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Same same every year. "We will do something by next year..." Repeat.

Just waiting for some 'farangs' to clean up the place, at which point most Thais will forget their xenophobia for a bit, go all gooey and misty-eyed and give the do-gooder some fluffy nicknames. Can't be @rsed to clean up their own crap, can they?

"Also to blame, it was agreed, was the rain..."

Thailand, why do you continue to do these kinds of things???

Thai 'police'...

Basically more chaos.

'Smart Police'...

New heights of xenophobia in the land of (fake) smiles.

Oh, I thought they were there for a crackdown.

Not related to unrest in the deep south nor the Uyghur terrorists. Earlier, some officials said it's not due to terrorism either. So what is it... a few disgruntled customers who wasn't happy with their happy-endings?

On 8/20/2016 at 10:07 AM, ChrisY1 said:

Literally dozens of bars, massage, karaoke and etc throughout the area.....let alone the hundreds of others in the rest of BKK.......and they pick 2......!

 

Exactly. This horse-and-pony show isn't fooling anyone. Why they even bother to publicise it and bring ridicule to themselves (again!) is beyond comprehension. Let's see them do some damage on some outlets in Cowboy and Nana. And as you said, all the other establishments in the area. Then that may just show they really do mean business with this 'crackdown'.

18 hours ago, mercman24 said:

yep, down on my luck, think i go out and rob a bank, just say sorry,(sorry i got caught)

Followed by a week as a monk or something similarly limp-wristed and everything will be forgiven and forgotten.

This was just after people were told that the situation has "returned to normal" and and that people should continue with their lives as normal. What idiots make statements like this.

On 8/12/2016 at 4:20 PM, louse1953 said:

So you castigate the police for their theory but it do doesn't stop you making ludicrous claims of your own,based on nothing except a vivid imagination.Hipocracy 

Such a pity that you do not have a wider understanding of 'sarcasm'. By the way, and while on the note of being unnecessarily pedantic, it's actually spelled 'hypocrisy'.

Nevertheless, thanks for the laughs. You're funny

According to the BBC "(Thai) Police on Friday ruled out international terrorism and said that any links to the southern insurgency were unclear."

So quick to rule things out. Based on what? Then again, I guess they're probably right. Probably the work of some drunk and illegal foreign workers taking the piss at their bosses.

Xenophobia redefined, or something deeper than that? Regardless, this country's distrust, for want of a better word, for foreigners and tourists, has reached new heights. Double-pricing scams, local scams, half-arsed proposals against tourists and now this.

Note to any officials reading this - I don't know about Singapore, but the part about  'same plan for Malaysia' is bullcrap. I'm not sure which baboon's arse you pulled it from, but the fact is, Malaysia requires all prepaid SIM cards to be registered. Foreigners AND locals. And that's that. No exceptions. No mentions about tracking and all that crap.

And while I'm no mobile telecommunications expert, I know for a fact that all SIM cards can be tracked and triangulated anyway, without any special permissions by the owner etc. And why are these bozos so intent on tracking foreigners who 'enter the country and commit crimes'? You can easily track Thais - really? You can't even find your own craptrap, even if you were given a map.

Still, it is good to know that some terrorist-cells and international big-time mafias are going to be registered and tracked - kudos to them for registering their SIM cards with their real names AND stating the purpose of their visit. Yup, I feel safer already.

I suspect it has nothing to do with the phone's on-board battery, since most modern smartphones (I'm assuming that's what it was) don't come with interchangeable batteries. Or at least batteries that can't be changed by users. I suspect she must've left her phone in her pocket while it was being charged by one of those 'power bank' thingy and yes, if you bought one of those cheap power banks, this may happen. I was told that cheap power banks don't discharge steadily (I'm no electrician so I don't know the correct terms to use), there are spikes in the current/voltage coming out of the power bank and that screws up the phone's battery, most of the time killing it, mostly slowly over a period of time, and sometimes violently as seen here. It is well documented that a charging phone should be left on non-flammable surfaces and are also not surrounded by, or near any flammable materials. Unplug the charger first if you have to take a call. And use only original chargers and cables. On the latter, I'm speaking from experience.

Quote: "The suspects are charged with aggravated sexual assault resulting in death, the maximum penalty for which is death."

I wonder what the maximum penalty is for driving recklessly (whether intoxicated or otherwise) resulting not in death, but deaths.

Back to the four gits, I won't feel any sympathy if they are proven to be guilty and penalised with the maximum penalty.

"Many people are setting up large seafood restaurants"... really? These restaurants have been here for ages! Well, at least the ones in the pic in the article are.

So, these guys can tell what a person is up to, on the basis of where that person is? What a brilliant (stupid!) thought. Let's see - this means someone having just a beer at Soi Cowboy will more likely be under observation - or even arrested (perhaps for going into a bar with no license to operate, therefore tarnishing the good image of LoS) compared with a person walking around with an IED or two inside the backpack in... I don't know... some hiso place like Siam Paragon, perhaps?

I don't think there is a 'good' politician out there. Just the lesser of the evils, that is all.

Good idea. Then the monkeys will all retreat into the jungle (where they belong!) and there will be no more scams against tourists. At least on this particular island.

Not so nice, now that the boot is on the other foot huh.

The motorcycle cut in front of him , sounds about par for the course , happened to me at least 3 times yesterday , you just have to drive slower as the average Thai m/cycle rider has very little between the ears , rip young lady .

Doesn't matter who is in front or behind, it's the speed that kills. Nobody will likely die if everyone goes slower.

Songkran is sure death for around 700 people every year. Year after year. Never discussed again.

Speed doesn't kill. It's the sudden stopping that does.

And then they complain about Uber and Grab Car drivers who are out to make an honest living. What total gits these.

I am living in Samui, someone could explained to me what is a "meter" please.

Approximately 39 inches on the imperial scale of measurement..