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On 12/7/2019 at 4:41 PM, digger70 said:

Why can't the just say, Looking for a Foreigner? Animals Get Hunted ,are we as Foreigners classed as Animals I thought that we where Aliens.   ☠️

Aww.. think the nasty Thai press-men are calling you an animal?? Bless!.. 'Cause, like in the west, newspapers never call it a 'hunt' when the police - or anyone else - are searching for a HUMAN, do they??? But, really.. Aliens?.. Animals?.. Life's just so hard for us poor victims of oppressive Thailand, isn't it??? (I really do think that waay too many guys on here, really do need to stop playing the - ever more popular these days, but nonetheless pure, weak-minded, BS!! - victim-hood card!!!.. Or, perhaps just go home to your 'wonderful' countries.. which, after all, you certainly never came here to escape from, in the first place.. right???)... ps: And I suggest you learn to spell.

On 7/22/2017 at 4:30 PM, brewsterbudgen said:

Mine had a son who I witnessed being born, so I think she's not.

Now, that WOULD be some trick!!! 

7 hours ago, lanista said:

This could be damaging for Pattaya's  image as a family orientated beach resort.

Case closed,.

'Case closed'? Your previous sentence, statement - '.. could be damaging..' - was hardly a 'smackdown' type summing up of the situation, was it? I wouldn't give up your day job, if you have one, to become a lawyer!!!

10 hours ago, stanleycoin said:

Nah

Think it's more about  demonizing foreigners.

Plenty of real crime they could get on with here.

So.. they kick out people who won't follow immigration laws (even on the understanding they'd get kicked out if caught) and its just 'demonizing foreigners'? Oh you poor, poor victim (even when its not you in the firing line, anyway.. but hey, why ruin a good bullshit moan, yeah???).. <deleted> BS-ing know-alls.. why not just go 'home'???

7 hours ago, AGareth2 said:

but they are the law

Mad as <deleted>, yeah? Like its gunna just stop and no-one will ever so much as think of Thailand's sex industry again! That's called having a <deleted> larf, pal, that is!! And how does it start, exactly? With the PM running up and down bar-girl and prostitution areas (with one of Harry Enfield's Self-Righteous Brothers side-burned wigs on) shouting the Thai equivalent of 'Oi, Thailand! No!!!!!!!' (<deleted>)...       

2 hours ago, twizzian said:

 

As he was captured so quickly he couldn’t have been trained by the French army very well for his so called wilderness survival skills.

Someone say he'd been trained? Naaah!! More likely he'd be a You-tube Legionnaire than Bear Gryls French counterpart I'd reckon!!!

3 hours ago, Get Real said:

I actually believe her version, how sick it might be.
Why would she lie about something that she admitt being a big part of. Doesn´t make sense.
She will get a lot of years for burning and dismembering.

On the other hand is totally wierd that the dead Stefani could be so stupid so he offer somebody 100K to stop seeing his ex-wife?
That man most definitely never seen how many choices that were in front of him. 

BTW! Wouldn´t pay 5 baht for that one. Would ask for payment instead.

Why would ANYONE lie by saying they didn't actually commit a murder, but were just there.. and 'this bloke did it, not me and my #3 (Thai ) guy', yeah??? <deleted>... get real, Sherlock!!! Personally I wouldn't believe ANYONE clearly involved in a murder, as getting out of the charge is all they've got left.. If the French chap is telling the truth, about it being her and her Thai guy, then he's clearly a <deleted> idiot anyway, as why the hell would you allow yourself to become part of something so bad as this when the original crime wasn't actually anything to do with your own actions??? Murder, followed quickly [on capture] by denials, lies and dodgy accusations.. what a surprise!!.. hope they all rot in jail!!!

18 hours ago, mercman24 said:

absolute load of dickheads, i think by now adult people know where to get a drink,  another nail in the tourism coffin. its just laughable

Exactly! And, also, what these  'I don't so you shouldn't, lets have a crackdown!' divs don't get, or just ignore, is that alcohol promotions like this aren't a 'push' to 'Drink rather than be tee-total' are they?.. if you don't drink, you don't drink, so you aren't even likely to go to such places!.. but, as you say, its adults who [already] know where to  get a drink (because they already DO drink, of course!) being 'pursuaded' to drink it in 'THIS bar' rather than 'THAT bar'!! Pretty sure that that's called fair competition, trade-wise, rather than influencing the innocent masses to become alcoholics as seems to be the implication, sorry, EXCUSE!!!

