DaveinAsia

I'm sure he'll not be too sick to travel to the bank.

He was actually spotted by a Swiss friend in Geneva last week, walking around the lake with 2 gorgeous nurses by his side, 555

The percentage of human garbage inhabiting this planet is increasing.

It is only increasing as the population is growing exponentially. But going by ratio person to population as a whole, we are living in the most peaceful time of humanity. Sure there are real pieces of work and evil out there, but there always has been, only in this day and age we hear about it a lot of thanks to the media.

RIP to the poor girl and I hope the family and find some peace, their lives have no doubt been ripped apart and turned upside down.

The most peaceful time in humanity? BS. People are more and more selfish and separated due to technology, money and greed have speeded(sped) this process up and turned people into sicker beings than before. Perhaps it's nice and peaceful in your life, moo baan or village but Europe, Africa, The Middle East and North and South America are burning.

I'm pretty sure that this piece of human excrement that did this to this little girl was himself the victim of something similar or either extremely abused as a kid. The world is indeed a very sick place and those who deny this and say it's no different than before are the true ostriches among us and rather part of the problem instead of the solution.

RIP little girl.

For those of you that don't believe we live in the most peaceful time in Human history, I suggest you watch this video by Stephen Pinker who is actually educated and doesn't make arbitrary statements about anything. You will be surprised! It's only 20 minutes for you to adjust your perspective as it did for me when I first heard it a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1Uzk

Please! It's another privileged foreigner talking for all of humanity. Of course it's peaceful for the privileged. What about all those suffering in wars? Or the impoverished? Billions of people are suffering. I watched this TED talk with Pinker years ago and I laughed. It's the view of a privileged westerner who uses some fraudulent statistics made up by the elite(UN, Amnesty, Bilderberg) to give us the impression that everything is just fine. Stop buying into this brainwashing and do some real research. 1% of humanity now own more than all of us put together so how on earth can this mean progress? Wake up

The percentage of human garbage inhabiting this planet is increasing.

It is only increasing as the population is growing exponentially. But going by ratio person to population as a whole, we are living in the most peaceful time of humanity. Sure there are real pieces of work and evil out there, but there always has been, only in this day and age we hear about it a lot of thanks to the media.

RIP to the poor girl and I hope the family and find some peace, their lives have no doubt been ripped apart and turned upside down.

The most peaceful time in humanity? BS. People are more and more selfish and separated due to technology, money and greed have speeded(sped) this process up and turned people into sicker beings than before. Perhaps it's nice and peaceful in your life, moo baan or village but Europe, Africa, The Middle East and North and South America are burning.

I'm pretty sure that this piece of human excrement that did this to this little girl was himself the victim of something similar or either extremely abused as a kid. The world is indeed a very sick place and those who deny this and say it's no different than before are the true ostriches among us and rather part of the problem instead of the solution.

RIP little girl.

Not an accident this was manslaughter, he was just too idle to check and that killed her.

Perhaps braindead is a better word choice than idle. Way too many people trust their kids to unqualified strangers here. And of course many don't have any other choice.

Very very sad. What a waste of life.

How many kids drown in yard pools, are hit by drunk drivers as they wonder the roads, are beaten to death by deranged and psychopathic (step)fathers, abducted and raped by janitors, etc, etc, etc? Probably half of these deaths are not even reported or don't make national news. What are the numbers? Does anyone know?

Rest in peace little girl

While we are all being distracted by 'old news', disgusted as we all are, what's happening to the 6 Samurai wannabes? It seems that Thailand is using the cover up tactics that the west uses more and more these days too.

7 now, including one of the perpetrator's girlfriends.

Actually, everyday on my Facebook feed there is something about this story. It seems that most Thais are outraged and want justice served. My take on it is that most likely there will be justice, but probably only because of the intense media scrutiny (especially on social media) and the fact that the key witness happens to be a lawyer.

However, all of these follow up stories are in Thai so if you can't read Thai you'll end up assuming that this story is dead and buried when in fact, being Thailand there will always be more coverage on any given story in the Thai media than in the English media. Completely different example but in the case of the foreign cars requiring advance permission to enter Thailand story, that has been picked up by dozens of different Thai media outlets and on social media many times since at least February, but the English language media has only reported on this a small number of times in that timeframe, despite it being a story that is largely going to affect foreigners, not Thais.

In the case of the former story, I did notice that one concerned Facebook user who wrote a story how he would try to demand that the government is accountable for the outcome of that case had his post deleted a short time later. However, clearly this happened either because he felt like he needed to take down his post or someone took it down for him, the reason being his reference to the government. I found that a bit disturbing, though not entirely surprising.

