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The law is only made for those without money, power or influence. ' Might beats right '

Nor the last. Spot on, we should be grateful for that.

There's a slot in the dummy camera.

What a thing to say when a young man has lost his life at Christmastime. Callous.

I was thinking the exact same. I have struck up conversations with Japanese maybe two or three times in all my years here. They tend to avoid us, and certainly don't get into disputes as a rule.

Yes, but his passport would be British, not an English one as don't have one. Similarly, we don't have Welsh or Scottish passports, that's what he was saying. Semantics. It could be a Thai with a British passport, or it could be a mixed race kid, half English, half Thai. Either way, he's a scumbag taking a life with a knife for such a pathetic reason.

Trump did solve the border problem last time, despite all the hot air. The US border and immigration problems have been there for decades. Relations around the world, where the US has interests and needs the co-operation of other countries, whether you like it or not, took a huge tumble under his administration. The man is a lunatic and unfit for office. His next trick will be to try for office again for a third term, he's already made overtures regarding this. He is the biggest liar the US voting population has ever been stupid enough to elect. Examples below:- Border wall construction Talking about his wall on the border with Mexico, Trump said, “I completed what I said I was going to do, much more than I said I was going to do.” Facts Fist: This is false; Trump didn’t achieve nearly as much wall construction as he had pledged on the campaign trail in 2015 and 2016. Trump repeatedly said in 2015 and 2016 that “we need” 1,000 miles of wall to protect the southern border, with another 1,000 miles already protected by natural barriers. But not even close to 1,000 miles were built during his presidency; official federal statistics put the total construction at 458 miles, and only 52 miles of that total was new “primary” wall built where no barriers had previously existed. When Trump left office, there were about 280 miles of the border where wall construction had been planned but not executed. https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/04/politics/fact-check-trump-time-magazine/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-versus-truth-most-outrageous-falsehoods-his-presidency-n1252580

Not my guy, the USA picked two lousy choices for President. So, they are YOUR guys.

I am simply astonished that the American public, who are not dumb, can allow a man publicly called out as a sex pest and, if he had any face at all, humiliated with the outcome of the court case to become President. He has become the first President of the USA that is a felon. He openly lies and just shouts down TV networks when they fact-check and prove he is lying. The guy is a total nutcase and narcissist, and yet the MAGA brigade and co vote for him. Putin will run rings around him. THE GUY IS UNBALANCED AND DANGEROUS.

You know me!!😆

I am not sure about that at all for the following reasons. 1. The MFA issues these visas, they are independent of the immigration department, so how would immigration know what kind of DTV you have, soft power or digital nomad once the visa is granted by the MFA? 2. My understanding is you get to the immigration desk in Bangkok and your e visa A4 paper is replaced with a 5-year visa stamped into your passport. I can't really see them having all the MFA information, as to why you were granted a visa. My idea is to seek DTV next month as I stated previously, but then my retirement extension doesn't expire until the middle of July, so in the event of anything untoward, I can keep my retirement extension. A belt and braces approach and worst case scenario is I lose the cost of 300 GBP for a DTV if I decide against it.

It tends to happen when you exit a car at 120 km/h You die or get seriously injured.

Thailand always pushes the boat out to look after its children and elderly.

Who wants to Deny that Joe Biden was a Corrupt Liar? Who wants to doubt he will be replaced by one?

And we really need a thread and a poll to get a sensible answer to the question?

Hardly an accident, the clown obviously gets off on creating fear and panic.

Ridiculous mumbo jumbo, and idiots still fall for it.

Is there a financial reason for this altercation? I thought all these guys were volunteers?

or accept a ' lift ' Don't get into cars with strangers, non relatives or people you don't know well!!

I remember when I was in Pattaya many years ago, around the early 2000s, and met the boss of the Tourist police, He is now a General. I was with a Thai lady, she was a friend who worked both as liaison for the BBC in Thailand, and in the office of HM the King, The Head of the Tourist Police in Pattaya couldn't speak English, (their offices used to be located near the offices of the Pattaya Mail on second road), and they rarely answered incoming calls to their hotline. They would make a photo op out of reuniting a foreigner with a lost passport etc, I found them useless. Shortly after that was when they started recruiting foreigners into their silly Foreign police volunteer service, It had plenty of wannabe gangsters behaving like the Gestapo on walking street, and miscreants from a failed life in the West. I hope things have got better.

It would be justice, but unfortunately it won't happen, Thai authorities seem to have a mental block on punishing kids like this until they turn 18.

They will probably go to the young offenders' prison. Mummy will be up weekly with snacks for them, as it was all a ' misunderstanding '

Let's just wait for the do-gooders excuses on here to get going. How does it go, yeah, that's right:- 'The foreigners must have said something or spoken badly to them, Thais wouldn't do that for no reason, it never happened to me in all my years in Thailand, he must have been drunk showing off, BS' etc Young thugs and wannabe gangsters, that left unchecked, will turn into young adult thugs.

The ones who seem to suffer an imbalance in the rules, with these different income streams, such as monthly income or marriage, are those unmarried guys with the 800K in the bank. They keep 800K locked for five months, and then only 400K is available to them. It is precisely why DTV looks more and more attractive.

You want to talk about national statistics as opposed to a vicious incident that has occurred against an 80-year-old defenceless man. The thread is about a cowardly attack by young THAI thugs, another point you did not wish to accept, as though the culprits flew in from Timbuktu.