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Taunton Blue Genie
I was involved in very strange situation when I visited Azerbaijan two years ago. I booked a room via AirBnB and when I turned up it transpired that another gentleman from Lebanon and who was studying in Baku, was staying longer term in the adjoining room - and there was no lock on the adjoining door between the rooms or even on the doors leading to the kitchen/entrance area. The only lock was on the main door, which led to a less than salubrious external landing and communal courtyard.. Seemed like a nice guy and we have a long chat in German (the only common language we had) and shared a couple of bottles of wine. I then decided to hit the sack but he popped into town for another drink. (The young 'landlord', who spoke very good English, didn't live at the premises and went home after he let me in earlier in the day).
I left that morning for the train to Georgia but as the border approached I received a text message from the landlord stating that the guy in the next room had been robbed of $1500 US dollars although the explanation as to how it happened was extremely vague as the landlord and the Lebanese guy didn't have a common language.
I seemed the prime suspect and it was only the following day that I stopped being the main suspect when one of the neighbours mentioned that there was a bit of a fracas on the external landing the night before.
It transpired that the Lebanese guy didn't want to admit to anyone, including the Police, that he had been drinking alcohol as his parents were under the impression that he acted as a strict Muslim even when away from home.
I am more used to dealing with Interflora than Interpol and it was a stressful 24 hours.
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