jacko45k

I believe the requirement is supposed to be a valid home country M/C licence (or endorsed International one) to hire any motorcycle, it is simply hardly enforced and difficult for the locals to verify, so they don't bother. The renting out of larger bikes, over say 200cc, should be a more specialist supply. A 125 cc scooter, for tourists to whiz to the beach and around the island, should be more than ample. Giving some kid a 600cc crotch rocket is simply madness.

What on earth was a girl as young as 15 doing out and about alone at that late hour?

The article uses the phrase 'sexual assault', although the headline puts it more accurately.

Not much detective work should be required. Surely the ex-girlfriend can supply some details so this overgrown child can be located at his mummy's house and the gun confiscated along with a clip round the ear administered.....

He had only been here a couple of days and his body clock had yet to adjust. Perhaps he even felt he would go out later, when there should be less traffic about and it would be safer.

So there re surplus funds sitting around and this is the superfluous use they come up with for them? All due to a lack of maintenance.....

He was actually the conductor on the boat.

Seems odd it is affecting men more......

What, not even a fitted shower curtain to give a little discretion?

They usually go off the flyover entrance to the Hwy 7 motorway, so these guys got off lucky.

And how many decades will this saga go on for?

I think USA guys and maybe some others use the term for a step through small motorcycle... pretty much what we mostly have here.

I doubt his were the only ones floating around in those waters!

You could find remotes for old TVs and ACs too......great resource. Lazada too likely was hurting them.

And time to get sober?

She has done a couple of talks at The Pattaya Expats Club, and comes over very well.

Is someone claiming Mark Zuckerberg is censoring posts on Pattaya Cheap Charlies, or are we going from the sublime to the ridiculous?

So I expect the neck brace and shoulder sling can be packed away then.... gleaming white formal military suits from now on! 'All of the people all of the time' comes to mind!

I recall the tale of an older Brit guy who was on a motorcycle and got into a road rage situation with a Thai in a car, the Thai took out a gun and shot him dead in the back. Often wonder what punishment he got, one never hears more of these things.

I have had guys round to my house and neighbours place to remove undesirable critters..... they surprisingly never seem to have anything to put them in!

Heck of a deflection there......

Must be tough using a 500 Euro note, it is supposedly worth 19,000 baht isn't it.

Of course, everything bad is due to foreigners and the Thais are just being taken advantage of. When will this racism stop!

Haha, likely it would be regarded as cute here. Seem to recall a poster of a kid smoking a cigarette was commonplace in my youth, like the poster of the female tennis player scratching her bare bottom was.

Add it to the list of things that should not be sold on the streets but are widely available!