JeremyBowskill

The 20k needs to be in your hand though, not in the bank. I have seen people been made to o and get it before now, although the chances of being asked for it (assuming you don't dress like a homeless person) are probably in the 1000's to 1.

i will go there with my thai child so they will see i stay for them in thailand because all time non O visa not tourist visa

That will make them more likely to want to see the cash than less likely, they may wanna see you can support him.

The 20k needs to be in your hand though, not in the bank. I have seen people been made to go and get it before now, although the chances of being asked for it (assuming you don't dress like a homeless person) are probably in the 1000's to 1.

How does this make news in Pattaya? Maybe cos it wasn't settled "out of court" perhaps.........

Why would anyone bother to chase the thrupence ha'penny they payout anyhow..............

Burk!! moving on.

Was there for the 40th Anniversary, nothing happened at all and no celebrations of any kind. Great article though.

Words fail me, just so much wrong with this whole story. I cannot even dream up a severe enough punishment for this specimen.

Thailand must be the only country in the world to report a handed in wallet as news.

You should get to know Thailand a little better, most Thai's are good people.

Where do you come from, would you get your lost wallet returned back where you come from???

Whoever said most Thais where not good? That's 1 hell of a leap from reporters report absolutely nothing!!!! To answer the rest of your irrelevant questions, I am from the UK, and have had wallets returned in both countries because I'm a careless <deleted> when drunk!!! Been here 11 years, speak Thai and have a Thai wife, child and family, I would say I have a pretty good grasp overall regarding Thais strong and weak points, so if you don't mind please move along and make up stuff about someone else's posts. Thank you.

Thailand must be the only country in the world to report a handed in wallet as news.

So giving out 1000 masks failed to cure the problem then? Must say I am surprised!

Is that how tourist attractions work? You just tell people that this is one and that's that? Don't think so.

In what world could a cretin like this turn up with $15,000 USD and expect to get out on bail???? Opps, sorry forgot where I was for a second then.

Hope they hang the pr!ck by his Jacobs crackers and let the victims family defecate on his coffin.

Bet masturbation is way up though.

Can't help but think studying elections circa 1930 in Germany might prove more useful at present for Thailand.

It would help if you brushed up your knowledge of prewar German politics. Its slide into a brutal dictatorship was done strictly democratically and through parliamentary process. The elections were albeit marred by violent clashes when party affiliated militias tried to disrupt campaigning of political opponents. Any similarity with redshirt activities is of course purely coincidental.

Its slide into a brutal dictatorship was done strictly democratically and through parliamentary process.

that would be interesting if it were true...

but it was through backroom deals, arm-twisting the elites, and fear-mongering that Hitler gained power...

It doesn´t fit your agenda so you try to rewrite history. The Empowerment Act (Ermaechtigungsgesetz) was voted for in parliament and the MPs of all parties voted for it, except the communists who were already in prison or makeshift concentration camps after Marinus van der Lubbe had set fire to the Reichstag, and the Social Democrats - in their last act of defiance.

If anything, the German Republic of Weimar serves as an example how a democratic system without sufficient checks and balances, insufficient separation of powers (the Reichspraesident could overrule the Government by issuing "emergency acts" (Notverordnungen) and a biased law enforcement coupled with a widespread aversion of the middle and upper classes against this parliamentary system (discredited as being forced upon Germany by the "enemy"), is doomed to fail. A lesson for Thailand?

German history is my home turf, so snappy one-liners are getting you nowhere, apart from off-topic.

I do hope you had time to get your towel on your sun lounger at 5 am in between posting all these posts.......

Not sure about streaming, but if you want to download it the next day its on here: https://tvchaosuk.com

If registration is full you can drop me a PM as I have a couple invites.

How do you arrest thousands of suspects in a month? and where would you put them?

Well this is the complete opposite to what I am told by guesthouse owners, Restaurant owners, bar owners, travel agency owners, shop owners and pretty much every other type of business person in Chiang Mai. Most of them hate dealing with the Chinese and would rather deal with any other nation because they are rude, spend very little, expect rock bottom prices on what they do spend, find it impossible to queue and generally lack social graces of any kind! Personally I just think they drive round on scooters just to give us all a laugh and show us there ARE worse drivers in the world than Thais.

Concerned enough to do something, or just talk out their arse as normal?

I think KittenKong has already suggested the best way, nothing really to add.

Get fed up with these double standard laws, either clear it all up or don't bother. I mean its not like you can't find snide crap in any city in Thailand is it!!

I got married on valentines day the first time and thanksgiving the second time. Its handy to choose a date that is easy to remember, so as not to forget the anniversary.

Wow. This "announcement" was referred to seven times, but I still don't know what the fake announcement was!

It was a fake announcement pretending to be from the royal household, the details of which I would rather avoid but can be found with a bit of googling if your are really interested.

Ok and what about the rest of us from the west? We are not 'quality' enough?

Not that the Japanese aren't of course, awesome people!

I understand in one way but I am a Brit and I have never seen a tattooed beer swilling load mouthed council estate loat from Japan ever. Bring it on. More Japanese please, wonderful people. And a 15 day stamp for the Brits that turn up at BKK airport spending there hard earned welfare.

Believe me they do exist, they are not as common and are usually kept to the confines of chimpira or Yakuza groups. The Japanese version makes their British counterpart look positively tame by comparison.