Gold Lad Is Sorry Safari - going home, still hooked

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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:52 pm

A rather long update ahead - sorry about that, but it's been a bit of a hectic evening, and I haven't gotten the chance to break it down to smaller updates, so here goes.

So far, the lad has travelled...

Accra-Ouagadougou. Distance: 479 miles or 771 kilometers (sorry PF).

When we left him, the lad was in the streets of Ouagadougou waiting for his designated driver to pick him up, and it was pouring down. But his driver, Dr. Mike, was at work, so I went and took an afternoon nap while the lad was being wet and miserable. Laughing

I woke up at 5 in the evening, and saw that Dr Mike was online - so it was time for the next chapter... after 5 hours of waiting, it was time to pick him up.

http://soundcloud.com/jabbahhutson/tony-in-ouagadougou-medley-i

Aaaand time for some more silence. 2 hours and 20 minutes, to be exact - during which he called my baiting cellphone no less than 12 times, something I must admit I took great pleasure in ignoring. He also sent me this mail:

Quote:

Dear luigi am very dis appointed in you, if i knew you dont have a plan for our meeting, i wouldnt have comez, have been going from one hotel to the other. I counldnt locate your hotel. Been in the rain since morning still now, your driver called me and i asked him to met me at the hotel silmande and he agreed, on getting there he asked me to wave to him so he can locate me. Since then i havent seen him. Am standing in the front of the hotel in the rain waiting for him. I travle from my country to surfer in your hands? That so bad of you and am really disappointed in you. Thanks

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Sent from my Nokia phone

And finally, it was time to call him back and ask what the matter was. Laughing

http://soundcloud.com/jabbahhutson/tony-in-ouagadougou-medley-ii

Can you believe that? He picked up the wrong persons! Never hire a Swedish driver...

Anyway, time to find out how hooked he was at this point - either he was going to turn back, or he was hooked enough for me to get some more mileage out of him...

http://soundcloud.com/jabbahhutson/tony-in-ouagadougou-iii

He seemed a bit annoyed with me (ah, the sweet sound of a surfering lad Laughing

)... but he also seemed like he could be convinced to go a bit longer....

...297 km longer, to be precise. So I sent him an sms with directions, and followed up with one last call to him for tonight.

http://soundcloud.com/jabbahhutson/tony-in-ouagadougou-iv

So that's where it is - he's going to be there for the night, in Ouagadougou, in the streets, wet, miserable, disappointed and angry, and he will try to make his way to me tomorrow. Only problem is, I will be occupied IRL all morning, and probably won't be able to give him a call until after noon. Let's hope he and his furious squire hasn't twigged by then... oh well, I can always tell him I was out filming the mating of the Wildebeest.. Evil or Very Mad

To be continued?

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:39 pm

A great result. I enjoyed the calls.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:00 am

Good going The Dane. Thanks for letting me listen in on that one call. Poor lad sounded like he was suffering from depression and sadness....and no umbrella.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 9:29 am

Here i am trying to help my southern neighbor out and all he does is criticize me. It is very easy to take the wrong guy, it has been done before. The whole episode reminds me of this guy. A guy coincidentally named just that, Guy.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:36 pm

Poor lad , all he wanted is to steal your dollas.
Instead, he ended up in this horrible situation Sad

How many times he said (pick me up, pick me up)?

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 1440

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That so bad of you and am really disappointed in you.

Surfer lad is sufering, standing in the pouring rain, waving frantically at strangers. Just visualizing it makes me Crying or Very sad

I'll never stop loving how lads, who are amoral criminals and thieves who would literally cut your throat for a dollar, manage to be truly hurt, offended and indignant at being told fibs.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:42 pm

The Dane should have told the fellow to take an umbrella and rain coat. Laughing

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:39 pm

There was another mail that I missed last night, but I don't want you to feel cheated:

Tony wrote:

Dear luigi,
I talked to your driver he said he cant pick me up tonight again and he said he was going to pick up camera used for today's work, i tried calling you but you arent picking, am really dis apointed in what happened today. Am in hotel now, i really need to rest, i dont know your plans againz, and i cant stand the stress. So it now up to you, bye

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Sent from my Nokia phone

As I wrote, I had a meeting this morning, but I did have time to write him a short mail with some more disappointing news...

