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[flyingillini]

Do they search you Illini?

Not search too bad but 5 years ago, I came back 3 times in one month to America and my passport is full of different visas and stamps they questioned why so many trips in a short time and explained why. I had my Vietnam residency card and showed them that. They wanted to take a look at my carry on bags, I am legit as can be, no issues on my end. One time at Moc Bai, the border in Southern Vietnam, they asked me why I had been in Cambodia 5 times in one month and they searched my bags really hard. They asked me for some money which at the border towns when you go through the checkpoint, you always give them $5 on both ends, the Vietnamese end and the Cambodia side. I explained that I like the Casinos there and the scene here. I gave each border guy in the room $20 and they smiled and let me know. However, if I was up to no good, it would of been bad but I don't do anything illegal. I often get weird looks in Cambodia going in at the border towns, because the specific ones I go to there are no westerners crossing , it is pretty sketchy and sleezy

 

[flyingillini]

These 3 Iranians are truly fucked trying to do this here.

3 Iranians arrested for exchanging, stealing money in north-central Vietnam

They were captured while fleeing to Ho Chi Minh City

tuoitrenews.vn

 

[BMR Genie]

Customs is another topic I can discuss at times, I have had very interesting encounters on both ends , coming into America and back to Vietnam. Been questioned hard, sent to a private room etc etc

I'm allergic to customs and immigration, Fly haha

 

[jjgold]

Illini am coming for a month in the fall. Do you have an extra room at your pad?

 

[BMR Genie]

Not search too bad but 5 years ago, I came back 3 times in one month to America and my passport is full of different visas and stamps they questioned why so many trips in a short time and explained why. I had my Vietnam residency card and showed them that. They wanted to take a look at my carry on bags, I am legit as can be, no issues on my end. One time at Moc Bai, the border in Southern Vietnam, they asked me why I had been in Cambodia 5 times in one month and they searched my bags really hard. They asked me for some money which at the border towns when you go through the checkpoint, you always give them $5 on both ends, the Vietnamese end and the Cambodia side. I explained that I like the Casinos there and the scene here. I gave each border guy in the room $20 and they smiled and let me know. However, if I was up to no good, it would of been bad but I don't do anything illegal. I often get weird looks in Cambodia going in at the border towns, because the specific ones I go to there are no westerners crossing , it is pretty sketchy and sleezy

I know this is part of their procedure but damn! The way they question is so intimidating.

 

[flyingillini]

Illini am coming for a month in the fall. Do you have an extra room at your pad?

What are you? 12 years old? Get a hotel you , Slatsy, we will hang out daily and I will show you a world you never knew existed but you are not welcome to sleep at my place.

 

[flyingillini]

I know this is part of their procedure but damn! The way they question is so intimidating.

I am not doing anything wrong so I could care less to be honest, I look at it from their point of view, where I go and what I do here is not normal behavior as far as these little border towns and how frequent I go to be honest. So they have to be skeptical and ask.

 

[jjgold]

Illini money tight

that will cost me over $900

I will buy a Kat and sleep in corner

 

[Tanko]

These 3 Iranians are truly fucked trying to do this here.

3 Iranians arrested for exchanging, stealing money in north-central Vietnam

They were captured while fleeing to Ho Chi Minh City

tuoitrenews.vn

Do they have laws like in Iran where they cut your arm off for stealing or is it just send the to "pound-you-in-the-a$$" prison forever?

 

[flyingillini]

Illini money tight

that will cost me over $900

I will buy a Kat and sleep in corner

JJ, when we go to Cambodia to Naga World Casino, are you expecting to share my room with me? You need to get your own room, you are a grown adult, act like one Gold.

 

[flyingillini]

Do they have laws like in Iran where they cut your arm off for stealing or is it just send the to "pound-you-in-the-a$$" prison forever?\

No , nothing like that but for drug offenses it is a big problem. Other crimes not so much. They just made drinking and driving illegal in 2020 but if you get caught now you still get to drive off just pay some money. But drug offenses you are fucked.
Death sentence here for this drug trafficking offense

Six sentenced to death in HCMC for drug trafficking - VnExpress International

A court in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday sentenced six drug traffickers to death for smuggling 13.8 kilograms of synthetic drugs and ketamine from Cambodia into the city.

e.vnexpress.net

This is also a good read on what happens to foreigners after prison

‘Prison after prison’: Debts trap foreigners in Vietnamese jails

At least 16 foreigners continue to be held over alleged unpaid debts and compensation despite completing jail terms.

