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Kampong Speu, Cambodia - a police officer was swimming in a pond near the road when another police officer started staring at the swimming officer.
The officer in the water didn´t like the glares of the other officer and a heated argument broke out. Soon after, the officers drew their guns and started shooting at each other.
The police officer in the water was shot and severely injured in the shootout. District police condemned the actions of the police, saying that they should be good examples to society.
Source: www.phnompenhpost.com
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Imagine
what the dialogue must have been like..."Are you looking at me?"
Other news from the blotter today-
Jealous wife scalds cheating husband. A woman found out her husband had a new girlfriend so she threw boiling water on him. Neighbors called the woman crazy because even though he had a new girlfriend, he was the one putting the bread on the table.
(note: it is common for a Cambodian man to have a wife and a girlfriend (sometimes more than one girlfriend) and often the wife will know about the girlfriend. My fiance´s mother has a husband and a boyfriend and her boyfriend is married to another woman and her husband has another girlfriend....talk about non-stop crazy drama. And my fiance wonders why I never want to go to her mother´s house.
by: shaohu 02/17/2010 04:41 AM
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you mean
i can have a wife and several girlfriends, and all i have to do is move to cambodia?!?!?!?!!!
by: djskagnetti 02/17/2010 04:47 AM
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No need to move dj.
You can have that here in the states.
It´s not the place you are that dictates whether you can have a girlfriend.... its the spouse you have. ;)
BB
by: bbeljefe 02/17/2010 05:50 AM
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more like
more like 2 cambodian natives who appearently dress in officer uniforms on a daily baisi pretending to uphold the honorable ideology of justice and law had a shoot out between themselves .. etc
serious, from what I hear from everything shaohu post, there really is no law there just a bunch of killers (etc) pretending to have the honorable title of law enforcement officers ..
heck, shaohu why do you have the interest in being in the heart of discontent?
becareful there man :-)
by: Key2000 02/17/2010
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survival mentality
Westerners have a hard time understanding the way things are in Cambodia because very few westerns are coming from a culture that has so many people struggling just to survive. The recent history of Cambodia has not allowed for much development in many areas including govt.
In many ways it is like the wild west. Lawlessness with attempts at creating order, infrastructure, and economy, through any means necessary etc..
unfortunately the "means" is usually corruption, extortion, dishonesty, thievery, human trafficking, etc.
As soon as the govt. officials stop being so damn greedy,and stop screwing over all the people at the bottom then there can be some change and development. Cambodia´s economy has doubled in the last 15 years which is more than any other country but as long as the wealth goes to just a select few, no good changes will take place. Nepotism is a big problem in Cambodia as well which is why you get all sorts of unqualified people doing jobs that really require qualifications.
Having said all this, Cambodia is far from being the heart of discontent as Key2000 called it. The people here have seen things a lot lot lot worse than just having corrupt cops, govt officials, human trafficking, etc...people here seem generally happy because the way things are now are a hell of a lot better than the genocide that took place in many of their lifetimes. Even after the genocide, there was a coup in 97. This is the longest Cambodia has gone without having a war, genocide or coup and people are content that there isn´t utter chaos and destruction. Lawlessness is not discontentment.
Yesterday the PM said "Govt officials, you need to stop extorting people all the time" and this year his "anti-corruption law" is suppose to go into effect, so maybe we´ll start to see some change then.
by: shaohu
Kampong Speu, Cambodia - a police officer was swimming in a pond near the road when another police officer started staring at the swimming officer.
The officer in the water didn´t like the glares of the other officer and a heated argument broke out. Soon after, the officers drew their guns and started shooting at each other.
The police officer in the water was shot and severely injured in the shootout. District police condemned the actions of the police, saying that they should be good examples to society.
Source: www.phnompenhpost.com
------------------------------------------------------
Imagine
what the dialogue must have been like..."Are you looking at me?"
Other news from the blotter today-
Jealous wife scalds cheating husband. A woman found out her husband had a new girlfriend so she threw boiling water on him. Neighbors called the woman crazy because even though he had a new girlfriend, he was the one putting the bread on the table.
(note: it is common for a Cambodian man to have a wife and a girlfriend (sometimes more than one girlfriend) and often the wife will know about the girlfriend. My fiance´s mother has a husband and a boyfriend and her boyfriend is married to another woman and her husband has another girlfriend....talk about non-stop crazy drama. And my fiance wonders why I never want to go to her mother´s house.
by: shaohu 02/17/2010 04:41 AM
-------------------------------------------
you mean
i can have a wife and several girlfriends, and all i have to do is move to cambodia?!?!?!?!!!
by: djskagnetti 02/17/2010 04:47 AM
---------------------------------------
No need to move dj.
You can have that here in the states.
It´s not the place you are that dictates whether you can have a girlfriend.... its the spouse you have. ;)
BB
by: bbeljefe 02/17/2010 05:50 AM
------------------------------------------
more like
more like 2 cambodian natives who appearently dress in officer uniforms on a daily baisi pretending to uphold the honorable ideology of justice and law had a shoot out between themselves .. etc
serious, from what I hear from everything shaohu post, there really is no law there just a bunch of killers (etc) pretending to have the honorable title of law enforcement officers ..
heck, shaohu why do you have the interest in being in the heart of discontent?
becareful there man :-)
by: Key2000 02/17/2010
---------------------------------------------------------
survival mentality
Westerners have a hard time understanding the way things are in Cambodia because very few westerns are coming from a culture that has so many people struggling just to survive. The recent history of Cambodia has not allowed for much development in many areas including govt.
In many ways it is like the wild west. Lawlessness with attempts at creating order, infrastructure, and economy, through any means necessary etc..
unfortunately the "means" is usually corruption, extortion, dishonesty, thievery, human trafficking, etc.
As soon as the govt. officials stop being so damn greedy,and stop screwing over all the people at the bottom then there can be some change and development. Cambodia´s economy has doubled in the last 15 years which is more than any other country but as long as the wealth goes to just a select few, no good changes will take place. Nepotism is a big problem in Cambodia as well which is why you get all sorts of unqualified people doing jobs that really require qualifications.
Having said all this, Cambodia is far from being the heart of discontent as Key2000 called it. The people here have seen things a lot lot lot worse than just having corrupt cops, govt officials, human trafficking, etc...people here seem generally happy because the way things are now are a hell of a lot better than the genocide that took place in many of their lifetimes. Even after the genocide, there was a coup in 97. This is the longest Cambodia has gone without having a war, genocide or coup and people are content that there isn´t utter chaos and destruction. Lawlessness is not discontentment.
Yesterday the PM said "Govt officials, you need to stop extorting people all the time" and this year his "anti-corruption law" is suppose to go into effect, so maybe we´ll start to see some change then.
by: shaohu
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