Makes sense. Our friends here at the forum should take this piece of friendly advice to heart and follow up better on old stories whereof the outcome is unknown now.

While we are all being distracted by 'old news', disgusted as we all are, what's happening to the 6 Samurai wannabes? It seems that Thailand is using the cover up tactics that the west uses more and more these days too.

We should get some odds going here what the chances are that they will not do any time at all. A few days ago I was almost certain they would but when it came out that they were connected it fell about 50%. Today it's down to 3:2. Slowly slowly the media and authorities are preparing the public for a sneaky acquittal

He will soon have that smirk wiped off his face,there must have been a ton of forensic evidence

at his apartment,lets hope they collected it all,correctly.

regards worgeordie

Plus: fleeing Bangkok, fleeing a restaurant in Isan, fleeing Thailand, dumping motorcycle at boarder - pleadging not guilty. I wonder how he is going to explain this.

Would you hang around if you were the main suspect in any criminal offence in this country? I surely wouldn't. What if they are framing you or have their minds set on you even if you didn't commit the crime? No matter what evidence you have that you didn't do it they will destroy it or simply ignore it and send you away in any case. It's so normal here. They like to 'solve' cases as quickly as possible, it's the only thing that matters in order for them to save face, even if they send an innocent man to his death or a life long in prison. They couldn't care less. Now tell me again that you are not going to flee when you see your face on wanted posters or the telly. Hahaha, and avoid the Cambodian border pls, opt for Malaysia and then Indonesia.

Not saying he is innocent but I do believe in innocence until proven guilty, not the other way around.

Who are all the hi-so ladies in these photo ops? It's as if TAT and the authorities have been sending over these ladies to meet with the Owen's since people complained that the government wasn't doing anything for them at all. Just a matter of saving face and money again and not real concern for their well being. Keeping up appearances at its best, lol

Well it is time for police to teach him a lesson.

Beat the scum till he is dead.

Why waste money taking him to court, keeping him in prison.

Disgusting lowlife does not deserve to life.

How can anyone do something like he did to a poor defenseless child?

No that is to good for him. Beat him to an inch of his death, let him recover without medical assistance and then beat him again. Let him relive the pain and agony the child would have felt over and over.

Nah, wait a minute. Remember the scene from Se7en? Where he tied the guy to a bed for years on end without feeding him, just the necessities to stay alive?

What are you bunch like? Trying to make up worse punishments. Of course this piece of psycho scum deserves a severe punishment but believe me when I say that the worst punishment ever is when one is standing in front of a firing squad and knowing that ones end has arrived. Torturing people is for psychopaths and that is what we are condemning here.

Remember the part from Unforgiven when Dirty Harry says this:

Rest softly little girl

Ah, so that's why they fired into the air...

when they arrived at the scene and this assault was in progress the victim may still have been alive, the police should have made every attempt to stop the assault including using deadly force

How are they going to shoot at the sons of another cop? That's also the reason why they didn't even care when the cops turned up, they knew they could do as they pleased. People like this have a licence to kill in TH. I've actually seen one with my own eyes. An old 'buddy' of mine back in 98 had gotten one from the highest cop in his neighbourhood. He was pretty proud of it and showed it around. He told me that he could kill somebody and not bare any consequences whatsoever. I just kind of laughed at him back then and said he was talking bs but he always stuck to his story. It all makes more sense now. Quite a few people are really above the law here and will never spend 1 day in jail, no matter what crime they commit

"Police called to the scene of the attack early Sunday morning initially failed to break up the vicious attack and needed to fire into the air before restoring order and detaining the gang".

Unreal. If they had any balls they would've shot them immediately and probably saved the poor guys life

A nightmare for the country,.....how about for all the fearful tourists and expats who live here waiting for their own kick to the head ?

As long as you don't escalate stuff like they did the risks are not that high. The old lady hit a guy in his face before it all started and then her hubby helped her. Just because her son shoved a Thai and got shoved back.

They certainly did not help their case.. yes the violence in response was over the top and should be punished.. but they were certainly not innocent.

Dutch thinking? I thought the Dutch always stood on the women's side no matter what? They have a saying in NL; eigen schuld, dikke bult. Kind of means som nam na, but I certainly don't think that applies here Rob. The only reason that Rosemary would've deserved what she got was for being a psychopath or perhaps the devil. She definitely didn't deserve a punch straight to the face and later a kick for b - slapping a grown man. I don't care how much face that idiot lost but it probably only hurt his pride.

