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A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 1:36 am
by smokebreaks
A damsel in distress.

Well folks, the time is here for the update you've all been waiting for.

Sorry, I'm certain it's not going to be quite the same as the verbose tales full of rapier wit you may've come to expect from the Helogale Parvula cretin we've all grown fond of over the years, but I'm not anywhere near as prolific with the linquistics and I'm not certainly not about to meander along with a bunch of circumlocutory prose.

Well maybe I can palaver with the best of 'em.

Who am I kidding? That is obviously not my style and since time is of the essence let's get on with what you've come to see.

This morning my phone rang and it went a little something like this:

Brrrrrinnng.... Brrrrrinnng...

Since I'm normally surfing the news and already have the phone in my hand pretty much all the time and I couldn't help but notice the caller id displaying a weird number that appears to be foreign. I answered it. Now I know most people just ignore those calls or block the number or decline them, but when I see crazy odd digits, I answer it anyhow because I work with people all over the globe and sometimes on the odd chance it's one of those telemarketers I love to fuck with them. Especially the ones that call to tell you that your shit Microsoft Windows computer is infected with viruses.

I only use Mac. That's it. SSH64 is it for me so I tend to get them all frustrated when I try and explain that no, my old Power Macintosh G5 isn't capable of running Windows XP so they should fuck off and try the next caller or better yet, try getting a real job.

Have you ever had the Indian/Pakistani/Tech Support scammer get so irate that they start swearing at you? Hang up and the fun continues as they get so infuriated sometimes they repeatedly call back after you hang up simply because they want to have the privilege of getting the last word in? I've been called a Randee ka bacha so many times I have lost count.

Oh yeah, now, where were we?

Brrrrrinnng.... Brrrrrinnng...

Hello this is ….

(since my business phones, home phone and toll free lines all forward to my cell if I am not in the office so customarily I just respond with my name.

Hi …., This is Nikki. I got your number from ….

Why Hello Nikki, honestly, I hadn't been expecting your call but I am ever so happy to hear from you.

A lot of people are concerned about you and really wondered if you were okay. So good of you to call.

Since this was the first time I'd gotten a chance to speak to her since I happened to make her acquaintance about a decade ago being the nice guy I am, I made sure to promptly apologize for the night PoM had woken her from a sound slumber to summon a car to return me to my hotel so that I could be headed back home in time for Christmas with family.

After a few minutes of talk back and forth about that, we moved on to the reason we're all here.

How's Thomas, I asked. Well, she replies that our furry vermin friend, the Mongoose is about as good as can be expected, all things considered.

She says, he's a bit thinner than he was when she last saw him, a little over 6 months previously, and though when he's asked he maintains he's doing okay but there are indeed some challenges as one can surely expect.

I asked the pleasantry questions and was curious about food and putting money on his account so that he could buy stuff from a canteen like you can put money on account for people staying in the gray bar motel here in the states. I was really intrigued because of what I had read with the ability to order a pizza and what not. She said that you can't bring in any food, and you can't give him anything but yes they do have “junk food” not quite like the fresh fruits of the island market, or the culinary experiences of the five star resorts.

She tells me about the prison visitation, which is as one would expect, short twenty minute conversation via telephones, separated by glass. Pretty much what you see depicted in the movies.

I mentioned that I've been meaning to write him a letter to wish him well and tell him to keep his spirits up and she mentions that it won't do any good if it's not in Thai, it ain't getting to him, and that there are no outgoing letters. Guess he didn't get the Christmas card.

I asked about his spirits and though she says he's been keeping himself busy with some other farangi room mates but the time is dragging on.

So I asked about what I've recently heard regarding his situation.

This is what we know.

Mongoose is planning on fighting his extradition, however at this time that is posing to be a bit of a difficult situation.

Mongoose apparently finds that he needs a lawyer, and fast. And apparently as we can all guess pro se representation is not going to work. I enquired as to what happened to the counselor that I had chatted with shortly before christmas? The response was that was a good question. It seems that all the hoopla from the alternative currency community pledging support from the day the news broke of Mongooses' detention, has simply not materialized.

So I asked today what the cost would be for the retainer to take the case?

200,000 Thai Bhat, or roughly $5,700 USD.

Ouch.

How soon?

He needs to come up with the retainer ASAP, preferably no later than Friday, May, 21st in order to have counsel present for the hearing on May 23rd.

He has to have a lawyer or he's going to get shafted.

But the worst part is that Nikki, will also now be stranded without money in Bangkok Thailand and it's likely that she's gonna need help.

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 7:35 am
by Irwin the Troll
how about a gofundyourself?

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 11:59 am
by smokebreaks
Irwin the Troll wrote:how about a gofundyourself?
This is most likely the route that they are going to have to take to get funds together for his defense.

From what I've been told the past six months have been spent relying on the graciousness of hosts sympathetic to their circumstances.

It seems the illustrious windfall the US government claims Mongoose was the recipient of is non-existent.

I'm frantically working with a couple of others to help establish a crowd sourcing solution to this conundrum.

I'll post further updates in this thread.

To be continued...

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 12:40 am
by MadMoonMan
I could come out of re tirement.

Need expenses up front.

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 9:59 am
by Butcher Bob
smokebreaks wrote:
Irwin the Troll wrote:how about a gofundyourself?
This is most likely the route that they are going to have to take to get funds together for his defense.
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A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 11:11 pm
by Jesús Malverde
I really don't have anything charitable to say about Tom at this time so I'll exercise my better judgment and just wish him the best of luck. Because i don't hate him or anything either, just wonder about that boy.

A damsel in distress. Plural of Mongoose Update.

Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 3:53 am
by AGD
Didn't PoM turn himself in? Why is he fighting extratition then? :loony: