what's the sketchiest situation you've been in during your travels?

>>2794649 (OP)
>fly to america for sisters wedding
>land in what I believe to be one of the safer places (New York)
>Customs officer is huge black man named Buck
>AYO WHITE BOI WHACHU WANT WHY YOU COME HERE YA?
>Pardon me sir, I'm attending my sisters wedding so I'd like to go thr-
>DIS WHITE BOI JUST SAY A WEDDING WHERES YOUR DRESS TWINK!??!
>Uhm sir I am a man
>HAHA NO U AIN'T TAKE HIM BACK PEDRO
>Forced to put on a dress and humiliated
>AYO HOLD HIM DOWN TIME TO CAVITY SEARCH WITH THE BIG BLACK BUCK
>Screams go unanswered
>raped by 50 gorilla looking men for hours
>finally let go
>ALRIGHT WHITE BOI YOU DIDN'T HAVE NUFFIN HAPPEN OR WE ARE DEPORTING YOUR TWINK ASS
>parents wonder where I was told them I got lost
never going back

>>2794649 (OP)
My sketchiest situation turned out to be nothing, and it’s not one that anyone here will ever encounter, but many years ago while living as a broke backpacker and TESOL in an unpopular, mostly rural corner of Thailand, a friend (a pretty young American woman) and I accepted a lift home from a bar from a guy driving an advertising truck; these are not as common as they used to be, but it’s basically a pickup with a billboard in the back and loudspeakers.

Over the course of the short ride (not much over ten minutes), it became obvious that the dude was either completely insane, tweaking on meth, or perhaps both. He proceeded to tell us that he was not really an advertising truck driver, but a secret/undercover police officer, and if we didn’t believe him he could show us his gun.

>“Um, no, that’s cool… we believe you, elder brother… our soi is the second left from here…”
>Dude takes the first left instead, a narrow, unlighted road with rice paddies on one side and scrubby forest on the other
>We are now stopped in the middle of an empty field at two o’clock in the morning with a complete fucking nutter
>Let me show you my gun
>Psycho removes what appears to be a genuine pistol from the glove compartment and presses it against my thigh
>Feel it! Told you I was a cop!
>Wow, yeah, you sure did. You missed our turnoff, though, officer… we’re on the next road
>Oh! Sorry!
>Replaces gun in glove box, turns around, drives us to our street
>We get off at the end of the road rather than letting crazy see exactly where we lived
>He refuses an offer of money for gas, >we fucking run through our local pack of wild dogs to get inside

Zero rapes, murders, or robberies took place in the end, but there was a good 90 seconds in which I was certain one or more of the above was imminent.

>>2794649 (OP)
when I (American) was 16 I was stranded overnight at a train station in Liege, Belgium. I had plenty of money so I could've booked a hotel room but young me was pretty paralyzed and didn't want to deviate from my schedule (too much of a hassle trying to find a hotel nearby), so I decided to hang around waiting for the morning.
Stepped outside the station for a bit, walked around the block a few times, until a dude in his vehicle started following me, shouting things at me in French I didn't understand.
I wanted to disengage, went back into the station, but he followed me inside. I tried to see if there was anyone at the station that could help me drive him away but, alas, I was on my own.
He was a middle aged manlet and I was already 6'4 so I wasn't necessarily intimidated, just startled by the situation of essentially being prayed upon. He made it very clear he wanted to fuck.
He eventually walked off and nothing happened, but it was harrowing for a bit.
This was in 2005.

>>2794649 (OP)
Four drunk rednecks in a pickup truck pulled up on me and my roaddog around 2 AM on a Sunday morning as we were crashing out in a Missouri cornfield on our road trip across the Midwest. It might've been a scene out of Deliverance, with them being creepy and menacing, surrounding my vehicle, demanding weed and drugs from us. One guy got very insistent and began leaning his upper body into the vehicle - I was laying in the bed inside, my friend was crashed out on the roof.
>Would you PLEASE move back out of my window?
He backed up in a hurry and apologized right away. The other guys noticed something had changed, lost interest and headed on down the road. Thanks to Mr. Harrington and Mr. Richardson for helping me out in an indirect way.

