Cereal

I don't care about who started it, the cowardice of Thai men is staggering. 

Is it just me or is there a statistical relevance to ladyboys and thievery significantly higher that the rest of the population. 

Or, are they stupid and get caught easier.

On 5/9/2024 at 6:32 PM, Martin71 said:

Witness said Chinese..

That was my immediate guess and I am not surprised in the least. I e seen many such actions whilst living in China. The world is their toilet. That's primarily because China is a toilet. My opinion. 

Is the Thai government capable of implementing anything smoothly and appropriately? 

Use Canada as the shining example of the legalization of marijuana. The government did studies for about 3 years covering every situation from every possible angle and talking to every level of authority. They came up with a plan and went through with legalization. It has been smooth and the government is reaping the benefits in tax dollars.

The Thai government wanted tourists to come back. hahahahaha

WTF did they think would happen?

Rhetorical question. They didn't think at all. Thailand!

Monks good

Farangs bad

Okay, we get it. 

Maybe if those Thai guys got off their lazy arses,got a good education, learned English and got a solid job, Thai women would fancy them. 

Women want to be taken care of, spoiled and living the good life. I don't think the nationality of the guy is as important as his bank account. 

The legalisation of weed in Thailand was done much the same way all of their important decisions seem to be made. Which is of course, with no proper due diligence, no thought process about the implementation, no care given to timelines and how thigs will roll out.

Legal weed isn't the problem. The problem is the way everything is done there. There's no freaking plan! Everything is done in an off the cuff half-arsed way. The only wonder is that some things actually work.

Canada legalized weed. Where's the problems there? Crickets....it's called planning.

Stricter safety regulations? You mean there actually are safety regulations?

It wasn't my fault. I was bleedin'.

Well, alrighty then. 😂

On 2/29/2024 at 12:01 AM, bradiston said:

Everybody always assumes that, but they obviously never have any evidence. How could they have, unless they were in on the scam. It's just an urban myth. You think the Oz authorities would be partial to some fat backhanders also? From like 10 couriers? Any complicity and they'd suffer the same fate.

Not on the Aussie side. here. It's all bets off once they get on the plane. Statistics dictate some are going to get through. The big guys don't care about the couriers. Some always get through. A close relative is the chief of narcotics here. I get a great deal of inside info.

23 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

How many accidents, injuries and death will it take to make changes?

This is one of the reasons why Thailand is considered a sub par industrialized country...

It is not going to change. A few years back there was a survey of Thai drivers which was quite comprehensive.

In short, a full third of the respondents said there was literally nothing they could do to prevent an accident. Nothing. It is all preordained. 

Driving drunk, not wearing a seatbelt, in the rain, with the stereo blasting, forgot to put on your headlights, texting a friend on the phone that you're coming over for beers, speeding and blasting through a stop sign without even noticing there was one....has NOTHING to do with getting T-boned and killed by a huge over-loaded semi-truck with <deleted>ty brakes and a driver whacked out of his mind on yaba. 

It's simply the way things were meant to be.

How can you change that? It's such a profoundly stupid, and yet molecularly ingrained, attitude......

It's all a smoke screen. The Chinese officials tipped off the Thai police about this guy while a dozen others got through without an issue and a lot of envelopes changed hands. 

I lived and worked in S. Korea for 6 years. They are, generally speaking, incredibly racist. Especially to non-whites. 

As for the mention in the article about S. Korea being a travel destination for tourists worldwide...

HA!

As mentioned, I lived there 6 years and met precisely 1 tourist who was there specifically to see the country. The huge majority of tourists were from Japan (whom the Koreans actively hate) and were there to shop in Seoul. 

Minutes into the flight??? Why didn't they turn around? Throw dude into the Bangkok Hilton for a while.

The cynic in me wonders which higher-up turned him in to allow another dozens loads to get through? 

4 hours ago, JoePai said:

Maybe better to read the article first :  under the influence of alcohol 

Pretty sure he meant pulled an all-nighter out boozing or started boozing very early in the morning.

15 hours ago, Almer said:

Why does this  story give backpackers a bad name

It's not the story that gives backpackers a bad name, it's the begpackers that give backpackers a bad name. I gather critical reading skills aren't your forte.

4 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Yes, they could have easily have done if it before getting into the taxi

Or in the taxi.

I have a solution. Round these people up, put them in a local holding cell and keep them there until they can have money sent from home to cover their flight out. Oh yeah, and charge them for their stay in the crowbar hotel. 

These sleazy scum give all backpackers a bad reputation. 

There are other ways she could have earned a few dollars! 

On 1/29/2024 at 8:58 AM, radiochaser said:

My first three jumps for qualification with a National Guard Airborne company were from 1500 feet.   Jump qualified jumpers went out at 1200 feet.

Congratulations. Still, that's a long way from 300 feet.