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Does it matter if they were good looking or not ?Would it be less tragic if they were not ? ...why does nearly everyone comment on their supposed looks ?

There is a good explanation for that. When you identify the victims as "young and beautiful;" "with their whole lives in front of them," etc., you are planting a subliminal suggestion that this is the reason they were the victims and, as you are not young and beautiful with your whole life in front of you, you feel safer from attack. Ever heard young and beautiful people use that description for a victim their own age?

London: "Thankfully, they do solve most murders. Yet there are currently around 1,000 cases, some dating back more than a century, which remain unsolved."

www.dailystar.co.uk › News › Latest News

Las Vegas:

"Las Vegas police currently have more than 1,000 cold case homicides dating back to 1943."

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/crime-courts/las-vegas-police-losing-grant-review-cold-cases

According to the the logic expressed in these pages there should be virtually no tourists going to either London or Las Vegas these days. I have been living in Thailand for over six years and each month has seen the death in one form or another of at least one farang. But they still keep coming, and they will continue to keep coming. It is not killing that keeps people away. That happens only to other people. It's prices. They happen to everybody.

While what she did is unforgivable, look at the upbringing she had.

I don't want to look at the up bringing she had. I look at the upbringing the victim never will have. If this monster committed this crime because her brain was distorted, compassion and treatment will not UN-distort it. Put her away. One thing is certain, she will never commit such a crime aqain. Any other treatment negates that certainty while she remains among the living.

It takes me several, often exasperating, months to train a house keeper to keep my home the way I like it, for which reason I pay well and give paid holidays and vacations. Although mae ban occasionally makes the odd mistake, I roll with it because I am aware that all are not as infallible as I. However, there is one error I will not tolerate. The first day she arrives to work on her motorbike without a helmet will be her first day of unemployment. I do not leave my driveway in Isan without a helmet. Had I done otherwise, I would be posting from the grave. A full head helmet saved me from a concussion on a city street and decapitation at a railroad crossing.

Okay, so I'm not infallible. I make mistakes, too. Once. Twice, if you count getting married.

I would rather die than be in prison for life.

Except in cases where the death penalty is overturned or commuted, criminals who are sentenced to death do serve life in prison.

In American terms, David Haines is just collateral damage.

Typical Americans. Scared of the world even though it's safer than home. Or maybe they take their government too seriously. They need to get out more and learn to think for themselves. Not all Americans obviously, but a large proportion of them. So many of them seem brainwashed.

Last year 2013 only 13 % of Americans traveled overseas but Thailand doesn't promote the country correctly. I hear from relatives in California that they see ads about Thailand. Why? California has the largest number of Thai than any other state and is fairly warm climate. I lived in Massachusetts a cold east coast state and have never seen an ad on late nite TV or papers advertising Thailand . They should advertise in one of the colder states as a warm place to come to to get away from the harsh winters. Plus Mass and other east coast and Central USA cites have fairly well off citizens that could afford the trips here.

You must understand that Americans are trained from early childhood to be xenophobic. We are not as courageous as Hollywood makes us out. That's how the Military Industrial Complex is able to get us involved in war after war, creating terrorizing agencies for us to tremble over in third world countries far from our own. However, many Americans do get to spend time in foreign countries, usually under the protection of the twenty or thirty thousand other Americans accompanying them in similar military uniforms. These Americans spend their tours living a life of luxury and privilege while criticizing the host country for its backwardness and then returning to the U.S. and starting life over without the girlfriend and baby he has left behind.

I did not know Russia was part of Europe. I thought it was part of Asia...................hmmmm and they hold the lions share of visitors. Either I am wrong or the writer of this post needs to go back to school and learn Geography.

It is a very large country and seems to straddle both, geographically and otherwise.

A cosmopolitan resident of St. Petersburg would possibly disagree that they are "Asian". A citizen living south of Irkutsk, near Mongolia, might not consider themselves "European".

I suppose it could be a discussion for the academics and perhaps there is no right or wrong in either position.

The dividing line between Europe and Asia in Russia is the Ural Mountains. Turkey also straddles both continents.

Corruption cannot be ended in Thailand until the entire junta leadership receives a royal decree of immunity from prosecution for any non-violent criminal acts before the coup. Only then can it function free from accusations of complicity by any accused.

That was quite a stunt. I never thought he'd pull it off.

No leader will survive long while cleaning corruption out of government. Even Pope John XXIII could not survive the purification of the Vatican. A leader's power is only as lasting and as strong as the power of his supporters. And since many of the powerful hierarchy in any political entity achieved their influence through corruption, they need contimued corruption for their own survival as well as their leaders'. Corruption is as essential to politicians as breathing. If Prayeuth wants to persist in this mission, he'd better watch his back, and never have a meal without a food taster.

Outrageous behavior. Working without a work permit.