8 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Because they hail from rules-based societies. They tend to follow rules and expect others to do so. This is particularly so for Scandinavians.

 

Thais hail from a hierarchical society where nobody follows rules but they do adhere to orders coming down the hierarchical structure.

 

This is one reason, and a considerable one, why a disproportionate number of Scandinavians (lovely people that they are) make incredibly bad decisions in Thailand and other non-rule-based societies.

Yeah right.. 'farangs' heading to the likes of Pattaya and Phuket for beer, Thai 'girls/ not girls', and heady night-after-night-life, are just the sort who 'follow rules', ya reckon, yeah?? 

Some real pieces of CRAP on here!!! That includes the ones coming out with shit like 'What goes round comes round' and 'Well maybe the next village girl will think twice..'!!! You know who you are.. just understand that no-one else even wants to!!! oh, yeah.. and have a REALLY SHIT day!!!!!!!

All sounds a bit much for a 'vape', but if she was asked to go to the copshop, was even being led there, and decided 'No, I'm not having that!' cos she was a tad 'pissed' (as was apparently the case) then such 'mole-hills' can quickly become mountains!! Embarrassment all round, afterwards, probably - or SHOULD have been! - but isn't this generally how such things all too quickly blow up waay beyond good reason? In America, somebody usually ends up getting shot, beaten, or choked, to death once cops and/ or crims start to lose calm and clear control in any particular 'situation'!!! People, huh?

On 12/4/2017 at 11:45 AM, darksidedog said:

I saw the carnage on Facebook earlier and he was very lucky that the cops protected him from a very serious beating. I hope he can provide good evidence of his medical condition, because that should be a murder charge.

F<deleted> him providing 'good evidence' of his medical condition, towards helping him get off with some lighter 'sentence' for such an irresponsible (at absolute best!) act of diabolical stupidity (again, at best!).. THE DRIVER absolutely KNEW just what he was doing and risking, and I believe therefore that he himself SHOULD have died. Yes, died. That he deserved to. And that's not a simple 'knee-jerk' reaction to a tragic event but a considered opinion (although it is also something I do angrily WISH had happened!!).. And I say this from the point of view that if I had been this guy, had known what he knew, and still had taken to the roads, then I simply could not continue on as before with the knowledge of what my total stupidity, ignorance, and clear penchant for absolute self-centred wrecklessness had brought about upon innocent unknowing people!!! If he's not person enough to do the right thing, then I actually really do hope he goes to jail and gets murdered by a psychopathic cell-mate!!! If this is now to be somehow deemed a 'troll' post then <deleted> it, I'm not about to apologise for stating what is actually just what I honestly, truly, feel and would especially so feel if any members of my own family or friends had been victims of such a worthless piece of crap!!!

So they're actually saying, admitting, that there are people with epilepsy - brought under control by medication or not.. whatever, right? - allowed to quite LEGALLY drive motorised vehicles on Thai roads, regardless of whether they might, without warning, suddenly and uncontrollably.. you know, say wipe out a <deleted> streetful of people on some nice sunny day???!!! <deleted>??? Like apparently being pissed behind the wheel, here, can that be an excuse for Thais now? - [Just imagine the Thai version of:] 'Sorry I killed those folks, that family, that I just ran over, but I have regular uncontrollable seizures!'.. ('Oh I see.. ok, sir.. sorry for stopping you.. and have a nice, safe, ride home, yeah?)... <deleted>.

20 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I would have thought that any of these illnesses should have been just reason not to issue a driving license already. While this is a tiny step in the right direction, taking action against the healthy, but speeding, negligent and reckless drivers should be more of a priority if they ever really want to bring accidents and deaths down.

They're supposed to be!! In fact when I first applied for  a Thai driving license - I now have both car and motorcycle licenses here - the doctor had to sign me a health certificate towards my application stating that I didn't have epilepsy!.. how can it now suddenly be even a debate, for christ's sake???

ny more years, thereafter

22 hours ago, wvavin said:

Manslaughter charge at least but in Thailand, he will definitely walk out of the court a free man if he has money to distribute.