>>2794649 (OP)
>just out of school, uni started
>first trip without parents, but with a friend
>to paris for a few days (just a 4h train ride)
>got tickets for rock band my friend really likes
>like half an hour into it concert
>hear something that sounds quick hammering
>confusion.jpg
>mass starts moving, ducking, running
>realize these are gunshots
>exit door near stage is just a few people away
>grab confused friend
>quickly out
>tfw been to Paris on the 13th November in 2015
89 people died there, literally just meters away

never returned to Paris, never will
never been to any concert again

Well nothing insane really, but in Fortaleza me and my friends walked from a restaurant near the cathedral to Iracema beach (we checked maps and it was like 15 minutes walk).

We should've known better, we are kinda well travelled, but we walked not too far away from where a favela started. Nothing happened, it was in broad daylight, just a few weird looks and sketchy attitude from some people.

I was shitting my pants a little bit, though.

>>2794702
Forgot to mention that we kept walking to Meireles area and suddenly it looked like fucking Miami

>>2794649 (OP)
probably get robbed by a guy with a gun on some backstreet at night in colombia. I was twice his size and thought about smashing his head but instead gave him my 5 dollars worth of groceries
Another time I spend all day hanging out with this mexican dude then ended up alone with him in the middle of nowhere and only then noticed he was covered in ms13 tattoos. again I was twice his size so I figured I could just squash him

>>2794726
aggressive begging isn't robbery

I saw 4 black dudes beat a homeless man unconscious with his walking stick. And then they tried to lure me and a friend into an alley

>>2794649 (OP)
Got ran out of town on the eastern side of the Sierras

>>2794816
Did you miss the gun

>>2794836
Where? This reminded me when I was a skinny clueless 18 year old in downtown Sacramento a group of darkies were standing down a side street and called to me to come over and join in on their blunt for 5 dollars or something and I said I didn't have money I probably would have done it too since I was naive

>>2794649 (OP)

not SUPER sketchy, but generally unpleasant as a result of my own nativity

Went to Paris without booking hotel reservation. was going find a hotel at the end of the night. boy did i find out how ignorant i was. It was 2am after bar closed and absolutely no hotels had any vacancy. i decided to walk around all night until i found somewhere i could maybe take a nap.

after hours of walking (now after 4am), i walk across a lit window and a notice people inside. a woman comes outside and tells me to come in have a drink.

i walk inside take a seat and order a beer without paying much attention, mind you i'm sleep deprived, physically exhausted from non stop backpacking, and still buzzed at this point. after a minute she's touching me, and i look around and i realize i'm surrounded by prostitutes!

i have never paid for sex- but it definitely was not what i had in my head as a brothel. there were girls of different ethnicities. they all looked miserable. it was definitely controlled by some organized crime. i can only assume they were being trafficked.

i had 0 interest in that, and immediately i slammed my beer and asked to pay. he told me that by ordering a drink i had basically reserved time already and owed them 50 euros. I would have dashed but the bartended was a big albandian mf and he also had my phone behind the bar because i retardedly asked him to charge it...

finally i pay with my card and rush out. i was so shaken up by the situation because i was so green to human trafficking at that point. we all know intellectually that it exists - sure - but to walk right into the midst of it was alarming to me.

anyway i got out after getting fleeced for 50 euro then walked another hours frantically. i remember just walking uphill for ages and thinking "i'll just rest once i get to the top of this hill". the top of the hill was the sacre coeur. i looked over paris at one of the most tourist destinations without a soul in sight. it was very memorable.

>>2794726
>I was twice his size and thought about smashing his head but instead gave him my 5 dollars worth of groceries
you made the right choice. Not worth it. that could have turned into a world of shit

