kiwikeith

Relationships are similar to addiction, and insanity, It is insanity to do the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.

This is why it takes so long to learn, coupled with a bit of obsessive compulsive behaviour and maybe never learn ever, ending in crisis.

Some (few) who have learnt are quite happy to be single, have friends and if needed a bit on the side now and again. 

2 hours ago, elgordo38 said:

An idiot put in his position by a government that cares about little except tourist dollars. A propaganda specialist. 

I thought, drug running, people smuggling, and graft were well above the importance of a mere 10% take in LOS,s economy

5 hours ago, DrDave said:

Has it been determined whether all of these unexploded bombs are in fact "duds" (defective), or simply not yet triggered to detonate?  If the latter, I would say that the situation is far from "normal".

Look, there are no terrorist bombers in LOS.

The situation has returned to normal, so if you get blown up it is only because someone put another bomb out.

You can,t expect us to find new ones until they are planted.

So carry on Be happy don't worry we have the situation at hand.

Drive safely, keep your windows up and kids at home, thats why we closed the schools.

19 hours ago, NickJ said:

There could be a war in Vietnam and Pattaya would still be open......

Of course, for R and R

18 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

So some neighbors reported him to immigration. I was thinking maybe they tracked his sim, analyzed his social media account or used some facial recognition software in the immigration photos. Turns out it was low tech.

If he had brought a new sim (when the tracking ones are acitve) they would never have caught him as looking for the wrong man,

14 hours ago, waldroj said:

"...Bomb suspects remain at large...country is back to normal.."!

 

That sums it up pretty well.

Considering that the Russian blacklisted was back within 4 weeks and many bombers remain at large including the Erewan suspects that fled to Turkey and have never been handed over by the Turks, the ability to walk over borders for locals in the south for a night time fling, the continual discovery of people smuggling camps, guns explosives and weapons.

The amount of unpunished transfered police, the daily shootings and ambushes and bombings in the south,------ Then I suppose we should all feel safe again.

5 hours ago, z42 said:

This is awful, it is very clear some outfit is trying to make a serious statement, but with so many potential candidates I doubt the RTP will actually get to the bottom of it, their track record is far from exemplary in such matters.

I hope very much for no further casualties. Scary times indeed

Just a guess, definately not terrorists.

I would find plausable that the enlightened one's actions in Hua Hin when the train was stopped and students marched of to detention by the army, possibly a catalyst for a radical few to retaliate.

Other than that someone who has been getting a heard time has spoken out, any ideas?

2 hours ago, SOTIRIOS said:

....wow....

 

...Thai victim and they are interested....

 

...and so many details....

 

...none of the... 'No sign of struggle or foul play'....???

 

...too bad foreigners don't command the same respect and dignity.....

 

 

Possibles: To much viagra, heart failure.

To much date rape drug slipped to him.

Heart failure naturaly, take your pick.

20 hours ago, Aussietraveller said:

Travel was as follows.

Kids travelled Australia to BKK on their Australian Passports

Stayed in LOS several weeks

Travelled BKK to HKG on Australian Passports

Stay 1 week

Depart HKG on Australian Passports

Arrive BKK and at that point the kids were refused entry on their Thai passports

Immigration officer said we could use their Australian Passports, but not their Thai.

His manner to me suggested that it was more about his power than anything.

He refused to talk to me and would only speak to my wife who responded with thai subservience to Authority and a few Ka,s

They knew we had been using another passport as the kids Thai passports were new, with no stamps.

 

I take my Kid out of NZ on his NZ passport, enter Thailand on Thai passport, no problem.

leave Thailand on Thai passport and Re - enter NZ on his NZ, no problems ever, the problem may be that the kids left Thailand on Aussie passports and should re enter on those.

Immigration NZ refused a expat Brit entry into NZ on his British passport even though he lived in NZ over 30 years as he left NZ on  NZ passport he had to re enter on that passport.

So that is where the problem may lye, next time you leave Oz use Oz passport and enter Thailand on Thai and leave on Thai.

They had no record of the kids entry into Thailand other than on Aussie passports so that is where they may have been suspicious.

4 hours ago, shirtless said:

Good luck if they are educated in Thailand they wont know their left from their right.

Nor their Red from their light 

2 hours ago, seajae said:

now this is starting to get creepy,  tracking all non thais in Thailand through their phone is a joke, I rarely even turn mine on unless I want to use it. Have to wonder which idiot has suggested this, first they want us to fill in forms to tell them all our personal details and now this, have to think it is a certain thai that simply doesnt like farangs and wants them all gone, really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this sort of crap.

I suspect that this is a test case, Thailand being used as the testing ground for future full time tracking of everyone.

If you wanted to avoid being tracked you could easily obtain a Thai card or get the one in the GF's name.

