Beatings,ex boy friends/husbands and trouble in general

[steveboy]

Has any one here had any real adventures on any trips?
For example flying to Russia to meet your dream women only to run in all sorts of trouble with the ex husband in some far off city. Maybe you was having a good night sleep with your lady at he apartment and 2am the front door is kicked down, in comes the ex husband and a few heavies
Just wondering! Its Russia all is possible.

[Shadow]

Nothing more than seeing a rat killed. The rodent variety.

[steveboy]

Ooooo looks like nobody has had some real adventures here

[Slumba]

Has any one here had any real adventures on any trips?
For example flying to Russia to meet your dream women only to run in all sorts of trouble with the ex husband in some far off city. Maybe you was having a good night sleep with your lady at he apartment and 2am the front door is kicked down, in comes the ex husband and a few heavies
Just wondering! Its Russia all is possible.

Seems a little fantastical, considering the sturdiness of FSU apartment doors...

[steveboy]

One of my best friends from the same street married a girl from Samara, she is a lawyer her ex husband is a cop. It happened to him! He also had a fight with two cops in a supermarket, was arrested and handcuffed in the street, they tried to bundle him into the police car, for which he retaliated with a head but to one of them, knocking him out cold. After several hours in the cell they were finally ordered to release him.
He said it was an experience not to be missed

[mendeleyev]

Almost every arrest I've seen, and my closest cousin is a police captain, has involved blood and broken limbs. The only exceptions I've observed firsthand are those of high profile political types like Alexei Navalny, etc, and even then they have body bruises upon release from jail.

If not arrested, the police must release a person within 3 hours. If your friend had fought back and hit an officer, I think it would have been weeks prior to release and he'd have been seriously beaten in the meantime.

[mendeleyev]

No bad ex stories here: I have a good relationship, a cordial friendship, with my wife's ex-husband. He is a University professor, author, and we have a lot in common. Over time I've discovered that he is not the monster/drunkard/demon that my MIL still insists to this day. 

[steveboy]

Almost every arrest I've seen, and my closest cousin is a police captain, has involved blood and broken limbs. The only exceptions I've observed firsthand are those of high profile political types like Alexei Navalny, etc, and even then they have body bruises upon release from jail.

If not arrested, the police must release a person within 3 hours. If your friend had fought back and hit an officer, I think it would have been weeks prior to release and he'd have been seriously beaten in the meantime.

His wife is a lawyer and her brother has a high position and was able to get him released after a lot of trouble, Im surprised as well hes even still alive!
I was arrested once myself , but six months before made good friends with a guy in the FSB ministry of affairs or something, gave  me several cards and said if Im ever in trouble call him They let me go straight away at the station after giving them his card, I was with some bird at the time she said "How the hell did you do that"

[ML]

I was once struck repeatedly with a heavy pillow by a RW.

She wanted to 'finish' some more (already ten times or more), and I wanted to eat . . . actual nourishing food.

[GQBlues]

Ooooo looks like nobody has had some real adventures here

Yeah, well, that's the usual :::ho-hum::: occurrence when one doesn't penny pinch at every possible instances when on vacation searching seedy dives for two-bit$/night.

 

[steveboy]

Well I always think when in a foreign country you should take the opportunity to see how the others live, live like they live and generally see how life is. Not arrive and stay in the safety of the hotel, taking a taxi to a restaurant , do a few walks up and down the usual tourist haunts.
Visiting those seedy bars getting drunk occasionally with the locals and a whole load of other things really paints a picture of the country you are in. Which is probably pretty important in understanding your ladies culture and people:) And its all a life experience.

[Ade]

Well I always think when in a foreign country you should take the opportunity to see how the others live, live like they live and generally see how life is. Not arrive and stay in the safety of the hotel, taking a taxi to a restaurant , do a few walks up and down the usual tourist haunts.
Visiting those seedy bars getting drunk occasionally with the locals and a whole load of other things really paints a picture of the country you are in. Which is probably pretty important in understanding your ladies culture and people:) And its all a life experience.

Here's a funny thing;  my wife never hung around in seedy bars and neither does her close family so I'm not entirely sure how experiencing it would help me understand her or her family. Perhaps the people you hang with are a different sort though?

[steveboy]

It looks that way

[Hammer2722]

It looks that way

Hence, this is why many here don't take your posts very seriously. Last thing I would want to do is hang out and get drunk in some seedy bar where the odds of getting my ass kicked and robbed go up exponentially. I don't do it here, why on earth would I do it there? 

[Turboguy]

Well I always think when in a foreign country you should take the opportunity to see how the others live, live like they live and generally see how life is. Not arrive and stay in the safety of the hotel, taking a taxi to a restaurant , do a few walks up and down the usual tourist haunts.
Visiting those seedy bars getting drunk occasionally with the locals and a whole load of other things really paints a picture of the country you are in. Which is probably pretty important in understanding your ladies culture and people:) And its all a life experience.