The argument of this article goes something like this: although I have witnessed much violence, it has not happened to me, therefore you should not be worried.

The Thai assimilation is complete.

555! Funny comparison

Good that he feels so safe walking around the street late at night. That is, until it happens to him.. Then his tune will change. Personally, my experience has shown that in most cases a foreigner can smile his way out of most tense situations. I say most because there are times when Thai men simply want to exert some violence. Case in point: I was with my Thai family talking about the water supply using my wife to translate to her father. Out of the blue, the father picked up a large knife used for cutting bananas of the tree and he came at me with blood in his eyes. It was intervened only by my wife and her mother who jumped in front of him. As it turned out, he got angry simply because he didn't like that a foreigner was telling him a more sufficient and modern way to supply water to the house and thought that I should be doing it his way regardless. It didn't matter if I was in the right about it. He was losing face because I would not back down and because he was looking like he was ignorant about this to his family.

If a Thai is losing face by you or anyone. Run! Violence is the only thing they seem to understand.. Their is no compromise with them and as a foreigner, you are always going to be wrong. Even when you are right.

Is this a matter of Thainess or is this more a matter of having a backward father-in-law? 555 I've been in many similar cases and the Thais I was dealing with never got angry, lost face or became violent. One should also be able to defuse threatening situations while living in LOS. I never needed to RUN while I've been in many dodgy situations. I'm not saying it's possible to defuse every situation but it does help to have a Colt under your seat, especially during road rage occurrences, lol

If anyone can decode this one, I'd be happy to know: "Nanthaporn Baisri, 21, employed as a "pretty"

What is being employed as a pretty?

The thugs damaged the country

I think you need to post that another 10 times to meet your quota

I thought the police released the video (albeit 2 weeks later) to catch the culprits???

Obviously not.

55555! Like many people thought already that was another big fat lie! As if they give a damn about a few foreigners getting a kicking. If they could cover up Koh Tao they would've done it too. Anything to keep the money coming. Greedy scum. No human decency whatsoever, so perhaps it is time for them to take a few steps back. The logical consequences when you bite the hand that feeds you

I hope the British Embassy in Thailand will send a team to follow up on this case and put pressure on the Thai police to ensure that punishments meted out are proportionate to the violence they committed.

And yes, as somebody correctly pointed out, the TAT should invite the family back to Hua Hin for a fully paid holiday.

Sorry, but the British embassy have been on holiday since 2012.

As for TAT offering the family compensation; nobody thought about it yet, but I'm sure they will after reading this. It will be a grand display with all international media present

This 'incident' will cost Thailand 100's of millions of baht in revenues and only paved the way for a higher influx of Chinese tourists, not to mention the loss of face.

It's pretty clear to conscious people around the world that there is no law here and that this parade by the cops is fake and just to save their already frail tourist industry.

Let's check back in 2 or 3 years and ask Thais in tourist areas what they think about tourists having a dump in their garden and BBQ-ing their chihuahua on the parking lot, 555!

Som nam na. If you only rake in money but are too miserable to re-invest some of it in infrastructure, safety and education it will collapse eventually. Law of physics. When greed controls peoples hearts the end is near

Very true even now Thais are finding it hard to put food on the table .. Plus there debt is very high these days and on top of this ? They take big loans out on homes and vehicles they cant even afford to pay for .. am expecting an 97/98 eccommy crash sooner or later .. Then its going to be interesting when big companies are already moving offices to neighbouring countries and also working on all types of projects .. I think this maybe the time for people to move on to one of these neighbouring countries to be fair because could lose value on there investments and there retirement savings ...

Ouch ..

Thai banks see profits plunge in Q1, cut rates to boost loans

BANGKOK -- A prolonged slump in Thailand's economy has sent profits falling at its big four banks, prompting them to simultaneously make cuts to lending rates.

Combined net profits at Bangkok Bank, Krung Thai Bank, Siam Commercial Bankand Kasikornbank plunged 16% on the year to 36.049 billion baht ($1.03 billion) in the first quarter of 2016.

http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/AC/Thai-banks-see-profits-plunge-in-Q1-cut-rates-to-boost-loans

I think many are leaving already. Vietnam and Myanmar are becoming more and more popular.

I hope the British Embassy in Thailand will send a team to follow up on this case and put pressure on the Thai police to ensure that punishments meted out are proportionate to the violence they committed.

And yes, as somebody correctly pointed out, the TAT should invite the family back to Hua Hin for a fully paid holiday.

Sorry, but the British embassy have been on holiday since 2012.

