,
if they do end up getting it,
there's one million Spock dollars
worth absolutely nothing.
Alright, I'm gonna plant the trap,
gonna walk along this street,
I'm thinking I have about 45 minutes
before someone grabs it but I actually have no idea.
Let's play the game.
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- [Presenter] Hey Leo.
- 80 Baht.
- [Presenter] One expensive Leo?
Alright, thank you.
It's cold man, it's cold, it's so cold.
- Very good, yah.
Where you from?
- [Presenter] I'm from Canada, how about you?
- I'm from Lebon, how many day you here?
- [Presenter] I leave tomorrow.
- About what time?
- [Presenter] Super early.
- Early?
- [Presenter] It's too bad, 'though.
- You already bought it?
- [Presenter] Am I a suit kinda guy?
Do I look like I wear suits?
- Yeah, look like a business man!
- [Presenter] You think so?
- Yeah!
- [Presenter] I'm a business man!
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- [Presenter] Laughing gas, man, laughing gas!
One, two, three!
- Whaaaaaa!
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- [Presenter] Which do you like, which is the best?
Can I do, one scorpion,
and are these, what are these?
Are they frogs?
- They're frogs.
- [Presenter] Oh my god, scorpions, frogs.
Scorpion, frog, grasshopper with a spray of Soy sauce.
So far so good, I haven't felt any movement
in my back pocket yet,
I thought stopping for a bit would be alright.
Bon appetit!
Where are you guys from?
- Israel.
Yeah, so scorpion, frog, grasshopper
which one should I have first?
- Frog!
- The frog, wanna, wanna share with me?
- No no.
- You know, you know, Lady and the Tramp, I guess?
- Share it you gotta share it. - No no.
- How about one toe for you, one toe for you?
- I'll do a toe. - Oh my god!
- Alright, alright, take a leg.
- Cheers.
- Not bad?
- No, good.
- There's a lot of bones, 'though.
- Really?
- [Israeli] Whoooooaaaa!
- Not very good, it's not very good.
Listen, if you're in Thailand,
you don't have to try the scorpion
because, oh my god, it tastes like,
(beep)
But, one of the best things you should try
is something called a mangosteen.
These right here, while they might look like something
from Mario two, are delicious.
We're buying one.
- [presenter] Thank you.
Oh my god I gotta get, have to get the taste
of the scorpion out of my mouth.
Here's how it works, you crack it open,
and inside, there are these little white slices.
They taste almost like grape Kool-Aid?
Grape Kool-Aid.
Mangosteen, don't sleep on it, delicious!
Okay, if you haven't already noticed
it's pretty insane on this street, Laughing gas, scorpions.
So in this fifteen minutes or so, so far,
let me do a wallet check, wallet's still in the back pocket.
Which is not too far from what I expected.
There's lots of tourists here,
there's lots of foreigners here.
But I think I might have to mingle a little bit more,
I may walk a bit more slowly, let's see what happens.
- [Presenter] Wow, one slice of crocodile, please.
- [Thai Chef] Hello, crocodile?
- [Presenter] Alright man, thank you so much.
- Thank you.
- One plate of expensive crocodile,
let's take it for a walk.
It's actually pretty good, kinda like,
greasy chicken, like chicken legs,
I could eat more, I could eat more crocodile.
Or was that an alligator?
I have no idea but it's not bad.
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- You want laughing gas?
- Yes, small.
- [Presenter] Show me how?
- Just inhale, exhale. - Inhale.
Do you plug your nose?
- Yeah, that, that works better.
- [Presenter] Can you show me?
(laughing)
- I can really get a high afterwards.
- A little crazy.
Forty five minutes, thirteen seconds past,
where I thought that would be the end time
for my wallet getting jacked, so far so good.
The night is young, let's see what's next.
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(beep)
- Okay, still nothing, I almost can't believe it.
Just so you know how obvious the wallet
is sticking out of my back pocket, take a look.
I'm sure hundreds of people have seen it
and no-one's touched it yet!
I'm impressed.
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- Whoa guys, not exactly an authentic Thai experience
here in Khaosan Road, it's like every bar,
and there's ninety bars all competing against each other,
hey man, for the loudest music,
food everywhere, people screaming,
there's shirts off, there's skin hanging out,
not exactly enlightening travel, but hey,
you're looking to party, it's not a bad spot.
I'm thoroughly impressed with my pocket situation
right now, literally no-one's even touched it.
It's been hours!
Let's push on.
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- One and a half hours, double the time that I thought.
Alright, I got, I gotta do something a little crazy
I'm gonna start pushing my way through crowds,
crowds are normally the best spot to get pickpocketed.
The most common pickpocketing tactic
is someone bumps into you and grabs your wallet
in exactly the same time, so you don't actually feel
the wallet coming out, you feel the bump.
I'm gonna start sticking closer to the crowds,
bumping my way around,
hopefully that's more pickpocket territory,
but at this point, I don't know.
(gripping music)
- Don't go there!
- What's up?
- Don't go.
- Why? What is it?
- Don't.
- [Presenter] Have a good one, friend.
I really thought that was it!
I thought it was a distraction,
a guy came up and said "Hey man,
watch out for that bar beside you,
my friends got jacked there."
I thought it was a distracting tactic,
no, he was just being nice.
A nice Australian guy making sure
that I didn't get scammed at a bogus bar.
Dammit!
We gotta keep trying.
(nightclubbers screaming)
- No dancing on the tables allowed,
no dancing on the tables!
It's almost two o'clock, that means I've been here
for almost four hours, and my wallet is still there.
I'm honestly quite impressed
and a little bit disappointed,
I fully expected my wallet to be gone hours ago!
But hey, I guess it's called the land
of smiles for a reason.
It seems like, maybe I got lucky,
or maybe there's just not problems
like that here in Bangkok.
Honestly 'though, Khaosan Road,
despite the crazy debauchery that it is,
turned out to be alright, I was, I was begging for it too.
(laughing)
That wallet's like half way out of my pocket.
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