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“The boat lost control…” Thank God I was worried that pundits would blame it on crew incompetency or equipment failure

Vultures fly! I wonder if the Thai gov or lawyers get involved to reduce the amount of monies to the maid…. the smartest thing the maid could do is to hire an honest lawyer to walk her thru the process and protect her now assets it is also sad the French lady had no close friends/family nearby or afar…. this suicide was preventable…yes, the maid was loyal and close by but was she someone who the French lady could talk with about issues? It doesn’t sound like it… it started with and ended with a superior to inferior role….the French lady made all the decisions and plans by herself…the maid was taken care b/c the French lady had no one to confide in and talk with at her level… movie making materiel….rosebud - hint hint

Will the police take them to re-enact the crime? Will onlookers I mean gawkers throw tomatoes?

Pathetic way to make money….an extremely vulnerable victim….punishment is never servere enough to deter so gov partly to blame

A proper transaction is to leave the bill in the open as the seller gets the change vs taking and hiding the bill out of sight....This is on the tuk tuk driver especially if it was only a 100B bill...You explicitly show the buyer what was given vs the set/owed price So the tuk tuk driver is either very stupid or it was a scam job (if the driver did not show immediately the 100B bill as insufficient payment towards the 400B bill... Why would the driver hide a 100B bill? he would be the one who is upset vs hiding immediately a 1000B and then saying it was only 100B (you leave the 100B bill in clear view)...either way, money was still owed to someone whether change or insufficient amount...You don't make the bill disappear when the transaction is still open Sorry folks, but it sounds like a scam job...

Two issues….was it a scanned job? And 2nd the tourist should never physical touch the seller….

My advice to the police is not to make assumptions…if it is too perfect of an expected outcome, then was it staged?

Another non story that if it involves a foreigner doing something wrong, lets highlight it.. this story is just fishing and has no idea who is responsible for what xenophibia at its best and the this public loves hearing about it….more like a napoleon inferiority complex in the works …takes pressure off on reporting drivers killing traffic cops

To the very end, Thais always trying to save face even for guilty parties he died b/c blunt force trauma due to being hit by a drunk driver But let’s make a bigger deal of a guy kicking someone in the back or a guy getting his car stuck in the sand… if a Thai is involved, the issue is downplayed…and not dealt with properly…so like driving, burning, garbage, alcoholism, domestic violence, and a host of other issues, never the focus on preventing or improving

Just shooting them like a running elk to avoid damaging nature

Thailand still has a problem learning how to prioritize important issues from non issues I smell entrapment

Here is your problem with your thinking…so instead of 225, it is 150 AP…instead of 30 minutes vs 20 minutes sitting in traffic… it has not improved to an acceptable level for an expat or tourist even if trends has improved…A person doesn’t say “oh it’s better now than 2 decades ago”…here and now bad is bad or bad vs real bad…bad is not tolerated anymore with more options than ever before

Staff should not be liable for runners…are establishments going to cover legal fees if the staff takes violence in stopping runners? don’t shift the blame to poor staff for things beyond their control…you are the ones with deeper pockets and defend staff not abuse them

Are we allowed to munch on bananas in public?

Hope the villagers quickly put on their covid masks….🙄

Maybe Thais speaking broken english to throw them off their scent… staff became quickly distracted…what their mobile went off?

This does not solve the tailgating issue that happens in thailand if one doesn’t understand the concept of safe breaking distance

I think you mean daily average

I would like to see your Miami property if you would send me a RT ticket and a 3-day allowance

April is the 2nd highest by volume of alcohol sales…I am more surprised that Dec is more given Thai new year vs western new year and summer vs cool season come on thailand let’s drink ourselves to more accidents and adverse health issues and a substantial part of Thai society doesn’t drink so what does that tell you about the part that does…if I recall correctly, 5th or 6th highest country in the world by volume…quite scary and sad

Why no talk of deportation and bans? Now this meets my definition of an assault vs some leg extension

Thai doctors are product of the Thai educational system…enough said and no, they do not get educated in the west for medical school b/c they can’t get in from HS…remember they go from HS to medical school here completely bypassing 4 years of college - required in the west when you hear they are trained in the west….that refers to residencies and internships in which the Thai gov pays big bucks to send them for these programs…it’s a win for both…revenue to the schools and a piece of paper saying they received practical training in the west but required to return to thailand to meet their gov obligation of one year of training for 2 years formula in gov hospitals…which many leave then for private hospitals once their mandatory commitment has been met

prostitution is actually defined as a form of oppression….look it up…and one could extend that definition to Bkk taxi drivers from issaan, hill tribe people currently burning their mountain lands (forced by corporate thailand)…they have no choices thus forced into undesired occupations just to survive - human nature it’s all exploitation…just how currently the world works and accepted by the halves over the have nots…kind of like why expats choose to live in third world countries like thailand to exploit the economies of scale that their western dollars goes further (getting more) even though the quality of life actually might not be higher when one factors in environmental degradation, health outcomes, traffic, road safety, poor regulatory infrastructure etc

I doubt there is one…I bet your wife and her family watch you like a hawk

225 fires in CM province on a daily basis…AP is absolute not relative…CM needs to control its own house and not worry about blaming “can’t control” places please re-visit the definition of ignorance…the brakes failed…it’s not my fault