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Around 130,000 Baht cash is no small amount, especially for a Thai taxi driver, he would have to show an id to exchange the dollars which could be dangerous if suspicions were aroused.

As a Thai he would find it difficult to exchange large amounts of dollars for Baht.

Powerful people don't need excuses. The Queen's mantra was ' never explain, never complain'

He already is, he never stopped influencing politics.

That's the fault of the system / government, not the doctors. Everybody has the right of peaceful protest regardless of their profession although I don't regard the 'just stop oil' movement as peaceful but regardless of that their private lives shouldn't affect their professional lives, why for instance should a politician resign because he commits adultery, why should a film star be cancelled because he isn't PC, this is MacCarthyism.

Getting both sides of the story is irrelevant, the police represent the state and have power, they are foreigners and have none. If they are hoping for an unbiased trial western style they are in for a big disappointment, what they did was foolish in the extreme. Refusing to stop was arrogant and things escalated from there, the RTP can't let this go, the loss of face alone was enormous, they are bound to be locked up for years.

Whose that man with a loaded gun Whose that man riding in the sun Killed his wife but he loved his son Psycho dad, psycho dad, psycho dad.

Kids on holiday, rocking each other higher. disrespectful yes certainly, not only to the guard but also towards the UK's traditions but hardly criminal. These guards are trained to withstand such bad manners and experience such rudeness on a daily basis, not just from Americans but from UK citizens as well, some times jovial other times less so, the situation shouldn't be exaggerated, they had their childish fun and got a ticking off, end of story.

The 1% rule in every country, if you control the markets you control decisions made by government, a generals power pales into insignificance against a falling stock market. People only rebel when their comfort zone is threatened.

Indeed, that is what the transgenders say, they were born that way. I doubt that this man chose to be this way, nobody chooses their sexuality, presumably that would also include pedophiles, their fault is carrying out actions to satisfy their desires.

I'm sure he could have picked a better looking one but it was dark at the time.

No chance, nothing better than getting honest adoration when returning home, both competing for my attention by showing me how fantastic I am, they should make women like that.

My dogs started doing that to my car, at first I was baffled but it turned out I had a mouse family under the carpets underneath the rear seat. I live in Isaan and the car was parked next to my rice barn. Once I got rid of the mice the attacks stopped.

and Charly is English, you could germanize it with Tscharly but really it would be Karl

Normal dogs don't attack a human being, yes they will bark and maybe chase a bike but that is all. when I first started walking around the lake here all the dogs from the adjacent houses would bark at me and sometimes follow me barking, I remained calm, after 4 or 5 visits they realized I wasn't a danger and ignored me. once while sitting on the ground looking over the lake one of them came over and unceremoniously dumped itself on my lap wagging its tail.

I have two run of the mill Thai mongrel dogs from the temple, they kill any cat unlucky enough to stray into my garden but lick my wife's grand kids (toddlers) until they fall over giggling. They don't like strangers coming into my house and will bark until I show them they are welcome, that's pretty normal behaviour.

One can sue for wrongful arrest, in fact the police only seem to react when threatened with a lawyer or publicity, there is an organization that will take on cases for free if it's in the public interest. A police officer having a son who is a murderer........bad news for him. Anyone know what is happening to the perps?

There is something wrong with a child if it doesn't rebel as a teen, the form it takes is important and sometimes a matter of luck. It was Oscar Wilde who said, "I'm not young enough to know everything."

Poverty has a lot of levels, a 'poverty' income in Europe would class him as comfortably off. Being homeless in Thailand is a lot more comfortable than being homeless in Europe, if one is resourceful a Thai wont starve.

Well reading the full story he seems at least to have done a good job in the posts he occupied, corruption on his watch would be normal in any province but that doesn't mean he is involved although that would be unusual, the public needs a scapegoat.

Well it's a start. Controlling teens at a rebellious age can be difficult but their horrific crime points to other, more serious things, that have gone wrong with their upbringing, this went way beyond bike racing and fighting. The parents are probably at the low end of society where even prison wouldn't cause a change of heart.

He's living the dream

Exposing a sham democracy can be dangerous for the powerful but not the nation.

Personally I can't suppress my admiration for him, from a Pizza deliveryman to a rich man with a fortune at 25 takes some doing. He isn't a violent criminal or a scammer screwing over the innocent, he supplied a product people want, naturally Rolex with their overpriced product don't like him, they scam legally.

Why get involved in a school yard fight, there are more pressing problems that both Labour and the Tories will fail miserably at, although to be fair the can has been kicked so far done the road it can't be seen anymore. It would seem that every country is now in or approaching a recession and poverty even in the USA is raising its ugly head.