Dogmatix

This nonsense because: 1) he was deported to France last Friday, the day the article was posted on AN; 2) the Thai statute of limitations on murder is 20 years from the date the offence was committed - thus it expired on the 1975 murder in Thailand in 1995.

A race hinging on economic issues between two contestants with no clue about economics. Heads you lose, tails you lose.

Thonglor and Cowboy are both in the Thonglor police precinct. Cops obviously happy to allow the sales and smoking in Cowboy for mow, which has always been a major profit centre for Thonglor cop shop. The problem will come, if others stick their oars in a demand action but that will still leave the licensed shops in the immediate vicinity and smoking will be hard to stop, if no one complains. I doubt there have been many complaints about tobacco smoking which is now under the same law. I guess people have been complaining about the vans in Thonglor, Soi 11 and KSR. They are a bit more obvious, as they are more cosmopolitan venues visited by Thai youths but Cowboy is solely for foreign whore mongers and Thai bar workers whom no one cares about.

When I was only 16 I went on a package tour to the Costa Brava with my parents. After an unsuccessful tour of the discos I went for a lonely moonlit walk on the beach in front of the hotel. I nearly stumbled over about half a dozen Essex girls on their backs entertaining Spanish waiters who were vigorously going at it. Being only a child at tje time I was utterly traumatised by the experience (because the pedros were getting it and I wasn't) and still have nightmares about this severe deprivation.

According to the footage, the male foreigner had white skin and blond hair and was approximately 180-190 cm tall and 25-35 years old. As for his partner, she had dark skin and was around 150-160 cm in height, and was about 25 years old. Police should have no trouble rounding up these two fornicators with this detailed description, especially the woman, as this is an extremely rare profile in Pattaya. However, even more detail, such as distinguishing marks like warts and moles in strategic locations wouldn't harm.

Under the Thai nationality Act, as amended in 2008, a foreign male married to a Thai citizen is entitled to apply for citizenship, if he has been legally working in Thailand for a Thai company with a WP for at least 3 calendar years earning at least THB 40k per month. The marriage must also have been registered for 3 years or only 1 year, if children have been produced. Requirements for foreign women married to Thais are easier. They don't need to be working but their Thai husbands need evidence of income of at least 15k a month for the previous calendar year.

I am not a shareholder in my own name. My shareholding is held by a company. I am one of two authorised directors and either can sign for the company alone. I am the only signatory authorized to sign for the bank account. Actually a company can appoint anyone to be the signatory of a bank account, even if they are not a shareholder, director or employee of the company. We have a family company for which my wife is sole bank signatory at KBANK and she is neither a shareholder, director or employee but she looks after the accounts and payments. For years I was in the same position as authorized signatory at the bank but not a director or shareholder and withdrew money from the account at different branches in Bangkok with no questions asked, except for a copy of my ID. I was not blaming Thai Chinese. My point was that I doubted the teller would have questioned the transaction, had I been a Thai Chinese, as they are used to them running their own businesses. I think what raised her suspicions and caused her to invent a completely spurious rule of her own was me being a farang with a Thai ID card which was probably a new situation for her and she couldn't handle it. So she just thought it would be safer for her, if she asked for the other director with a real Thai name to come and co-sign, despite not being a signatory registered with the bank. Of course I may be wrong and she may have been blocking similar transactions attempted by Thai Chinese businessmen all day long. Some have suggested I could have called HO to clarify things. I might have tried this, if it were not close to 6.00 pm but I wasn't hopeful of getting anyone intelligible at that time. In the past I have had to do this with Bangkok Bank and SCB. A crazy woman at Bangkok Bank was going to close my accounts right away because I didn't have a WP, even though I had my PR documents with me. I really needed to keep those accounts, which had standing orders, and luckily head office sorted out the crazy in a couple of minutes, even though it made her rather sulky. All I had asked her for was a new savings book to trigger her attempt to close my accounts. The issue I had with SCB was that they told me to close my account and open a new one because I had changed my nationality to Thai. I talked to someone at SCB HO who gave me the same "no can do " run around as the guy at the branch, which also happened to be in Big C. I didn't want to do this because I feared I might also be told to reapply for my SCB credit card and I didn't have pay slips to do this. So I just waited for a few months until I noticed that the guy in the branch was no longer there and tried again. I approached a female staffer who couldn't have been more helpful. Just a copy of my ID card, tabien baan abd naturalisation certificate and sign a form and my nationality was changed to Thai and a new savings book issued with my name in Thai instead of English all in a few minutes. So my first encounter at SCB was a case of a lowly level staffer in a department store branch making up his own rule on the fly and actually being supported by someone at head office which was scary.