>>2794649 (OP)
>let 19 year old slut convince me to go to some random Thai dudes house where her female friend is staying
>dropped off at the edge of civilization
>thai dude picks us up and drives us into tin shack ghetto
>7 lowlife tatted up Thai dudes are passing around cough medicine type of drink
>one hands me the drink and I take a swig
>my eyes narrow contemptuously and I wince
>he takes this as an insult and takes a step back with a “oh that’s how it is huh”
>teen slut and friend are talking off to the side
>I walk over to them
>the medicine man chats with the sluts friend and then walks away
>as he was away I see him furtively tuck a knife into his back waistband and flip the shirt over it
>panic
>bribe the previous Thai chauffeur 1k baht to drive us back to central pattaya
>we all get on and the I thank them for the drink
>the knifed medicine man gives me a sly look conveying “fair play farang”
>his friend tried to shit talk me in English
>what you say? Your brain not work?
>I just say “kob Kuhn Kup” and tell the Somchai “pai Laow” quietly with a hiss
>he guns it on his sup’d up little Motocye and I tell him to drop us off at a 7/11 on soi buakow.
>I hand him the money and he ruefully looks at me like he betrayed his own desire to scam me by accepting the money and doing as I told him.
>speeds off

The teen slut tells me matter-of-factly that her friend didn’t expect me to come, and that the plan was to drink together, and then jump me, rob me, and rape the teen slut.

She basically didn’t want to lose face by blowing her friends cover so I had to figure it out by myself.

Thais are alien Buddha chimps

>>2794847
Thanks. Still sort of eats at me a little

>>2794845
This reminded me of another story from when I was 18 traveling around California. I was in San Francisco and could not find anywhere to stay. I was hanging out at a park talking to some homeless guy and this middle aged guy joined in. Anyways he talked a ton and blah blah I can get you work blah blah I'll get you a place to stay tonight you can't be on the streets here it's way too dangerous, here light my cigarette, I lit his cigarette and he mimed putting a knife in my side 'this is what will happen to you in the tenderloin, then next thing you know they're pimping you out and have you hooked on drugs blah blah' so he took me to some hotel and greeted the receptionist 'linda baby how are you' and she was like 'you know you're banned here right' anyways I was totally exhausted and was sort of just going along with this guy because he was super overbearing personality but eventually I got the clue and got out of there. He definitely read as gay and I asked him and he said evasively 'I have a wife and kids at home.' egh that made me very uneasy walking around SF for a couple days.

>>2794649 (OP)
>be me
>be 16 year old and a little dumb
>have a long weekend off school and convince my friend to drive from Boston to Niagara Falls
>its like 1130 PM when we arrive and we planned n sleeping in the park
>went to see the falls, got too hungry and too many crowds so we just saw a shitty angle
>go to get Ching Chong food, as I'm walking in to pick up my order some crackhead is screaming at the dude and tells me that he's an alien (like ufo type shit)
>go in anyway and grab food
>we drive back to the park, the state trooper closes the gate after the car in front of us
>tells us to fuck off, we say we have nowhere to say, tells us to fuck off or he's going to keep us in a cell for a night
>asshole.gif
>we go to a casino, fuck it lets sleep in the parking lot
>some YN is walking around with a Glock outside, we go in and get kicked out immediately
>the car next to us has a couple shooting up heroin
>erm_okay.wav
>try to sleep
>maybe 10 minutes pass
>we hear gunshots
>no ambulance or sirens after 3-5 minutes
>car starts getting circled
>FUCKTHIS.jpg
>drive down some random street
>on either sides are alleys with no lights that just extend
>completely fucking lost
>in the middle of the road there's this car perpendicular with some YN waving us down
>in the side mirror I see a car turn on its lights and start driving up behind us
>never mentioned but we are in his moms nice ass car
>rip_car.mp3
>we noep the fuck out
>instant u turn and run seven to eight reds
>they are still fucking following us until we reach the highway
>called 911 eight times and they never answered
>jesus_christ.mkv
>end up sleeping outside a church in amish country Pennsylvania
the worst fucking part was we never saw the goddamn falls and his parents found out bc of tolls lmao

>>2794687
A nigger jeet flashed in flacid penis at me in a train station with 200 other people meandering about in paris year 2000. I guess they really think that children will just follow them willingly into an ally to get raped.

>>2794649 (OP)
was walking through the old Berlin Wall site and would constantly pass by some aggressive petitioners asking if tourists speak English. One of them finally caught up to me and forced me to sign the thing and was pretty much nudging my chest the whole time. Noticed his hand was covering part of it, so i wrote down fake info. Soon as I was done, he revealed the last part was for a donation so I kept walking and saying no. And he left in a huff and said some foreign german thing.

