Robin's Son Got Himself In A Sticky Situation Overseas

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to the Robin and Kid podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
KIP.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
This morning, I got a phone call very early from
my youngest son, who has been living in America and Canada.
How long have you been away.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Buddy combined? I think it's what nine months? And I
think I less than February?

Speaker 1 (00:18):
How are you still? Are you still with your girlfriend?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
There? I am, she's right next to me, little Isabella Isabella?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Okay, Pipes. You started the conversation at three point thirty
this morning by going, Mum, I've got an adult question.
And I think my response was how much money do
you owe?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Buddy? So?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
What happened? When was this in Canada or America? Where's
this question?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
He's a Canadian thing that is now accumulated?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Okay, what do you do?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I didn't pay a phone bill is now continued to
get larger and larger.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
How much was it originally?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I want to say it was sixty dollars Canadians.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Right, that's okay, that's not so bad. And then but
what's it? What's it turned into?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Okay, so it's turned into four hundred and fifty now,
I think?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
And are you asking your mum if you can just
ignore it? They hope that it goes away.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's correct, and I don't know what to do about it.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
So are you planning on having going back to Canada?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I don't know. I haven't been in Canada for six
months now, so I ended Canada. I had. They given
me a month of data and I was like, hang on,
I haven't paid this. I'm just not going to pay it.
So then it kind of spiraled into a thing. So
they have no access to any of my things and

(01:48):
they can't directly charge me money.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
But they know who you are. They've got all your details.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
They have like my account that they have set up
through them, but I don't know how much details they have.
In mind, they don't have enough to immediately take money
off me.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I know that that's an interesting one.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Okay, what do you reckon?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Did you talk to them about just paying the original
sixty and then leaving you alone?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
So that's what happened is they send me an email
and they said this is going to get sent off
to a debt collector in five days. Before the five days,
we can wipe ninety percent of it and you just
pay ten percent of it. So I was like, fine, whatever,
I'll just do it. To get it of. Yeah, send
them a message and was like, can I do this?
They were like, in order to do this, you have
to set up an account for six months, paying monthly

(02:34):
for six months, which is sixty dollars a month for
six months the thrend and sixty dollars plus the forty
dollars fee, which is again four hundred dollars. So I'm
not going to be in Canada. Why do I need
six months worth of data I'm not going to use.
So I'm not doing that.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Man, I don't know, and I don't know what the
deal is between America and Canada. I feel like they
would definitely be sharing information.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
We are both. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
My problem is that there's nothing connecting me to it.
And the account that I have and paint it with
was a debit card, which I'm pulling the money out
of in cancing anyway, because I'm not going back to Canada.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
You might get you're not you're a young man. Use
if it makes you feel any better, Pipes. I do
have a three hundred and seventy eight euro speeding fine
waiting for me in Italy.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Ten years ago. Same deal.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's the same deal, but I don't plan to ever
go back to.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Italy, which you don't plan on going back to Canada.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Just roll the dice, mate, you'll be right. Except what
does Isabella say? Oh, I'm so paranoid about it.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I'm like, you're going to try to buy a car
like ten years from now and you're credit to be ruined.
That's right.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, get credit ratings are a thing over there, that's
a big thing. That's true. Like you didn't give them
an address and give them.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
But he had the address to my Airbnb for a
little little last n Maybe we're not going to get
me across the world.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
So what is your recommendation to this nineteen nearly.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Twenty year old listen to your girlfriend not even joking
what she's doing.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Isabella says, thank you bype Isabella, you see that's what
I think. I'm just but I'm always cautious because you
don't want like things haunting you from your past. I
mean there must be people listening who might have got
I mean I got arrested in Russia. Yeah, when I
was nineteen.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well let's discuss that.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Lucky for me, I don't think I'm going to go
back to Russia.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
So it's robinin on Brisbane's Kiss