Blue Angel - sock lady tip scam

[2dandan]

Recently took our 1st time Thailand visitors to the Blue Angel ladyboy cabaret show.

The show was OK but during the performance an elderly falang lady, wearing socks who sat in the audience continually jumped off her seat and put 20 baht notes into the bra of the performers during the show. She sat next to other customers and engaged them in conversation and was giving the impression that she was a customer who was enjoying the show.

Some customers took her lead and they too put money into the bra's of the performers, who unfortunately have by now developed a greed for the customers money, as they brazenly present a plastic container marked "tips" to every customer near the end of the show and expect everyone to put money into the container before the show ends.

When the show ends, the elderly falang lady who is about 65/70, short grey hair, open long sleeve shirt, grubby T shirt, keys on a neck loop, wearing socks and sandals hangs about until the customers disperse and then she pops back into the club and emerges with the "tip box". She counts the money, takes her money back and then shares the rest out between the performers.

So, beware the smiling sock lady as she attends every performance.

[nickinkip]

Thanks for the heads up, was going to visit the next time i'm in town...

[STEVE G]

...an elderly falang lady...

Are you sure it's not a man in drag?

[kendo]

Why Steve where you thinking of bar fining her lol.
Kendo.

[STEVE G]

I thought it might be a property developer who had fallen on hard times!

[hhfarang]

I thought it might be a property developer who had fallen on hard times!

[Lung Per]

Oh yes, there is som much sadness in this world....

[bozzman101]

she was sitting out side it other night smokeing a fag thinks it might be an old man with tits right sad looking old dingbat

[Super Joe]

So, beware the smiling sock lady as she attends every performance

Probably deserves every penny then

she was sitting out side it other night smoking a fag thinks it might be an old man with tits

Who the smoker, or the smokee?

SJ

[bozzman101]

hahahah depends on your definition of a fag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Spitfire]

She's probably just a basket case that they have come across and using for their own entertainment value who is completely lost. We all know how they love to parade the freaks here on TV and elsewhere all in the name of slapstick.



unless it's a case of...............

[Darth Babaganoosh]

Any current updates? Is this scam still current?

I was thinking of seeing the show while in town next week.

[margaretcarnes]

Don't know Darth - I kept an eye out for her after these posts and did spot a likely looking farang but not at the show.
What bugs me more is the fake monks who continue to wander the streets at night. I've seen them in HuaHin and Bangkok. Trouble is that tourists are easily taken in by this scam, not realising that monks only collect alms at dawn. I've even seen a 'fake' monk flash just a tiny plastic bowl for money while brushing past tourists on the sidewalk. A genuine monk would never risk his robes touching anyone else.

[bozzman101]

Don't know Darth - I kept an eye out for her after these posts and did spot a likely looking farang but not at the show.
What bugs me more is the fake monks who continue to wander the streets at night. I've seen them in HuaHin and Bangkok. Trouble is that tourists are easily taken in by this scam, not realising that monks only collect alms at dawn. I've even seen a 'fake' monk flash just a tiny plastic bowl for money while brushing past tourists on the sidewalk. A genuine monk would never risk his robes touching anyone else.

hi mags never knew about the touching of the robes ! can you explain more about this im sure a lot of us out here no nothing about this fact
cheers and happy xmas!!

bozz

[Darth Babaganoosh]

What bugs me more is the fake monks who continue to wander the streets at night. I've seen them in HuaHin and Bangkok. Trouble is that tourists are easily taken in by this scam, not realising that monks only collect alms at dawn. I've even seen a 'fake' monk flash just a tiny plastic bowl for money while brushing past tourists on the sidewalk. A genuine monk would never risk his robes touching anyone else.

Thanks for the tip on the monks. Korean monks are completely different**, and I wouldn't have thought anything wrong with giving a monk alms while out and about during the day. (**There are a couple Korean monks at the temple near my apartment that drive $50,000 cars; so much for casting off material wealth and living as minimalists)

I'm trying to keep up on current scams, and know enough not to rent jetskis and whatnot, and a few of the other well-known scams. Nice to discover a few more before getting "rooked".

However, having said that, I'm more worried about my short stay in Beijing than I am about anything in LOS. Other than the Tea Scam and knowing not taking cabs anywhere, I'm clueless there.