Other than that, it was one of my favorite day trips there

>>2795200
This is like saying you went to disneyland and the mouse costume guy was yelling too loud for you. Turn in your RealTravelerTM badge and gun.

Stuck my dick in a girl in Bali who got ran through by half the Australian miners

I genuinely have no idea how you people get in all this trouble. I've backpacked through dozens of shitholes and the worst thing that's ever happened to me is chasing off strays, knock on wood.

>>2794844
Washington DC. Ive had countless sketchy incidents skateboarding around DC at night as a teenager. We once took a wrong turn and came face to face with a tranny carrying an Ak-47 in a cul de sac.

>>2794649 (OP)
was in france when one of their strikes escalated into a riot, molotov cocktails and all that sort of thing. we were driving so managed to get away before it really kicked off

>>2795200
i was walking in the city yesterday, drunk. some guy standing in front of a table of pamplets beckoned me over, normally i would say no, but for some reason i felt compelled to talk to him, and so i listened to him talk about drug abuse and how his organisation is doing something to help it, i cant remember the details, i was very drunk, and after about a minute i started thinking, whats the catch here, what does he want from me, hurry up and get to the point, and then finally he asked for my details, which i was happy to provide, and then he asked if i wanted to sign up for a recurring donation, which was quite expensive and i said no. i politely told him to email me and i will read more about it when i get home, which i gladly would have, as his pitch was convincing and he sounded like he genuinely believed in what he was saying. then i stumbled away, looking for another bar. this was at around 11:30 am.

>>2794862
>here light my cigarette
Dude you never light another man’s cigarette that’s gay as fuck and an act of submission. Not a travel story but a good “commute” story nonetheless

>At Colorado A line station sitting listening to music
>fat Mexican kid and wigger whiteboy completely decked out in black (jordan black cats, northface, black jeans) walk down the platform on the opposite side and post up directly across from me
>have headphones in but naturally just staring at them
>the fat Mexican guy lights the wigger white kids cigarette
>my inner senses perceive it as something incredibly gay
>somehow the white kid is able to discern that I’m judging him from across the train platform without me doing anything but staring in his general direction
>he makes that gesture where you raise your hands up like “the fuck you looking at”
>I literally do not react and now just directly stare at him. I don’t move or say a word. Just stare
>the music is playing in my earbuds so this makes it easier to be non-reactive
>his gesturing gets more aggressive and wild and he starts pointing and flailing around, probably shouting but I don’t hear it. The Mexican kid starts trying to communicate to me that he’s crazy and that there’s a problem
>eventually he walks angrily to where you can cross the tracks and walks up the stairs to my platform and approaches me
>an old man standing next to me bangs his cane on my bench to signal to me that there’s trouble
>he walks up
>I talked the headphones out
>”dog what the fuck are you staining you got a problem?”
>”I was just listening to music man I didn’t know what you were doing”
>”aight man don’t be staring at me”
>”aight”
>he walks back over and sulkily stands facing 180 away from be until his train comes

I deliberately let that escalate by not reacting but I know deep down that white kid knew that having his fluffy Mexican friendly light his cigarette was gay.

>>2795489
I didn't actually light his cigarette I just pantomimed the gesture
Anyways this reminds me of being stuck in the Bakersfield train station.
>homeless black kid asks me if I have a lighter.
>hand it to him.
>He starts to light up.
>Dude you're gonna get in trouble
>Naw it's cool
>10 seconds later worker comes over and yells and kicks him out
Wonder what the plan there was

>in LAX about to fly to Mexico
>my carry on bag is one that I used from my last camping trip
>at the gate looking for my phone charger in the side pocket when I feel some metal things
>somehow I got 5 rounds of .40 Smith through airport security
>drop the bullets in the trash can before departing

Pretty sure they wouldve thrown me in jail in Mexico if I hadnt caught that one

>>2795915
thank god for the TSA and all the performative bullshit right lmao. i've accidentally gotten shit through the airport so many times it just wakes you up to the fact that even with ALL the shit, all the xrays and MRI machines and facial bullshit they are still shit at their jobs.

>>2794649 (OP)
That looks like a Carnival cruise.

