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"Air reported the incident to Bang Lamung police, providing critical CCTV footage as evidence, urging swift action. " along with the CCTV, web pages... sheesh. "Sorry, we must have DNA samples before we can take action" I could hear the police saying...

Are the vendors fluent enough in major European, Chinese dialects, Indian dialects, etc to clearly inform and be understood by customers to stay out beyond 200 meter? I highly doubt it....

"Money doesn't talk, it swears" -Bob Dylan robber "Your money or your life!" (minutes pass) "Well?" Jack Benny: "I'm thinking... I'm thinking...."

How about asking the prime minister(s) who were in office when this farce happened? Did she have any sort of political then, other than family name and all that comes with that...?

They have been at site next to my condo for a couple of years. Used to be large wooded area, which was clear cut and small road from 2nd in Jomtien to Thepprasit. What once was woodlands now seems to be a wetlands. Maybe you can see extent of vegetation that has grown since they started to see the swiftness of this project.

"Do you want a ride home?" "No, I think I'll just take a taxi" and he did

that he wasn't killed during a robbery, perhaps?

I wouldn't be paranoid if all these people weren't after me....... or Even paranoids can have real enemies

So a starters pistol (I assume that is what "a blank gun is) is now a firearm? You could only injure some one with that if you pistol whipped them.... the only "weapon" it seems in this tale is using the car to ram the motorcycle... "the two continued to pursue him, prompting him to crash his car into the motorcycle," which, if true, sounds like self defense. What fee? for sitting on the beaches? Did I miss something there? Self defense to me. Sounds like hooker and pimp trying to run down a rather thick in the head Thai. You might say he should have known she was "in the game"... but even so, if they didn't do the deed, he owes her nothing.

There was another good quote, can't remember who or exact wording, but gist was "No government ever shut down a news outlet that supported it"

Mencken once wrote, “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”

Thailand: the hub of reinventing the wheel!

Yesterday I took my daily reading at AQI: here in Jomtien it was 142. And half of the area's landscape is seawater.... I too live in Bangkok and Jomtien.... not huge differences in air pollution

"...any conclusions drawn from the shared data will not be used for accident investigations or law enforcement," seems a bit counter to "share vital aviation data to prevent potential disasters, ensuring a safer journey for all." Everybody's got something to hide cept for me and my monkey

Have a Thai friend who owns restaurant in Pattaya, all above board. Local cops shake him down for 10k a month. Before Covid he said cops even came in from Bangkok for cash too. Legal or illegal, cops will squeeze for all they can get

"...smog culprits lurking in forests, farms, and cityscapes." Hardly lurking... simply follow the smoke trail to the offender... and then do nothing as is now the standard procedure

by definition alcohol is a drug, full stop. Doesn't matter if socially accepted or for how long. "Taking drugs is not acceptable in any society" nonsense. Alcohol causes more harm than all the illegal "drugs" put together. Caffeine is a drug. Nicotine is a drug. My point is that those who think alcohol isn't a drug and imply somehow they are superior to those who might smoke pot, etc is delusional rationalizing FWIW I don't drink alcohol or use pot, etc. The only drug I take is caffeine.

no it doesn't ..... I drink everyday and I don't like drugs Dudes: alcohol is a drug: 'Drugs are substances that change a person's mental or physical state." If you drink every day sometimes that is called "self medicating".

I'm a yank, and love Hard Talk on BBC news. Unlike so many interview programs, Steve doesn't pitch softball questions; he's done research to back up his "hard" questions; and he doesn't let interviewee scoot out with non answers on some other subject. First BBC canned Dateline London, which got together each weekend with various journalists who cover various hot spots and are most often from those places. It was probably the one of the cheapest yet brilliant news shows they had. And it's gone, hole being filled by BBC staff. Hard Talk must have been the cheapest real in depth news show they had. But still plenty of money for The Travel Show (can't be cheap to make).... and that sort of fluff is better left to commercial channels anyway.

"....the deceased had just returned to visit their mother before being caught in the crossfire." being caught in a crossfire means a person is between two (or more sides) shooting at each other. In this case it sounds like only one side was armed and doing the shooting.

Wake up and find two, or even three turds in the bed

If he's ready to die, then go do it. Don't leave us hanging here, thinking maybe you weren't serious Man up big boy

He was overheard muttering "I'd like to strap you on"

Instead of police, maybe contacting doctor(s) might have been better. Seems there is a need for some sort of mental health intervention group on call for those who have over done it with wacky tabacky

but... but.... getting something for nothing is a time honored Thai tradition!