2 SAFARIS. Deported from Chad; then to Northern Benin.

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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:11 pm

Pierre the motorcycle taxi rider perched sideways on his seat, feet in the gutter, smoking. Was this Ghanaian mad, he wondered. Pierre knew Parakou back to front and he knew that there was no S@fari Hotel in the city. The Ghanaian had dragged Pierre to an internet cafe and shown him the website. There it was, in Parakou. Pierre could not understand it. It was nonsense. Anyway, why should he care. The Ghanaian would be royally fleeced for the 2 hours they had so far wasted, riding around the dusty streets on a wild goose chase. Now, he was on his phone again, talking to one of his strange Western friends. What was it all about? Pierre couldn't care less. Like everyone else in the city, he just wanted his money.

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"Sir, the hotel has moved to another city. Someone forgot to update the webpage"

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I arrived Parakou for more than two hours now and I hired motorcycle looking for hotel with the address you sent to me but no hotel within that address in Parakou bear that name. I have gone every where no one agreed that such hotel name exist. I called your two Nigeria phone numbers all is switched off even the Benin phone number you used to call me last was also off. Please give me the correct name of the hotel and Mr. Randi phone number so that I can call him for direction

Lad's Travels. Accra - Cotonou: 210 Miles Flight.

Lad's Travels. Cotonou - Parakou: 270 Miles by Taxi.

ITINERARY:

8 January. Gilbert flies from Accra to Cotonou.
8 January, pm. Gilbert lands in Cotonou and tries to hire a taxi car to drive him the 270 miles to Parakou. No driver is prepared to drive through the night, so Gilbert passes the night somewhere in Cotonou.
9 January, am. At 0600 hrs, Gilbert leaves Cotonou in a hired taxi car.
9 January, pm. At 1500 hrs, after a 9 hour drive, Gilbert is dropped off in Parakou. Unable to connect with Geoffrey or Randy by phone, in desperation, Gilbert hires a motorcycle taxi to ride him around the city, searching for the hotel.

THE AUDIO
https://soundcloud.com/scammer-saturday-10-pt2/gilbert-in-benin-day-one

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The Players:

Travelling Lad: Gilbert from Accra.
Chad Hotel Manager: Mr Babangoh.
Parakou (or is it?) Hotel Manager: Mr Randy.
Gold Assayer: Mr Salami.
Hotels Owner: Mr Geoffrey.

Thanks to:

Britannicus, who back in September, realised that the huge amount of money at stake ($624 000) could be the lever to get this Lad to travel more extensively than I had originally considered. He was right. Britannicus has invested considerable effort in this Bait over the past 4 months. He rightly shares this Pith Helmet.

Big Al, who was already baiting Gilbert. We realised that the more Baiters who were into the Lad, the less likely he would be to travel. Thanks again to Al for dropping Gilbert for us.

Dr Mike, who has (again) adopted the persona of Mr Salami. Like much of the activity in Parakou et environs, this is deja vu from the 2011 Hell Safari (link in my signature, below).

...and finally, let's leave the last word to Gilbert...

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Attn: Mr. Geoffrey,

I got it. I will be in Djougou in the morning tomorrow. Good night.

Regards,

Mr. Gilbert

NB: Please do bear in mind that Main Forum is not behind a login and that anything posted here is open to Google and other search engine crawlers. Please don't post any keywords that could lead a suspicious Lad here.

If you enjoy this work, please do post in the Thread. Everyone is welcome, new or longer-serving Baiters. This helps to keep it alive. Thank you. Cool

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:14 pm

It is always a pleasure to speak to a lad on safari.

Good work as always TM

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:26 pm

If I'm right this is either no. 4 or 5 this is a phenomenal rate Very Happy

keep up the good work I can't wait for 100

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Sep 2013 Posts: 2205

Someone should really have a word with the SH webmaster. That was a careless mistake on their part. Very Happy

I suspect the adventures are just beginning for this lad.

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:32 pm

I can't believe it! Quite by chance I have just finished reading the HELL safari - brilliant BTW. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! I just love the SH concept. Pity no bugger can find it banghead

Well done everyone, you're a top team bow_down

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:34 pm

I think I die of laughter every time I hear Britannicus say the name of the Hotel Manager.