As for TAT offering the family compensation; nobody thought about it yet, but I'm sure they will after reading this. It will be a grand display with all international media present

This 'incident' will cost Thailand 100's of millions of baht in revenues and only paved the way for a higher influx of Chinese tourists, not to mention the loss of face.

It's pretty clear to conscious people around the world that there is no law here and that this parade by the cops is fake and just to save their already frail tourist industry.

Let's check back in 2 or 3 years and ask Thais in tourist areas what they think about tourists having a dump in their garden and BBQ-ing their chihuahua on the parking lot, 555!

Som nam na. If you only rake in money but are too miserable to re-invest some of it in infrastructure, safety and education it will collapse eventually. Law of physics. When greed controls peoples hearts the end is near

Wouldn't surprise me at all if this is nothing but a sham. Not the beating but the display of suspects and the authorities talking about lengthy prison sentences. Just to satisfy the foreigners/social media. Once this all lies down I'm pretty sure these guys will be out again and not do any jail at all. Their families/friends will cough up big bribes and life will return to normal again.

No wonder nothing ever changes

Dave, you need help, really - and quit the booze first.

Hahaha! Why? Because I believe that it's time that all scum in this country need some quality gulag time? Strange, really. I come up with a great solution and you say I should quit the booze. Not friendly at all. Time for my first beer this week cheeky

Thank goodness the British media and others have well publicized this tragic and brutal attack.

Yes. Let this be a warning to tourists not to push, slap and punch Thai guys because they can be brutal when provoked.

People like the cowards in the video need to be sucker punched, pushed, humiliated and b-itch slapped until they are humble. Then they should be paraded through the streets to wai all foreign tourists and perhaps through in a bit of feet kissing as icing on the cake

Thank goodness the British media and others have well publicized this tragic and brutal attack.

Yes. Let this be a warning to tourists not to push, slap and punch Thai guys because they can be brutal when provoked.

Yep providing they outnumber you and are battling old pensioners. Brave heroes aren't they just.

Very well said!

0:19The black shirt British guy pushed the Thai guy away. 0:22 the thai guy pushed back n the floor was slippery resulting in the black shirt british man fall. 0:50 Then after some argument the lady slap the thai guy in the face. 1:13 the Black shirt british man proceeded to lock the black shirt thai man in a headlock 1:13 same time the purple shirt british man threw a punch at another thai( guy who had a bottle in hand who got push by the black shirt british and push back in 0:19). Thats when the Thai gangsters retaliated. Study the video closely. Again I don't condone the acts of the Thai Gangsters but it takes 2 hands to clap.

follow the movements of the purple shirt british man from 1:08 to 1:13. it might not be clear but u can see him moving across and throwing a punch at 1:13. watch closely. He punch the thai man who had the bottle in his hand who was pushed by the Black Shirt British man in 0:19, He fell to the ground after being punch by the British man. after which he got up from the floor. Thats why the black shirt thai man broke free of his headlock and walk all the way across to punch him 1st. Mayhem Ensues Thats what actually caused the thais to start fighting.

Its not right how the Thais kick the family and the old lady when they are on the floor. But the British family started it 1st by pushing slapping n throwing the 1st punch. They even punch n knock a Thai man onto the floor. Don't tell me they r 50 n 60. A thai man got knock down on the floor by a punch. They got too much what they ask for. I don't condone violence. In this case I don't condone violent acts from both sides. Its just that the Thais were more violent in retaliation.

Why does the RTP think that its solely the fault of the Thais? Fear or Bad News for Tourism? pls do your job n investigate properly. Every expat i spoke to n when saw the video how i pointed it out in detail saw it too. it wasn't solely the fault of the thais. Please be fair.

should the thai men push back after he was push?

should the Thais punch them n knock the whole family out?

Should the Thais kick the British Family while they were on the floor?

should the Thais kick the old lady on the floor?

should the British shoved the Thai out of the way?( start of this trouble)

should the british lady slap the man?

should the purple shirt punch n knock a thai man onto the ground?

Put away your emotions for abit. I know we dont like it that the lady got kick on the floor.

But fact of the matter is the British family started it n got too much what they ask for. It takes 2 hands to clap. RTP should investigate this case clearly. I have shown the video to my wife n some friends of mine n pointed out in detail what happen. After watching it together with me. Everyone was fair in saying the British should not have started it by shoving slapping n punching the thais and the Thais retaliated too violently. Violence should never be an answer to your anger. It applies to both the British Family n the Thais in this case.

You say you don't condone violence but you do because you point your finger at the family and say they started this and therefore 'deserved' what happened.

If you really wanted to condone violence you would be against this vicious attack in any case, no matter whose fault it is.