Comments on: Tony Chan: an alternative view

By: realbodyguard

realbodyguard — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:46:44 +0000

Fair enough, Plod. I will call it a day too.

By: The Plod

The Plod — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:14:37 +0000

RBG – live & let live is my motto. So long as other people’s actions don’t unreasonably interfere with me, I don’t mind. On that occasion they did, I said my piece & walked on. Job done.

Clearly you have a lot of pent up fury if this is the way you have to destress. If I was you, change jobs.

BTW, this must be one of the longest ever threads on here. Let’s pat ourselves on the back and call it a day – everyone else seems to have lost interest and moved on.

By: realbodyguard

realbodyguard — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:16:55 +0000

Look, let me get this straight. If rich asshole decides to lord over some public sidewalk to the exclusion of others, then’s he wrong.
If, however, he was just accompanied by bodyguards and getting from point A to B (from office to the car). Then it’s really none of your business.

By: realbodyguard

realbodyguard — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:56:37 +0000

I say what I want here, plod, because I can. In real life I am more careful with my words and conduct, particularly in my bodyguard profession. But I need somewhere to vent, to make some of you punks understand what we go through. To make you understand what we are capable of. And you haven’t answer my question, did you intentionally go up to the VIP and told him off? Yeah you are so “mature” in that. Idiot.

By: The Plod

The Plod — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:43:58 +0000

RBG. It was never about challenging them to a punch-up. Losers are the ones who start fights. It’s the pig-faced audacity of people who think they own public space that galls me. Verbally putting them back in their place is sufficient. That is the kind of scene that, if I were the Big Boss, I’d be anxious to avoid and would chastise my workers for creating.

“I know I can crush you easily if I really wanted to.” How old are you pal? Still in your teens? ‘Real Body Guards’ don’t come out with claptrap like that – they diffuse situations with well-chosen words and the unspoken threat of what may happen if a certain line is crossed. That’s what I’ve learnt in my experience over the years, for what it’s worth.

By: realbodyguard

realbodyguard — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:53:58 +0000

Btw, Plod, is seems it is you who have the inferiority complex. Is it any of your business that some rich guy with his bodyguards is walking by you? From your tone, it is you who seems to intentionally walk to them and provoke them. It is one thing if they intentionally block your way. Then you have a point. However, it is another if you go to them and intentionally block his way. That “VIP” has every right to walk on the public path as you do. So what if he/she happens to be rich? Is it any of your business? Or are you just jealous and can’t stand the fact that some people are richer than you?

By: realbodyguard

realbodyguard — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:35:39 +0000

Crispin-Fair enough, I’m not defending those rick pricks. The clients we have tend to be more discreet and aren’t the usual show-offs my colleagues work for. My clients know they are just asking to be kidnapping-targets if they decide to flaunt their wealth, as Nina Wang’s family should know all too well. At any rate, they don’t consider public spaces to be their private spaces. Don’t label us all as working for rich vermins. Our clients are rich, but not all of them are pricks.

Plod-Really? You can handle yourselves? What sort of “experience” do you have? I bet you don’t have ones I have. And what makes you think I am just an “average” HK bodyguard? You should think twice if you think challenging a bodyguard is no big deal or that you can somehow defeat them in a hand to hand fight. I know I can crush you easily if I really wanted to. Believe me, I have taken on drunk, armed and well-muscled Wan Chai gweilos who were in over their heads menacing my clients and made them regret it badly.

I do agree however tht Gurkhas are really one of the best.

By: The Plod

The Plod — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:29:30 +0000

Realbodyguard – you really do have some inferiority-complex issues, don’t you? I don’t doubt that you have a difficult job but that does not give you (through your boss) the right to obstruct other citizens’ use of a public place or to use force on someone who is not physically threatening you or your charge. The law is equally applicable to you, your boss and the rest of us. And don’t assume that every ‘douchebag’ expat is a paper tiger – some of us do know how to handle ourselves.

As for dealing with armed blokes trying to kill or do one serious physical damage, I personally have plenty of experience in the field. Indeed, I would wager that I’ve been in far more tricky situations than the average HK ‘bodyguard’.

BTW I have the utmost respect for the ex-Gurkha chaps who are the salt of the earth. Unquestioningly honest, brave, loyal and even-tempered men. I can tell from your tone that you are not one of them.

By: smog

smog — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:32:36 +0000

That was link spam too! Is it really so hard for you to spot it Mr Hemlock?

By: Da Docta

Da Docta — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:44:51 +0000

Sir Crispin wins the scarf as usual…

As far as I know, bodyguards are very Third World and passe these days. Really important people have minders who are discreet and alert, not showy or forceful.

Monkeys in suits belong in ’50s Triad movies, not in cosmopolitan 2010. Hong Kong capitalists are so primitive.

I suspect realbodyguard is between jobs at the moment. Either that or he is having a laugh.