www.aljazeera.com

This foreigner got busted for selling E here, 18 years

Vietnamese, Scottish men imprisoned for selling drugs to foreigners in Hanoi - VnExpress International

A Vietnamese man in Hanoi was sentenced to 18 years in jail for selling drugs, and his Scottish customer and pusher got two years.

e.vnexpress.net

This is a good read on lethal injection and death sentences here for drugs

Vietnam keeps its death sentences quiet. Rights groups say it's one of the world's biggest executioners | CNN

Vietnam is famously secretive about its use of the death penalty. However, rights groups believe it to be one of the biggest executioners in the world and the biggest in Southeast Asia.

edition.cnn.com

This Filipina sentenced to death for only 5 keys @BMR Genie

Foreign woman sentenced to death for trafficking 5kg of drugs

<em>VietNamNet Bridge –</em> A Filipino woman was condemned to death yesterday, March 11, for transporting 5kg of narcotics into Vietnam.

vietnamnet.vn

 

[Tanko]

Wow. They seem to have harsher sentences there than in the US.
Thanks for the post flyingillini

 

[flyingillini]

Wow. They seem to have harsher sentences there than in the US.
Thanks for the post flyingillini

They don't mess around here with drugs. However there are crimes that people do where they don't get in trouble. Domestic abuse is not really a thing here. I remember i saw a guy beat his wife on the street and everyone was filming it on their phones and just watching. i was driving and pulled over on my motorbike when I saw the crowd , the guy beat her pretty bad, the police ended up coming and I asked a few people there what happens, they looked at me like what I meant, nothing happens for stuff like that. Lots of other stuff goes on here where nothing happens to you , but bank fraud, financial crimes and drugs you are doing time here

 

[BMR Genie]

No , nothing like that but for drug offenses it is a big problem. Other crimes not so much. They just made drinking and driving illegal in 2020 but if you get caught now you still get to drive off just pay some money. But drug offenses you are fucked.
Death sentence here for this drug trafficking offense

Six sentenced to death in HCMC for drug trafficking - VnExpress International

A court in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday sentenced six drug traffickers to death for smuggling 13.8 kilograms of synthetic drugs and ketamine from Cambodia into the city.

e.vnexpress.net

This is also a good read on what happens to foreigners after prison

‘Prison after prison’: Debts trap foreigners in Vietnamese jails

At least 16 foreigners continue to be held over alleged unpaid debts and compensation despite completing jail terms.

www.aljazeera.com

This foreigner got busted for selling E here, 18 years

Vietnamese, Scottish men imprisoned for selling drugs to foreigners in Hanoi - VnExpress International

A Vietnamese man in Hanoi was sentenced to 18 years in jail for selling drugs, and his Scottish customer and pusher got two years.

e.vnexpress.net

This is a good read on lethal injection and death sentences here for drugs

Vietnam keeps its death sentences quiet. Rights groups say it's one of the world's biggest executioners | CNN

Vietnam is famously secretive about its use of the death penalty. However, rights groups believe it to be one of the biggest executioners in the world and the biggest in Southeast Asia.

edition.cnn.com

This Filipina sentenced to death for only 5 keys @BMR Genie

Foreign woman sentenced to death for trafficking 5kg of drugs

<em>VietNamNet Bridge –</em> A Filipino woman was condemned to death yesterday, March 11, for transporting 5kg of narcotics into Vietnam.

vietnamnet.vn

Dura lex, sed lex - "The law is harsh, but it is the law". Sad truth.

 

[jjgold]

JJ, when we go to Cambodia to Naga World Casino, are you expecting to share my room with me? You need to get your own room, you are a grown adult, act like one Gold.

How much are rooms??

I am on a budget

 

[flyingillini]

How much are rooms??

I am on a budget

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www.nagaworld.com

I have a lifetime rate there you can get. $65 out the door, it is one of my favorite places in the world, this Casino is amazing, great location, tons of stuff going on, girls everywhere.

 

[flyingillini]

Dura lex, sed lex - "The law is harsh, but it is the law". Sad truth.

I actually have no issue with the sentences, it is what it is. If you want to play that game, go for it, just don't do it in a country where this can happen to you, pretty simple.

 

[jjgold]

USA needs to be more like Vietnam, as far as breaking the law

 

[flyingillini]

USA needs to be more like Vietnam, as far as breaking the law

Agree 100%

 

[stormtrooper8]

Man I need to return