Great work guys!

Baiting Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2010 Posts: 3876

as I wrote to you in skype, congratulations for your fourth safari this year (when I started writing, it was january 9th, now it's the 10th).

I'm very impressed, I'm not sure, if any baiter ever conducted that many safaries in such a short periode of time.

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 11:16 pm

As I mentioned to TM previously, this is a migration, not a safari.
Amazing work gents.

Laughing

Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 11:31 pm

Ah, travel. The way to broaden your mind, expand your experiences, open your eyes to other cultures.

Lovely TM beers!

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:02 am

Yes, a lot better life experience than being sat on your arse at home in front of a computer. Enjoy.

Smile

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:03 am

S4fari Hotel tales have brought back memories of adverts for the resort built by notorious 1980s fraud star Christopher Skase - the Sheraton Mirage Hotel at Port Douglas in Queensland; the slogan was "Too Good To Be True".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPvTpGk1_Ps

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:11 am

Another one??? This is sick!!!
Shocked

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:12 am

"You are a stupid idiot man" Laughing

ETA: Where is Mr. Salami hiding? Razz

Wannabe Baiter Joined: 17 Aug 2014 Posts: 90

Just epic....surely nothing will go wrong in djougou Laughing

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:48 am

Such a wonderful itinerary!

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 1:19 am

Just awesome! You guys are a well-oiled Safari machine!

Elite Baiter Joined: 17 Jun 2015 Posts: 1738

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"You will go out of your way to find us"

Indeed, I do keep looking for more 'Tales from the S@fari H0tel' Very Happy

Am I the only one walking round trying to do a "Mr Babang0" impersonation?

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:19 am

Thursten3rd wrote:

Where is Mr. Salami hiding? Razz

In the Sandwich Islands.

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If you come and work at the hotel ... sometimes we have guests who are from Algeria ... if you are cleaning their toilet, they will expect you to kneel down...

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:33 am

^

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 5:37 am

TM...I have asked you to be considerate of the other posters on this site past and for whatever reason you have not been doing so recently when making these posts. I want you to remember that some of us drink liquids while listening to your recordings and it is not fun when those liquids come out of our nostrils because of something you say. Laughing

So in the future a drink warning would be appreciated.

With that said, could you provide a link to the calls where you tell the lad about people from Tunisia & Algeria as well as the one that your cohort tries to chop? It would be most appreciated and all would be forgiven.

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:59 am

I've lost track of how many safaris TM and Mr. B have pulled off lately. I love the latest version of "bad network", hilarious. Hopefully this lad stays on the move!

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:33 am

Unbelievable......and you are just about to do it again? Cool

Congrats!

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Attn: Mr. Geoffrey,

I got it. I will be in Djougou in the morning tomorrow. Good night.

Regards,

Mr. Gilbert

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:39 am

S.H. has yet another (dis)satisfied customer. Laughing

Another great safari, guys.

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:31 am

What can be said that hasn't already been said? You are a literal baiting machine! This is shaping up to being an unbelievable year!

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:57 am

On return to Accra, Ghana, Gilbert composed himself rather quickly after the futile trip to Chad. Psychologically, he appeared to be in that place gamblers find themselves in when they have lost a considerable amount in a first sitting at the casino. Now, that which was lost had to be "won back", and this could only be achieved by staying in the game. - Sympathetic to his cause, Mr Geoffrey and Mista Babangoh rearranged their schedules to fix a new meeting; this time in French-speaking Benin, which would hopefully greatly facilitate Mr Gilbert's endeavours to locate SH there. - Once again on the move, therefore, the journey by plane from Accra, Ghana to Cotonou, Benin was an expensive one but did not take too long. However, that was less than half the distance he needed to cover. For some strange reason the meeting was to take place in Parakou, a rather impractical location for Mr Gilbert as it was a long stretch in the northerly direction that had to be travelled by road. If one didn't know better, one could be under the impression that fate was conspiring to inconvenience him. On the plus side, though, Mr Geoffrey and Mr Babangoh were already in Parakou, or thereabouts, to conclude the $624000 gold (or)deal. More later ...

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