darksidedog

Thailand has a way of pulling numbers from anywhere and lobbing them out to prove their "specialness." For the Thais who depend on tourism for their income, I am happy to see an upswing, though I have serious doubts that all of those arrivals were actually tourists. It is improving. You can only hope the early arrivals don't get fleeced rotten, as was common behaviour before, so the trend can continue in a positive manner.

At no point is the river there more than 1km across, so I suspect much of it will be covering a lot of that distance traveling downstream with the current, which he simply has to swim across. Fair play to him though, because while he has proved already to be a competent swimmer, that will be fast flowing water.

I really do weep for this country, and have done on so many occasions before, and no doubt will do again, though this hits especially hard. School shootings in the US have become so common, you almost expect them, but this is rare in Thailand and staggering that it involved kids not even old enough to understand what would have been going on. I am stunned that someone could stoop this low. A coward killing babies and his own family. I am glad he is dead either way, though a torment far worse than his chosen escape route would have been preferable. Reintroducing flaying alive would seem about appropriate here.