darksidedog

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.

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

A total of 1,363 medical doctors and staff on Monday

All of the above need to understand the concept of Pandoras box.

It's open now, always was partially it could be argued, but either way you are not going to be able to close it again easily.

Add to that weed legal and yaba or ice still seeing you go to prison could keep many people from going down bad paths.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Some establishments only had one front exit to the street and could not be adapted to provide another.

It is normal for such places to be closed for very obvious reasons, but this is Thailand, so a few backhanders and vague promises will see them remain open for sure. It is advisable whenever you enter a premises you are unfamiliar with to check where the exits are in case you need to leave in a rush and to just leave straight away if you don't see a second or emergency exit.

Prawit is renowned for his ability to keep an exceptionally good watch!

34 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

one Kuwaiti racer who crashed his rented Honda PCX bike into a stationary Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck

34 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

the Pattaya police officers decided to impound all five bikes.

All rented no doubt, so the fella who rented to this crowd will have his work cut out getting his bikes back, with the renters losing their deposits, plus some most likely.

Stupid people to argue with medical assistance and all lose their wheels for being uncooperative. Early hours, probably all inebriated. No sympathy here.

Trash tourists are returning while the expected high rollers aren't yet getting the same headline levels.

TAT will update us soon though on this discrepancy, so don't worry.

4 million by August would be pathetic by normal standards, pre pandemic being 3 million plus a month, but you have to remember that an arrival is counted as one every time, even if that person has been in and out four times this year, so its probably way lower in numbers of actual new people. Even that setting the records straight, does show a glimpse of sunlight on the horizon, given it was zero for a very long time. For Thai people who have lost so much these past years, I genuinely hope numbers and dollars to come back to them, and that they remember who did what for them in their hour of need while their government did little.

Interesting that we are still in a state of emergency over Covid, which has prevented many a political protest from taking place, yet now, in the name of money, the doctors warnings will be ignored to get that cash rolling in. Be tough to see how they can allow and encourage teeming night life without declaring an end to the state of emergency though, and I suspect when they do, we will see millions of Thais protesting on the streets, and I am not sure how good that will be for tourism.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

 

He said all pub owners should think about the safety of customers and not flouting rules with backhanders to the authorities. 

That's a pretty naive statement. Pretty much every bar everywhere pays the cops, so to suggest everyone suddenly stop doing so is unrealistic.

It's a shame that news media here cover the original events, but rarely will you ever see them at the court finding out the verdict of any criminal proceedings.

Numerous troll posts have been removed, along with replies and subsequent bickering.

If you are challenged to provide a link to substantiate your post, please do so without delay from a credible link.

Telling people to go google is not providing a link, it is just trolling.

The idea of a forum is that people exchange views on a topic. It is not there for insults to be thrown, or going off topic to bore and inflame others.

MODERATORS COMMENT

So, I was tempted as a moderator to remove some above comments, which attempted to hijack a question about legal age inter family relationships, into one about low threshold countries age of consent and  child abuse.

I have however left them there as an example of why you should actually read and digest the full story, rather than make judgments based on a headline.

You really can avoid making yourself look seriously stupid, if you comment on the story, not a twisted tangent of it.

This is why the rules tell you to stay on topic.

The topic is : Should an otherwise absolutely legal relationship, become illegal, if those involved happen to be related?

Based on a case here I might add, that hasn't been heard by a court yet.

1 minute ago, howlee101 said:

But it's the legal age of consent so it's legal.  So 21 is okay? 18? 15? Where do you draw the line when the legal age of consent is lower? 

This is not about child abuse, as you would appreciate if you read the original post fully.

Whether you agree with it or not, the legal age of consent in a country is the legal age of consent.

This is not the point in question however, which I think you have missed.

It is whether two people apparently well above the legal age of consent can be prosecuted for their relationship, simply because they are related to each other.

There was no suggestion in the OP that child abuse was in any way condoned, so please nothing further on that front.

Address whether a gay relationship should be illegal purely on the context of a family tie.

A number of posts ignoring the topic and focused on being abusive to other posters have been removed along with a number of replies.

Being off topic is poor etiquette.

Being abusive to others is against forum rules.

Please stick to the topic and stop abusing each others intelligence at a personal level or your posts will be removed and you may be warned and suspended from the forum.

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

Traders in the area confirmed to Siam Rath that this was a con that was going on in the street to rip off foreign tourists.

If the traders know about the con, it is hard to believe the local cops don't.

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

The country is now in what has been described as a "limbo period" before more precise laws regulating the business are decided. 

Would obviously have been smarter to think these things through before legalising it. Until such time as those more precise laws get here it seems it is a free for all, and the business may well be too big to shut down if it keeps growing at its current rate. Even if they can shut dispensaries down, the old system when it was illegal seemed to keep people supplied well enough, so it is always going to be there.