OttoPollmann

28 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

I worked in Saudi for four years in Riyadh and thankfully had a more positive attitude than the one you display. 

Tell me, what was your positive experience what you have carried with you to promote this place to your friends.
the freedom of speach? the freedom of your own opinion? the freedom of your sexual choice? Even you just want to stay together un-married not to mention of male partner.
You went to Mecca? You got access into the restricted area around the Kaaba? only muslims are permited. All beaches are belong to the King and no-go zones only marked area are permited to visit and here you have to respect the family zones even nobody is in sight for miles. You have visit the area close to Yemen, that is military zone already for years. My company had some sites just 20 kilometers from the boarder, which we had to abandon because of the conflict between these countries. The west is not talking about this war and the killing of innovent Yemeni. We don't want to interfere in local affairs and more importent cut off the oil supply.
For sure, in Riyadh you have lived in a foreigner housing estate because that is the only place where foreigner could stay. Like in a boot camp just depend of your status but on the end for all foreigner it's the same, go to work and back in your compound.
That sounds very inviting for a holiday trip.

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

If they continue like this soon Saudi arabia will a lot more more loose than Thailand i think, i wonder if the have TM 30 there....

no, they haven't.
If you have a resident visa you get an ID card and free to roam the country as an Europian no further registration required. But if you are an indian, nepalese, philipino, pakistani, etc. labour your employer will take away your passport. Then you are not more then a slave and you have no rights at all.

13 hours ago, donnacha said:

The country that really leads the world in carjacking is South Africa. Brazil is pretty bad too but, on the plus side, they don't have the TM30.

 

that's truth. But in these countries you can leagally install some carjack protection and use these devices. I like these flame throwers on the side mirrows or these blades under the car which chops off the legs of those guys. Furthermore, you can secure your home as well with electrical fence for example. This fence gives you not only a zip it would be the last you touch.

But never mind, it isn't legal in Thailand.

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The homeowner however would be held accountable for a violation under the Cruelty Prevention and Welfare of Animal Act and police would later conduct an inquiry.

so they will apply the same measurements, which they have applied in the case of the Brit who has beaten a dog.
or is it again a double standard and she goes scot free and those dogs have to return to their misery life.

To all these thai apologizer that all these pesky Farangistan countries are in debt too.
What everyone of these guys have forgetten, the system how these countries work require that you need to have debt.
To get a tax rebate it is preferable to have some long term loan on a house. This is forward planing and if it is properly calculated at the retirement age you are debt free and your house is partly paid by the tax rebate.
Or how you thing big global companies pay no tax at all. They writing of some debt and loss.

You have something comparable in Thailand? I don't think so.

Have a look to all those farmers. They are all in debt. Every year at the time they have to pay back the loan to the farmer's bank. Then you can see them to borrow money just for one day and if they are lucky, they pay just 5% for this day. On the next day they will re-new a loan again from the bank for another year.
This is a fatal cycle where it is almost impossible to escape and they cannot claim private bankruptcy like in these pesky Farangistan countries.

The only way out is by suicide. Think about it you apologizer.

8 hours ago, giddyup said:

Easy for these celebrities sitting in their ivory towers to push for a landing somewhere in Europe when it doesn't affect them in the slightest. How about they offer some of the bedrooms in their multi-million dollar homes to so-called refugees? You'd watch them back pedal at a million miles an hour.

How about they offer some of the bedrooms in their multi-million dollar homes to so-called refugees?

and that happens if you are too kind and trustful.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/11/refugee-suspected-of-murdering-german-millionaire-who-helped-him-and-gave-him-a-home/

what will be his punishment? a wai, 500 baht and cocking a snake Ragout for the community.
in an other case, a farang got imprisonment and only released on bail of 90k for beating up a soi dog. no killing. what would be the punishment if he had killed a protected animal?
minimum sentence: lifetime in the Bangkok Hilton with two times per day of picking up soap in the shower. 

6 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

How many yaba pills was he able to buy? Or was it a gambling debt? 

37! 80 baht each.

if he was a good customer, maybe 40.

