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  1. What about Bali ? Touristy place, probably as safe as any other. Not far.
  2. It happens ALL over the country. The monkeys are NOT friendly. They are vicious. They will tear open bags in vehicles, they will try to grab stuff from people, they will literally attack people if they think they have food. They will also attack small pets and children. Last November I was at Wat Chakan in Sa Kaeo. A friend was going up the long stairway and a couple monkeys tried to attack him and he is a fairly large fellow. I had to stay with the motorcycles to keep the monkeys from tearing the seats and yanking wires/ cables. The vendors had long sticks they'd use to shoo the monkeys away. But as soon as they turned their backs the critters would be trying to steal whatever they could get their claws on. At a couple national parks we visited last year, the caretakers also used slingshots to scare the monkeys away, especially when they got too aggressive around people. If this was a " western" country people would be screaming for animal control to deal with them. Which would mean live- trapping and relocating some (in some places) or simply shooting/ euthanizing them in other places. And here's a clue. If those Thais on that beach were not shooting those monkeys with sling shots, you would not be sitting on that beach at all.
  3. Lol - soon to be seen begging at a train/bus station near you. Can't afford to live in England on a minimum wage salary. 22 years old and been to Thailand 3 times already. Uh huh. Now has decided he's "had it" with the current gov't in the UK and is leaving the country permanently ? I say "<deleted>". You just kinda hope that a couple weeks from now, when his parents have to bail him out and pay to fly him home, that we'll see another story about how, in his grand wisdom, he's decided to give the jolly old UK "another chance" to prove him wrong (and please, please, please let him use the NHS urgently because he can't afford the hospital bills in Thailand and owes too many people too much money already).
  4. I've ridden my Click to Korat - loaded with my camping gear and knobby "off road" tires. Also have ridden to Chanthaburi a couple times (with the camping gear) as well. It's not so bad. Wear a long sleeved shirt and gloves (and helmet of course). Get a thermos cup and insulated "hangar sleeve" so you can have a cold drink dangling from the "hook" that you can sip on while sitting at an intersection. A couple Thai friends of mine had nothing to do during the big Covid shutdown in '20/'21 so they did a grand tour of Thailand. 10,000 kms over 6 weeks I think it was. On a Honda Monkey and a Vespa. With camping gear. I think there is (or was) was a "125cc" club of some kind whose goal was to visit every province in the country - riding nothing larger than 125cc scooters. From a trip to Chanthaburi last year.
  5. Remember the "big crackdown" on "bikers" and how they were going to revoke the visas and deport foreigners that were members of "1%" motorcycle clubs ? I haven't heard of any actually having their visas cancelled (or denied when trying to renew them). There's only what, a few thousand foreigners, living in Phuket. I'm sure it won't take any time at all to run all their names through national and international police databases and weed out all the honest ones from the ones who may be using false names and fake/stolen passports. Or - it's news meant to placate the small crowds of demonstrators who will now go home and put their protest signs in the cardboard recycling pile, content in the knowledge that one foreigner will (might) be deported.
  6. Lol at how quickly they mention deportation and blacklisting and then back off and say it's not being considered in his case. I guess he's "too rich" to face having his visa revoked for mere assault. Now of course it was all a "mistake" and it wasn't a "kick" it was a "trip" and her "high ranking police officer" is just a sergeant. So you can bet that soon the charges will be dropped as the doctor suddenly decides (or is "convinced") to be forgiving and accept the (rich) foreigner's version of the event.
  7. " as she sat on steps leading from a million baht-a-month seaside residence" A million baht a month ?!?!? And he runs an "elephant sanctuary" ? Methinks someone might want to take a peek at his finances.
  8. Keep in mind - this was NOT his "first trip" to Thailand (according to the article he's visited many times and is touring all (77 ??) provinces. (Last I checked was only 76 plus 2 special "Administrative Areas" - Bangkok and Pattaya - which don't count as provinces). So it's unlikely he's used Grab before but never taken a tuk-tuk. "a claim Hong found surprising, having used the service during his numerous trips to Thailand over the past two decades." (Referring to the Grab taxi service.) It seems the Korean was trying to make "content" for his video channel. Wouldn't be the first time a self-claimed "influencer" tried to get something for free by promising to "promote" someone/something on their (tik tok/whatsapp/twitter/youtube/etc) channel. Maybe the "59 year old" taxi guy wasn't impressed and refused to give a free tour (or a discount). It's not like getting a shout-out on some minor-league Korean influencer's you tube channel is going to increase Somjit's business. And it wouldn't be the first time some "influencer" got the cold shoulder and decided to slag (someone/something) because they didn't get their way.