It should actually be classed as 'NEGLIGENCE to the point of manslaughter', of which I recall a precedent in England, although the particular incident I'm thinking of didn't involve any road vehicles. It was actually the famous 'Cockney' funny guy, Mike Reid's, son, then a young man, who accidentally shot dead his lifelong best friend while holding (Cleaning? Larking about with?) a loaded rifle.. and because it was made clear that Mr Reid jnr understood fully the potential implications of not taking due care whilst handling such weapon - and the totally careless, indeed wreckless, way he HAD handled the loaded rifle on that fateful day - the presiding judge announced that although he understood that Reids friend's death was in essence a tragic accident, nevertheless such crass stupidity (my words there!) 'Amounted to negligence to the point of manslaughter'. In other words he obviously hadn't cared in any way enough about his own actions, or the lethal threat such wrecklessness could so easily present to others, to avoid such a tragedy, and so must.. MUST.. be held accountable for it beyond mere consideration of his best friends death as an unfortunate accident!!! This guy, too, most likely didn't THINK he was going to hurt, nevermind kill, anyone, that day, but he ABSOLUTELY understood, and ABSOLUTELY didn't give much care or aforethought to, any potential consequences of his stupid-beyond-stupid self-centred-beyond-self-centred actions of choosing to drive!!! Not sure thats how such a thing will, or even has the capacity to, play out in the Thai courts, of course! Nonetheless, that the police should actually have let the crowd do what they wished with him, string him up, say, from the nearest tree, is my honest and truthfully considered thoughts on such a man as, after all, you demonstrate no compassion nor consideration for your fellow human beings, by such actions, then for me you deserve absolutely no such compassion nor any consideration whatsoever in return!!! (RIP the victims, hope the surviving casualties recover!..)...

1 hour ago, sanemax said:

You dont really believe that, do you ?

I have a feeling that you are exaggerating somewhat 

What you probably mean is that people should take more care of their belongings ? 

(above. re: 'The Thai owner should also be jailed for being so stupid')...

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You have to actually ASK that? Clearly not one for sarcasm, dry wit, or much humour at all then, really, yeah? (For sure, you shouldn't read my own reply to the above, if this is how you mentally process everything you read or hear!!! I mean, <deleted>)...

2 hours ago, JoePai said:

The Thai owner should also be jailed for being so stupid

How stupid can pretty much all the folks involved be? First you're a thief - not good - but stealing something in a very public place with plenty of CCTV cameras watching over the area? Then you go back, try to 'innoccently' pass through said very public place at a later date - okay, you've gotta get home, but shouldn't you have thought about that in the first place, must have brains like a swiss cheese  (whoops, <deleted> em, haha!) - and hope everyone's just forgot, or didn't notice in the first place, yeah? And  THEN there's the owner who left their 40,000 baht laptop unattened, like its a good idea to EVER leave ANYTHING of your valuables unattended!.. not forgetting, of course, that in an airport even a small, apparently innocuous, kit bag could quite rightly removed and destroyed by security as a potential explosive device!!! As you basically say.. lock em ALL up.. maybe these eejits could spend Christmas figuring out how to play games like 'Pass The Parcel' together!!!   

Yeah, been there, seen that, so I do get the perceived notion of the 'Powers That Be' that alcohol to excess can help stir up emnity, uneasy feelings, and such - though I'd claim I personally just get a little 'high' on  my surroundings and my friends within it after a few! -  but you just get a sense that these things come out now and again totally just to SEEM like something positive being enacted towards public H&S by the govt, when in fact its really just about putting more shackles on folks in general. Yes, some of these 'merrymakers' are always going to be dodgy types, but thats by nature rather than simply because of alcohol or any other vice, and clearly such folk will remain amongst us, regardless. Ultimately, however, the lawmakers will always use their very existence as an excuse to enforce ever more restrictive measures on those who just want to, very sociably, have a nice time of it!!! (There, this Monday morning's diatribe over.. back to my tea!)...

4 hours ago, stephen tracy said:

What is it with all these jail terms for minor offences?

Nope, I can't see it either! After all if such an 'offence' is deemed worth just a 1000 baht fine, how tf does that equate to perhaps also a month climbing the walls in the Bangkok Hilton???

