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Kids weren't all woke and useless back then and not scared of a bit of dirt or a gecko climbing the wall and we certainly didn't need a "safe place". If I were 24 I'd go off grid too if I had the money. He's been gone 3 weeks, hardly a lifetime to cover the South Andaman is it. Has his bank been used, does he have money, is he alright in the head etc. ? Shacked up with some Thai bird getting <deleted> / stoned is my bet and perhaps exactly what he should be doing, not checking in with mama as a grown man.

You only half jest. It is the beginning of the end but not just for Pattaya, rather Thailand, as the world's Ibiza wannabees now turn the whole country into a Full Moon party.

I have pretty harsh personal views about drugs and a simple mantra that I've never seen a hard drug user that didn't get their start on dope one way or another and I'm old enough to have seen lives utterly destroyed by both drug use and the desire to profit from it. This experiment in Thailand is going to go horribly wrong and it could be seen from afar with certainty. Of course, the weed apologists will decry any such idea as nonsense but already you have what was Pattaya's natural expat for decades, the early through late retiree with the odd younger business guy replaced by tattooed wannabee gangsters who seem to have no desire for Thailand, the culture, not even the beaches or the women but who are here for the drugs and the nightlife and the easy money that comes from such a wasted life. You will see more of them around Pattaya and if that drives people like me out, people who are not financially challenged, then Pattaya will suffer financially and be worse off in the end.

The guy has a Mercedes and he was involved in a murder case and gun issues previously. What say it goes down as a brown bag of "compensation" and a donation to the Policeman's Ball fund and he walks away ?

Yet with so little ease he could have been captured somewhere around the world had he been on Interpol's wanted list or similar. Perhaps they got brown envelopes too ?

Echoing some on here and many further afield, here we have an uneducated grandmother with, to her, an impossibly large amount of money to comprehend and the forces of Thai greed will surely come out of the woodwork to "help" with "reasonable fees" attached. You can deride me and we all hope I'm wrong but this amount could already be invested to produce 50k per annum and give some capital appreciation for her future. However, my gut and decades of experience in Thailand tells me that in no short time anyone investigating how things are going will find that there is little left and no explanation of where it has all gone.

Avani Pattaya last month 39999 to 49999 This month 84000++

So how many millions did the Red Bull kid pay ?