Have you ever been caught up in serious trouble abroad?

janiep · 18th February 2011, 10:15 AM

Following on from the Greedminds in Bahrain thread, have you?

Mr P and I were caught up in the Madeira floods a year ago, which was a little hairy.

Anyone else got any stories about being caught up in large-scale bother?

AlpineExile · 18th February 2011, 10:19 AM

The odd civil war and genocide apart: no, not really.

Pell · 18th February 2011, 10:21 AM

once bought a body-bord and it snapped so took it back, had absoloute hell-on with the spanish shopkeeper n threatenned police action
she eventually exchanged it and as soon as we got in the sea it snapped again :*(

AlpineExile · 18th February 2011, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pell

once bought a body-bord and it snapped so took it back, had absoloute hell-on with the spanish shopkeeper n threatenned police action
she eventually exchanged it and as soon as we got in the sea it snapped again :*(

Admit it Pell: you're too fat.

janiep · 18th February 2011, 10:22 AM

walter mitty · 18th February 2011, 10:23 AM

i once pissed on a fisherman and got chased down the road by a tank in beirut

had to hide for a while

niknak_123 · 18th February 2011, 10:25 AM

Cyclone Yasi in Cairns. I got pissed at a Cyclone party and slept through it

Flared Hicks · 18th February 2011, 10:25 AM

mainly karaoke based whilst changing the lyrics of Elvis and Monkeez songs to SAFC based ones in various foreign bars

Harry Angstrom · 18th February 2011, 10:27 AM

I went from nepal to India but there was loads od=f civil unrest and people were setting themselves on fire in the street. (Saw that on the news)

Our train came into the station with loads of armed guards, so we fucked off back to Nepal and flew to Thailand.

I need to go back to India to see what I missed.

AlpineExile · 18th February 2011, 10:30 AM

I duuno if here counts as "abroad" any more as I live here, but when the G8 met in Evian I enjoyed three sleepless nights as 'anarchists' battled specially drafted in German riot police directly outside my apartment. The last night was the best as they managed to set the tarmac alight and I was left wondering how the hell I was meant to leave the building if the flames reached us.

I received absolutely no sympathy from work as I turned up more and more sleep-deprived each day.