and it was literally like three 30 police officers through the whole hotel I
I was just feeling sorry for the ladies the lady had to she had to call
her parents the family's parents of her boyfriend with that story like your son died
hey folks Pete here from the Irish times as we say in Ireland what's the story
that means how you doing how's it going and if you want to really give it that maximum oomph
you add a letter h on story and you say what's the story you can add a horse in there as well you
could say what's the story horse just means hello anyway we have an interview for you today with a
guy called chai from holland and before I show you that let me show you this check out the weather
in Bangkok at the moment it's supposed to be the hottest time of the year right now but it's been
raining for the last two days and this to me looks like rainy season weather rainy season clouds
very strange for this time of year and it's very cool today as well probably about 30 degrees it's
pretty cool for Bangkok I don't know the weather's been a little bit different this year compared to
last year i don't know why anyway today we're going to talk to chai from holland and we're
going to talk about a really serious topic today it's you know it's a tragic story so there's no
kind of laughing or joking going on it's a really serious story so anyway let's get into it and just
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appreciate it thank you very much and just like to say one more thing as well this interview today is
along the lines of the previous interview that I did and the previous one was about addiction
I spoke about three kind of common forms of addiction in Thailand and this one is
that like I said it's a bit similar I was really surprised by the comments in the previous video
a lot of people came out and they said they suffered with problems with addiction alcoholism
drug abuse and i just like to say to those people that wrote in the comment section you have my
ultimate respect it takes a lot of courage to do what you did open up and talk about your problems
so fair play to you that's not an easy thing to do you've got my respect on that one so without
further ado let's get into it let's go and meet chai and let's hear his story chai how you doing
good speed thanks thanks for having me thanks for doing it so tell everybody chai where you from
I'm from the Netherlands my my dad is Dutch and my mom is Indonesian okay and you're over
here in Thailand what are you doing over here I'm I started a channel after I lost my job
in London basically I was working the hotel scene and you covet I was sitting at home
and after sitting at home for about a year I was like okay you know what I'm gonna do something
with something else with my life then just sitting at home and yeah watching YouTube I was like I'm
gonna try to do YouTube so you always wanted to be a youtuber no never never had that intention
no I never really had any experience with editing or anything but um I saw other youtubers I know
Thailand I've been I know Thailand I've been a few times in Thailand and I I knew my money would last
a little bit longer and the people are amazing everything is good about Thailand in my opinion
still after so many years so it's like let's go to Thailand and start a YouTube channel so
you're traveling through Thailand at the moment or what's going on yeah I keep on traveling really
eventually I'm gonna settle down a little bit the visa situation at the moment is not really
ideal at the moment because I'm still on a tourist visa but I'm trying to stay here for
a longer while so maybe a year or so so chad you have a really tragic story about an event
that you experienced while you were traveling can you tell us about that i can yeah i was not never
planning to tell this on camera at all but when we talked about this off camera i thought you know
what it's been so many years now and i'm ready to to say this on camera as well yeah okay well take
it away uh where to start peter the story happened actually after being traveling in Thailand for
just a month and about 10 years ago and uh hey my visa expired i was doing the southeast Asian
backpacking thing like like everyone knows about and flew to Vientiane the capital city of lao
met my mate there we checked into a hostel um soon enough we like was evening let's go grab
some food have a beer but when we exit the guest house the lady from the the guesthouse there was
saying like chai which I uh sir uh please be back before 11 o'clock because the door is gonna shut
everywhere is gonna shut as well like all the bars restaurant everything will shut
I don't know if it's still like this but yeah out of security reasons they also had to shut the
door the front door of the hotel guest house so i had to be back at 11. okay we know that so we did
go to a bar after dinner me and my friends just the two of us um the Belgian bar
you know about the the t it was a thin kind of theme at this bar we had Belgium beers and only
like one or two we had a hotel room at the end of the hallway but this room had no bathroom
so we had to actually go to the front of the hallway where the stairway was as well