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15 hours ago, Ruffian Dick said:

These issues usually boil down to educating the public. In the schools (am I right to assume that driver safety isn't taught in schools?) via billboards and television programs. Then enforcing them in a predictable and meaningful way.
I rarely see a Thai wear a seatbelt; thought they were going to crack down on that?

They have.. they do.. in between Thais driving past with no seat-belts on!! As for the 'educational' aspect, never mind just the seatbelt issue, no-one here understands even why they should wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle, other than because they might have to pay a small fine if they get caught not wearing one during one of those particular 'crackdowns'!! Personally, I think a few melons smashed on the floor during school H&S demos/ presentations, might help with that!!!

15 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

As if a lot of the drivers here are going to take any notice.

It's a good idea, and hopefully, if enforced, it will reduce casualties on the roads.

Good chance of the 'fines' kitty being greatly increased too !

They'll likely soon find that those causing most accidents were going over the limit(s) anyway, so knocking the limits down a few notches will just mean those drivers will likely be going pretty much the same speed as before but therefore now be going even further over the [new] limit(s)!! Hence limit-watchers will be even more screwed by some 'kwai' trying to burst past (from either way!) as the 'good guys' sail happily along as usual in their blissful ignorance that anything untoward could possibly happen on such a lovely sunny day!!!

2 hours ago, baboon said:

It isn't going to happen. This is just the media and their right wing stooges hyping it up to sell copies and frighten people.

'Ready for war with the U.S'.. crap, of course! Basically, like me saying "Well, I don't WANT to fight the worldheavyweight champion, but if he wants it, let's go!!' Why even bother spouting such shit? My understanding is that two weeks would be the time-line, nukes or not, for sweeping through NK to enact the 'regime change' even the Chinese would - secretly - welcome!!

I personally think that Kim Wrong Un is a little more savvy than he lets on! He certainly has NO intention of getting blown off his pretend-family-throne and giving up his access to the country's wealth to use for his own amusement!! Yes he's totally paranoid and insists that his emissaries and envoys, etc - in fact every person in NK.. just see the docus! - put forth his warrior-king spouting like THEY believe it too, and this is also true of their ' total 'adoration' of their 'great leader' and even the public outpouring of grief for his dad and grandad!!.. but my 'take' is that he knows its just rhetoric which he thinks and hopes will keep DT and America at bay and also keeps his own people believing in his power!!

Absolute <deleted>, really, and neither do I believe that the NK people really believe his propaganda, I don't believe they are nearly so gullible as they seem, but KNOW how they must be seen and heard by him and his 'henchmen'.. ridiculous fawning and cheering or crocodile tears, both hysterically conveyed in public, each NK citizen, especially on the front row, trying to outdo the next!!.. but, otherwise its prison, hard-labour, starvation, and probably a horrible death (quite likely for their families, too!!)... Its <deleted> up and shall remain so until he's gone, which will take either a highly unlikely massive climbdown, which would have to be done in such a way as to save this 'great ones' face, or possibly using some of them crazy big warheads none of us want to see deployed!!! That he doesn't, either, is my main point, my own feeling, but how far he will push his rhetoric before China backs away and says, "<deleted> it, America.. go for it!!' remains to be seen. Dodgy times, for sure as if it does all 'kick off' NK's going to be looking to take out as much of SK as possible before the dust settles!!!

Funny, he looks both younger and happier in the 'Found him!' pic! All a bit Doctor Who, really.. Go through some sort of space-time continuum coming out of Tescos did he?

Ask the elephant which way he went, they never forget.. apparently. Seriously, hope the chap's found okay!!...

2 hours ago, spermwhale said:

With so many serious criminals in this country -- murderers, kidnappers, people traffickers, hit and run drivers, serious embezzlers and thieves -- once again the useless Thai cops go for the low-hanging fruit. This country never changes. 

You seem to assume that all the above crims were bypassed to go just for this guy or suchlike.. Er, you know that how? Oh, I get it, the usual 'I just do, its just the way it is here!'.. again, er.. right.. so you're just another Negative Ninny, then, really? And, anyway, even if it were so, hardly something NOT thrown at law officers all around the world is it?.. You know, like "Shouldn't you be out catching serious criminals?', but, for the sake of not wanting to be  a foreigner heard NOT whinging constantly about something, here, lets make Thailand a 'special case' again and again and again, ad nauseum, ad infinitum, yeah?...