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Any worse, and the Thais would be charged with murder!

Doesn't say what time they actually BOUGHT the alcohol! In the UK, they ring a bell for last orders (Not to get the drink in for everybody at the bar!) and a few people "stock up" their drinks. Maybe the Thais did the same? Not excusing their behaviour mind - or the Brit's for that matter!

"................two different stories?" Two thais or a group of Thais - know what you mean!

Have you been counting?

Your previous 3 posts at least on this thread alone are clearly anti Brit. What do you mean by "rarely"?

Correction - it is about a Brit - singular! Let's have a bit of perspective here - a bit of a prat, but a Brit on his own being beaten up by a group of Thais. Thai Pack mentality again.

Headline:- "Intoxicated British Man Beaten by Two Thai Men in Pattaya" First line of article:- "Pattaya — A drunken British man was beaten by a group of Thai men in Pattaya" I tend to go more with the latter as he "was making a nuisance of himself while heavily drunk and disrupted a group of young Thai men"

I would hazard a guess that even the doctors in Thailand will be told what to say in a high profile case like this! After all, Mr T has had his sentence reduced from 10 years to 8 years to 1 year all in a matter of days, despite all the rules and regulations saying that he must serve a minimum of x years before he can even be considered for any kind of pardon or reduction of sentence! The system stinks!

And Anutin is making sure of that!

"In a joint effort to curb incidents of teenage brawls, law enforcement and local officials conducted a thorough inspection of Pattaya Beach." So, was it still there? From the amount of manpower ("Over 30 officers, including tourist police, local administrative officers, and special operations personnel,...") and lack of results ("Despite the thorough checks, no illegal activities were found.") it would appear that the beach was the only thing that was inspected ????

...amazing how fast Thai bureaucracy can work when they cut out the committees. see the size of the brown bag!

Apart from the fact a minimum part of the sentence has to have been served before an application can be made. Amazing how this fact seems to have escaped the authorities. I presume that there will now be a deluge of applications from newly incarcerated prisoners saying "If he can do it - why not me?" (OK the answer is B**T!!!)

Can sentences be reduced even further in Thailand for "good behaviour"? If a sentence can be halved by pleading guilty, and a 10 year sentence reduced to 8 years literally overnight, and now reduced to 1 year, Thaksin could be a free man in a couple of months!!! But I would hazard a guess that the deal that has been done as it stands now has been politically motivated ???? And the Army are still pulling the strings!

"He'll be ........."etc etc etc". All of these forecasts are probably from the people who said "There's no way that Thaksin will ever come back to Thailand unless he has a Royal Pardon first". But the truth of the matter is that he is here in Thailand (Unless it's a Doppelganger) - sorry to spoil your theories, but that's all they are. By the way, I'm neither a Thaksin or Government supporter, merely making a comment on the way this post is progressing.

And you know this for a fact? He's probably also got a "taster" to check that it hasn't been poisoned, right? Or maybe that's what made him ill in the first place causing him to be transferred from the prison hospital to the Police hospital, right?

But wasn't it just a couple of months ago that he was getting all dressed up in trendy clothes (mutton dressed as lamb springs to mind!) in his efforts to woo the young voters into supporting him in his wish to be PM if Prayut stepped down?

Why not ease the Visa rules for EVERYBODY ? Including long stay/ex pats etc? You'd think that they would make it easier to make an annual extension when you've done it a few times, but they seem to delight in making changes/new requirements every year!

"..........a K-shaped recovery has been apparent as the rich got richer,..........." Now isn't that always the case?

I was very disappointed not to see "according to TAT" somewhere shortly after the headline!

"MO, this "outgoing" "caretaker" MDES Minster should close his pie hole." Dead right! It's not his problem any more so SHADDAP instead of trying to stir things up!

"...............and suddenly in Thailand he gets sick." It was reported quite some time ago that he was sick - all part of the plan - he didn't look particularly ill when he landed at DM airport! If I remember correctly, he said he wanted to come back to Thailand to look after his grandchildren. How is he supposed to do that from inside a jail cell? Meanwhile, on the other side of the coin:- "a criminal Army general can get what he want????" Yes, by taking the country by force in a coup and getting rid of the Democratically elected Government, installing himself as PM, and illegally altering the Constitution in favour of himself by installing 250 unelected Army Generals as Senators, in order that the future is "looked after"! Not often a Thai is "pro active"! "Shameful Thailand!"

"........they just fight and injure and kill each other." You obviously don't keep up with the news much!

I was usually told it was for the photograph, or photocopies! ????

What is this Residence Letter?

"Get rid of this nonsense where every immigration office interprets the rules in different ways." 100% correct and one of the most frustrating things about Thailand. I was in an Immigration Office a few years ago when someone was querying some thing they were being asked to provide, and said "But there's nothing in the Immigration Rules or your checklist about that" and the I.O. replied "I make the rules here!" Which unfortunately is indeed the case in many scenarios. ????