  9. I just checked to see if the fees increased for Canadians. I don't recall what they were before, but the "e-visa" and the Consulate websites are very cryptic about the fees. Took some digging to finally find the Consulate (in Canada) "fees". And then noticed the difference they charge for a Single Entry and a Double Entry Tourist Visa. $65 for a Single Entry (3 month validity) but $325 for a Double Entry (6 month validity) !! FIVE times more !! Date effective - last October so just a 4 months ago. And they want to increase tourism ?!?!?
  10. Where would AseanNow be if it weren't for The Thaiger copying news stories from the Bangkok Post ! Love that we get our Pattaya news from a Phuket based media site that copies it's stories from a Bangkok news site ! Riding bikes at night here is like playing Russian Roulette. Even without the drunk/untrained drivers on their cell phones, you still have crappy, poorly maintained roads with numerous hazards. It's bad enough in the daylight when you can see what is happening ! I go for my morning walk just before sunrise when it's light enough to see but I can be back before the sun is glaring in my eyes. And it's light enough I can see any new hazards along the way to go with the old ones that have been there forever. Like rebar sticking up through the concrete. Bent manhole covers almost falling into the drains. Garbage tossed on the side of the road. Construction material (including left over sand and concrete slowly being washed down the roads). Low hanging wires that you hope aren't electrical. And of course, the drivers who, even at 6 am, are not paying attention to anything but the phone in front of their nose. I always walk "against the traffic" so I can see the motorcycles and cars heading at me or coming from side roads. So many times I've had to dart off the side of road into a shop "parking" area or behind a power pole to avoid getting scraped by a car/scooter that isn't paying attention or someone coming from a little side-soi that zooms to the main road and starts turning into it before having to stop because there's oncoming traffic. At night though ? It's probably way safer to be on a scooter than walking - or biking - on the side of those same roads !
  11. So it was actually THREE Brits, 5 transgenders and two "other women". Maybe. "The holidaymakers allegedly called the five transgender escorts to their villa for a mass romp along with two other women on the island of Phuket, southern Thailand, in the early hours of February 22." "When we arrived we learned that the foreign tourists had reached out to three transgender prostitutes to come to their villa and agreed to pay them 4,000 baht each." During the party 2 of the ladyboys were asked to leave. The Brits then tried to short the remaining one by only giving him/her 2,000 bath instead of the 4,000 originally agreed upon. So it was between 2-7 women and transgenders, depending which line of the story you read. Interesting video. The one with the knife is butt naked - but apparently stopped to put his shoes on before running around with the knife. The boys got some licks in themselves before the end. That ladyboy probably woke up with a massive headache the next morning. And you see one more in just his underwear and another (driver of the white car) so it's not like they showed up, had a beer and were then asked to leave. Seems they'd gone way past that point before the trouble started.
  12. Meanwhile the biggest crook of them all went from facing 8 years in prison to a 6 month vaca in an exclusive private suite before being "released" on parole, having served what, 3-4 hours of his sentence ? In the current system, and with so many cops, it's almost impossible to climb the ranks without taking - and paying - bribes to get ahead. And unlike some countries, they don't pay the police enough to be honest and when they are caught they rarely face any real punishment. So there's no incentive to change the system or be "honest". It's literally impossible to reach the highest ranks of the police (or other services) without having a lot of dirt under your carpet. It's just a matter of how well you can hide it.
  13. Wasn't that story from like - early last year or something ? (Yeah, like last September when his name was one being considered for the Police Chief position.) It was quite awhile ago. Why is it coming up again when it seems to be the exact same thing ? There's nothing new in that story to suggest there's new allegations or charges.
  14. You can be sure we are only hearing one side of the story and you can bet he's full of gut-wurst because he's not about to admit what HE did to provoke the confrontation.
  15. 4th case in less than 2 weeks of someone having a motorcycle accident that no one has heard of until it shows up in a UK "newspaper". What is with the media in Phuket/Krabi these days ? Sheesh, if it wasn't for "online media sites" and places like the Mirror and Sun, we'd have no idea about what's happening literally in our own backyards ! Of course, this story already had a convenient GoFundMe set up and linked in the story (it's in the linked article). However, it this case he apparently had the accident in Krabi when he and his wife were there visiting his daughter who was travelling in Thailand at the time. It says he and his wife were on the scooter when he crashed into a metal barrier. But he apparently did have insurance that paid his bills in Thailand and flew him back to the UK, despite it being a "motorcycle" accident. Accident apparently happened on 19 Jan. He spent "weeks" in the hospital in Thailand before being flown back to Wales on a stretcher and he spoke to the (online) media site 5 days later. (The article is dated 11 Feb so he returned on the 6th ?). So he gets back to the UK on the 6th and in less than 3 days they already know the renovations he wants to do "probably" won't be covered because they are "means tested" and he thinks he won't pass the test. So they set up the GoFundMe on the 9th. (Only looking for £30,000 though.) (Got to start bookmarking all these stories. It's happening so often maybe they should stop renting motorcycles to people in Phuket/Krabi altogether !)
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