jacko45k

Very optimistic request.

Keep a bucket of iced water next to the life ring at the beach!

I don't expect there are many of those very capable lifting and towing vehicles here in Pattaya... putting a clamp on the wheel is about the limit of their abilities.

It has been an issue for 20 years...... nothing much changes, but reality is the shop owner does not own the street in front of their premises either, so many think they do.

So the doors were wide open to an empty lift shaft?

Not always... well not always for us older guys. I agree in Thailand far less likely... often if you get a slapping here, it was deserved!

Not in the case of a receding hairline!

Well that is 2 different functions, handled on different floors, so could be correct. If renewing 2 licenses, car and motorcycle for one person, 2 is not needed, and irritating that immigration mislead you, and waste your money that way.

Now now, no baiting!

It might be less of a drama queen comment if you said it is believed blacks are mostly foreign and require the correct permission of stay and a passport, and it is within the rights of the police to ask that these be shown to them. If they run away, it is likely they do not.

They prefer the place where they get a kick-back.

Jomtien actually, where it is a bit quieter!

It's a bit worrying, we have more of these incidents and a lot of organized crime where Chinese are behind it. The liberal Visa Exempt (and easier long term Visas) is having its effect and changing the place a lot, not for the good either.

Oh not sure,,,,, usually it is Russians, but these days the Oz guys seem to dress this way. The peak gets put to the back when a guy mean business!

So who were those guys packing the bars during high season?

It is a long time now, but I always recall after I paid bar once, the girl was hanging around the next day and informed be that as I paid bar well after midnight, she was off work all that day.

They seem to be able to muster up an infinite amount of patrol cars and manpower when a VIP passes though on the roads.

A long bladed one you often see brandished by Thais in their original type costume, or performing cultural displays. Not something to have handy for the wife to pick up in my mind.

There are many with high self esteem too judging by prices being asked!

Hahah, yes, he has been waiting all night outside the hotel entrance to get his money...the local equivalent of the Scots wife at the factory gates on Friday after work!

In some instances, I get the impression they deliberately mislead you, so as to get that extra 300 baht.

And that is why he was carrying a gun, with bullets, and according to another article, a knife too.

In the early Thailand days, there weren't safes in the rooms, the choice was using one behind reception, or an envelope in the hotel safe. In the latter case, we had a lot of missing items in the morning, one being the night shift receptionist. I have recollections of a locked bag in a locked suitcase, secured to an immovable object with a computer cable lock! The Lek Hotel had safes with some fancy magnetic key, but you needed to hide that before fun and games and passing out!

Also known as 'Rambo' by the sound of things.

I was wondering where they might be dumping it.