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And the icing on the cake for me is that the "wealthy guy" scams his con men "friends" out of the lot - and they go running to the police!! HAHAHAHAH - you couldn't make this stuff up!!!

Yes exactly - definite case of "som nam na" - she was willing to defraud what she believed was a man with a serious gambling problem who was regularly cheated out of his money; and was defrauded herself.

I have ZERO sympathy for her - however I do for the rest of her family who have also lost everything.

And to later claim that she was "drugged" - hahah yes - it seems she was high on that good old drug called "GREED".

What goes around comes around and that is karma right there.

Usual scams involve playing on emotions of greed - but this case also involved the "Victim" being willing to scam someone herself.

Sorry - I can't stop chuckling.

The headline shouldn't be "Phuket foreigners losing homes to conmen" - it should be "Tables get turned on foolish amatuer"

Good riddance to these white garbage. What the bloody Thai Immigration and Police needs to do is to be more restrictive in the visas and more intense screening esp to people from Britain, America and Australia and also other European Countries as Thailand and also other parts of Asia are attracting the garbage from these countries.

What's got your knickers in a knot? One group of consenting adults is providing a service to another group of consenting adults, and the workers are being well paid - a lot better paid than planting rice for minimum wage that some time in the distant future might go up to B300.

Not my thing personally, but whatever pulls your trigger is fine by me within the "normal" limits, if there are such things.

BTW when you start restricting visas to the "better" class of farang, expect the same to happen - about time thais were restricted from owning real estate and operating businesses in the countries that you mention.

They are breaking the law for a start and also what they are doing is against the morale values of Thailand.

Sorry that last comment re the "moral values" made me chuckle - I'm assuming it was tongue in cheek

Wow, I have been a member here a very short time and already I see a pattern of people bashing the Thai populace. I arrived in Thailand in May. I had a couple of pretty bad things happen to me and the Thai people that I have met were nothing but gracious and kind. In one instance I had a severe infection in my Tonsils and had lost my check card, The women at the guest house I was staying at not only took me to the hospital (including a tuk-tuk ride) but they paid for the visit and all medications. Then one of the women actually brought me soups to my room and bathed my face with a cool cloth. They asked for NOTHING in return......NOTHING... In the same time period another Thai person, a restauranteur kept me fed as he knew I had lost my card, he only asked that when I got my new card, that I would pay him back the cost of the food. ....in the same time frame another woman Nui (sp?) gave....gave...me free coffee and loaned me money.... This all without even knowing my name! Nobody even asked me my name.

Someone said that the Thai people hate foreigners....To you sir, I say, You are wrong, and you are wrong to malign the Thai people with your hate. Maybe you are involved with the wrong element. Because in my experience the Thai people are friendly and gracious. Maybe it's a different scene if you associate with nothing but bar girls and the clientele surrounding that environment. ....But that is merely an assumption on my part.

Your final assumption is way off track... the bar girls are pretty open to foreigners... it is the high class who profit most from xenephobia. And, FYI... it is very difficult to find a hi-so girl who is free to marry a farang. You, sir mentioned class as a criterion for xenophobia... not the original poster. However, you are guilty of getting personal with the poster and therefore discredited.

Agreed - Try not to mistake "class" with "position in society" - when I hear the word "class" I think more of wealth of character - some of the "hiso" are also some of the most classless F'ckwits you could ever hope to meet.

As the old saying goes "money doesn't buy you class"......

Wow, I have been a member here a very short time and already I see a pattern of people bashing the Thai populace. I arrived in Thailand in May. I had a couple of pretty bad things happen to me and the Thai people that I have met were nothing but gracious and kind. In one instance I had a severe infection in my Tonsils and had lost my check card, The women at the guest house I was staying at not only took me to the hospital (including a tuk-tuk ride) but they paid for the visit and all medications. Then one of the women actually brought me soups to my room and bathed my face with a cool cloth. They asked for NOTHING in return......NOTHING... In the same time period another Thai person, a restauranteur kept me fed as he knew I had lost my card, he only asked that when I got my new card, that I would pay him back the cost of the food. ....in the same time frame another woman Nui (sp?) gave....gave...me free coffee and loaned me money.... This all without even knowing my name! Nobody even asked me my name.

