I saw the Pattaya Jet ski scam - which I thought was a good warning - but agree some other stuff might be reality but a twist of "altering" to give it flavour.
Still, we have seen it all after all these years if it helps newbies - its got some Brownie points.
In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
Here's a TV series, where the first episode of Season 5 is shot in LOS. Strike Back
Section 20 are called into Bangkok, Thailand to rescue Chloe Foster, the kidnapped daughter of British ambassador and longtime friend of Phillip Locke (Green), Robin Foster (Tim McInnerny). The team find the compound where she is being held, but during the raid the kidnappers escape with Chloe. After identifying the lead kidnapper as gangster and expatriate Ray McQueen (Max Beesley), Michael Stonebridge (Winchester), Damien Scott (Stapleton) and Julia Richmond (Lukes) track him to a nightclub and plant a tracker on him. However, McQueen soon realises he is being tailed and tries to escape with Chloe again, while also contacting Foster to deliver an armed bomb to the embassy where he is negoatiating with the North Koreans. Scott and Stonebridge have under fifteen minutes to find McQueen, who is hiding in a shanty town, while also engaging with a local gang who are working for him. They ultimately rescue Chloe and apprehend McQueen, but Locke fails to stop Foster in time, and the bomb detonates, killing Foster and a North Korean delegate.
