Gandtee

All that is needed is for the police to do their jobs.

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And it helps if they don't flout the law themselves:

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And what about the police who do not wear a helmet?

I think it is about time now to think about some "self-protection squad" or another among expats. This cannot go on. Places are littered with dead and mutilated tourists. Resort by day, Amityville at night.

Oh come on! If your statement isn't panic mongering I don't know what is. You will be suggesting that all foreigners carry guns next.

I wish her good luck. Better luck than mine.A lawyer who was doing some transactions for us said that he was having a cash flow problem?? Despite my better judgment my wife and I loaned him baht 200,000. And he wrote a cheque payable to us. Promises were made to repay but were not honoured. We went to the boss of his Law firm and he was fired. We tracked him to his next place of work and confronted him there. More promises. We went to another lawyer and took him to court, were he wanted to settle before it came to the Judge. On our lawyers advice we agreed. Papers were signed to the affect that he would pay installments into the court. That was in 1996. You guessed it, nothing. For peace of mind we just let it drop. It would seem as it was a case of one lawyer protecting another.A slight variation on an old proverb, ;If a snake and a lawyer cross your path, kill the lawyer'! A lesson hard learnt! Like the woman in the report, I could do with the Bt.200,000 now.

Good for her. She should be rewarded for her efforts. Further more she should also be supported by Governments and Human Rights organisations.

Was the Scots victim shouting 'No' or 'Yes'? I hope he recovers. After this week he will know whether to go to the British Embassy for help or the Scottish?. I wish him well. Advice-- never get into a confrontation with a Thai. Verbal or otherwise.

Yours as well??

The sad thing about all this is that the students who want to keep their noses clean and not be involved in this gang warfare are caught up in it and besmirched by the reputation vocational schools have acquired.I think Thai society look down on vocational schools. Totally different in Switzerland, where next week they are holding a 'Best apprentice of Switzerland' competition and advertising the benefits of a vocational education. As far as I am aware, the students don't try to knock seven bells out of each other. But then I suspect they were well educated as juniors, even though they don't start school until they are seven years old. Maybe that is the answer? They were under their parents control. School heads in conjunction with the police must crack down on this savage conduct. Perhaps a session of re-education under the new regime would help to straighten them out?

Sadly another one joins the FFFFC (Falang free-fall flying club) Unwillingly I would suggest, and with a little help from persons unknown. It needs investigating. Hotel CCTV and witnesses of the affray. But then maybe I am asking too much.

Politely tell them to mind their own business!

I have a suspicion that this poor creature was trained to lay down to attract sympathy. It certainly looks as though it didn't work. Most people simply ignored it. Almost like laws here in Thailand. They are ignored. That is why we still see elephants paraded around the streets. Very sad.

Most of the flooding problems are self inflicted.

Most of these girls will still have to send money back to the village and so I see little alternative for them other than moving into the freelance environment.

'Little alternative'. Really? How about a job which doesn't require them to lie on their backs grunting for five minutes . You know, like the majority of young women working in 7/11s, markets, offices ...

Most probably they need a BA for that.

The bit that's left when the snake gets fed up with it's old skin

When they arrived they thought that they had made a navigation error and were not in England?

Suicide by train (if that is what it was) is not uncommon. UK 3.5%, Germany 7% of suicides.

My sympathies go to the driver who had to watch this unfold helplessly. I know an Oz driver who has had this happen on 3 occasions, each of them deliberate, and the result inevitable.

http://lostallhope.com/suicide-methods/jumping-under-train

What effect has it had on the Oz drivers mental condition I wonder?

The vendor said 'It was just sour grapes'.

I think watching Thai television is the cause. It drives most viewers to contemplate it.

Ve haf vays off making you sell

Why didn't Sutas get off his arse and check???

All exit points from Thailand have been alerted!!

Wow Mr. Somchai! You amaze me with your powers of deduction.

I expect I would be wetting my pants if I knew what it was. I don't own a mobile phone. I've managed without one for eighty years and this my last stand against being available twenty four hours a day.

They said the same about TV decades ago.

I think children who grow up with this technology won't find it that amazing and are way more resistant to it.

Maybe they will grow so fat because of inertia that they will be only too happy to have their electronic aids to inter act instead of having to make the effort to actually meet people.

Try starting a Thai bank account, practice a few words of Thai, maybe even donate blood at the local hospital.

Flash these documents around, and you may break some ice in the coldest bureaucratic heart. AA

Give blood for a visa extension? Better than an arm and a leg i suppose.