I think it was made to look like it could fire bullets and maybe it can, if the firing pin hits with enough force to ignite the primer which is unlikely without putting in a full strength mainspring. But the pressure of even a .380 round would likely be too much for the pot metal of the slide and the barrel. So it might blow up. I have seen the results of a Glock that blew up in the hand of a visiting US competition shooter visiting Thailand. He borrowed the gun from a Thai shooter who must have made some modifications resulting in a round firing not fully in the chamber which caused pressure to be diverted into the barrel and slide instead of propelling the bullet down the barrel. The barrel, slide and frame were destroyed and the visiting shooter was lucky to get away with just some nasty cuts to his hands and arms. I found some discussion online about converting this type of pistol and one American said he did it out of curiosity but he reloaded a .380 cartridge case with much less powder than normal and fitted a 31 grain .25 caliber projectile on it. .380 projectiles are normally about 90 grains. So it was about a third of the normal weight. This should theoretically allow to get the same muzzle velocity as a regular .380 cartridge with a third of the pressure. In some places, e.g. South Africa, these guns can be loaded with tear gas or pepper spray cartridges for self defence but obviously not in Thailand where civilian use of even pepper spray is illegal. You can even get an adapter to put on the end of the barrel to shoot rubber bullets, using the pessure that comes down the barrel.

Wouldn't be surprised, if it was one of the fuzz at the Pattaya cop shop. Sell him a starter's pistol that is $200 new and can't shoot but with real ammo to incriminate him and a bag of ice to go with it to make sure. Force a round into the fake barrel and some more into the Kuzey blanks magazine to increase the rap to carrying a loaded pistol in public, although they didn't show this on the video. He told them he didn't know, if it could fire or not, so he is not in a position to argue the gun was incapable of firing.

You can see the Kuzey pistols demonstrated here. They even have a gold plated one. The magazine he was caught with is obviously a Kuzey magazine and the .380 rounds must more or less fit in it. But it seems to be the 9 round model for the full size Government model Kuzey Colts and thus too long for the Defender model. This pistols are very realistic and I am surprised they can be legally imported and sold in Thailand openly on Lazada etc. If not, illegal, they certainly should be, particularly if they can be easily modified to fire real bullets. I would guess a modified one could kill someone at close range and could perhaps also serious harm to the shooter, as the barrel and slide not made of materails that can withstand the pressure of even a lower powered .380 cartridge, which is in fact and a shortened 9mm cartridge with a lighter projectile that takes less powder than a regular 9mm but is still utterly lethal.

Here is Matthias' oscar winning performance at the Pattaya cop shop. at 03:10 the cop on his left announces there were 6 rounds found in the gun and one in the chamber which implies it was a modified Kuzey blank gun, if a round could really go into the chamber. Probably a smooth bore tube though. The Kuzey barrels look a lot different and have a bushing and only have a small hole through the bore to let gases escape. The suspect says he wanted to know, if it could work which implies he knew it didn't look like a real gun. No mention of this by the cops though, even though they would certainly have spotted that. He also had some testosterone supplement capsules in his bag which, along with the yaa ice, might explain his bravado. 693564808.489267.mp4

I think it will be like the re-enactments that police were supposedly ordered to stop doing with great fanfare but continued without a pause. Reporters have to pay the police for access to film arrested criminals and crime scene articles. A favorite photo is a picture of an arrested foreigners passport. I can't see them stopping that, even if China is making a fuss. Anyway the big triad cheese "Tuhao", married to a Thai police colonel, is Thai and, according to Chinese law, should have given up his Chinese nationality when he got Thai nationality, or had it revoked when the Thai Interior Ministry wrote to the Chinese embassy to advise them he had got Thai nationality, as they do. So reports should just emphasise that he is Thai, until such a time as he is convicted and a court orders the revocation of his Thai nationality.

The engravings look quite similar to those found on Turkish Kuzey BB guns or starter's pistols currently available on Lazada but the bullets are real. Indeed, if he found it, in a trash can, he should have definitly let it be and not put his finger prints on it. However, I would guess that if he had made contact with a meth dealer, he had probably also made contact with a black market weapons dealer, perhaps the same scoundrel, who may have ripped him off by selling him a fake gun but real bullets.