Someone said that the Thai people hate foreigners....To you sir, I say, You are wrong, and you are wrong to malign the Thai people with your hate. Maybe you are involved with the wrong element. Because in my experience the Thai people are friendly and gracious. Maybe it's a different scene if you associate with nothing but bar girls and the clientele surrounding that environment. ....But that is merely an assumption on my part.

I agree with you here - I have had both great and terrible experiences with Thai people over my 2 years here; just as I have had great and bad experiences with westerners here AND back home in England. There was one evening when both great and bad happened within an hour of each other; I was walking along Sukhumvit with my dog when one of the Thai stall owners started hitting my dog across the head with a thick bamboo stick claiming that he had urinated on the ground near his stall.

I knew he had done no such thing and jumped in to protect my dog - at which point the Thai guy turned the bamboo stick on me - split my head open and opened up gashes on my arms and one of my shins. Knowing I could do nothing in return as I was surrounded by his Thai friends I wandered off.

Then another Thai guy saw me and took me to the nearby hospital and sorted everything - even paid for the medication I was given without telling me - and would accept nothing from me in return.

People are people - good and bad everywhere.

This country frustrates the HELL out of me sometimes - but the thought of moving back to the UK makes me realise I live here because for me the good out weighs the bad...........

If you actually read her tweets - she uses the word "attack" twice and states that "someone" (uses the abbreviation s/o) sprayed them - saying it was "just at us".

For me the credibility of the "victim" has to be questioned - or rather her motives for posting it on Twitter.

For her to know it was "someone" means that she would have to have SEEN that "someone" spray it at her and her partner - and ALSO notice that they were the SOLE intended target at that time (as it was "just at them")

I'm sorry I don't care WHERE I am in the world, if someone runs up to me and "attacks" me with "acid" - then I would hope the police would be checking CCTV - and my first reaction would NOT be to f@cking TWEET about it.

As someone previously mentioned - it's a blatant sensationalist tweet by someone with a motive to generate site traffic. I could very well be wrong but that's my gut feeling.

She also says it could have been bleach - well hell, with the rains lately and the fact that most tiled floor spaces are cleaned with bleach - it seems much more likely to me that something has dripped down onto them - unless she saw the whites of her attackers eyes - that's my call.

Try rubbing acid into your eyes - it wont just be your corneas that get damaged. Also - she says she will be "up in 4 hours to see the doctor" - diluted bleach run off from the station floor above.

Hardly warrants a "BANGKOK SKYTRAIN HORROR" headline............

Of course I have made a lot of assumptions - but they seem more logical to me than some mad man running around chucking acid in people's faces.

I'm sorry I just find that accusation SO offensive!!!!!

Pssshhh - I in NO way condone the behaviour of child sex offenders etc - but I think people in general need to clean up their own back yard before they go knocking on their neighbours door - pedophilia in Asian countries is massively dominated by locals............Britain a "nation of sex child sex offenders"??? Get a grip!!!! <deleted>!!!

YES!! Ok so i've just found the kitten a new home! That was quicker than I thought!!

p.s. I have already tried SCAD, but unfortunately they are overwhelmed at the moment and can't take on any new animals.

A couple of days ago I came across a small kitten being chased by rats down a small soi in Bangkok. I managed to get there in time to save the kitten from harm, and took her home rather than leave her to be attacked again. The problem is, my condo building has a strict no animal policy, and I have had to try to hide her from sight so as not to be thrown out.

I'm not sure how many of these requests this site gets, but would anyone be looking to help me re home this little kitten. She's extremely affectionate and won't leave my side for even a second - she is very small and is obviously looking for comfort, in fact she refuses even to get off my lap. I've noticed she is hobbling on her front leg and will need to be checked at the vets - she will also need to be de flead and wormed etc.

I would be willing to take care of the vet side of things, if someone could just offer her a safe environment, even just until she is a little bigger and a little more able to go it alone. I have asked around the local neighbours to see if they could help, but they all just advised me to take her to a temple and let her go there. I just don't have the heart to do that.

So....please can anyone help here?

I don't know what to do

I tired to attach a photo but I can't until I have been registered for at least 72 hours....