personally, I never understood why people DON'T put their wallets in their front pocket.

1) LESS uncomfortable.  Unless you wear extremely skinny jeans/pants, having wallet in front pocket is more comfortable.  Especially for sitting down, I can't imagine sitting unevenly.  That would deform my beautiful buttocks. and possibly create nerve damage in my hip/back.

2) MORE safe.  Putting valuables in the front of your body is ALWAYS smarter than putting it in the back.

anyone want to explain to me the other side of the story?  do people just get used to sitting unevenly?

SexNavigator, I don't know what it is about you but even this report sounds cut and pasted from travel forums. This story is common on Bangkok travel forums with the only changes being the ethnicity of the suspects.  I find it unusual that your father's friend would be targeted. These scam artists usually target tourists and for good reason.

Locals will always be in the same area and taking the same routes. A scam artist has a greater chance of being caught if the victim, who is a local, sees him again.  Tourists on the other hand sometimes do stand out in a crowd and won't be back in the city after vacation is over. So either your father's friend was really unlucky or you heard this story second hand and no one can verify it.

If your father's friend was Indian, then I doubly doubt the story because the odds are against it. Hong Kong has a lot of East Asians, South Asians and Caucasians who are all locals. The general rule for con artists not to target the place where they eat applies.  Secondly, and I'm still making an assumption about your father's friend here being Indian, if the suspect was Middle Eastern or any "brown person" as it were, I doubt that they would target this victim because the victim could himself pass for being any other "brown" ethnicity, possibly of the same ethnicity as the suspect.

What language did the suspect and victim initially start and then later communicate in?

And finally, you consistently make posts where 1 + 1 don't equal 2.
Your original post said: "One night, after work, my colleague was walking down from his office to his home in Wan Chai."
And then after being questioned about it where in the past you said you were in school, you change your story to: "I mean my dad's work colleague. I know him as a friend."
First of all, why didn't you just say it was your father's work colleague to begin with?  And secondly, you call him your colleague but then call him your friend. Those are different relationships there.

Honestly i come to wanchai during each trip to Hk and in 8 years (mean 35 to 40 trip)i never been robbed or get hurt in this place ( and i'm in the place rrom 1.00 am to 8.00 am), u can sometimes be in front of a drunk guy in a bar who try to get some troubles but nothing more. The Bridge bar was sometimes a bit dangerous early in the morning coz some drugs but i never been unsafe in wanchai compare to some place in Paris

Why on earth would anyone put their laptop down and let a complete stranger clean/touch them?

And your friend turned his back to this stranger too?

I don't know about you but I value my personal space and would never let a strangertouch me, even if someone dropped dog shit on my back. I don't want to stereotype people but if it was a middle eastern gent that approached me I would instantly be on my guard and back away from him.

And your friend is from India too, and not street smart?

It's good that he doesn't live out in the sticks like Sheung Shui where gangs used to smash bottles on your head and mug you.

Yes I concurred about the license. I have a foreginer friends who hold a license that cannot be converetible to HK licence.
So, he gets his colleague in India to make one. In HK, I believe if you hold a driving license from any commonwealth countries (ex-Brit colony), the transport dept let you convert it immediately.
Not too sure if they still accept this.

But I cannot concurred you are actually from India.

If you have an Indian licence, a Hong Kong driving licence will be issued. I checked it on the internet.

And dude, seriously?? Why would I wanna fake my nationality? And that also Indian.

OK this thread is getting way off track and serves no further purpose

This thread is now closed