This is a
report published by Thai reporter, Stickboy Bangkok...
A few years
ago there were a handful of African guys hanging around lower Sukhumvit,
Bangkok, mainly at the mouth of Soi 13, selling drugs and pimping the
odd Thai
girl or two.
Then the
ladies of the night from the same continent started appearing with a pimp or
three not too far away.
Soon they
took up chairs at the after hours bars that lined the odd numbered side of
Sukhumvit from Soi 3 all the way down to Soi 23. And they just kept coming.
More and more of them lining the streets in the wee small hours with street
bars their new home.
Unlike their
Thai sisters, the black hookers are brash and brazen. And extremely annoying
with their sales pitch and man handling you in pack.
It is now
out of control and even with the street bars gone they still line the Sukhumvit
strip around the clock. No matter the time of day or night, you?ll find
Africans selling drugs and their bodies.
They have
even setup Facebook pages offering free drinks to those who mention their page
to the street walkers.
After
settling in down many parts of Soi 3, Soi 11 and numerous other odd numbered
sois now they are spreading up soi 4, hanging around touting for business 24/7.
I have witnessed cops stopping them and asking for
I.D. with one friendly officer even showing me the valid visa in the passport
as I stood watching out of curiosity. It was a tourist visa and after seeing
their status was legal, the pimp or peddler was sent on his way.
These guys
aren?t stupid enough to be caught red handed with whatever narcotics they are
selling on them. There are literally hundreds of these guys about and they are
either on their phones or introducing themselves to strangers walking past
minding their own business, ?Hey man, how ya doin??, ?Hey friend, you need
something tonight??.
I choose to
ignore them as I know these guys enjoy a scrap ? and they are team handed and
tooled up too with bodies appearing out the shadows at the first sign of a
confrontation. And that includes their hoards of women too.
Now and
again the odd shakedown by the police or military happens but they are few and
far between which is why the number of Africans on lower Sukhumvit just keeps
growing to the point it?s out of control now.
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