Luigi wrote:

Hello Tony,

Again, I am terribly sorry about everything that happened yesterday. I didn't mean for any of it to happen.
I have tried to call you this morning, but you don't pick up the phone. I spoke with the hotel manager, and it is not possible for them to arrange for a pickup. So I hope that you can find a different mean of transportation so you can make it here to Arbinda. I will of course reimburse you when you arrive, just as I promised.

I hope to finally meet you later today.
Regards,
Luigi

The meeting was over faster than I had dared to hope for, so when I came home, it was time to call him.

http://soundcloud.com/jabbahhutson/t0ny-asam0ah-2012-09-06-time

He was going to sell one of his cellulars - great news! Later in the afternoon, I napped for a couple of hours, and when I woke up, there was 7 missed calls. After another three incoming calls and an sms:

sms from Tony wrote:

Good afternoon, called you but no answer, am on my way, when i get to arbinda, i will call you. Hope to see yu soon. It has been a stressful day. Thanks

Great, no rush to call him, then. Laughing

A bit later, he called another 4 times. Then shortly after, this sms arrived:

sms from Tony wrote:

Am at djibo but there is no car that is coming to arbinda. So am waiting for you to come and pick me up.

Again, it seemed that there was no hurry to call him - if he was in Djibo with no means of transportation, he should be left some time to enjoy the place a bit.

It seemed he wasn't interested in that, though. 15 minutes later, another 2 calls, and an sms:

sms from Tony wrote:

We are lucky to get a truck going to arbinda. am inside the truck now. i will call you when we get to arbinda

I figured I should show some sign of life, so I sent this sms back to him:

sms from Luigi wrote:

Hello Tony,
These are great news. I am filming in the Sahel Reserve right now, which is the nature reserve near Arbinda, and I can't answer the phone because if we talk it will scare away the animals we are trying to film, but I will call you as soon we are on our way back to Arbinda.

I hope you will enjoy the accomodation, and I will join you for drinks when we get back to the camp.

See you in about 3 hours.

Luigi

So, the lads stress is finally coming to an end... or is it? Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:47 pm

I am loving this. Hopes raised, dashed, raised again -- all the while getting further and further from home.

Thank goodness he has a big payoff coming. Otherwise all this stress and suffering would be for nothing.

Damn shame, that.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:47 pm

Sounds like your lad is in need of a Valium due to his stress.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:51 pm

4 hours later, I still hadn't heard from the lad. Tried to call him, but the phone seemed like it was switched off, so I thought he was in an area with poor network coverage. So I fired off an sms.

sms from Luigi wrote:

Hello Tony,

I haven't heard from you since early this evening. I've been trying to call you, but the network seems to be bad and there is an automated voice saying it is switched off. Please, if you get this, call me as soon as possible. Bob took the car and drove me to Arbinda to pick you up, but we couldn't find you anywhere. As soon as you get this message, call me on my number, we are waiting for you.

Luigi

Minutes later, Tony started calling me again. And soon after, I got this sms from him:

sms from Tony wrote:

We are on the road im a truck. almost there as soon as we get there we call you

And appr. 10 minutes later...

sms from Tony wrote:

We are in arbinda now

Time to switch off the phone. Twisted Evil

While I was discussing strategy with my two trusted henchmen on Skype, he now suddently called Bob (Dr Mike).

http://soundcloud.com/jabbahhutson/tony-calls-bob

And again...

http://soundcloud.com/jabbahhutson/tony-mobile-2012-09-06-time-23

Let a man have his supper, already!! Laughing

He also sent this mail to Luigi...

Quote:

Am in arbinda now, in the middle of no where, your number is not going. Where are you

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Sent from my Nokia phone

So it was time for Signore Luigi to call the broken lad...

http://soundcloud.com/jabbahhutson/tony-2012-09-06-time-23-49-38

Bob called him too, as he was about to set out to pick up the lad:

http://soundcloud.com/jabbahhutson/tony-bob-2012-09-06-time-23-54

Unfortunately, Bob hasn't been heard from since... and as I type this, the lad is frantically calling both Luigi and him. What could have happened? Confused

I guess we'll have to find out in the morning... it's now almost 11 PM there, and the lad will have to find a way to make it through another night, this time "in the middle of no where". Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 11:03 pm

Lad also sent this gem to Bob by sms.

Quote:

Bob am in arbindan thses people don't speak english and i dnt speak french,pls tell fellatio am heren i need to get of here as quick as possible.