to get to the toilet to get to the sink where we can wash ourselves and brush
the teeth we're getting ready for the night basically me and my friend and we finished
we woke back together and we passed this door the very first door of that hallway on the left side
we heard noise we heard a very deep noise like snoring but something else like next level snoring
so my buddy phil he was like do you hear this you can imagine like waking up or sleeping trying to
sleep next to this person like please don't snore like this and we laughed about it and we woke
carried on to our door what was which was opposite on the end of the hallway went to
bed we're sleeping and roughly around one o'clock we both woke up there was a fight going on and
what's going on and me and Phil were like well that's it's not our fight yeah and
then suddenly a lady said uh start screaming saying hey help help help a lady or anyone
should uh should get up then you know if someone is screaming for help so I told Phil I feel listen
this might be a trap I don't know it was a bit of a weird setting anyway because we had to go back
before 11 the doors were closed out of security reasons so i i was a bit on edge i said you better
stay here i go check what the lady is saying help for because maybe when we both exit the the room
someone comes in through the window or something that's what I was thinking so Phil stayed in the
room i opened the door looked to the uh the other end of the hallway to watch the stairway let's say
where the bathroom was the screaming stopped there was a taller guy and a less taller person
lady standing in front of a door the door was open clearly because there was light coming
out of the room and she was in shock she was standing there and I walked up to her quickly
I knew the the worst part or the the the urgency of the the situation was over because there was no
screaming anymore and I walked up to her I was like what happened and I looked inside of the
room Pete I I saw black puke over the wall like all covered in black format in the wind
in the window there was puke and the window was open he clearly the person clearly tried to puke
like outside the window but it was a weird color you know and anyway i looked further and i saw
um saw someone laying on bed and it looked like a body as in the color of of the guy who was laying
there as uh was white pill but also with dark purple colored um it looked not good and i was
seeing this you know apparently like what happened when when i opened the doors it must have been a
hotel manager or something must have opened around that same time opened the other door and then they
were like [ __ ] what what what is this so i arrived in that moment of shock and I'm like
you know what there's no reason for for or panic wouldn't do anything shock wouldn't do anything so
i walked inside of that room pete i felt energy a lot of energy bad energy in that room
i need to get out of there and i want to help as well
so i dragged them out and i felt the skin it was cold already i'm not a doctor but i i had the
feeling already this is too late you know if your body is cold already that color as well didn't
look good but i wasn't thinking i was just doing and i um we had him on the floor in the hallway
the lady was giving mouth to mouth after i gave the um what you call it cpr cpr yes
so it's doing that just not with the electric thing no just like there was nothing nothing like
it so we're just like improvising and i called my buddy phil as well at this stage i knew this was
this was no robbery no this was actually people in help in need
uh phil came by um i asked him to call our ambulance after 20 minutes
felt like an hour two nurses coming up this is the stairway is going up
and they're like trying to listen if his heart was still beating uh
stupid enough i got a bit angry at them like come on he he's not alive help carried him down
and off they went the body the girlfriend of that person that just died and uh and a friend and um
i don't know like if you want me to carry on like the next day all right well first of all
how old was this person right you were talking this a man right yeah how old was this guy
he must have been my early 20s where everyone was basically everyone i met was about early 20s
all right so early 20s and you said the puke the vomit was black yeah okay so well
i'm gonna ask more questions but okay let's go into the next day well the next day we me and phil
we went back to bed back to a room um had a bit of a weird night like you know you don't sleep well
after or i didn't sleep well after that managed to get some hours in and woke up the next day
and there was literally like three 30 police officers
between 30 and 40 police officers through through the whole hotel looking at the bathroom that we
brushed our teeth in in the the room we were standing a lot of police officers we walked
past the police and I almost want to say like hey you guys need my help or something maybe I need to
say what happened or am I feel but my body was like don't don't interrupt them don't get involved
and as we were talking as we were passing we looked in the room where it all happened
and it was totally clean nothing happened in there the bed was made already so there was no
