off road pat

8 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Sometimes ... sh!t just happens 

Hm,...In my more than 30 winters in Thailand,...I have never seen any inspection or Maintenance of anything, except for a few Thai friends of mine that check there 4x4's thoroughly after every off road trip....  Usually Thais wait until something brakes and they repair it,....or try to,...

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

Thong Lor police kidnapped Italians about eight years ago. It was in The Bangkok Post, but as can't link to them, this will have to do. https://www.gulf-times.com/story/363683/thai-cops-kidnap-two-italian-tourists

Thx for sharing, and refreshing my memory...I forgot about this case

22 hours ago, mfd101 said:

I suspect the maid's life expectancy just got a whole lot shorter.

Possibly,...But she will have soo many friends that want nothing than the best for her from now on,...

1 hour ago, milesinnz said:

Please do TAT a favour.. tell all your western mates, don't come to Thailand... if you must come to SE Asia go to Vietnam or The Philippines.. that should make the Thai's much happier...

Indeed, Vietnam and the Phillippines are great countrys !!! been to both, many times !!!

2 hours ago, Korat Kiwi said:

I didn't see anything relating to Russian bratva, but anything is possible. 

 

My initial thoughts is suicide but then it can be made to look that way.  

 

I just read that the most powerful underworld boss is a Jewish Ukraine born Russian by the name of Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich.  I doubt that you'd want to upset him

Very interesting person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semion_Mogilevich

9 hours ago, Iron Tongue said:

The UK does have anti money laundering laws which require immigrants to prove their source of wealth.

For her to show-up and probably buy a multi-million £ mansion in London, she would need to show how she got all that money when her husband only made around 60,000baht month salary.

Hm,...what about all those Russian Oligarchs that bought multi-million £ mansion in London ??? did they had to prove there fortune came from legit incomes !?!?

9 hours ago, redwood1 said:

This heat wave is costing me a lot of money...

 

My usual electric bill in the condo cost around 1500, 1600 baht a month....Last months bill was

a whopping 3200 baht......This is my highest electric bill EVER in Thailand

 

I tried to not use the air so much but I was sweating like a pig in the condo with the aircon off...

 

3200 baht for one month of electricity is crazy......I would rather spend that money on more important things like drinking in bars....

 

They really should give farangs FREE electricity because we are not use to this heat like the Thais are.....

 

Has anyone else seen a big increase in their electric bill?

 

 

 

 You could go drinking in bars....that have aircon !!!

11 hours ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

Now the clinics will be very busy for a while...

You mean, the medics on the ships !?!?

And if people are shocked by this !??, wait until Yingluk  comes back !!!

1 hour ago, Ulyssesamui said:

Throw the book at this drug dealer. A years in The Monkey House will teach him a lesson. He and his ilk are not wanted here.

A year !?!?!?,.... Under the Narcotics Code, individuals who produce, import, export, distribute, or possess Category 1 narcotics without permission face a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a fine of 1,500,000 baht. 

Similarly, those involved with Category 2 narcotics without permission may be imprisoned for one to fifteen years and fined between 100,000 to 1,500,000 baht.

11 hours ago, frankie machine said:

I knew this guy was bent ever since the Koh Tao farce.  Prior to that, I'd had a lot of respect for him.  

I don't think he was involved in the Koh Tao Case !

39 minutes ago, Gknrd said:

Looks like nothing has changed since I left a couple of years ago.  

During holidays in Thailand I would pull over, rent a hotel and wait it out , if I happened to be traveling during one.

Exactly the same as we did,....wait it out in a roadside hotel or resort !!!

7 hours ago, brianthainess said:

So obviously your 'Best Efforts' are not good enough. Get the Cops to actually do their job of Patrolling the roads, and stop bad driving, checkpoints don't work and never have, and never will, but you repeat the same "Efforts" every year and Fail.  

Checkpoints Do work !!! they remove some drunk people from the roads for a while !!!

6 hours ago, pegman said:

Well this admiral went to work for the Carlyle Group which is heavily invested in the American military industrial complex. NATO expansion is a long running scam. Each new NATO country must conform to NATO standards for all their mutations.  Corrupt politicians who receive campaign contributions from munitions manufacturers pay them back by creating these new customers.  

Some members of the Carlyle Group are ex presidents, ex prime ministers, like George W. Bush and Family, Thaksin Shinawatra, Tony Blair,....

On 4/10/2024 at 7:47 AM, ChaiyaTH said:

Every Thai is against corruption, until it benefits them, then it is not a big problem: not think too much, sabaai sabaai

Hm,...Same goes for most Farangs !!! they are against corruption, until it benefits them as well !!

4 hours ago, quake said:

Thai perv's out with there cameras again.

They must be getting bored of taking pictures of there dinner and posting it on face book. 

 

 

 

 

Perv's never get bored, it's like a hobby to them.

6 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

No! Just NO! This should not be granted permission. Lest Thailand been seen accused of aiding and abetting Myanmar in against it's citizens. If these military officers (and family) crossed illegally into Thailand, they should either be arrested and detained on suspicion of war crimes, or simply forced back across the border into their own country (in the same way as ordinary Myanmar civilians are normally repatriated).

 

Hm,...The high so, will always help each-other, no matter what Nationality, instead of there own (low class) people

1 hour ago, Presnock said:

I choose to live in Thailand knowing well (been living here off and on for 50 years, pollution in the burning season has been around all of those 50 but spreads just about every growing season as farmers need more money to eat rice or whatever.  Big business when they went to ethanol and needed corn for the mixture in fuels, sugar cane burning is getting bigger as they can get more money and the health issues - we were told on this forum in the news media that the pm wouldn't call CM an emergency site (so that they could get additional funds to fight the fires and pollution) because it might scare tourists away.  

Hm,...The prospect of getting Cancer is scaring the tourists away !??!?,..well,...who would have thought ??