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Amazing Thailand!

RIP Ms. Supanee. The lights on many older small capacity motorcycles are far from adequate. On my own Honda the standard 35w light (not LED) is just bright enough to let other road users see the bike, but hardly illuminates the road ahead.

Brain less Virtue signalling 455hole5. They'll be sending £¼m aid to Hamas next. Oh, hang on...

This move by the ICC is extremely dangerous and divisive. It may serve to further polarise the World. Those states that condemn the ICC's move on one side, and those that support its move on the other. What will be very revealing is those states that do not support the position of the US The US is about to find out who its friends really are, and it looks like the UK is not going to be on that list. If the US feels isolated then might it decide not to get involved in European conflicts and just leave it to Russia and Western Europe to sort out the Ukraine mess? Could it be that the UK's position on this makes the US's withdrawal from NATO far more likely, and with it the onset of WW3? Are the battle lines for WW3 about to be revealed?

Get well soon Mr. Terdsak Simphon.

Could that actually be the source of the problem here? All the fingers are pointing to "free shots" and "spiked drinks", but perhaps this was a sealed bottle, with a very convincing appearance, bought by one of the tourists in the Vang Vieng night market or similar and which was shared when the free shots ran out?

The driver's gun was not hidden under the bike seat? How unusual!

Yes, I was indeed thinking of the TM30 giving details of the foreigner's location. BTW, AFAICS the "blurry CCTV" looks to be pixelated for privacy rather than blurry so I expect that the BIB have a clearer version? Immigration also has fingerprints on file and I expect that he may have left fingerprints at the scene?

Possibly done in minutes, or even seconds, via Immigration's database? All tourists entering the Kingdom have their faces and fingerprints recorded and (in theory at least) their address in Thailand is also recorded.

I wish my electricity bill was only 500 Baht!

And for riding without a helmet? Or is a helmet not required when firing a gun?

And when they catch the guy they can also prosecute him for riding without a helmet.

Monkey business at the police station. So, business as usual then!

Crackdown = Bigger (and more) Brown Envelopes required

His lucky day! What are his picks for the lottery numbers?

A grenade is possibly not the best choice for an escape? Car, bike, train, boat, horse etc. all come to mind before a grenade....

Family Friendly Resort.

So terribly sad. RIP to the boy and best wishes for recovery to the others. Is this belief in the "next life" perhaps connected with the recklessness that pervades Thai roads and leads to so many seemingly avoidable tragedies?

More often on arrival than departure tbf, although when you add the time taken at security and immigration you can sometimes be quite stressed to get to the departure gate in time. On arrival I recall one time that by the time I got through immigration all the baggage had been removed from the carousel and stacked up - and I was one of the first from my flight to get to immigration.

Will we also be able to clear immigration online? No, didn't think so, we'll still have to queue for hours.

Is that because Brown Envelopes are available in India?

BBC not working? Every cloud has a silver lining!

"His identity has not been revealed" But apparently everything else has!

Not just farmers.

Hey Vivian, be careful to not let the door hit you on the way out.