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Speaker 1: Naomi's had a regret cation. Christian the early eighties, My
Speaker 1: boyfriend I foo too Twinidad to visit his friend. We
Speaker 1: had Laker Airlines flights via Barbados. Oh my what who
Speaker 1: is the crazy Freddy Laker? That was the guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: until the day before when Laker went bust. We were
Speaker 1: what the person Freddy? We were rebooked two days later,
Speaker 1: but had no way to contact our friend. Of course,
Speaker 1: eighties no mobiles, so she waited at the airport for
Speaker 1: two days.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Like, what's that is?
Speaker 1: It, Tom Hanks, Yes, the terminal just lives there. We
Speaker 1: should do. It's a time before phones, because stuff like
Speaker 1: this used to happen where then wasn't there. When we
Speaker 1: finally arrived late at night, all we had was her
Speaker 1: street name, which turned out to be four miles long
Speaker 1: a freeway. After driving up and down aimlessly, we gave
Speaker 1: up and went into a dodgy hotel where the bathroom
Speaker 1: door hung off one and the staff bang on our
Speaker 1: door all night, depending demanding payment we couldn't make until
Speaker 1: the bank opened in the morning. My boyfriend went for
Speaker 1: cash when I was stuck behind reception with the luggage.
Speaker 1: I was like held hostage there as a deposit.
Speaker 2: That's a human deposit.
Speaker 3: We spent the day knocking about fifty doors along her
Speaker 3: street until someone finally recognized the name and pointed us
Speaker 3: down the road to the right house. Once we found her,
Speaker 3: she cooked every meal for us, all very spicy curries,
Speaker 3: and because I can't handle spice while you're Australian, I
Speaker 3: basically livedoti in bananas. Then I developed a tooth absence,
Speaker 3: and a cousin the pharmacist slipped me antibiotic so strong
Speaker 3: I fainted in the heat.
Speaker 1: No, I would never go on a holiday again. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, we must do it was a time before
Speaker 1: mobile phones. We've got Scott now, Scott, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good Scott, so tell us his story mate, what
Speaker 1: happened to you?
Speaker 2: Well? I saved up everything I could to for a
Speaker 2: business class trip to London and Italy. I get to London,
Speaker 2: having a great time for.
Speaker 4: The first few days, and then walked out of a
Speaker 4: pub one night and I had my phone stolen by
Speaker 4: a group of youths.
Speaker 2: Oh unlocked. They got into my cards, my.
Speaker 4: Crypto sold off about fifty k worth of crypto and
Speaker 4: transported to a card fifty thousand. It took me, of course,
Speaker 4: be in the middle of the night. I couldn't do anything.
Speaker 4: I couldn't get an access anything. The next day I
Speaker 4: bought another phone and had trouble getting on so getting
Speaker 4: on to everything point because of two fa and twofa
Speaker 4: was linked to my card.
Speaker 1: This is the female, because everything lives on our phones. Yes,
Speaker 1: time with home card. This is nightmare.
Speaker 4: It got worse when they arrived in Italy ten thirty
Speaker 4: at night in Verona, only to find the baggage carrousel
Speaker 4: stopped without my.
Speaker 2: Bags coming out.
Speaker 1: Oh you're kidding.
Speaker 2: So I have three days in Italy with no cards,
Speaker 2: no cash, no clothes. What did you do?
Speaker 4: I stayed in the hotel and contacted a friend who
Speaker 4: TRANSFERREDY let the hotel know his credit cards details.
Speaker 2: I could eat and drink while I was while I
Speaker 2: was in Italy. Wow, oh God, couldn't wait to get home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't help. But thinking about that, you're losing
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars. What happened then? Could you recover it?
Speaker 2: Or no?
Speaker 4: That the hard look cut a long story short Visa,
Speaker 4: because I had the physical card and use that to
Speaker 4: buy the phone the next day, Visa said, no, you can't.
Speaker 2: You can't claim any of the transactions. Oh the whole
Speaker 2: what was gone?
Speaker 1: That's just that's all I have to deal with it.
Speaker 1: That's so much money to lose.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry you went through.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I already sort to hear that. Mate, that is
Speaker 1: just horrendous. The least we can do is give you
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Mate, you're a legend.
Speaker 1: Wish I could give you the forty nine thousand and
Speaker 1: find more, but don't have it to start and have
Speaker 1: it to hand to start. Every month, we'll call you
Speaker 1: back and just give you a bit more and a
Speaker 1: bit more. In the next couple of years. We'll get
Speaker 1: it down there. We're getting through this, Scott, and listen,
Speaker 1: I really hope that you win the holiday on Friday
Speaker 1: and you're going back to London that pub. No, no,
Speaker 1: you're only five hundred dollars, and then you could be
Speaker 1: winning a ten thousand dollars holiday this Friday on the show. Scott,
Speaker 1: an incredible story. I'm glad you can kind of laugh
Speaker 1: about it or not. I have to. I've got no choice,
Speaker 1: all right, Scott, good on you. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: for calling in.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys.
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