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ICPC friendly warning — beware of dogs
By Swistakk, history, 9 years ago, In English

Hi. Near the Le Meridien hotel (and also probably all around the Phuket) you can meet unfriendly homeless dogs. If you don't want them to attack you, try avoiding them and hold big stone in your hand (to make them afraid of you, not to throw at them :f). One of them bite me yesterday in the leg from behind (2 mins walk from hotel) even though I didn't tease him or anything and I needed to go to hospital to take rabeis and tetanus vaccinations. So don't worry about me, but be careful about yourself, I don't want any of you to experience similar troubles.

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I'm a dog and I find this offensive.

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big stone

If they actually attack you in a pack, a big stone won't do much. A cane would be better, a gun much better.

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    ... and run would be so much better

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      You can outrun a hungry dog? Impressive!

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        oh yeah i can with some kind of thing named 'adrenaline'

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          Dogs have that thing, too. Plus better legs.

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            From my experience it seems dog naturally fear big stone. Though you are pretending to pick up stones, they will believe.

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    Another thing that will be effective : a bait

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Do you mean a real life dog?

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You could have gotten a knife

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkuu0Lwb5EM

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Dogs are the added difficulty participants need to overcome this year.

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Instead of fighting against them, it is better to bring some food. Give them some and them will spare you :)).

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    I heard they like sausages with isoniazid very much. Give them some ;)

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      Also add some metoclopramide to make those sausages even tastier and prevent vomiting them out.

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In my experience of fighting dogs, staying indoors and commuting only via enclosed vehicles like cars and buses have proven to be effective.

FYI I've outrun dogs too. Wouldn't recommend though.

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That's scary :o now I'm glad I'm not there. #Cynophobia

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Whatever may happen dont use your hands out front to fight or block them . Or else coding will b a problem

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Hire and escort and use him/her as human shield. Escorts are cheap in Phuket

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At least you got upvotes

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Next time try to tease them. At least they won't bite without a reason.

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