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date-rape drugs common in Japan

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Man or woman, watch out for date-rape drugs in Japan. The night clubs in Roppongi and Shinjuku have a high-rate of serving date-rape drugs to unsuspecting customers.
19 years ago, October 2nd 2004 No: 1 Msg: #480  
Are there date-rape drugs in Roppongi clubs? The answer is yes: targeting both men and women.

Assuming you'd like to be date-rape drugged, the easiest way for a man to get drugs in his drink is to find a club at Roppongi Crossing that fits this profile:

On the street: Find some smiling black guys in sharp suits promoting their night clubs
Club Location: Follow one of these nice guys up or down some stairs or tiny elevator to a Club, not a prime location.
Club name: usually has “Gentlemen’s” or “Classy” in the name
Décor: small, dark, red, cramped room, couch seating along the walls, no windows, exit is hard to find.
Atmosphere: often red, dark, music thumping, mirrors, strobes.
Hostesses: tired, half-dressed Eastern European, Russian, African girls. No visas, no hope.
Staff: African waiters, Nigerian, Ethiopian, Middle Eastern. More staff than customers
Drinks: free for you, expensive for girls. Watch the wine and champagne!
No Japanese staff, no Japanese customers.

OK, you’ve found one of the several clubs that fit the profile. Here’s how it works:
Go with only one or two friends so you can easily be distracted and separated. Sit along the wall, side-by-side with space between you, and order a Tequila. Ask for a girl to join you (I asked for Princess, from Ethiopia). Order her a drink, and when hers comes, you’ll get a free shot of a strange blue drink, too. Offer your girl the free shot. She won’t accept it, she’ll push it back to you. That’s it, now you know you’ve got the drink with the date-rape drug in it.
Drink it up.
Order another drink. Chat with Princess who hopes you make it through the night.
Order another drink. (Now skip to the last line of this article.)
Now you’re drugged., and good.
More girls will join you, but you don’t know it.
They’ll want wine, champagne, private dances. You say yes to it all. You don’t know what’s happening.
They dance for you, and your eyes glaze over and if someone offers to stab you with a knife you say, “sure, why not?”
You’re in heaven where the girls are naked and love your disjointed stories.
You smile, you babble, it’s 1:00 am and the manager has had enough of you.
He charges your credit card whatever he feels.
The bottles are $200 a piece. The dances are $70 each and last 3 minutes. You’re in the private dance booth for 45 minutes.
You manage to write something on the American Express receipt but it’s illegible, but it doesn’t matter in Japan.
You get no itemized receipt.
You stumble down the steps or the elevator.
A staff member finds you a taxi. They fish for your hotel room key and send you home. Or some young criminal-in-training walks you to your hotel. Not good to have drugged patrons sprawling about the premises.

You wake up the next morning feeling horrible and not remembering a thing. Until your friend who didn’t trust the little blue drink (Rohypnol turns drinks blue), and from whom you got separated, tells you all about the night. You’re lucky you’re alive and have your wallet. Though $4,500 is sucked from your credit card.
Nothing you can do about it: sex slaves and drugged drinks and credit card abuse fall in the gray-zone of Japan. No recourse.
I got the free blue shot of date-rape drug because I ordered a Tequila first and it’s difficult to dilute one shot with another shot. My friend got his drugs right in his gin-and-tonics.
The profile and practice fit many Shinjuku clubs, too.

Remember what you did last night? No? Go to the police immediately.
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19 years ago, October 4th 2004 No: 2 Msg: #486  
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While that is good advice, I'd also say that people should heed the same advice in many places around the world, even in the States. Roppongi is the club district, and you should definatly stick to the places on the main streets, and be careful who you're meeting. Always watch out for the Hostess girls... the ones I met were nice, but I met them outside of their work environment, and when I partied with them they took care of themselves, and made sure I was safe. Safe places in Roppongi were pretty much most of the places I went (in one of my blogs), but you still need to be careful who you're going to walk off with. I walked off to a place pretty much as described with an African girl, but she didn't get much outta me, but did try and get some ridiculous cab fee home, to which I told her to F' Off and walked away as she was cursing up a storm at me.

Keep your street smarts with you. Tokyo, Vegas, New York, London, Bangkok... I'm sure the list goes on. Reply to this

19 years ago, October 8th 2004 No: 3 Msg: #507  
Wow, thanks for the tip. It's funny how you read something and it just clicks in your mind. I was in Tokyo back early this year and was staying in Shinjuku at one of the capsule hotels near the main road. I kept running into the same Nigerian guy every time i came back to the hotel and he seemed like a friendly enough guy. One night he convinced me to check out his establishment, but only after I made it clear I was on a limited budget and would only buy one lady drink, and he gave me as set price.

The inside was very similar to what you describe, with the tired, rather sad collection of Russian girls. Except there was a group of Japanese there getting rather loud and drunk. What made this click was that after two drinks I remember getting all flushed and thinking how strange it was I was already drunk after two drinks. I actually felt a little sick for about ten minutes, but gradually it levelled out as I slacked off on the drinks. I knew I felt strange, and laid off the drinks. But funny enough (not now that I think about it), the Nigerian bouncer seemed to get rather annoyed with me and pushed me to finish my drink and leave with a full half hour left on the time that I agreed on earlier. I was only to happy to oblige as the scene in there was rather depressing.

But now that I think back it's completely obvious what had happened. He spiked my drink, for some reason it didn't have the effect he was hoping for and only succeeded in making me sick and stop drinking. So when he realized I wouldn't be spending more cash he pushed me out the door. I guess I would have gotten the walk home as my hotel was only a few hundred yards away, but luckily it wasn't necessary.

You live and you learn I guess. You just have to be careful out there in all situations. Just try not to go overboard and get jaded and suspicious of everyone. Because then you may as well just stay home.

But there's always a bright side. At least I didn't get date-raped by a two hundred pound Nigerian bouncer. Reply to this

19 years ago, November 30th 2004 No: 4 Msg: #777  
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thank you!!!! it makes me disappionted, clubbing style of japan on how they can easily get money!!!!!! you know thats the bad thing i hate most when travelling they thought we are the riches among riches people in the world, beacuse we spend money on travelling they dont know that we only want to see how's beautifull the God creation. you know i really like japan thru thier anime work and thier technology, but now they are getting worst, do you know that i also recieve an email from my friend which japanese people eat fetus!!!!!!! just send me your email add and i will forward it to you!!!!!

thanks man!!!! i appreciate it most!!!! actually my friend will go there this january he like clubbing, it is a warning Reply to this

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