>>2794851
>The teen slut tells me matter-of-factly that her friend didn’t expect me to come, and that the plan was to drink together, and then jump me, rob me, and rape the teen slut.
I have a hard time computing this.
The girl that pulled you in was also the target? Or was there two girls there?

I mean at first I thought to myself, good thinking you saved your own and some stupid slut's ass but now I am confused.

>go down to mexico to drink at 18
>two friends go with me
>one is a chill guy whos been to TJ a million times
>the other is a retarded wigger who's a fucking retard but we live with him so whatever
>we get to TJ and bar hop, wigger disappears
>we see him come out of a bathroom swinging, jumped by 2 spics
>spics go easy on him, we figure he did something retarded and deserved it
>turns out that yes, he tried to solicit drugs and they weren't fucking with it and he got aggressive and started a fight
>we go to another bar, smoking hookah with nice spics and drinking
>wigger guy wants to go back to first bar and wants us to "have his back"
>we tell him to just drop it and chill
>he doesn't, goes off on his own, promises not to fight
>later we see him with a couple similar wiggers having an all out brawl with like 10 spics
>wtf.jpg
>chill friend cuts his foot badly trying to pull the wigger out and has to go to the hospital while all the retards just get minor bruises and shit
>cops get involved and the wiggers all get arrested
>chill friend gets sicker in the hospital and i drive him across the border while he's puking all over my car and probably dying of sepsis or some shit
>have to go down again and fish the wigger out of jail because he has no money
>cops think im a faggot and make me pay double because i "violated some immigration law somewhere"
>see one of the other spics that was involved with the fight smoking bogeys with the cops
>lol.jpg
>go back to TJ again the next month, great times were had

>>2796204
>The girl that pulled you in was also the target?
you're assuming getting gang raped wasn't part of her plan

Bumps

Methcrazy ladyboy followed me home one night and tried to assault me, and I wound up hospitalizing him by hitting him in the face with a chunk of concrete after he tackled me. We were both about the same size (5' 10 / 180lbs)

That wasn't the sketchy part.

The sketchy part was the ensuing legal drama that unfolded as I wound up arrested for attempted murder and a big local scandal over a foreigner beating up a transgender as a hate crime, which isn't what happened, but that is how they reported it and that's how I was charged.

I spent only 4 days in filipino jail before I posted bail, but then had to live in the immigration detention facility (much nicer) until trial and etc. It was a real nightmare but fortunately my very expe site lawyer dug up the criminal history of the faggot who tried to follow me, and he had an extensive official and unofficial (barangay report only) of sexual assault and methamphetamine use and possession.

They still tried to go after me for hitting him with concrete, but all charges wound up being dropped when it was revealed he was carrying a knife in the police report. I never saw a knife so I guess I lucked out.

It was really fucked up. BTW they don't feed you enough in filipino prison, you have to pay someone on the outside to bring you food or you just starve. Prisoners starve and die from various malnutrition related diseases all the time, and if you don't have money you have to trade your ass, according to guys who were in there a long time.

Walking from the bus station to borodino museum.

Also walking to the moscow train station at 4.a.a and being joined by a russian guy who thought he shoukd protect.me. we saw a guy talking to a woman and he bothered them to show it was a prostitutka

>>2796537
>being joined by a russian guy who thought he shoukd protect.me
That's based though

>>2794851
>7 tattooed lowlives sitting around
This is the point where I would have left.

>>2794651
>/trv/ or closeted jeets fetishes

>>2796931
If you are welcomed with hostility immediately and don't know the people, yup.

>>2794905
Sounds like Niagara Falls lol. The whole place is a shithole, it's what happens when you give a beautiful piece of nature that people will always want to see to retarded locals without strict government oversight to preserve nature. Two minutes from a wonder of the world it's all tourist traps and ghettos, what a fucking shame.

>>2794687
How were you travelling in Belgium with a lot of money at 16? Rich parents?

Not super sketchy but I travelled to Gary, IN for work once. Absolute fucking shithole. Got followed by some guy shouting down the street at me. I tried to play it off by keeping my earbuds in and acting like I couldn't hear but he ran to catch up to me. He just wanted money and fucked off when I said I didn't have any,

There were crackheads walking around trying to sell stolen 10 year old phones and ipads and shit. First store I walked into a bunch of nigs sprinted out with their shirts full of shit. Walked to White Castle (we don't have where I am from) and a fat ugly tranny had to take my order and give me my food through an iron fucking door with a porthole like a fucking prisoner. Worst fast food I've ever had.