Things will not go well for him but a death sentence is not on the cards. A category 1 drug which could get death but quantity seems small and not enough to be classified as dealing and get a death sentence. There are several firearms offences but maxium of 10 years for that and likely for a lot less for a first offence and to serve concurrently. But probably the drugs and firearms sentences will be ordered served consecutively though, as they are unrelated crimes. Sweden can take him back after he has served a third, I think.

Even if this is a BB gun incapable of firing the ammo, having the real bullets will mean that he will get the same penalties for all the firearms offences he is charged with as for a real gun. Having the meth won't help him much either. He could be facing several years in prison in Thailand before repatriation to Sweden under the prisioner exchange treaty. The Swedes will then release him after a token couply of months in a Swedish prison. The only country that abides strictly by their prisoner exchange treaty and waits for the Thai government to order the release of exchanged prisoners is the UK. That means that prisioners exchanged on lengthy drugs sentences have to serve time in the UK with UK prisoners serving similar sentences, e.g. completely deranged murderers on life sentences who can never be released. All the other Western countries release the prisoners when they have served the same sentence they would got in that country for the same offences, which is usually immediately. Thailand have never raised any official objection to this practice. The UK leaves them to finish their Thai sentences or get a Thai Royal pardon. Many British prisoners have said they would have been better off left in the Thai prison.

The looks fake, home made or maybe a conversion from an air pistol or something. I don't think Colt Defenders have ever been made in anything but .45 and 9mm calibers. The Colt Mustang is a .380 version, as was the Colt Pony. The .380 cartridges are genuine local production though. The barrel looks like it is a mild steel tube with a weird brass knurling on the end, perhaps to prevent the slide from shooting off the gun, if there are no internals to prevent this. Doesn't seem to have a bushing. The magazine looks as if it is home made from sheet metal and is clearly too long for the grips, so it would stick out, presumably to hold more rounds. Normally a small .380 pistol is intended for concealment and its magazines will only hold 5 or 7 rounds. Perhaps the "Made in Turkey" on the slide should have been a give away to the cops. In fact it looks the Turkish BB gun or starter's pistol on sale here. https://biggunbbshop.com/th/articles/180707-kuzey-911-colt-defender-9mm.p.a.k. Similar Colts available on Lazada https://www.lazada.co.th/products/kuzey-m1911-colts-100-5-i2674594064.html?spm=a2o4m.store_product.list.1.177f42d7RdErrF I expect the Swedish guy was ripped off and sold this thing which may or may not have been modified to take the .380 cartriges. Perhaps the scamster found that real .380 bullets would actually fit in the magazine of a starter's type pistol. The police said he had a loaded gun. It would interesting to know what would happen, if it was fired.

This is right next to a report of a Swedish man arrested with a gun and ice on Pattaya beach.

China. They can just report them as "foreign" triads in future. Ha ha.

After reading about unlicensed sellers getting busted for selling from mobile stalls on Thonglor and Sukhumvit Soi 11, I was surprised to see 4 or 5 stalls openly selling buds on Soi Cowbay the other night. Two of them were busy selling buds and ready rolled joints to tourists one or two metres away from policemen who took zero interest. Presumably they have temporary informal licenses from Thonglor police or maybe profit sharing deals. The apparently licensed dispensary on the corner of Soi 23 with Cowboy that was packed with smokers before the edict banning smoking lounges has removed the ash trays and bar stools and had no customers. One of the former bars at the Asoke end has been converted to a cannabis shop and had customers rolling joints inside and smoking them outside in front of it. In fact many of the bars had customers smoking joints out front. This aspect may actually be legal, since cannabis smoking outside is now controlled under the Public Health Act in the same way as tobacco. That means it is only an offence, if it causes a nuisance to others and someone needs to complain. Complaints about smoking tobacco or cannabis in an outside smoking zone in front of a bar in Soi Cowboy are extremely unlikely.

Vis a vis the Israeli caught with two full magazines of 5.56 ammo, he has the advantage that he was not caught with guns and ammo classified as war weapons in Thai law. On the other hand the Israeli could argue he had brought the mags with him by mistake and that he had lawful possession of them in Israel, whereas this guy admitted he had purchased them and intentionally tried to bring them on a flight. The Israeli got 18 months. I guess this guy will more than double that.

