DrGMIA
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(One of my colleagues was in Laos last week using a rental Kawasaki KLX250 from Chiang Mai. He had checked into a small hotel along the river that had no secure parking, so parked the motorcycle on the street across from the hotel and locked it for the night.
The following is his story. It’s a warning for motorcycle travelers in Luang Prabang. These were very determined thieves, to load the locked motorcycle on a two wheel push cart and when it broke, return with another.)
Some kids tried to steal my bike (Thai rental) on my second day in Luang Prabang. It all started at 2:30am, some hollering and loud banging on the front door of the hotel woke me up.....
Drunks! Jerks! I'm thinking. Turns out that knocking was from the neighbor man living next to the hotel. He saved the day...and my bike!
Long story but it turns out two kids had loaded my bike onto a 2 wheel cart and were trying to make a getaway when the carts frame broke! The punks just left my bike on the street in that broken cart.
Ok, so here we are all standing around in the street at 3am in our underwear and pajamas complaining about crime and the state of the world when that alert neighbor saw someone a good distance down the dark street pushing a cart our way. It was the culprits returning with a new cart! He then started running after them screaming in his best English, "I have gun I kill people."
SHIT!! I think.
The kids dropped the cart, ran like hell and made a clean scooter getaway using every one of their smoky 50cc's!
The next morning the police came and made a written report.
Picture below is the police making their report and taking pictures of the rental Kawasaki KLX250 and the two abandoned push carts.
The following is his story. It’s a warning for motorcycle travelers in Luang Prabang. These were very determined thieves, to load the locked motorcycle on a two wheel push cart and when it broke, return with another.)
Some kids tried to steal my bike (Thai rental) on my second day in Luang Prabang. It all started at 2:30am, some hollering and loud banging on the front door of the hotel woke me up.....
Drunks! Jerks! I'm thinking. Turns out that knocking was from the neighbor man living next to the hotel. He saved the day...and my bike!
Long story but it turns out two kids had loaded my bike onto a 2 wheel cart and were trying to make a getaway when the carts frame broke! The punks just left my bike on the street in that broken cart.
Ok, so here we are all standing around in the street at 3am in our underwear and pajamas complaining about crime and the state of the world when that alert neighbor saw someone a good distance down the dark street pushing a cart our way. It was the culprits returning with a new cart! He then started running after them screaming in his best English, "I have gun I kill people."
SHIT!! I think.
The kids dropped the cart, ran like hell and made a clean scooter getaway using every one of their smoky 50cc's!
The next morning the police came and made a written report.
Picture below is the police making their report and taking pictures of the rental Kawasaki KLX250 and the two abandoned push carts.