At the bus/train station there, I had to wait 5 hours for the train and a group of nigs posted up there were causing trouble. Smoking weed and cigarettes inside the terminal. They started harassing this other nig girl. She stood up for herself and they got in her face and basically threatened to beat her ass. I was alone so while I would've tried to step in if I had to, I probably would've gotten fucked up. Funny thing is, about 20 minutes later she went back over and started feeling on the same dude, then they went and fucked in the hallway. Guess she liked his aggression.

Conductor on the train was a little white dude who had more pent up incel rage than I've ever seen out of anyone. Literally screaming at the top of his lungs for someone having their leg in the lane on a nearly empty train. I didn't know the stops, so the train stopped just for me somewhere I didn't actually want to go. Guy was so mad I thought he was going to quit and just leave the train. No clue what his problem was. I was beta then but now I probably would have told him to shut the fuck up or I'd beat his ass. Literally talking to me like a petulant child.

>>2794695
Good lord anon, I'm so sorry. Please try to get some therapy or meds or something for PTSD, that's fucked up

>>2794649 (OP)
Was invited to a "party" by a guy in Transinistria. Party turned out to be in the ground floor office of an office block. They were eating fish and drinking beer. They were police/army. One guy had a pistol. Literally didn't know what to say/do. I was with an ex police friend and I am also ex army so we built rapport based on military and police tales and rank, translated on ny phone. Stuck there for 90+ mins before making our excuses and left.

>>2797742
That doesn't sound sketchy in the least. Probably just wanted to speak with a foreigner for the novelty and share some stories. I'd have overstayed my welcome, drinking and smoking into the late evening.

>>2794649 (OP)
I got way too drunk in Budapest and ended up separated from my hostel bar crawl.
I somehow wound up with these two guys who seemed friendly, until one of them started sticking his hand in my pocket and stealing cash. I could barely even tell it was happening because I was so drunk. I eventually realized they were gypsies, and got away, but they took 75 thousand Hungarian font out of my pocket.
I eventually found my hostel in a ruin bar at 4 in the morning.
Also after losing the gypsies I was approached by 2 different prostitutes with umbrellas.
Crazy night overall. I was very stupid to be that drunk, and to be carrying that much cash in my pocket.
Budapest is incredible though you should all visit

>>2794649 (OP)
I got way too drunk in Budapest and ended up separated from my hostel bar crawl.
I somehow wound up with these two guys who seemed friendly, until one of them started sticking his hand in my pocket and stealing cash. I could barely even tell it was happening because I was so drunk. I eventually realized they were gypsies, and got away, but they took 75 thousand Hungarian forint out of my pocket (about $220).
I eventually found my hostel friends in a ruin bar at 4 in the morning.
Also after losing the gypsies I was approached by 2 different prostitutes with umbrellas.
Crazy night overall. I was very stupid to be that drunk, and to be carrying that much cash in my pocket.
Budapest is incredible though you should all visit

>>2795200
lol I almost fell for the same thing in toulouse, france
put my name down for some beaners (from argentina or something) then they wanted money and were very aggressive
pretty embarrassed to tell the story but I had no cash and only a credit card so I stupidly offered to buy them a drink or something and they ended up dragging me around and got me into a fucking clothes store and tried making me buy them nike shoes or something.
ended up finally after getting dragged around for like 40 minutes working up the balls to say "I'm leaving"
they were not happy to hear that but I made it back to my hostel without having given them any money

I would usually consider myself pretty scam-proof, and I realized exactly what it was as soon as they demanded the "donation" but I just didn't really have the confidence to just say "No, I'm leaving" until I'd been dragged into a fucking store buy them insisting I buy them 100 euro shoes

but the longer I took to work up that confidence the harder it got for me. lesson to be learned, say no as soon as you can and just LEAVE.

