David McMillan

I'm not worried about my silverware, my dinnerware collection or my Royal Dalton.

He was going to come on the night, but these guys turned up from Chiang Mai who'd been in a little escape from a tin pot jail and got caught.

Israelis they were, and they had no plan B. And you know what the most important part of an escape is?

Yes?

Oh, look, I can hear it down the line of the podcast listeners.

They're saying, what you do when you get over the wall.

Yeah, exactly.

That's what they've all said.

True audience.

You're very right.

And our Israeli friends,

They may have been in the Israeli army prepared, but they were not prepared for a guest house in Chiang Mai where they'd done their ill-begotten dealings.

But when they went back to him, all he did was leech them of the money and hand them over to the authorities when they finished.

The guards didn't like the idea of them escaping and took such a dim view of it.

They even had their picture on tuk-tuk drivers all around town with a reward offered.

Police are not involved at this stage, or really never.

And they didn't treat them too well when they got brought back in.

I saw them down at our building's coffee shop, as they like to call it, around the banyan tree.

telling people what had happened to them.

And their legs were in heavy elephant chains, but all mangled and scarred.