Things are looking bleak for our lads. And he have called Bob several times this night. But to no avail, Bob is out of touch. He wast last seen racing towards Arbinda at breakneck pace in his car with a half eaten chicken in one hand and the steering wheel in the other. He was annoyed by having to go back to Arbinda in the late night, but at least he had his chicken. And that chicken was to die for.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 11:53 pm

Naughty Bob... I heard what you did there...

Ta mere est une pute; "Your mother is a whore" (if I got that right).

If he never calls again, that may be why!

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:57 am

Another hilarious safari! Laughing

Thanks guys!

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 8:16 am

You are absolutely right Yastreb. To bad he couldn't follow my instruction. And then he wanted me to tell a local. And that really wasn't an option.

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:01 am

I woke up after a nights sleep that must have been a helluva lot better then the one our lads got. Evil or Very Mad

I wasn't expecting the lad to be a happy camper today... and I was proven right by 14 missed calls (as well as 10 missed calls to Bob the Driver) and an e-mail:

Tony wrote:

Subject: This is bad

Am so confuse here, just thinking what kind of game is this one, i have a family in ghana, and i left them,i told you i dont have cash on me,i hve to sell my phone to get to arbinda,nw we are stranded here in the middle of no where, is this how you do business? Your driver is no where to be found, you said 30min now it 2hrs, i really thank you so much for wasting my time and risking my life,

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Sent from my Nokia phone

Time to give him a call...

http://soundcloud.com/jabbahhutson/t0ny-asam0ah-2012-09-07-time

I followed up with this sms...

sms from Luigi wrote:

Hello Tony,

We're half way between Gorom-Gorom and Arbinda, the camp is a few hundred meters off the road. As I told you, Bob disappeared and with him our car, so everything is chaos here. I'm going to speak with the producer and see if we can work something out.
Stay calm, I'm sure this madness will be brought to an end soon. I can hardly believe it myself, it is like a bad movie.

Luigi

I don't think it will do much towards keeping him stringed on now, but just in case...

So there you have it - the lads are angry, disappointed, broken, had to sell their wristwatch and one of their cellphones, are in the middle of nowhere, and allegiatedly the car that gave thim a ride yesterday "tumbled two times". It seems that they've had enough, as he said he is going to sell all his belongings to go home. I don't understand this at all... I checked on Google, Arbinda seems like such a lovely place...

Go figure... Laughing

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 12:00 pm

Quote:

i hve to sell my phone to get to arbinda,nw we are stranded here in the middle of no where, is this how you do business? Your driver is no where to be found.....i really thank you so much for wasting my time and risking my life,

Nice One, Borisss and Mike! Thumbs up

PS: This call is priceless: http://soundcloud.com/jabbahhutson/t0ny-asam0ah-2012-09-07-time

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 12:22 pm

get him to hitch a ride though some lovely part of the country

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 12:29 pm

Great work Dane, I haven't listened to the calls yet since I'm at work, but will when I get home.
Is there anything better than a surfering lad stredded in hash conditions?

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:43 pm

Just listened to all the tapes and then caught up with the forum after doing some google mapping.

Arbinda to Gorom Gorom Market, Gorom-Gorom, Sahel, Burkina Faso only 1hr 17 mins by car and he can "sit down” when he gets there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorom-Gorom looks a lovely place and they mine Gold near by.

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:26 pm

From Wikipedia about Gorom-Gorom...

Quote:

Its name means "you sit down, (and) we'll sit down", reminding of its role as an important crossroads in the Sahel.

Think the lad is going to be doing a lot of sitting down. And waiting. Lots and lots of sitting down and waiting. Laughing

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:33 pm

Thanks for the applause, guys. Allthough I wish I could keep this going as much as you do, it seems that the end is nigh...

Here's his reply to the sms I sent this morning:

sms from Tony wrote:

Tony, thanks, am not a fool,we had accident yesterday,i came all the way from ghana to exprince this shit,am not a fool and i will find my way back.if you care you will have been here.and i dont have confident in you again.am going back to my country,i have tried my best,and my families still need me,bye@

But it's been fun to bait this idiot, and even if I didn't get him to Kenya, as my original plan was, it's been a great couple of days, and a 1,000 kilomter bait is quite satisfying. I'll see if I can keep him on the string - I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work. I'll keep you posted, though, and maybe Bob will give him a call, just to get another rant out of him... we'll see. Twisted Evil

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:02 pm

Absolutely top notch, guys.