>>2797861
>but the longer I took to work up that confidence the harder it got for me. lesson to be learned, say no as soon as you can and just LEAVE.
Yes this is how scammers and other vermin are. They sink their hooks in. Eventually you get to a point where say a woman is married to a guy and he nearly beats her to death and she calls the cops but then still goes back on it and drops the charges. Because the further in they have the hooks the harder to get them out.

I sore some faguts once outside restoront and fucking beaten them for being fagut

Thus was outside

>>2794649 (OP)
When I was 9 years old my family visited Greece. Some drugged out gypsy (or maybe a Turk or a Greek) on the streets of Athens walked up to us and got way too close to me so my dad pushed him and told him to fuck off. He was just in a daze and stood there as we walked away. Not sure if he was trying to touch me or what.
That's the whole story, I've never really been in any dangerous situations because I've only traveled to European and Anglo countries.

Meanwhile my friend has been robbed at gunpoint twice in South America within the past 6 months, once in Brazil and once in Chile.

>>2797861
>scam-proof
>got taken to a clothes shop by gypsies to buy nikes
>dragged around town for 40 minutes

>>2797742
kek, you missed out on an opportunity. nothing sketch about that, desu.

i remember getting smashed in a bar in Russia wth some cop, and he gave me some ID card thing of his. he kept going on about how he wanted me to help him remove snow from his garden with his snow mover thing.
made for an epic souvenir. vaguely remember our conversation going around in circles about removing snow for an hour or 2 before the sun came up and we just went our different ways.

>>2796430
What a shithole

>>2794649 (OP)
>>2794649 (OP)
>Meet international gf off of interpals
>kinda knew she was screwy from the start, but coudln't quite put my finger on it
>almost chickened out a couple of times from meeting her
>but I really liked her a lot. So said fuck it and met her
>First trip went really well, honestly the happiest I was with anyone ever. Beautiful, funny, smart...except her odd screwy tendencies. Example: Having a completely different opinion on something the very next day, like as if I was talking to a different person
>Didn't know if she was just messing with me, figured it was that. It really wouldn't happen often, but it could be just small mannerisms, like her gait would suddenly be different for an evening and would be oddly noticeable to me and very offputting. Keep in mind I'd been talking to her for a year and wasn't sure if I was crazy when noticing these things
>Time comes around for a second trip, this would be our last one before she moves in with me in my country
>Sometimes during conversation, she just zones out and freezes for more than a minute and her eyes go unfocused
>She starts to get help, but I'm panicking inside. I know you guys will think I'm a retard but at the time, this was the happiest I'd been with someone ever and these events were rare
>But it was becoming less rare, like every month
>she was seeing a professional but not sure what was going on
>Time comes around to visit her. Legit couldn't lie to myself, had a terrible fear in the pit of my stomach about the state of her mind
>Go see her, actually everything is fine. We have an even better time than the first time.. until the last week
>One morning I'm on my phone in bed and she comes in, looks super scared.
>"honey? weren't we just talking in the kitchen?"
>I never got out of bed that morning
cont

>>2799343
>Maybe its just her thing, and it'll happen once in a while but that's it. Days go by and I forget about it
>Notice she never asks about my country or offers to plan to come to my country or anything, but if you know her, me questioning her love for me in any way was massively upsetting for her so it was hard to talk about
>one night while we're at a bar, having a normal night
>Ask her, do you really want to come to my country to visit?
>Her response is she's just giggling to herself goes quiet.
>keep talking, no matter what she won't say anything
>zones out, unresponsive
>i start crying in the bar
>she starts laughing very shrill and strangely
>Know that I pretty much have to get her out of public at this point, just totally bewildered.
>she zones out and bring her back to the hotel, begins talking normally again
>Suddenly zones out again, but this time know something is REALLY wrong
>makes a mad dash for the balcony
>Restrain her
>She starts screaming and screaming, but whenever I let her go all she does is sprint full tilt at the floor 20 balcony
>gets super violent and attacks me like a 28 days later zombie, honeslty, I think if she had a knife she would have tried to kill me. restrain for hours until she is so exhausted from thrashing she physically can't move anymore
>call her parents and the cops after locking her in the bathroom
>tl;dr, next day we break up, almost got arrested, she had a psychotic break (?) never got diagnosed with anything to this day, she apparently lives normally and travels with her new boyfriend, never got any answers about anything at all
>got PTSD from the stress of it all