I agree with you to a point.  Ages ago when I made my first trips to Europe I always tried to stay in small hotels where the local travelers would stay.  I got a real kick out of the differences.  I saw little narrow spiral stairs up to the rooms, elevators smaller than some closets that were hard to fit in alone with a suit case, toilets that had the flush tank up near the ceiling, bidets in the room but the toilet down the hall, a pillow 6' long.  Hotels that were made out of a row of housing units with strange passages to get to your room.  Really cool breakfasts and people who were very friendly and interesting to talk to.  I recall going to Bologna for a trade show with plans to go to Rome alone after the show but I hooked up with a lot of other Americans going.  I had planned to stay at a little Italian hotel near the Collesum  but they wanted to stay at the Holiday Inn near the airport.  I remember thinking how American and disappointing it was with no local flavor.  It was just like staying at the Holiday Inn in any American city.   I enjoyed traveling by train to and had some cool experiences with the locals on the train. 


I think the part I enjoyed most was not the landmarks but seeing what life was like somewhere I had never been.  However, going to a seedy bar in the USA won't give you much of a real view of life in America, not the life you would want to see and I don't think going to a seedy bar in the FSU is going to have you meeting the kind of people you would want to meet to get a cross section of life in the FSU.

[TS]

If you search around on this website in old posts, you will find some guys having issues with ex boyfriends.
I found when living in Ukraine the police to be very helpful for the most part.  Just like in the USA you have some good cops and some bad cops. 
Seedy bars probably not the best place to find a future wife. 
 

[steveboy]

Hence, this is why many here don't take your posts very seriously. Last thing I would want to do is hang out and get drunk in some seedy bar where the odds of getting my ass kicked and robbed go up exponentially. I don't do it here, why on earth would I do it there? 

Some guys here have NO sense of humour!! Have you ever heard of "Taking things with a pinch of salt"? I never actually coined the phrase "Seedy bar" It was someone else in the thread .I was more pointing to a "Normal bar" any locals from the neighbourhood would attend. If your a local women from some out of the centre neighbourhood , Im sure some times she would of attended a local bar or club with friends. But there are also plenty of toffee nosed women who would not even lower them selfs to step in a local bar. It would be deemed to low. Just one of the facts I was pointing out.

As for no body taking me serous I really don't give a fig! We are all allowed to voice our opinions I have spent nearly 10 years in Eastern Europe
having some great time, met some great people and know some great people.

And the same goes for my web site, I really don't give a fig who criticise it:) I thousands of happy members, hundreds and hundreds returning each month, and hundreds of new members every week, a few guys here trying to pick faults is expected on a forum like this. Its just old hat!

I know for one thing, I never talk bullshit:)

[die_cast]

Visiting those seedy bars getting drunk occasionally with the locals and a whole load of other things really paints a picture of the country you are in. Which is probably pretty important in understanding your ladies culture and people:)

Visiting seedy bars and getting drunk there hardly could help any man to understand my culture.   
But it can help me to understand what kind of man I'm in relationship with. 

[steveboy]

Visiting seedy bars and getting drunk there hardly could help any man to understand my culture.   
But it can help me to understand what kind of man I'm in relationship with. 

Seems what ever I say in this place falls on deaf ears!!!

[Turboguy]

Seems what ever I say in this place falls on deaf ears!!!

Nah, we just have selective hearing and hear what we want to hear and let the rest go over our heads.   


BTW, nice post Die Cast

[steveboy]

  I noticed!! But I have also noticed another more important thing on this forum, lots of new guys who join soon get pi**** off with the attitude and remarks they receive on here and leave never to come back even if some are jerks anyway.! Not exactly the best way to promote the place.
It also seems to be the same guys stuck on here day after day, like a little "social know it all circle"   

Just saying.

[Muzh]

[LiveFromUkraine]

I was poisoned by some vodka in a night club in Odessa.  I must have went outside to get some air, hurled, passed out and cops dragged me in.  Who knows, the cops could have been working with the bartenders at that club.  They were pretty fast on location if you know what I mean.


My brother in law ended up getting me out by giving up his phone.  The cops already took my cash that was on me.   Expensive night for me after buying the BIL a new phone.


My brother in law said it was probably home made vodka the bartenders try to serve up in clubs to pocket the cash. The whole group was sick after one shot.   It took me a week to before I was feeling physically better.


I got food poisoning in India as well but that is part of the normal tourist experience.   

[Boethius]

Just as possible your group was targeted because of the foreigner among them.  That would explain why the police were there quickly.  The Odesa police are probably the most notoriously corrupt in Ukraine.

[LiveFromUkraine]

Just as possible your group was targeted because of the foreigner among them.  That would explain why the police were there quickly.  The Odesa police are probably the most notoriously corrupt in Ukraine.

Yeah, we thought it might be that as well.   This was the end of the summer and there wasn't many people in Arcadia at the time.  I stood out more than usual because of that.


Besides that, I didn't have any troubles.  I never fully felt relaxed, though, like I would at home.