I just hope the Police will put the same effort in this case like they have put in the case of the Brit.
most properly it will end like the case in Surat Thani where a lady has tied a dog behind her car and claimed it was already dead before she started to pulled it to dispose.
and of course the word of a Thai was all the Police need to rest the case as long no farang is involved no money to extract, case closed.

1 hour ago, lazygourmet said:

Meanwhile Thai tourists are flocking to Europe. On my last Songkran trip to Brussels the Thai Airways flight was full of upper middle class Thai families.

its not only on Thai holidays. I just came back from Zürich and the Swiss flight was packed with Thais.

I hope Mahmoud has some travel insurance. I don't believe that he will get any compensation from the attacker and medical treatment is expensive for foreigner. If not, he will be swearing not only about Thai-Boxing.

The horse was called Tesco.

27 minutes ago, just bob said:

If they work a 6 day 8 hour week that is 19200 baht per month.  I say give us parity and raise it to 65,000 baht per month, just like the visa requirement.

 

Oh, wait.....

 

Nevermind.

How you have calculated that?

8 hours ago, soalbundy said:

He shouldn't have said it

you know what he has said?

Maybe, he just was friendly and said. Shukran Habibi.

11 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Exactly what was said in the encounter that led to the attack was not reported. 

7 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Ridiculous,

I've driven in Florida in rain so heavy you can't see the front of the car bonnet.

interesting and then?
you have stopped on the middle of the highway or given any warning to the following traffic that you will reduce speed or park?
in this video the visibility for a rainy day is quiet good. is it permitted for motorcycles to use the underpass in Chiang Mai? I'm just curious because in other cities they are not allow to use those.
don't understand me wrong, I'm not defending the behaviour of the pickup driver. he was not driving according to the weather condition. but it would be only a property damage if the motorcycles had not parked in the tunnel.
furthermore, in countries with much lower accident rates you must have and wear a high visibilty vest in case of an accident or if you ride a motorcycle.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Actually advice in most of the world in cases of torrential rain/sleet/snow/fog where you can't see, is to pull over and stop. It's one of the normal uses of emergency lanes.

 

There's really no way to avoid a nutjob driving a car, except to not be in front of him.

this is not correct. in civilized countries this hard shoulder is only to use in an emergency. Rain or getting wet is not an emergency that is a case of not using adequate clothing. in a real emergency situation if you need to use this hard shoulder, you have to install a warning traiangle in a distance of minimum 150m behind the breakdown vehicle. besides that, you have to inform immediately the police and leave the vehicle to get shelter on a safe place. for exemple behind a crash barrier or in a tunnel use of a safety bay or leave in direction of the emergency exit and keep your vehicle behind.
Furthermore, if your breakdown is to blame on an empty petrol tank you will face a hefty fine.

2 hours ago, dddave said:

Multi meter best for sure but every toolbox should at least have one of the pen shaped electrical field testers.  Just wave it near wires or an electrical device and it will buzz if there is a live wire.  Less than B200 at all hardware and home improvement stores or online at Lazada:

https://www.lazada.co.th/products/non-contact-electronic-digital-display-pencil-digital-test-pencil-super-safety-induction-pen-led-i262834774-s405288306.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlistcategory.list.50.548c37f8wUCH2Y&search=1

At home, we're calling this a Lügenbold (liar) because it tells you not every time the truth. If you're want to check potential free you need a phase tester. 

2 hours ago, darksidedog said:

And I wonder how fast exactly was he traveling to lose control of the car? The damage suggests low flying might have been a fairly good description. Those power poles need a seriously good hit before they go down.

in most cars the aquaplaning will start around 80 km/h depend of how much water is on the surface, how heavy the car is and how wide the tyres are. Then it will deploy with a lower speed.

All new cars which want to pass the NCAP crash test must now have some kind of crumple zone to prevent pedestrian injuries. And if you have a look on this lamp post it seems that it was only buried fuw centimetre in a water soaked earth. Neither, I see any anchor bolts on the lamp post footing.

So, my assumption is that he was not going so fast because the Lambo came to stop very close to the impact zone.