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High on drugs (quite likely yabba)....the scourge of society. Can't recall ever reading a story about a person who smoked some weed and then went out and robbed someone, stabbed someone, broke into a house to steal something...

How does a country put an end to this? Clearly the war on drugs as in the USA's case has been a total failure. Perhaps the idea is simply to totally legalize everything and let the government control the sale.

I didn't read anywhere that he left the money lying around. To me. lying around, implies clearly out in the open, which could easily be considered a tip by a young hotel maid who possibly hasn't had a great deal of schooling. That's just an assumption and could be wrong, I know, but aren't most 18 year olds still in high school or on their way to tertiary education?

I like tattoos and have 5. None are visible unless I'm at the beach. They're personal and every one has a special meaning to me. Including the one that says "Harmony" in Japanese. However, I took a Japanese friend with me when I got it, so I knew I what I was getting. That's important!

Tattoo artists should be held legally responsible for mistakes like that. They should be forced to carry malpractice insurance like doctors.

Thai Immigration could help put a damper on this simply by demanding tourists entering the Kingdom show a minimum amount of money per day in cash. $100/day for example. You want a 30 day visa? Show me $3000 cash. Traveler's cheques will suffice as well. Bhutan does it. They don't get a lot of tourists but they do get quality ones.

Of course, this would probably eliminate a ton of tourists from the LOS. Of course, they'd all pretty much be the type of tourists who don't spend anything anyway.

There no proof this guy is a begpacker. People I personally find deplorable lowlife scum by the way. He could simply be  hitch-hiking, an activity that took my generation from coast to coast back in Worgeordie's day!

On 9/5/2018 at 9:24 AM, Orton Rd said:

we have a kid named captain near us, his brother is named google and there is also baby you tube and iPhone in the family, I kid you not

That's good! My neighbours are: Mooey, Pooey, Tap & Tooey

Silly Russkie, doesn't he know salt comes in shakers? No need for the ocean to season your chicken.

My favourite part of the video is the announcers "ooooooo weeeeee" at around 30 seconds.

Tragic, but I find this part a little unbelievable: the girl's boyfriend had left Thursday night to go with friends to work on a school report and came back at 6am Friday.

That would set alarm bells off in my head if I were an investigating cop at that crime scene.

1) Who buggers off and stays out all night working on school stuff? Especially in Thailand?

2) Were the boyfriend and girlfriend fighting?

3) Had she threatened to break up with him?

4) Check the bank account of the step-father - any large deposits recently that can't be accounted for?

5) Who was the boyfriend with? Females? Any romantic links between him and another girl?

6) Did the boyfriend want to break up with the girlfriend but couldn't find a way out without losing face?

I hope none of these are the case, but if I was a detective I'd sure as heck be asking these questions.

56 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I would put it a different way, as in....

 

I didn't know that the Thai AF has any "top guns".

 

Compared to the Laos Air Force they're doing grrrrrrreat!

1 hour ago, pornprong said:

The girl in the photo is not the shopkeeper - she is an actress participating in a reenactment.

 

Trickery! I demand recompense.

I find it challenging to feel sorry for people like this. If he'd been in Cambodia as long as is reported and had no inkling that flying a drone over a political rally Hun Sen would undoubtedly disapprove of was not a good idea, he's an idiot. 

My bet is that he was trying to stir up cr@p and inflame / incite the passions of the opposition party supporters.

He lost because he never had a chance of winning.

I live in Laos. Everyone knows what the state of corruption is like here. Still, there is no way I'd stand around in front of the President's house with a sign proclaiming it. If I did, I'd end up in jail and deservedly so.

Nope, no support for his idiotic actions at all. he got what he deserved. As harsh as that is.

3 hours ago, rosst said:

Burglarize?  Is that a word in English now? 

I believe "burgle" would be the correct word, but I confess to being "yesterday's man" 

Yes, it is a legitimate word. It did sound odd to me as well so I looked it up and there it was, "To break into and steak from".

I'm yesterday's hippie. I'd just say, "I got ripped off, man."

All the posters here rambling on about how dangerous Thai roads are, and they most certainly are, have obviously never lived and driven around China. The problems there with insane drivers and ignored traffic laws are the equal to Thailand. The biggest difference is that so many Chinese vehicles are electric and you can't hear them at all. Walking on the sidewalk is scary enough because that's where electric motorbikes drive!

Well, looks like the coppers are covering all their bases.

The shopkeeper girl was wicked cute. That guy looked like a total plonker.

English gentleman? That's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one. It's right up there with tee-totaling Aussie.

Those wages suck compared to Laos, but Laos is more expensive than Thailand. Still, $1500/month here is rock bottom salary.

I lived at Spadina and St. Clair in Toronto and know all the other areas where that guy robbed banks. It's amazing he got away with it at all, those are busy places!

22 hours ago, pegman said:

Seems he has spent pretty much his entire adult life in prison and he wants to finish it there too. When he fled to Thailand in 1994 he was on parole for a 21 year sentence. This saga has been well publized. He fought extradition  back to Thailand to face the murder charge. It ended up at the Supreme Court of Canada where he won. Some how the Canadian gov got around that and shipped him back. 

https://www.scc-csc.ca/WebDocuments-DocumentsWeb/32500/FM010_Appellant_Michael-Joseph-Charles-Karas.pdf

The Canadian government got an assurance, quite likely from a very high ranking individual and written down, signed stamped etc, that the guy would not be put to death. That is where Canada draws the line. They will not extradite anyone for a crime in another country if the sentence is death. That person will stay in prison in Canada.

Help me out here. Do these people lose it out of rage and kill someone for no reasonable reason or do they kill someone because they believe they'll get off with a very light sentence?

I know this is tangential to the story, but what is a 14 year old kid doing out at 2am for anyway? Any kids at that time? It's crazy, why does a grocery shop need to be open then?

After reading this article I had but one thought in mind, which police general wrote it?

3 hours ago, greenchair said:

There is no need for that racist comment. 

This is about travel insurance. If you want to go down the road of comparing thai women to foreign. Let me show you some pictures of some fat thai past their use by date of 25. 

I've read that comment a couple of times. I even read it backwards. I cannot find any racist content in it whatsoever.

The word racist gets tossed around with such wanton abandon these days it has completely lost the significance of its meaning. What he said is generally true. SE Asian women tend to keep their figures and looks far after the typical Caucasian Western woman has lost theirs. My wife is 42 and had a body that would make most Canadian teenagers jealous and she is 100% average around here.

19 hours ago, CLW said:

Time of accident at 4:15am. Most likely that alcohol or drugs might have played a role, too.

I can't see why someone would be confused over this. The assumption may or may not be correct, but assuming it is certainly within the realm of possibility considering: male, 24, 4:15am, big bike.

And those that say this could happen on any bike, even a Honda Wave 100cc are somewhat correct. Where they are off point is this; a Honda Wave will do 60km/hr and so will a Honda CBR 600R. The difference is a CBR600 will take perhaps 2 seconds and a Wave will take a lot longer than than. It is not top speed (which is designated as fast) it is how long it takes to get there (which is designated as quick).

Quick kills because it is infinitely harder to control.