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The reason this sort of poor performance with bank and gold shop robbers is patently obvious.

They haven't translated "The dummies guide to robbing a Bank" into Thai yet.

31 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Not necessarily a requirement for an extension. But maybe a requirement in order to get into the immigration offices. No green check  on the app means you can't enter immigration buildings.

No problems - I'll just wear a green dot on my sleeve that I'll purloin from the golf course. That'll confuse the muggers!

Take a seat at the closes restaurant to the incident and drink copious coffee.  Eventually you'll see the vehicle as he/she no doubt will pass again.

Follow said vehicle to determine it's place of overnight residence.

Extract your pound of flesh from the vehicle ensuring you are suitably disguised to avoid detection (limp and wear a wig).

Revenge is wonderfully satisfying. Don't ask me how I know.

Oh I see - the final solution to the question of life, the universe, and everything.

Idiots that make these statements are also unaware that it's a mathematical requirement that approximately 50% of the population have a lower than average IQ,

And guess which part of the distribution curve they come from.

Thanks to all the posters and their recommendations.  I've tried almost all of them with the exception of three so my sausage hunt begins today.

If all else fails I'll import my favorites from NZ.  Probably cost 1,000B per snag but I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms so the hell with the cost.

Cheers.

I have a theory about Thai driving attitudes.  I taught my missus to drive at the age of 30. She'd never driven a car and strangely couldn't even ride a scooter.

She is now an excellent driver as a 5 foot nothing driving a Toyota Revo. Quick to spot issues requiring change in speed direction, lane changes etc., takes bends at speed and stays in the lane, indicates correctly, even raises the middle finger at road idiots (knowing they can't see her through the dark glass). In summary I find her more safe and competent a driver in Thailand than many Farang I know.

When I take her to NZ she only drove once briefly and then point blank refused.  Her explanation was basically that she was as scared as hell because everything was so formal and structured that she felt she was unable to drive safely and actually believed the NZ roads and drivers were more dangerous than Thailand.

I probably didn't help by pushing my invisible brake pedal and clenching my buttocks frequently - not because she was driving badly for the road conditions she was familiar with, but because she was driving as though the Thai "rules" prevailed and the obnoxious territorial Kiwi drivers were not very adaptive to her style.

She further clarified - having to always watch the speedo, not able to take obvious advantages of lane splitting and gaps in traffic that "made sense" but were prohibited, traffic lights that had to be obeyed, and you can imagine the rest.

So in short, I think Thais just in general have a problem with what I would call order and structure.  Their adaptiveness to the SE Asian vagaries of life, money, the lottery, the government, political chaos, familial chaos, bureaucratic disorder, police corruption, flooding. ad infinitum, and this seems to spread to their driving and general laissez faire attitudes.

They believe rules and regulations that govern their life from bureaucrats, the police, government etc are transient, changeable, corrupt and variable, are forever changing and therefore not real, or only real until they change.

If you take this attitude towards driving, the results are probably to be expected. Thai society is structured in general for the survival of the fittest,  The road carnage simply highlights this.

The good doctor is obviously confusing N₂O with He.

Not surprising really.  Show a periodic table to a Thai (even an alleged doctor) and he'll probably order pad-gap-pow gap kai-daow.

4 hours ago, Denim said:

Going berserk ..................... present continuous tense.

 

went beserk ................. past tense.

 

Looks like he went berserk a long long time ago.

 

 

But it begs the question does he have an alibi or indeed, an excuse for his alleged berserkness, or should I say, his state of being or going berserk, present continuous tenses exempted.  English can be so wonderfully concise or devilishly imprecise in usage, it just depends on whether one is aware of parsing in the use of syntax. On that matter I claim not to be an expert.

An alibi is a special kind of excuse and to use it for "excuse" is to introduce ambiguity, and to diminish precision. If a man says, "I have an alibi ", one does not now know whether he means that he has an excuse or that he was elsewhere when the act attributed to him took place.

Other examples of ambiguous English are the use of "anticipate" to mean "expect"; of "disinterested" to mean "uninterested" and a more recent neologism of this kind is the use of "hopefully" to mean "hope". To say, "I am hopefully going to Timbuctoo", used to mean, quite certainly, "I am going to Timbuctoo in a spirit of hope". Now it can also mean "I hope I am going to Timbuctoo".

Mayhap this Swiss gentleman now wishes he holidayed in Timbuctoo, and hopefully so.

26 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

I am not sure that is a good idea although it could work. People are restricted in accordance with the Sandbox rules and it would be frowned upon to be a scofflaw... I would presume the hotel would pass on the person's details to immigration police and report them as AWOL. Haven't they also prepaid for accommodation?

The way I see it, if he's not breaking any official rules and has paid his bin, he should be a free man - or at least as free as we are allowed to be these days. 

I see they have a manhunt on currently in Australia for a woman who escaped from hotel quarantine. The Fascist Aussie government and law enforcement agencies will move mountains to apprehend her and find her guilty of thoughtcrime - somehow I can't see the RTP mobilizing heaven and earth to track down the OP, especially if the only rule he broke was an imaginary one put in place by the hotel manager.

14 hours ago, Madgee said:

Same brand does Cumberland sausage ....excellent! 

 

That's one I must have missed - I'll introduce some to my frying pan. Cheers.

Had an Electrolux that was 5 years old (in the condo when I bought it) and the missus fritzed its brain. I produced the warranty card.  "so solly, wanty only cover motor".  New brain cost me 4K.

If you buy a front loader make sure the operator understands to only use the correct front loader detergent and understands what concentrated means and how little water this type use.  My missus wasn't happy unless she saw tons of soapy bubbles through the window.  Result, Electrolux with a wet and fritzed brain.

7 minutes ago, doctormann said:

Two suggestions for you:

 

http://www.yorkiesporkpattaya.com/

 

https://keithinpattaya.com/2021/04/siamburis-soi-kho-talo-pattaya-thailand/

Thanks - tried them both.  

4 minutes ago, norfolkandchance said:

Make your own. Easy.

I make my own sausage rolls and thought about having a crack at a basic sausage.

I ran Bridgestones on my Revo from new - that's what they came with.  I replaced them at 60K and they probably still had another 1K left on them. Never had a problem.

Idiotically replaced them with Michelin for no other reason that Michelin was always my brand of choice for race bikes over the years.

Big Mistake.  Have managed to wreck two tyres on the sidewalls with very unspecial potholes - the kind of pothole that shouldn't do that to a 4WD tyre.

The shop that replaced them implied the Michelins are known to have inferior sidewalls.

EDIT:  forgot to add that my insurance paid for 50% of the two wrecked tyres based on their assessment of 50% wear.  Sad news was I had no choice of replacement brand.  So now I have two new Michelin and two 50% worn Michelin.  I put the new ones on the front hoping to prolong the life of the rears and maybe can do a full refit of Bridgestones in about 30K without wasting too much tread.

1 minute ago, Isan Farang said:

https://www.primefoodservice.net/

Thanks - been there, done that.