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:30 pm

As the plan for further baiting of this bozo began to take form, I decided to fire off an sms to him, to keep up appearances.

Quote:

Hello Tony,
I am very sorry about all this, and that you no longer have confidence in me, I can't say this enough times. I didn't mean for any of this to happen. If I could have my way, we would have concluded the business 4 months ago in Kenya, but instead I now have this disaster on my hands. I regret this outcome more than anyone, I can promise you that. Bob still hasn't been seen... and I think you would have contacted me if you had heard from him, so now our producers are arranging for a helicopter pickup, and also he is contacting the police and putting out a search warrant.
Are you still in Arbinda? We are coming to the airstrip in Arbinda in helicopter, hopefully in 2-3 hours, when the BBC helicopter arrives to pick us up, so I hope you are still there, so I can bring you my sincere apologies in person.
Again, I am terribly sorry for all this.
Luigi

After that I went to check on my folks, and have a couple of beers with my old dad. When I came home, there was 3 calls - one from an unknown Burkina number, one from the usual Burkina number, and finally one from the lads Ghanian number. No sms, though... but when I opened my mail account... Shocked

At 5:00 PM my time (CET):

Quote:

Hello Luigi,

this is devastating and i'm more than being surprised. What is this that you're doing, fooling me?. Oh no i'm so disappointed and i wouldn't blame you but i'll blame myself for trusting you without no second thoughts. So what is on your mind now because this seems to be a time wasting program.

thanks

At 5:16 PM:

Quote:

Hello Luigi,

I'm totally sorry about my last message, i was in such an unstoppable shock. I'm sorry about the driver and no one possibly knows where he could be now cos it was night, i'm so sorry. I pray God helps us in our search cos i'll be praying for him too.

You won't get into trouble, i believe that and may God be with you..
Hoping to hear from you
thanks and God bless

At 5:37 PM:

Quote:

Am so sorry about what happened to you and the driver,if that happened,my brother is very angry with me, i risk his life and mine, we had an accident yeterday on our way coming to arbina,we dont speak french and they dont understand our language, we sleep on the street in ariban till today, no car to go back to the city,how do you want me to react to all this, i sold my belongs all because i had confidence in you,am really sorry about bob, i pray everything is well with him, i will be going back to the city once i get a lorry carrying good. But if you will do this business, i think you will come to ghana, if you can get a chance to, and you ll pay me back all my expensicez, and all i spent ,this will show that you really sorry for what happened, but now, i dont know what you are and what you are up too. I trusted in you fellatio and you let me donw. Am really dis appointed in you. I felt so sorry about what happened to bob, i feel sorry for him, if you find him let me know. Am in ariban waiting for truck. Thank you for all this,

And at 7:25 PM:

Quote:

I think you are playing games, because bob number is ringing

All those little tidbits of furstration deserved a follow up sms... Laughing

Quote:

Hello Tony,
I have tried to reply by mail, but the connection is so bad, it drops every time I try to send it.
I know Bobs number is ringing, we have been trying to reach him for more than 24 hours now. I have had a dreadful day, we had to wait 5 hours for the helicopter to even come and pick us up, and we have all been in police interrogation since, because the police is treating this as theft, since Bob had valuable footage we took at the savanna with him. We are all very confused, and I am not too popular, since some of the crew says it is all my fault, just like you say. I don't know what to say, maybe you are all right, maybe this is really my fault. I don't know how I can make it good again, I will of course try to reimburse you for what this fiasco has cost you. But I must admit that I am confused about how a gold miner can run out of money on a business trip, I have never heard about such a thing before. I can't believe you didn't bring enough money for the travel. Nevertheless, I will reimburse you, and when I get home, I will also send you a replacement for the wristwatch you had to sell. Did you get a car out of Arbinda? I hope you and your brother are allright. Have you heard anything from Bob?
Please reply soonest,
Luigi

He's like Jekyll/Hyde right now. And I have a feeling that they're still stuck in Arbinda, so let's see what/if he replies. Laughing

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 1440

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i really thank you so much for wasting my time and risking my life,

I love sarcastic lads.

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we sleep on the street in ariban till today

Why is he complaining? A little hardship will make a man of him!

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