Spock

Exactly my thoughts and most of the posts have avoided any blame of Thais. When I lived there 6 months in 1996, the Thai workers in the bars loved the opportunity to crack a bottle over the head of some foreigner playing up. Seems like in this instance its a gang setting on one person, so you'd think posters would be a bit more circumspect than simply blaming the Brit. It's not really a nice area of Thailand. Tourists do stuff that gets them hated and eyes light up when a chance for revenge is presented.

What a weird offence - 'committing theft at night'! Why differentiate the time of day? Theft is theft.

I have to disagree. I was a cigarette/joint smoker and gave up smoking cigarettes 10 years ago and have vaped weed ever since. I have no problem with my lungs which feel perfectly healthy unlike when I was a smoker. I don't believe weed vaping is harmful to the lungs. It's not like tobacco vaping where people are consuming nicotine and harmful chemicals.

You are just another person who all too obviously knows nothing from experience or in theory that adds anything to the discussion.

I'm 71 and used it everyday since I was about 20 without any health problems. Same applies to my friends.

What a fool you are making of yourself! I'm 71 and been around weed all my life and one side effect I have never ever seen or heard of is brain haemorrhaging, particularly people dying from it.

You must have only recently discovered SEA and the pleasures it offers. You obviously weren't a regular in the 60s and 70s. You've seen the effects have you in your very limited experience of the drug?

Easy to see you only caught up with Thailand once it became a destination for the straight and boring folk.

I bet you didn't get to Thailand till at least the late 90s when the country started to believe it needed to become squeaky clean for the sake of its citizens and visitors.

There's grass and a hedge behind. More appropriate spots to pee seem to be in abundance.

They look Chinese to me and stands to reason they would be. The girl might not be at fault but the parents certainly are.

You obviously were not among the original tourists to come here from the 60's on because Thailand offered something a bit more risque and wild west like than boring old western countries. Console yourself with the fact that you are not alone. There are many super straight westerners who seem to have discovered Thailand once it became even more conservative in its thinking than the western countries supplying the tourists. I seriously do not understand the attraction of Thailand over the home countries of these people. Fortunately I will again be able to spend a slab of time in Thailand before Thaksin and his reactionary comrades turn the place into a boring yawn-fest again.

He is dangerous and I would never sell him short - doesn't mean that he isn't a turd of a person and politician.

I suspect he will handle himself pretty well inside. Looks a solid unit.

Really? You ever had ecstasy or cocaine? More desirable than heroin or ice. Both drugs would certainly make a full moon party a lot more enjoyable. I am sure that the many foreigners who have bought from him are sorry that he has been caught.

The British government needs to know about them first. Perhaps you could help with a list of names.

I actually agree that those drinking or using drugs should not be driving, so we have no argument there. I am not so sure that removing the weed or alcohol from the equation in order to solve it is the answer. Better policing and testing (drug as well as alcohol tests) and real penalties puts the onus on the driver to look after their own best interests and stay of the road.

The guy doesn't look like a weed user to me. Your claim is nonsense anyway and totally devoid of any evidence.

I am saying that cannabis alone does not make driving a difficult task except for the true newbies to the drug. Drivers who do face difficulties tend to drive cautiously and slow, unlike those affected by alcohol who are careless and irresponsible. The danger probably occurs where the two are combined. But I don't believe negotiating a curve successfully would be a particular problem for a user.

You have obviously zero expensive of weed. It's the kind of ignorant comment that only non users make.

It's not a cheap place to smoke weed. The weed is more expensive than I would pay in Australia for illegally grown weed.

So when does the crackdown come? The PM earlier suggested the end of the year would see the end of recreational use announced or enforced. Is that date likely to be brought forward? (I fear anything involving drugs that Thaksin is behind)

So what's your point?

I'd rather see you deported.

His health insurance won't pay if he provoked the attack and injuries.