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But he's BRITISH! There has been a distinct dearth of articles re the "Bad Boys of Europe" recently - catch up time!!!

Not just foreigners that are scam artists! There are a couple of Thais (man & wife team?) in the tourist town where I live that regularly walk round with the begging bowl. Apparently he is blind and semi crippled, and "sings" along karaoke style to distorted sounds coming from a recording machine that he carries, while she holds out the begging bowl hopefully to passers by, but they even come into the doorways of bars and restaurants where quite a few people will pay just to get rid of them. You think I am showing a lack of compassion? One night a pal of mine was making his way home down one of the side sois at the end of the main street, and he came across this pair sitting in a corner gleefully counting the night's takings - he was obviously no more blind or crippled than she was, as they walked briskly off together into the night.

Yay - the Brits are back with na vengeance! 😀

"Aseannow" should be renamed "Pattayanow"! The headline posts nearly every day are about bad behaviour in Pattaya. These are for the most part usually concerning tourists/foreigners - at least these are the majority of incidents reported. I know it's a very difficult problem to resolve, but it makes nonsense of the Police and TAT's assurances that Pattaya is a wonderful place for anyone to visit, and their assertions that everything is being done to counteract anything "damaging to the image of Pattaya"!

Maybe the fact that unlike anywhere else, a confession will automatically get a 50% (?) reduction in their sentence? But yes, I recall seeing a post from a while ago where a very prominent policemen was involved in a case including plastic bags over a suspect's head?

"A SWISS man who is the second husband of a Thai woman who inherited 13 million baht from her first Swiss husband upon his death in 2021 and has been missing since Jan. 8 has now confessed to having killed her, Amarin TV said this afternoon (Jan. 29)." "The suspect had not come to witness the search as he has been mostly staying home only coming out to drink coffee or have a meal and meet the police." "Police brought the 53-year-old suspect to the cornfield on Monday, where the decomposed body of his 46-year-old Thai wife Orathai Posee-ngarm, was found lying on its back." So why has he not been arrested? Oh, sorry - from a paragraph later in the same post:- "There was devastating news from Nakhon Ratchasima on Monday as police arrested the 53-year-old Swiss husband for the murder of 46-year-old Orathai Posee-ngarm." I think maybe I'll start reading these reports from finish to start in order to get a clearer picture!

".........was found by police and rescuers near the exit of Building B of the condominium complex at Na Kluea subdistrict, Bang Lamung district, Chonburi" "at an unspecified condominium complex in the Naklua sub-district of the Banglamung district, Chonburi province" And both articles by the same poster - 13 hours ago!!!

Maybe the family have given enough in the past and said "no more - get a job"!

Yes, as I pointed out - why were they not sacked on the spot? Instead of which, "suspension"! (P.S. From Google - "Sus·pen·sion" Oxford Languages definition:- "the temporary prevention of something from continuing or being in force or effect.")

"Reacting promptly, the school director suspended both teachers from their duties after their admission of guilt." Does suspending them mean that after a period of time they can be reinstated? What's wrong with actually SACKING them on the spot, and handing them over to the police to be charged with assault? Brutal behaviour that deserves the harshest punishment!

Cutting your own "appendages" off to save yourself is still a pretty gutsy thing to do - arm, hand fingers - never mind the pedantics. But there should have been someone close by to help sooner.

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Because TIT, and law enforcement and common sense are a couple of things that seem to be in short supply here!

".........so it has nothing to do with murder." Thank you Sherlock! By the way , "The number one suicide place in London is Parks" ? According to the City of London Corporation:- "Bridges remain the most common location type for suicide attempts within the City, with 87% attempted suicides occurring on bridges." I would imagine that anybody comtemplating suicide by jumping off a bridge wouldn't think of, or be bothered with tying their hands up - what do you think ?

"....secure hands behind back,...." Quite difficult to do with cable ties I would imagine?

When I saw the words "aims to" as well, I started looking for the TAT connection!

Seems like another idea that has not been tested fully before implementation!

"....... errant foreign pensioners on overstay and pay more attention to the antics of the local population." Which is the easier option for the BIB to get kudos?

Here we go again and again and again:- "Pattaya" - "Ladyboy" - "xxxxxx baht gold necklace stolen" Reporters - please Copy and Paste - just need the date changed for next time! P.S. Maybe have "Ladyboy/Transgender person" - Delete as required? P.P.S. Nice to see the old pointing finger is still around!

Hit the nail with the "if you have insurance " bit! But some of us can not get insurance due to our age, or it is ridiculously expensive. Most insurers have "pre existing conditions nor covered" clauses, so in my, and many other people's cases - no point. Also, some insurers will not pay out if you have had the same type of claim before - e.g. I had a root canal filling and porcelain crown treatment and a few years later had the same dental problem - the insurance company would not pay the claim as '"You have made a similar claim before". The Conservative Party have been trying to do away with the NHS for years and replace it with private insurance (for obvious reasons - more money for the Big Boys) The reason why it is in such dire straits IMHO is:- (a) Underfunding and underpayment at the lower end of the nursing scale. (b) Too many immigrants to the country claiming benefits - including free NHS treatment.

"|.....nothing they do will make any difference." Correct, as the Thai people have found out - you can't fight Army Government tanks and soldiers with pitchforks and tractors. And even when you have a "democratic" election and win, there will always be some law or condition that prevents your party from taking office - if there isn't - they will find one or make one up saying that it has been there since year dot, just never used. The only way to bring this Government down is to have it brought down (diplomatically) by another country (ies) e.g. if China and the USA banned all trade and their citizens from travelling here the loss of income would be catastrophic, and if the elite of this country don't have their millions coming in, that's when change will happen! BAHT IS KING!!!

Firtst of all they complain about the 2 women sunbathing and say there should be a sign telling tourists that it is forbidden to sunbathe in the temple grounds - they get their wish for a sign and now they complain about the sign! They'll be complaining about the sunshine next saying that it is tempting people to sunbathe! Thin skinned or what?

In which case would it not be black and white?

Funny how the other headline post seems to have no problem in identifying the miscreant as being of French nationality, but these two are just "foreign tourists"?