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"...............a 77 year old man called Phuang who saw a man in a yellow shirt carrying a child far away." I really don't know what to make of that statement! Or:- "Try to make a case out of that, Sherlock!"

Beat me to it so apologies for my other post! ????

And whereabouts does the "sick buffalo" come into this "Web of Intrigue"? Pretty high, I would think!

Pattaya, Thailand - A (poor) young Indian man doesn't look too unhappy while holding a police report stating pickpockets took 44,000 baht in cash from his pocket after he finished shopping at a convenience store.

Beat me to it!

"...............not bad people, just bad owners." And just how many examples of the above do you reckon there are in Thailand? Just how many more tragedies waiting to happen because of "not bad people"? Personally, I think that Pit Bulls should be banned, but some people think that owners should have a licence for this breed. To own a gun legally in this country you have to have a licence and how many of those are illegally owned throughout the country? Licensing is obviously not the answer, and I am sick of hearing that they are very friendly, affectionate dogs if looked after correctly. They are huge, unpredictable animals that were originally bred to KILL, and unfortunately, they seem to be doing so on a regular basis, with little or no provocation, but it's not bulls that they are killing! Incidentally, regarding your statement that "Pit Bull attacks are less frequent than those by other breeds", I asked the question on Google - "Which breed of dog attacks humans most frequently?" Here is the answer:- "Pit bull. No dog breed has a more ferocious reputation than the pit bull, being recognized as the most aggressive dog breed. According to Canine Journal (an organization that collects and analyzes dog bite attacks in the United States), Pit bull attacks are responsible for the deaths of 185 people in the last ten years ..." Hmmm?

Almost as bad as the one where a Pit Bull turned on his master in his sleep (apparently they shared the same bed!) and savaged him to death. (No sarcasm required, thank you!) The dog was not euthanised, but taken to the temple to apologise to the corpse!

AGAIN! When will the Government realise that something needs to be done about these dogs, especially when they have bitten people in the past? "There had been many warnings about the dog after it attacked more than ten people over the years,..." "Phatsorn, Mana's wife, arranged for the dog to be looked after by kind people who offered to help." Unbelievable! I wouldn't go near it with a bargepole!

I hope that Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn has a top notch security team looking out for his well being! He seems to be stepping on an awful lot of toes!

"Therefore, the customs officers will not search for tourists entering Thailand." TAT has spend a fortune persuading tourists to visit Thailand, and here we have a Government Department who seem to have been spending their time trying to find them! ???? Maybe their time might be better spent searching for human traffickers or illegal immigrants? ????

"Video: Russian airline aborts takeoff after tire explodes on runway at Phuket Airport" "...........after the Azur Air aircraft right jet engine malfunctioned during takeoff." It took roughly 40 minutes to move the aircraft to a taxiway junction, where it obstructed other flights from landing or taking off. You couldn't make it up!

".........emergency break." And what break might that be? "Tea Break', "Coffee Break" or "Lunch Break"? Looks like an engine fire to me!

Nor me! Looks like an engine fault/fire.

Maybe because their currency isn't $'s - it's Euros or British Pounds etc (Just joking - I'll get my coat on the way out!)

"...............data from three cameras had now been recovered" Any bets on whether they will exonerate the cops or the lady and her companions? Or will the footage be too blurred to prove anything either way? ????

I see your point, but unfortunately for this country to move forward, it will take a lot more understanding from those in positions of authority that "it's not always just about the money"! In fact, most/many of them would probably say that it is always about the money because that is how they got their positions in the first place!

"oligarchical corpocracies"? I think I agree with you!

I would think that if she has studied something for 5 years, and can only get a position abroad because of the "Boys Club" mentality in Thailand, if she does get a job in Forensics in another country, I can't see her rushing back to beg for a job here!

".............no females were to be appointed to 'inquiry' roles for reliability reasons." What they mean to say is that no females can be trusted to keep their mouths shut! ???? Seriously, there are female Police Officers, but maybe they are appointed merely to search and accompany female suspects as is probably required by International Law/Human Rights.

"Videos showed the men being led from the Bangkok Remand Prison to a special, relatively new court that deals with corruption cases against bent officials." Going by the information in the article, and what seems to be common knowledge about widespread corruption in the RTP, it shouldn't be long before a committee is set up to discuss the viability of setting up such courts in every province in Thailand!

I remember reading a story a few years ago about a BIB helping a lady change the wheel on her car after she had a puncture ! Mind, as I said, that was a few years ago!

The first line of my post specifically mentions that my wife is Thai, and I didn't say it was my land! And I wasn't contradicting your post - if anything, I was supporting it - by pointing out that the (THAI) family had to pay the (THAI) Land Registry Department twice for a job that should have been done properly in the first place! (I mentioned the fact that a member of the family had to check "what was happening" more than a year later, only to find that the original paperwork had not been filed/or had been "lost", so THEY (The family!) had to pay for the job to be done again)

"............the Thai public should get their information from the Thai police not social media, reported Thai Rath. Then it would be reliable." Yes, of course it will!:- "Regarding the CCTV he said it was all from afar and the people and what they were doing at the checkpoint cannot be identified clearly." ......."One interesting area that the Thai media has not spoken about was previous RTP chief Pol Gen Suwat Chaengyodsuk who introduced CCTV at roadside checkpoints.The fact that on this occasion the RTP are saying that such evidence is unclear shows the ineffectiveness of this initiative." Sorry, I missed that possibility yesterday! "....the Grab car dash cam video from the night in question had already been deleted as it was more than 20 days old." Pretty close on that one, though!

My Thai wife has a share in a reasonably sized rice farm in Esan, left to her and her relatives when a relative died. "The man" came from the Land Office to measure up and mark out on some plans what was due to everybody, for which they had to pay for his time, and the cost of legitimising/registering the plans. After a year, nobody had received any notifications, so one of the family went to the Land Office to make enquiries. Apparently, the plans had never been registered with them/lost, and the family had to pay for the whole process to be done again!!! TIT!

"December and January were massive tourism months – but still less than 50% of 2019 average" I would think that the first part of the sentence was written by someone in the Publicity Department at TAT ("massive tourist months") and the latter part by someone with more balanced information! If December and January were "massive tourist months", but still 50% down on pre Covid figures, I wonder what superlative they would use if they got back to those "halcyon days"? (For TAT!)