måndag 26 december 2011

Robbery and Vietnamese police

The past few days have been dramatic, to say the least. The second day in Vung Tau started with me being robbed of my bag (containing pretty much all my valubles), me panicing and Diana screaming "police, police" (again using the charads) to attract everybodys full attention, us finally finding the "police station" (read: one table, two chairs, one hammock and a vollyboll pitch), us desperately trying to retell what had happend (I guess you can all see the scene in front of you, me hysterical ripping Dianas bag repeating "stolen, stolen"), us finally getting the non English speaking policeman to get a translator (maybe the only English speaker in the city) and explained for the thousand time what had happend, us getting lift from the two policemen on motorbikes to a second "police station" (looking pretty much the same as the first one, but with a filing cabinet full of unorganized reports, very convincing) and the police to finally start writing a report in Vietnamese while constantly smoking a cigarette looking very grim (as we woke him up from his nap in the hammock).

Finally, after many hours spent with the Vietnamese police we left the station empty handed. Apparently insurance companies are a rarity in Vietnam and the grim policeman couldn't understand why we kept on insisting for a report (how do you explain "insurance company" using charades..?).

Well, I can't say we slept well that night, knowing that the theives had our key to the hotel room along with all the other valubles. I'm still crying inside when I think about long busrides without beeing able to play tetris on the phone, listen to my music and use facebook/skype whenever WiFi becomes available :(

Anyway, luckily nobody got hurt and the passports were in safe hands by the hotel receptionists. Yet another story to tell the grandchildren I suppose (god, they'll be tired of stories).

1 kommentar:

  1. Vad ska man säga? Laglösa finns det överallt, det kunde lika gärna hänt i London, Göteborg eller varför inte - Mjölby! Känns skönt att ni är två som reser och att ni inte låter ett litet "robbery" förta lusten att resa /Thomas

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