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It is quite simply impossible to believe Boss' whereabouts are unknown. 

Simply impossible.

I cannot find sympathy in my heart for people who are taken in by this kind of scam. The scammers should at best be locked up for life, if not given the death penalty. I don't care if some say this is a non-violent crime. 

How can anyone be stupid enough to fall for this. They're not targeting uneducated illiterate jungle villagers because they have no money to get the "money" released. 

As an aside to the nutjob who should be summarily executed, one cannot be unconscious of one's actions. You can be unaware. Terrible writing.

You'd think a monk, novice or not, would have a sufficiently powerful amulet to ward off an accident!

To it's clear. 

Dog in yard behind wall with secure gate. Kid (anyone) enters property without permission from owner and gets bit, too bad. 

Now, the second instance doesn't mention where the dog was. We need more info on that.

No one comes in my yard that does not know the dog. If he knows you, you are fine. But the guys who deliver the electricity bill etc, just stick it in the gate. 

My wife is superstitious as heck about the lottery. The problem is, she wins. Often and a lot. We've been together for 15 years and in that time she has won at least $12,000. She won $3500 6 months before we met. She doesn't spend a lot of money on tickets either. At most $10 a month and rarely that much. 

She dreams about numbers and buys a lottery ticket. No dreams no buy! 

I still find it difficult to grasp, after all these years, why normal people doing normal jobs carry a knife with them. What is it I am missing?

I wait with baited breath the following headline:

Massive 2nd wave of Covid 19 in Thailand. All borders closed. All flights suspended...except those from China.

8 hours ago, gunderhill said:

And  do the dead relatives agree  or even know about this?  and she says she buys them from the monks? so why does she donate some  of the money back to the temple? or is  this  just the "make it  look good"  part of the sales  spiel?

It's like normal clothes," she said, when asked how it felt to wear clothes of the dead.

Yes , that's because that's exactly what it is although a  blooming good  wash is  the first thing I'd  be doing  to any of them and of course BRAND NEW leather shoes  are made from animal skins,  again the skin of a dead animal, do they ever  think how  stupid  all of this death nonsense sounds?

She doesn't buy the clothes from monks. The article clearly says she sources (buys) them from funeral directors after the monks have prayed. She then gives some of her profits to temples.

On 10/12/2020 at 1:13 PM, Orton Rd said:

https://www.dogsbite.org/   the numbers just in the USA: 'Pitties' and 'Rotties' are bred for aggression and violence, you cannot train it out of them

 

In the 15-year period of 2005 through 2019, canines killed 521 Americans. Pit bulls contributed to 66% (346) of these deaths. Combined, pit bulls and rottweilers contributed to 76% of the total recorded deaths

I think you could train it out of them. back in the 70's, Doberman Pinschers had the well deserved reputation that Pitbulls and Rottweilers have today. Through careful and professionally selective breeding, they managed to remove that particular aspect from the breed. I owned a Dobie for a little over 10 years. She died a few months ago and I lost the best friend I have ever had. She was a gentle giant but very capable of attack if me, my wife, or friends were in danger. She never harmed a person but killed more than a few of the neighbour's chickens which flapped over our wall. 

She was also smarter than most Lao and Thai people I have ever met ????

The police applied for a warrant? Is this simply a measure of cultural differences in vocabulary?

Nobody wants this guy arrested. Think of all the potential dirt he and his family have on everyone of note in the LOS. 

Just like Jeffrey Epstein "committed suicide", Boss is never gonna be allowed to face the music. He'll live a life of pampered ultra-luxury abroad forever. That ain't so bad. Hell, I could handle Dubai with a billion in my pocket.

I've never been to Pattaya. When the border opens perhaps I'll go. I bet there are deals galore there now!

I still have trouble accepting a 400cc bike is considered big. 

Don't those restaurants have a time limit? 

Wow! 9 slugs and dude's still kicking. That's amazingly poor marksmanship.

19 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

Did he really think that a customer would not notice 6 rusty nails in their seafood?

 

Yes.

On 8/24/2020 at 8:27 AM, ChipButty said:

There is in Phuket my wife used one

Is that the one she crashed into whilst trying to find a driving instructor?

Sorry to tell you this, but the world doesn't care. Also, what good would it do to send him to jail? Seriously, what would that accomplish? Money, that's what it's going to take. Make the family pay a billion or two in fines and spread it out to every family member of the cop he killed. Make them all millionaires and then let it go. They will all be broke in a year or two and living back in the rice paddy. 

What about educating the population on the fact that deaths on the road are mostly the drivers' fault. When 1/3 of the population believe nothing they do will change fate, that is a clear starting point for education. 

Whenever I need a good laugh, Thai Visa's posts on new laws and rules is my go to place.