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Nooooooooo!!! That is impossible! Thailand's finest being cheated? No way! Surely the Land of Scams will never scam their own?

But, if that is true, then I would like to ask these brown clowns how they felt to have the boot they use to put up people's derrière, go up their own? Not so nice right? Now play nice and say 'hi' to Karma.

Mockery aside, THB60 per hour for overtime is unbelievably low, by any standards, especially considering it is a job in which responsibilities are heavy and lives are potentially at stake (if done properly by proper police personnel). No wonder these guys are on the take all the time.

A welcome move, this one. IMPACT Muang Thong Thani is a great venue for large-scale exhibitions and events, but very bad traffic (both ways) makes access by road downright horrible. Won't open in time for this year's Motor Expo though, I guess. Hopefully this will be the last motor show for which I have to leave BKK at pre-dawn for a traffic-free drive to (and parking at) the venue.

5 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I see a web of tangle lies will be unfolding soon especially with this little nugget.  

 

"China will continue to suspend outbound group tours and ban travel agencies from allowing inbound tours due to the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases this winter, authorities said.  The country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism made the announcement in a notice published on its website on Wednesday"

 

Can someone help the Thai Government understand that other countries are still not cooperating as they say they are.  Can someone explain to me who these 39 Chinese tourists really are? or, are they just really a new set of possible new diplomatic staff that have come to conduct an annual change at the end of the year in the Chinese embassy.  However, before stepping into place they get a free vacation first, just a few thoughts off the top of my head..

To be fair, the Reuters piece did say "China will continue to suspend outbound group tours... " so these could be 'individual' tourists, if they are in fact tourists to begin with. Perhaps there really are people in this world who think going on tour without interacting with anything local, including its people and travelling only on predestined routes and destinations AFTER spending 14 days in quarantine in a foreign country, is an ideal vacation LOL

19 hours ago, YetAnother said:

Anutin,plays the role of the fool perfectly

Looks perfect for the part too. Literally.

What's with Thai men and their pent-up anger, the latter turning into unbridled, excessive and murderous rage at the slightest hint of a provocation? Even if this story goes back to earlier and beyond the mere scratching of a prized pickup truck, it still does not warrant murder at the end-stage!

10 hours ago, webfact said:

Warning signs and flashing lights have been installed at the railway crossing where a freight train plowed into a bus on Sunday killing 18.

Thai drivers in general don't bother obeying road signs and lights on busy city roads and intersections. What makes them think they will heed flashing lights and signs on a rural back-road?

5 hours ago, darksidedog said:

It's those certain measures which are the issue. They have no idea what measures to use, as is evident from the daily flip flop on the proposals to date. The whole thing is just a comedy show.

Especially if it's coming from 'Anutin the Racist'.

I welcome this idea, since I work remotely quite often, even pre-CVD19. However, this is Thailand, so I guess such an idea will remain as yet another pipe dream.

On 10/13/2020 at 11:38 AM, webfact said:

*They will have to stick to routes where other Thai people do not go. They must not veer off course at all.

 

*They will have to be followed around 24/7 by Covid minders to ensure they don't stray and are healthy

*Go where there are no Thais - what about restaurants, shops etc. run by Thais? Replace them with foreign workers or bar foreigners from entering these shops?

*Covid-minders - new job opportunities for the unemployed and ex-go-go bargirls.

Thai authorities - you think they are stupid. Then they open their mouths, and remove all doubts.

22 hours ago, webfact said:

Torphong said that the 8th October non-arrival debacle showed the hopelessness in the lack of coordination...

Fact is, and as far as the Thai authorities are concerned, the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. Heck, they don't even know how many fingers they have between them!

Correction: They don't even know what fingers are, or what they look like.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand is planning to reopen to long-term foreign visitors to help revive an ailing tourism sector and save millions of jobs.

Just get your mainland Chinese brothers and sisters back. They're easier to control. They don't go anywhere their tour bus doesn't, they stay within the flock and only eat at predetermined places. Just stock up enough prawns at your buffet lines. Leave the dirty and pesky foreigners out of your grand plans. You don't like them anyway.

21 hours ago, darksidedog said:

That is a shame. Be tragically ironic if someone stole power, in exactly the way he did to take it himself in the first place.

Exactly. I'd love to see his face when the boot is on the other foot, and up him where daylight doesn't shine.

Stupid. Or the alcohol boys not lining your pockets enough, therefore you idiots are making life hard for them.

On 8/24/2020 at 12:18 PM, webfact said:

Once at the island of their choice they must stay in their quarantine hotel for 14 days, stay on the island and be subjected to further Covid-19 tests.

Forgot to mention other things 'tourists' will be subjected to i.e. scams, rip-offs, second-rate service etc. did you?

Anyway, now that pesky, dirty and disease-ridden foreigners are out of your country - which is what you all wanted - what's the desperation in getting them back in? You lot have the whole place to yourselves now. Go ahead and enjoy it. It's yours!

Whatever. This just buys the inbred git another few years before the inept authorities have to do something again. And Thailand wonders why people don't take them seriously.

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

A policeman speaking in English says that he does not accept bribes.

One of the few who could actually read (a script). English at that!

High on drugs, drunk, sleepy, checking FB likes or Line messages, updating Instagram, brake failure (yes, that is possible even with a 'luxury car' in Thailand) - take your pick.

Then again, we're only hearing the trucker's story. Maybe something happened earlier and the trucker brake-tested the Merc? Also, it remains to be seen if the Merc driver is the heir to some in-bred elites, in which case, no charges, nothing.

On 8/3/2020 at 11:06 AM, webfact said:

The pandemic has left the Chinese largely friendless around the world and it's time that Thailand's "special relationship" with the Chinese was resumed. 

Yes, time to start sucking up to your paymaster. As for 'foreigners', you can forget about them already. Especially since they are not welcome by you lot anyway.

On 8/10/2020 at 2:11 PM, darksidedog said:

Fairly meaningless mumbo jumbo figures with the single piece of truth in there that numbers are going to be very low, regardless of when the border does open. The tourist industry is not going to see meaningful business any time in the near future.

Especially not with their continued, xenophobic anti-foreigner rant. Might have a few visits from those still drawn to their low-rent go-go bars and cheap-trick massages but by and large, I don't think foreigners are straining to break through the turnstiles the moment Thai borders reopen.

More amused to discover Mr. Trump is a cross-dresser! Must be a bespoke slip at that size!