there was no forensic team looking properly like what you know everything was gone already
uh I'm sure there was a lot of like newspapers there they want to
you know probably uh say something what happened as well and the police was involved I
shouldn't get involved my body was saying because you don't know what happened
and what do you think happened chai and I was like well you know there was a little
drugs these younger younger days like there's a lot of drugs around backpackers
i'm not talking about weeds but like proper like you know you think of and we talk about opium
in that in that region yeah some some periods of the year is there i never
i never touched it but if I asked you said what if you had to say what drug it it might have been
the backpackers what what kind of what kind of trade I don't know well
what because that area is famous for opium well that's what i probably opium
me and Phil we we were we were big drinkers back back in the day um he's English so I sometimes go
go back to England and we have we have quite a few pints but i never came near to any drugs in
in southeast Asia at all this is not the place to do this i mean it could it could also be alcohol
he could have choked on his vomit something like that but you were there right you were you were in
that scene like when you were traveling through backpackers yes you know and that area is there
you know i've been traveling i've traveled to lao before if you've been to fencing i've been up to
yeah i've been to vientiane and i know that they're um there is opium there yeah you know
the golden triangle i mean it's famous for for opium yeah with that thought with that thought
i i decided to not get involved and maybe there was drugs there even if there was no drugs they
need to come up with a story i mean the police needed to come up with the story it would be a
good opportunity to have a kind of a war on drugs and give this as an example and they could include
me as well add a few kilos of heroin or whatever I like I was like this is not worth to mingle in
like don't don't get involved I'm actually afterwards I'm happy I didn't step in yeah so
you didn't know this guy you just happened to come across the dead body in the hostel I don't
know I didn't know the lady I didn't know the guy you know yeah to be honest with you you know
by what you did was a smart choice because you don't want to get involved with it with the police
when there's a drug especially with drugs in south east Asia and it's a drug case
and you don't know anybody and maybe they want a scapegoat you're in a foreign country it's low
that's the thing like if I if i can help someone directly I always do that but in
this case there was too much like too much risk where was this guy from eastern Europe
I can't remember where it was from exactly she told me like where she was from I asked her I
remember asking her I don't don't remember the answer anymore Pete it's just then again this was
yeah ten years ago and yeah that's it's a bit of a traumatic happening as well i think so
i don't know i think that that plays with your memory as well doesn't it
so the next day you left and you continued on your travels where'd you go from there
uh we went well um soon enough we went to venvia and the tubing town in uh in the middle of lao
yeah and uh we didn't we didn't uh we me and phil we pretty much didn't talk about this this
happening like he was basically there as well right we basically experienced the same thing
other than it was me that actually dragged the body out um but yeah we didn't really talk about
it it was a traumatic event you know um the big moral of the story is for anyone watching don't
mess around with drugs in southeast Asia don't mess around with drugs anywhere but certainly not
in a foreign country I was just feeling sorry for the lady the lady had to if she was allowed to if
the police allowed her she had to call her parents the family's parents of her boyfriend with that
story like your son died no matter if it's odd or not no they're in a foreign country where is this
where's the body gonna this is gonna be the worst thing i was thinking of that
big time worrying about her maybe she's landing up in jail i never followed up but I wanted to forget
the whole thing well chai thanks for telling your story pleasure I'm gonna plug chai's channel now
you've got a channel called chai travel tell us about your uh your channel well what a switch eh
but yeah uh nothing like this on on choice uh chai travels channel uh it's always about
positive vibes really so I'm not I'm never really keen to tell these uh life is not all about
you know positivity there are some sad stories out there and and if you're if anyone's watching this
and it stops anyone from taking drugs then the video has done a world of good
right yeah i mean yeah that's true yeah but anyway he's got a channel called chai travel
i'll leave a link in the description check out chai's videos he's on the streets now
doing while wise interviewing people on the streets he's done a lot of travel content as well
so nice one chai thanks and I'm gonna plug Thairish Times as well we're nearly on 10 10k
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