I stumbled upon this two part podcast where an Australian describes the horrors of being locked up for months in a Cambodian prison. It genuinely sounds like he didn't commit much of, if any crime and yet was still locked up. I doubt conditions are much better in Thailand or many South American jails. It gives you a bit of pause to realize that when you travel to these countries you are at the whim of their justice system and despite behaving yourself there is always the potential of being swept up into something.  Recently it seems that Venezuela has taken to rounding up random Americans to use as bargaining chips--definitely one country I'll not visit any time soon. This podcast even makes me leery of returning to Cambodia where I have previously enjoyed Siam Reap.

 

So, don't vandalize an ATM in foreign countries, especially poorer ones. Lesson taken. ✔️

I watched both parts of this podcast.

He keeps saying "I did nothing wrong" while at the same time, admitting he vandalised the atm machine.

There's a lot of talk about how he "found himself" in this situation. He didn't find himself there, he put himself there through his stupid behaviour and baud ignorance.

Some of his story doesn't add up.