mackem 27,828 Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 US woman accused of baby smuggling in Philippines - BBC News WWW.BBC.COM The 43-year-old was stopped at Manila airport, allegedly with a six-day-old boy in her carry-on... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 27,828 Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 Mabuhay sa pinas ‘It’s not that I want to sell my kid. I just need money’: The Philippine mothers who sell their babies WWW.CHANNELNEWSASIA.COM In the Philippines, some new mothers who feel they cannot raise their own babies sell them... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chartpolski 24,836 Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 I knew Philippinos who bought birth certificates, passports, school certificates, genuine ones, saying they were older than they really were, so they could work in Saudi. You had to be at least 25 at the time. When they neared the compulsory retirement age of 58, they simply bought new documents saying they were younger ! Cheers. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 47,971 Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 10 hours ago, mackem said: Your mate was probably in Angeles, maybe Boracay or Puerto galera but my money is on Angeles. I know a case where a friend bought a new born baby for the equivalent of £10 I think from the child's bar girl mother, a year later the birth mother was trying to sell another new born child, it's an odd place, strictly Catholic but massive hypocrisy with prostitution and a legal sex age of 12, huge amount of homosexuals, crazy place. That’s exactly where he was mate, my other pal has a home on Boracay and is married to a girl from there for 15 years now. He lives and works in England but retains his place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 27,828 Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 2 hours ago, chartpolski said: I knew Philippinos who bought birth certificates, passports, school certificates, genuine ones Yup,Filipinos have a standing joke about a place called "Recto University" where you can graduate and be anything you want, it's really a counterfeiters area on Recto Avenue, Victorino Chua the filipino nurse who murdered patients in Manchester a number of years ago bought his degree from there. Philippines is actually the best place in the world to fake your own death and emerge as someone new with all of the paperwork, there's a good book called "Playing Dead" based on it, I might even have known a bloke from surrey who did it, I always had my suspicions, he died on a two week holiday, his wife returned to UK with his ashes, I even went to his service, then his wife returned to the Philippines with the insurance money and was never heard of again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 27,828 Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 43 minutes ago, WILF said: That’s exactly where he was mate, my other pal has a home on Boracay and is married to a girl from there for 15 years now. He lives and works in England but retains his place. Most western bar owners generally buy in the 3 places I mentioned because its where most western men head, Angeles is like a down market pattaya, super sleazy, there's a street there called fields avenue, nicknamed blow row because it specialises in blow-job bars. Boracay used to be incredible 30 years back, nowadays it's packed and polluted, Duterte closed it down for six months to try and clean up the pollution as in his words "It stinks of shit". 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken's Deputy 4,460 Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 10 hours ago, mackem said: its a strange old world Astonishing! Fukking world Within the world! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 27,828 Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 12 minutes ago, Ken's Deputy said: Astonishing! Fukking world Within the world! It's the layer cake mate, people operating in a grey world far removed from normalcy, strange things happen everywhere but most are unaware unless they are involved in it.Filipinos are strict catholics,no abortion, better to be adopted than born on the streets and eventually abandoned, I took this pic about 20 years back, street kid sleeping in the shade, sad life. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 26,956 Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 dont know how lucky we are do we really.. 9 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 27,828 Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 6 minutes ago, TOMO said: dont know how lucky we are do we really.. We are living on easy street mate,compared to millions around the world 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLATTOP 4,558 Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, mackem said: We are living on easy street mate,compared to millions around the world I see that kind of poverty in India kids just hanging around train stations, as I work in the rail industry I wanted to travel on their railways what an experience that was I purposely travelled on the lowest rate ticket to get the real experience, but I was amazed as to what a magnet train stations are, a kind of security blanket. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 27,828 Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 3 minutes ago, FLATTOP said: I see that kind of poverty in India kids just hanging around train stations, as I work in the rail industry I wanted to travel on their railways what an experience that was I purposely travelled on the lowest rate ticket to get the real experience, but I was amazed as to what a magnet train stations are, a kind of security blanket. Yup, Indian train journeys are quite an experience, did you ever get the Taj express from Delhi to agra?The good thing about Indian trains was the chai wallahs who get on selling tea and foods, the thing I didn't like on the old trains were the bars on the windows. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLATTOP 4,558 Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 10 minutes ago, mackem said: Yup, Indian train journeys are quite an experience, did you ever get the Taj express from Delhi to agra?The good thing about Indian trains was the chai wallahs who get on selling tea and foods, the thing I didn't like on the old trains were the bars on the windows. I travelled mainly in the south, I did experience the old trains with the bars does make you think if it all goes wrong how you getting out but saying that whilst on a train in Sri Lanka we went over a bridge with a huge river underneath and the doors were open and I was just clinging to a handrail looking downwards that was a bit of a concern lol. I also remember a trip in India my wife and myself were on a carriage and it seemed to be full of youngish males and she felt very uncomfortable they were just staring at her loads of them lol in the luggage compartment ect so I just resorted to the old East End charm alright lads how we all doing then it broke the ice immediately and before you know it there all doing Del Boy impressions But yep good point about the Chai Wallahs I loved how they walk through with the big urn chai chai chai you can eat and drink very cheaply on them trains, I was talking to a lad who travelled from Nepal to the South for work and said he had to be very careful with the chai as they sometimes put a sedative in it to make them sleep and they have all thier seasons earnings away. I have missed travelling the last couple of years must get my finger out this year. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 27,828 Posted March 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 Life is indeed a journey mate, the normal people you meet on trains, all with different lives, experiences, and stories, interesting to read about the Nepalese guy you met and the drugged chai, it reminds me of drugging tales I heard in Thailand and the Philippines,as TOMO said, we in the west don't realise how lucky we are 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
green lurchers 16,853 Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 18 hours ago, mackem said: Nope, count me out, just got my two off my hands financially (I hope), life is now good Therl come back to haunt your pockets 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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