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If you are going to run articles from the Christian Scientist Monitor, then we will get more of this inflammatory nonsense.

So who actually is the 'con artist' in this story?

The DSI guy is doing his best to pull the wool.

So where is the big hole referred to in the headline?

Hope they have installed the bullet-proof glass windows.

It was a stunt to promote bullet proof windows.

Now they'll all want them.

For "key supporter" read well paid PR consultant.

Perhaps there is just a grain or two of truth in the story?

Did he get the tee shirt before or after he set his home ablaze?

Can't imagine the Authorities seeing it other than suicide.

Another naked farang found dead in Pattaya on a Thursday.

Fake credit cards used to buy "wrist-watches, belts and bags".

They were probably fake too.

The poor turnout by the local hotel owners etc. shows how seriously this issue isn't being taken.

Waste of time.

Information would become out of date daily.

Could this article be a made up one for a feel good propaganda? I mean com-on, B 600,000 camera?

$ 20,000 ? in Thailand? feel fishy to me,

Don't you know that the camera never lies.

Revoking a passport doesn't require finding him. Just impound the cars and other hard assets. File charges and gather evidence. He's a money laundering fugitive. Thailand must go after him through international organizations.

But the National Buddhism Office doesn't cancel his passport, they have to apply to the Foreign Ministry.

There is another absconded criminal, and his passport was illegally issued, and look how long it is taking to have his passport revoked.

Perhaps they are referring to his passport to a higher place?

Two things clear from the passage of time:

The World is getting smaller,

& Thailand is sinking.

Hardly surprising that the scam was sprung (which is more than can be said for that mattress).

Every time I lose something I always end up checking under the bed.

It's a habit I got into after I lost my virginity.

Certainly agree that KFC suing the restaurant will give the place's publicity another boost. Even if KFC won it would hardly stop the restaurant trading after a few cosmetic changes.

When you think how culturally sensitive Thais become when it suits them, you would hope that somebody in authority would recognise the merit in being sensitive to most Westerners' attitude to the single most evil man of the 20th century.

Having said that I don't expect the restaurant to have a name change in the near future. Can't imagine it being changed to Burger King of Siam.

Do we learn from the lessons of history?

We do for a while, but I reckon it takes only a generation or two for those lessons to be ignored and then off we go again.

Each subsequent generation thinks it's the smartest of them all.

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our peril.

I reckon it takes the passing of three generations to forget those lessons

Posters v Imposters

Not always straight forward distinguishing the honest posters from the dishonest imposters; differentiating the ones who are writing their views from the ones whose purpose is to be controversial, just for the sake of it.

I guess Notoriety beats Anonimity.

Not really much of a story of any note, but hardly anything to swing your handbags over, ladies.

I wonder if, "I was just doing a re-enactment" will stand up in court as a defence argument, when caught with your hand in the till?

How can you "re-enact a crime" unless you are certain to have the guilty person?

Clearly there is a presumption of guilt prior to even going to trial.

The parading of 'suspects' surrounded by several cops is just a photo opportunity for the Keystones to gain self-promoting publicity.

Another exercise in window-dressing.

What's the fuss about?

It's just another case of spectrophilia.

All the major religions are industries with career paths which create opportunities for personal advancement.

He wasn't arrested and told he would be deported because he was working as a realtor.

He has been picked because he is an illegal immigrant.

The realtor bit is neither here nor there.