My old house mate (the smelly bastard) ran off to Mexico, then Saudi and finally Singapore leaving debts. They traced him and got him.
Also, what the next poster said. Piss boiling. Pay up.
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Old debts and emigration.
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Posted 7 months ago #
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PhilC et al. +1
Running away from your debt just means that those of us stupid enough to save some money and not piss it all up the wall at uni have to pay off your debt for you in the form of only getting 0.5% intrest on any savings.
And where are you getting the money from to emigrate, thats going to cost a pretty penny in flights, shipping, visas etc, and don't OZ require you to have £XXX in savings to prove you're self sufficient untill you get a job?
Sory, but you've just boiled my piss.
Posted 7 months ago # -
I knew someone who came to the UK from Poland, racked up a phenomenal amount of debt buying bike kit. We're talking £10,000+ easily...
He had a brand new Yeti 303, Yeti 4X AND Scott Ransom (carbon IIRC) at the same time.... and he's rather...er.. large, so some people might know him.
Perhaps to him the easy access to UK credit was like monopoly money? No concept of how much it was really worth?
He was attending a college course in Law in London, with the starry-eyed hopes of landing a £60k internship in the City.... perhaps his attitude was "when I've landed that job, I can pay it all back"
'friendship' ended when he started stalking a friend of mine... LOL
I understand he's now in Whistler, and will probably never return to the UK.
Posted 7 months ago # -
It could be a baby banker.
I left France many moons ago owing loads. The car I had on finance was left outside the village police station and I posted the keys back to the dealership with a polite note!
I've been back many times since. Not to work though
Posted 7 months ago # -
My BiL skipped out of Abu Dhabi about 12 years ago, and left behind a series of debts.
He's been in the UK for the aforesaid 12 years, and was surprised a few weeks ago to get a call, letter, and visit from a debt colleaction agency.
He's vague on what happened next, but the upshot is he's effectively been placed on all the credit reference agencies as a bad risk, and has not been able to get the mortgage he was in the process of obtaining. Which has hampered things somewhat, as I'm sure you can imagine.
Posted 7 months ago # -
Still theft innit. Have some moral fibre.
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