I know this:

I was assaulted by a ladyboy in Pattaya because I refused to give him/her 100 baht he/she demanded because I had taken a picture of him/her. It became a matter of principle with me because he/she had not told me in advance of the charge. I managed to escape without too much injury. Today? I would have given him/her the 100 baht out of a strange mixture of pity, fear and realization that I should have asked him/her in advance if I was going be charged for the snapshot.

This is probably the most intelligent and honest post I have ever seen on this web site. Eight years ago, I saw this incredibly beautiful bar shill in Pattaya. I asked for permission to take her picture. She immediately said, "Okay, 50 baht." I hesitated, not because I did not want to shell out 50 of the paltry three million baht that I was pulling down annually then, but to mentally divide 50 by 40 to convert to dollar value. She laughed at me and said, "Okay, I give you free, but you give me copy, yes?"

Congratulations, Max, on sharing an honest learning experience. Many of us have the experience, but few of us share them... without judgment.

Why educate the public? Anyone who accuses another Thai of corruption will be fined, sued, and sent to prison for defamation whether the accusation bears merit or not. So long as that statute continues to exist, there can be no social or political progress in Thailand. Also, to fight economic corruption, an antitrust law must be enacted. For example, it is illegal to sell grass seed because it would compete with a very monpolized and very low quality sod industry.

 

Interesting. A 170 seat aircraft and 300 stranded passengers. There is more to this than technical breakdown - which usually takes a few hours to fix or re-position and aircraft.

Maybe this company allow 130 people to stand for the flight  

 

They may have added overhead hand straps (at least in first class). It's not a very long flight.

" Khun Prasit aged 29 works as a part-time masseur, when he is not at his full-time job as a butcher." The man was only doing his job.

 

Long story short - the guy sold or cashed in his return ticket. Spent all his money (or gave it to his girlfriend) and ended up broke and homeless. Now he's trying to cash in by selling a story of woe. Guaranteed once he has a few quid in his pocket he'll be on a plane back here again.

 

 

My first reaction to the story was that we are hearing only one side and little of that is credible. Then I read Kerryd's well researched and fact based treatise (a rare find in the TV forum) on the event - a little of which is included here, the entire essay having been posted on page 1 - and I came to the conclusion that indeed, someone is setting  up one or more government agencies for a deep pockets strike. Good analysis, Kerryd.

 

'"We've all seen mistakes in the past,"...' Definitely a source of comfort to the grieving relatives.

I doubt grieving relatives are as concerned about whether an accident or intentional act as many obsessive types on here with no dog in the fight.

 

Agree 100%. This is Malaysia's fight with support from Australia, who lost more than a few passengers. Americans Go Home!

Looking at the photo of all those Navy Boys with riffles, looks like they are "using a sledge hammer to crack a nut".

 

As for the umbrellas encroaching on the beach, wait until the next big holiday and calculate just what is the maximum usage, I would estimate even on a busy day most are never used.

 

The simple answer is only 50% of the beach given over to commercial use, and that should only be the strip between the promenaded and halfway to the high water mark, allow one umbrella per 4x4M²  and charge the operators a licence fee per umbrella which goes to funding the cleaning of the beach.

 

Other commercial operations should also be regulated to ensure they they use minimal amount of the beach in the appropriate areas.  

I like it. Also I appreciate the very occasional positive and bright ideas expressed on this page. Far more interesting than the daily diet of negative reactionary crap we are fed by many posters.

Are you sure it is anti-American you are experiencing or just anti-YOU!

Maybe he lost his job. Public schools do not employ teachers once they reach the Thai mandatory retirement age of 60.

What the Thai Foreign Minister does not understand and few foreigners are willing to admit is that foreign businesses love corruption. The corporate power structure of the Anglo-American Empire was built on it during the industrial revolution and it feeds on it. During the last century it nurtured it and honed it to a fine edge.The history post World War II years is replete with glaring examples. After IT&T offed Allende, Pinochet was made Chilean President. How long did the USA support Marcos, Papa Doc, Sandanistas, Battista, Chiang Kai Chek, the Diems in S. Vietnam, ... and that ilk? When you can buy whomever you want, you have all the stability you will ever need. Democratic governments are the enemy of capitalism. They are motivated by such arbitrary values as morality, popularism, rules of law, effects of cultural diversity, economic movements and trends. Corruption has only one motivation, greed. And that is stable and dependable. So, while the Junta’s ambitions, vis-à-vis the elimination of corruption, is admirable and deserving of our hopes for their success, the outcome of that program could eventually spell economic pain as foreign businesses begin looking for labor markets under the control of buyable political leaders.

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still no word why there were no Railway Police officers on the train, however scheduled. Police was supposed to investigate...

SRT saving money!

Another ridiculous assumption arrived at without checking the facts. There were two SRT cops scheduled for that train, but they did not show up.