The cartridges on the left seem to be this type of .38 special revolver ammo.

Some pics from Thai website cops-magazine. Looks like a disassembled Glock 26 or similar or maybe a copy. Pretty obvious his collection would be picked up by X-rays. If he had some reason for wanting to acquire this little lot and transport it to Bkk, the question comes to mind why not travel by surface? The Thai police press release refers to “gun equivalent” because that is wording taken from the 1947 Firearms Act that equates gun parts, such as barrels, slides and frames, as gun equivalents with the same penalties for illegal possession as a completely built up gun. This may indicate that police intended to charge him with multiple counts of firearms possession - one for each disassembled part with 10 years max for each gun equivalent. He may have done better to have packed it completely assembled. The cartridges in the batches on the right look like 9mm that would fit the gun but the batches in the left are longer and look like .38 special for a revolver. (One of the revolver rounds oddly is a different style from the rest - black coated round nosed bullet in steel case, while the other revolver rounds are flat topped copper FMJ in regular brass cases.) He said he needed the gun and ammo for self protection but didn’t explain why he thought he needed the revolver cartridges. I wonder if he planned to pick up a revolver later. Seems to imply intent to commit a further crime - perhaps selling arms and ammunition. Perhaps the seller happened to have the .38 rounds he wanted to get off and the Ozzie bought them without looking in the bag. No doubt the investigators will be very curious about the mismatch of ammo. No doubt the seller will turn out to be that mysterious Lek who returned to an unknown province immediately after the deal.

I am told that well connected Thai investors are involved in the trade in Laos and that they are not only growing brick weed there but high grade strains. I am unable to verify this but it stands to reason that the investors are Thai and that, if they can grow brick weed there, they can grow other strains too. Even though it is still illegal in Laos, Thais may like the anonymity of having large plantations there and land rental and production cost is obviously less than in Thailand.

I got the same reaction as Neeranam. As a kid someone put temptation in my way and I thought it was really cool for a few years. But it led to a number of personal problems including neglect of studies and some narrow misses with fuzz. Some that I knew were not so lucky and became guests of HMQ for 6 months for what today would be considered trivial confiscation and warning offences. I gave up for a bit to get my studies back on track and get into uni and when I tried it again I got bad paranoia most times with the fear that it would take me back down into the same old black hole from which I might not be so lucky to escape a second time. By the time I got to uni I was someone who just accepted an occasional puff passed round at a party but never sourced it myself and avoided getting involved with the heavy stoner crowd. As an adult I hardly indulged at all and never bought any for years and years and certainly never in Thailand, given the stringent penalties. I went to Amsterdam many years ago and wanted to try, since I had never had a legal smoke. By then there were already some wicked strains of skunk much stronger than anything that came in when we were kids. I had one big grass joint in a coffee shop that led to a somewhat paranoid experience because it was just too much for me. I ended up unable to speak or eat or remember where my hotel was. I wandered around for a couple of hours not enjoying at all and nearly being run over by tourists on bicycles several times until it started to wear off and I could navigate back to my hotel. Since legalisation in Thailand I have had tried a few times but always careful not to have too much of the new skunk strains. I haven't had any paranoia. My conclusion is that paranoia can be caused by too things: your personal circumstances and demons and overdoing it which is easy to do with modern strains or by ingesting it. Probably alcohol would also cause similar paranoia if it didn't have a depressant action. A couple of beers without overdoing it will usually take the edge off the paranoia caused by weed. Weed is definitely dangerous for kids. Their brains are not fully developed and it can give them a fake alternative reality that encourages them to take the easy way out and destroy their chances in life, if they get too much too young. It can also lead to paranoia from a small minority may never return. One guy I knew at uni, who had been a brilliant student, got stranger and stranger in the second year and then disappeared. Some time later I found out he had developed psychosis and ended up being institutionalised with no expectation of ever being released. Admittedly he had moved on to acid and maybe other substances and possibly had a predisposition to psychosis but there was no doubt that cannabis played a role in the destruction of a young life.

In others threads it is said that for driving license renewal they will no longer accept the yellow tabien baan and pink ID card as proof of address, even though tabien baan is accepted from Thai citizens. They want a certificate of residence provided by Immigration or an embassy. It is great to see Thai government departments being consistent in their approach.