Saudi Royalty: "Do As I Say, Not As I Do"

"Please fasten your seat belts. We will be landing in Bangkok in 15 minutes."

Hat tip to Politically Incorrect (Germany)

The German blog, Politically Incorrect has picked up on a report by Bild concerning the un-Islamic lifestyle of the Saudi royal family in a country where Islamic enforcement is strongest.

http://www.pi-news.org/2011/03/sex-drugs-rock-n-roll-in-saudi-arabia/#more-4230

Ah, the memories. During my tour with DEA in Bangkok (1975-1978), it was the German tourists who were most notable in the fleshpots of the Thai capital. In those days, daily flights would arrive from Frankfurt on Condor Airlines filled to the wingtips with German factory workers. There was a standing joke that the flight from Frankfurt to Bangkok was dubbed the Bumsbomber (F--- Bomber) and the passengers were called Bumsflieger (F--- Flyers).  The return flight to Frankfurt was called the Trippeclipper (Clap Clipper).

Subsequently, I had occasion to return to Bangkok while working cases out of Los Angeles in 1980 and 1982. By then the Arabs had arrived in force. One afternoon, we were conducting surveillance in the coffee shop of the infamous Grace Hotel, which was considered the biggest hooker hangout in Bangkok. (It later burned down with loss of life.) Inside the coffee shop, it was filled to the rafters with Thai hookers and Arab men, who were zipping up and down the elevators to their rooms with their new-found loves. The men were all dressed in white robes and the keffiyas with red and white doo-dads, which I believe suggests they were Saudis, who happened to be the largest contingent of the Arab travelers in Bangkok. Of course, if they had been royalty, they would have stayed in much classier hotels, so I would assume they were simply guys who had enough money to travel internationally and do things not allowed at home.

There is another little nickname that some have used to apply to Saudi exchange students in the US: The rowdy Saudis.