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SNOWING IN BALI

Were you tempted to run?

No, I was already walking inside, so I couldn't just turn and run. If I ran out of there they would shoot me, or run after me and bash me, and if I run I'm accepting guilt; you don't run if you're not guilty. I knew there was nothing I could do. There was no way out. I didn't have time to think. This happened in three seconds. We are talking about a four or five-second situation.

So I walked in and he was waiting for me. Instead of shaking hands and, ‘Okay, let me see the money,’ and counting the money first like we did, I put my hand in my underwear and I was like, ‘Here, here, here,’ and gave him the bag of pills, and he gave me the money. I wanted to get rid of it quick. I didn't want it on me. Without thinking — it was instinctive. I was feeling really weird. I just wanted to check the money, I wasn't even going to count one by one, just to see like if the amount looked correct; it was a US$1500 deal, tiny deal. Then I would go and jump on the bike and count it at home. I was like, ‘Okay, that's it,’ and I put it in my pocket.

Suddenly, all those guys who were sitting outside came running in. One guy grabbed me by the shirt and put a gun to my head, says, ‘Police, don't move.’ And I was like, fuck, this was the shit. The whole thing took less than five seconds.

Another guy came and put his hand on my heart, just to see my heart beat and it was chchchchch, and he smiles, an evil smile, like, ‘Ah, we got you.’ Fuck, it was evil as can be. I was like, ‘I don't know what you're talking about.’ They search me and they couldn't find anything, and they couldn't believe it. They thought I had something in my pocket, but I just had the money.

They were real angry, pissed off, like they are doing arrest, they are all like fucking angry. I remember seeing two guns on that scene, one at my head, another in another guy's hand.

They ask, ‘What's this money for?’ and I say, ‘This is my money.’

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