I have a few ones but none are that sketchy:
>be in Rome
>go back to my hostel late at night
>weed dealer come to me and we start talking
>make me smoke on his joint, strong shit, I feel kinda confused after a few tokes, but we keep talking
>small talk is fine until I ask "So are you here every night?"
>weed dealer suddenly get aggressive and tell me "Why are you asking me this? Are you a cop? Go back to your fucking hotel right now"
>proceed to do so
>go back to my dark room with three silent autistic Japanese guys and I'm high as balls getting paranoid about the weed dealer chasing me down the next day

>be in Elbasan, Albania (don't go there)
>have a fun random encounter with someone, head to the hostel during the evening while having headphones on, drinking beer and being happy
>suddenly a fucking stray dog appears out of nowhere
>it's not a regular stray dog barking a bit, this one shows teeth and is damn aggressive
>spill my beer on him and run across the road to escape without looking at vehicles
>the next day another stray dog starts barking at me in the same fashion for no reason, protect myself with a bag

And today:
>be lazy and keep drinking beers in front of the hostel
>one couple comes to me and start talking in Slovenian or Serbo-Croatian
>guy is tall and muscular af
>once we switch to English it turns out they want money because the woman is pregnant and hungry whatever
>give them 3€ so they fuck off
>guy wants more but see a friend across the river, starts shouting and GTFO, great
>a few hours later, go back to hostel to take a shower, drunk
>as I go to the trash bin in front of the hostel, I see these two fuckers again, the guy tells me something but I've my headphones on
>say "I already gave you what you fucking wanted, don't talk to me anymore" angrily
>go back to my room like a retard, now the guy knows where I'm staying
>once I go back outside, this couple is still there in front of the hostel but they didn't notice me
Yeah, we'll see.

>>2799305
Fair enough but remember this is Transinistria. There is very little room for error because if things went wrong no one can help you.

>>2794695
>wake up number 90...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rijZBlVDZU

>>2794851
always have your own transportation.

>>2796430
they wanted in that ass son
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wRa6i1zKA

>>2796430
how is it you were initially charged at all? i grok such miscarriages of justice are implied by philippines being a third world shithole but might there have been anything you could've done differently from the outset?

>>2798007
watch and learn
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hG3lAKm2g9c?t=909

>>2799345
Based crazy girl lover
>>2797846
Tell us more about the umbrella hoes and the glory of budapest

>>2794687
He thought you were a male prostitute. This was very common around that time in places like Liege, Antwerpen, Brussels. I can know i'm from that area. What did you dress like or did you walk funny? Did you ever improve your walk? Do you recall what he said? Was he asking "How much?" in Dutch of French? Man you must have been such a tease that he followed you

>>2800046
>the umbrella hoes
She stopped me on the sidewalk, grabbed my arm, and confidently said in her little accent "Sex! Blowjob! 30k forint!" Or maybe she said a different price, i can't remember. I just said no thanks and walked away. She wasn't dressed like a ho, she was wearing a big black coat with a scarf. Short pale woman with brown hair
This was at like 3:30 in the morning, there were a lot of people still out on the streets since it was a Friday night. And I think another prostitute approached me too in a similar manner that night but I can't remember the interaction.

I made a whole thread on the glory of Budapest >>2798140

>>2799343
sounds alot like my sister
>>2799343
>terrible fear in the pit of my stomach
i cant wait for the day i move out

>>2795479
that's happened 2/3 times I've been in paris, that's just what it's like there

when I was 9 yo kid I visited Morocco with my family. Some waiter at the hotel embraced me, said something and started crying.
Mabe not sketchy but still weird.

Most of the time it's just sketchy places, where what's happening is actually normal to locals and just seems sketchy to you as an outsider, like bribing a traffic cop in hanoi.
And sketchy is a bit different to dangerous, or criminal. 4chan is data mined to shit now because real people still use it so I can't really talk about dangerous or criminal.

sketchy is more like....homemade third world amusement ride, un-seaworthy ferry, souvenirs of endangered animal, prostitutes of unknown age, mystery white powder, bamboo pontoon bridge, strange local tour operator,