Real crims would not be so stupid to use them, then -- they don't have to.

Nothing to worry about here.

7 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

Quite a story as when printed the victim hadn't made a statement and the only apparent witness hadn't seen anything but the BIB were able to announce the victim MUST HAVE had an argument with a foreigner who then knifed him  !      

It does not pay for a Thai to argue with a foreigner as the foreigner my end up deaded in a variety of ways with no sign of a struggle .

Why did a 16 year old pay to have his father killed?

Easy answer MONEY. Father dead son would probably get house/land/fighting cocks etc.

To have 20k bht in the first place for a 16 yr old village boy is quite a lot of money.

Maybe P drugs involved by the young ones and he needed money to pay debt, once he got the farm he coulld sell that and loose the lot.

Drugs cause children to steal from parents, i have seen it first hand in NZ where the son of my friend who was a really nice lad who got addicted to heroin steal from his father.

Years later he is fine now after rehab, one of the lucky ones.

I hope his arrest does not delay the transfer of $24,000,000 dollars to my account, as he promised.

Bad news my friend, sorry to say the Police believed the Nigerians story and after expenses are transfering the money to the mans sick relatives in desparate need of life saving operation.

Somehow the lady boys will walk free on this one.

Not quite free, perhaps some rather derisory fines.

Im just wondring what ype of work permit the Lao boys are on, maybe labourers, or prick layers or gob stoppers, who knows.

So he was going too fast braked too hard/late and lost control and crashed his bus killing people

Now isn't that a better explanation Mr Driver!

he was going to fast then heavy rain, did not slow down, then oh,oh a vehicle in front had to slam it on ect ect maybe better

Solid police work.

maybe an ex policeman.

Maybe ex wifey was GF of perp

ah the police

where you can buy your promotion

and nobody asking where all that money is coming from, on a small government salary

where the police never goes to jail even caught with both hands in the cookie jar

When you test to find a rotten egg you put them in a bowl of water and the rotten ones float.

If all the police in LOS were told to jump into the ocean the ones that sank to the bottom and died would be good ones and the ones floundering on the surface would be rotten.

i can never understand the mentality of idiots causing hassle on an aeroplane, its not as if they can escape. doh !! and also thats their holiday ruined, bloody good show.

Their mentality that day probably saved a life or two, as if they had of gotten to LOS god knows what would have happened to them.

Any drugs or needles laying about ?

Police said there were no signs of a struggle,this is the common line in every foreign death reported in the news by Thai Police in LOS, it must be a std form they fill out and give to the press.

Start with the women or partners he had.

What a nightmare.

I am convinced I read stories of people dying all day.........crazy.

Looks like if a few more are shot then police will increase road safety and cash in on no helmet fines to cover the costs of infestigating.

Don't people usually just go to the airport with their child's two passports - Their Thai one and their Western one, and that is it?

Exactly! thats what I do, my son has 2 passports and a NZ and Thai birth cert, I have never had any delay or problem, in fact the girls at immigration want to fuss over him and have sometimes put us forward in the que.

Maybe this be a lesson to people trying to save a few ££££'s by not having travel insurance.

Why should Thailand have to "foot this bill" ?

Why shouldn't they/? Thais get treated in NZ for emergency , if tourists ,we just don't let them die, it's treatment first questions later.

36k pound sounds a bit steep for just keeping her alive , I would like to know which hospital that was??

Sounds very cruel to me and non humanitarian, but that's common in this world where illness is a big money industry, the big corporates fill you up with pollution, insecticides GM food, raise the pension age, then poisen you to death with toxic treatments on the way out at huge costs.

Your getting severaly clipped in life and more so on the way out.

Dissgusting.

Medical insurance? well you might not worry if your ok but for a short term holiday you can get your credit card company to insure you for a small fee, worth it I think.

Long term medical insurance is so expensive that many take the risk.

Reciprocal agreements would be nice, but to hard for a politician to digest without a big donation, the staus quo win the money at all times. Sad.

Might depend on who the owners and protectors are.

I wonder if a re enactment is needed?

This will ruin my friends vacation to BK.

Depending on actual voter turnout, 30.4% who say they will vote in support of the draft may be enough to approve the draft charter.

The 2007 draft Constitution was approved by about 32% of total registered voters wherein only 57% of registered voters went to the polls. Of course should the 2016 draft be approved by a minority of registered voters, there will be no clear mandate for the 2016 draft constitution, political conflict will continue and perhaps even intensify. The EC had the right idea to base approval on a majority of registered voters but the Junta mandated otherwise.

Surprisingly, a large amount of Thais do not know of the second world war, If I were a betting man I would place my bet on most Thais not understanding the referendum or even knowing about it.

Then there is the fear factor as well, being afraid to go against the glorified ones.