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Happened a lot before, Happens a lot today, Will keep happening a lot in the Land of the Free as long as the Keystone Cops will not start to do their job and get these cowboys away from the traffic.

It's easy to put the blame on Immigration. But the real culpritt is the AOT authority. I was returning from Belgium on Monday and lots of airplanes were landing. Spewing a lot of tourists to the Immigration counters. Some of them, like the airplane I was travelling in, spewed 800 tourists at once into imigration. The tourists in front of me was a familiy with 2 young children. The children were kicking and screaming and didn't want to get a picture taken. Lots of time wasted because the parents had no authority about their children. At another boot, a tourist spend lots of time at the immigration boot because he didn't find the documents required. The tourists passing Immigration don't make it easier for them. Maybe, putting a few officers to check if the tourists do have all the required documents ready (like they do at the local immigration) would speed things up.

Too weird to believe everything in this story. 3 nurses held in a codominium for 3 years and nobody noticed anything? Pouring hot water on them? Without screaming? Beating children without a scream? There is more to this story ... Anyhow, very dim chance that the perpetrators will ever see a jail from the inside. Remember the girl who was poured hot water over her body when she went to the police for help? AFAIK, nobody spend 1 day in jail.

AFAIK, Thais will not enter a building where a violent crime or a suicide was committed. So, very dim chance for this school to open again. When I came to Thailand, an appartment was for sale in Bangkok at a very pupolar condo. Where the other condominioms were priced starting at 6 million baht, this particular condominium was sold for 1 million baht. After getting some more information, I was told that the man who lived there before was a successful Japanese businness man who lost his whole fortune in 1 week and decided to commit suicide by jumping out of his comdominium located at the 24th floor. As for today, this condominium is still available ...

Saoudi? The passage in Leviticus states, "And a man who injures his countryman – as he has done, so it shall be done to him [namely,] fracture under/for fracture, eye under/for eye, tooth under/for tooth. Just as another person has received injury from him, so it will be given to him." (Lev. 24:19–21).

The death penalty is no deterrent and on top of that a human life is waisted. Everybody who commit such a crime should be locked up in a special jail where they are forced to work from sunrise to sundown The earned money should go integrally to the victims family. The prisoners can also be used for the wellbeing of the citizens by forced to cleaning up in disasters (flood) or organ donation.

Death penalty would be to easy for that person. May I suggest an other way to punish him? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaying

AIS is ok.

In fact, according to Myriam-Webster dictionnary, a Reporter is someone who write Editorials, publish his experiences, etc.. Does this not make anyone of us who write in this forum a Reporter as well? Time to kick us all out of Thailand as must of the Reporters in this forum are living on a Retirement Visa. Sacharotte, here is a lot of work for you ...

On every pack of cigarets of Tabac, a gory picture is printed to show what smoking can do to you. But for a few pictures of a shooting, Thailands reputation is damaged.

https://www.vlaanderen.be/en/work-permits-for-foreign-workers/work-permits-categories-and-procedures/work-permits-journalists Work permits – Journalists Under certain conditions, foreign journalists can work in Flanders. If this is for a maximum of 90 days, the employer does not need to apply for a work permit.

I don't understand why everybody is making such a fuzz about 2 reporters who did nothing wrong, except doing their work while on a tourist visa. The Thai media and many Thai sites publish this story in all colors and flavors without anybody lifting a finger. Maybe it is because they are "Fahrang" and publish gore pictures is only allowed by Thais?

1 image says it all ...

I was last week dragged into a similar scam. Last week Tuesday, I found a package from Flash Express on my porch. It was addressed to someone in my neighborhood. I scanned the QR-code, and the package was signed for reception by someone. Most problably the Flash Express delivery self. I put the package inside my house and waited for someone to collect it. I have read already many times about this scam, where a person would come to my house and claim the package was addressed to him and he got my address from Flash Express. Later, a Flash Espress driver would come to my house to get the package back. As I didn't had the package anymore, they would sue me for the "expensive" items. And sure as hell, the next day someone in my street came asking for the package. I told him that I would handle the package over to him, but I would do that at the police office. He disappeared faster than he came and I didn't see anybody anymore. But I still have the unopened package at home. The message in all such scams: STAY ALERT and DON'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT A LAWYER OR THE POLICE

Exactly my thaught as well. Reporters are there to record every inch of what goes wrong with the country and lucky that they have the guts to do it. No sweeping under the carpet but show to the whole world.

Don't feed the trolls ....

The "poverty stricken people" are wealthier than you think. But that's not the point here. The point is that young people, some even toddlers, are (ab)used to make money by begging in the bars and other places. That circle should be closed down by the "blind" police.

I have read the "horror" stories about Thailand, where the Police hide some drugs in a hotel room and later search'd the hotel room and found the "drugs". The tourist was immediatelly arrested for the possesion of the drugs and extorted for a lot of money before released and put on a plane back to his/her country. More recently, similar cases where someone is kidnapped (mostly by a police officer) and extorted for a lot of money are reported in Asean Now. Like I said, life can make a 180 degrees turn before you even realize it ....

Amazed by reading the replies to this topic. I know, the guy was a drug mule and drug mules are "bad" people .... I know, how many young (and old) people died of an overdose of drugs ... I know, many "Yes" and "No" to this thread ... But at the end of the story, this guy was a human who made 1 bad decision that made him soend his final year in prison and at least should have some people around him in his last few hours. Some priests who would help to let him find peace in his last hours of life. We are all humans and life can easily make a 180 degrees turn with or without or own will. I have been a social streetworker at the end of the '80's and have meet many people (most of them very young) who had become outlauwed by the society because of poverty, bad youth life, bad parents, etc. ....... but most of them have become good citizens after getting a helping hand. RIP to the guy and hope you will have a better life in your next life.

Yes, sounds like me. Crippling pain at times, Chronic constipation whatever I eat or drink, etc. On top of that, I feel constantly like a balloon that will explode any moment. Does the "Nuii fiberly prune" helps to attenuate the symptoms? Do you get them on prescription or buy them over the counter somewhere?

4 years ago, while on a medical trip to my home country, I was diagnosed with the IBS syndrome. Unfortunatly, I left my home country soon after the initial diagnosis, and got no further research on this. I would like to know if someone else suffers from IBS (NOT BEAR BELLY) and what medication they have to take. TIA (also to the obvious trolls)

Abusing kids in any way for their own benefit is the worst crime anyone can commit. No words for such a behavior which is worse as animals

Don't feed the trolls

I was last weekend in Pattaya sitting in a Life Music bar right next to the Police Station on Beach Rd. In about 30 minutes time I was confronted with: - about 15 boys (guess all under 12 years) trying to sell flowers, Candy, Peanuts, etc. ALL of these boys were foreigners with blond hair. - about 5 woman carrying a baby or having a little boy/girl with them and selling the same items as above. Most of them looked like Thais, but could be as well Cambodian or another nationality. The same people came about every hour and some of them were realy nasty. Although that a Police care was controlling the Beach Rd and also an Immigration Police car driving circls, no arrest was made. Guess they suffered from the same disease as the police who was checking Pattaya for prostitutes but could find one some years ago. I don't really care for the older ones, but I find it appalling that babies and young girls/boys are used for their benefits. Did Paveena retired?

I was this weekend in Pattaya and Jomtien, and almost all the grils I saw looked like they were in their 9th month of pregnancy. Also, most "girls" (even in a gogo bar) were over 45 years old. Post Covid Go-Go "girls".