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52 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

 

Reading the comments on Twitter. "Phuket is basically the land of foreigners." 830 likes and goes on to explain how they're working and taking jobs, Thai's are only the hired help. (yeah that's the law dude!).

 

 

Then this non-Thai women gets 550 likes with "remember my words, good Farang rarely exist in Thailand".  

 

 

It's goes on and on. Thai's are getting pissed in Phuket with mass tourism and I don't blame them honestly.

 

But,

it's their government giving Chinese visa-free and Russians 90 days visas etc

I mean Phuket from my understanding is becoming a Russian enclave all encouraged by the Thai government.

They talk about over-tourism, and as soon as it dips, they are pulling all kinds of rabbits out of the hat to get it back up.

What do they want?

I used to own land and property in the resort cities, through my companies etc

I did the houses in Isaarn, for my other half whilst I was active in business in the big cities. I am glad we did them way back when.

Now, when I see how it is all developing, constant rule changing, the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, these latest ideas about taxing ex-pats on foreign income, overt nationalism, and in cases, racism being displayed by the government ministers, I am glad to be out of it.

The country is becoming a giant basket case of errors and mistakes, by those in charge, it's worse than ever.

They leap from one cockup to the next.

10 minutes ago, PeterA said:

A few years ago I was in Chiang Mai. I was riding my bicycle in town. I was in a lane to go straight, behind other cars doing the same thing. A pickup  came from the far right turn lane, after his lane had

already diverged from the other lanes, deciding to go straight instead of turning. The rear quarter panel of the truck hit me, and down I went. I was laying in the road, lots of traffic. The driver got out,

inspected his truck, looked at me and got back in his truck and left. I have a good cut on my arm, and bent bike.

Not one person stopped. Typical behavior, foreign and domestic. But, you never read about the domestic people doing it. 

I agree with you and it's almost as though the reporters ' get off ' on the fact it is a foreign driver. Xenophobia is well and truly at work here.

We see daily Thais fleeing the scene of fatal accidents and that includes bus drivers, who have been under the influence of drink or drugs. A great deal of them drive unroadworthy vehicles and are uninsured.

Those incidents are not newsworthy but put a foreigner into the mix, and the "outrage by netizens" is just for good measure.

Plenty of them need to focus on obtaining the necessary driving skills and competency tests before taking to the roads, instead of playing ' Let's blame foreigners for all our woes '

The car did not indicate that it was turning even if it was obvious what his intentions were, it must give right of way to oncoming traffic.

The car was turning into a side road from a main road without indicators. It's in the rule book, never anticipate another driver's actions.

The motorcyclist had the right of way as he was on the main road, even though he was speeding and going too fast to avoid a collision.

There was no sign of compassion from the car driver and passenger on exiting their vehicle, as they were heading straight to the front of their car to survey the damage.

I don't know why everybody is getting so excited on here about a police officer who has done nothing to further assist the foreigners in Thailand in any form.

You guys have no skin in the game and won't be affected one iota by the outcome.

All he ever did was self-promote, further himself by any means and introduce silly rules to the detriment of foreigners.

Wasn't he one of the geniuses that said the murders of Hannah and David were thoroughly investigated and had nothing to do with the local mafia on Koh Tao, and didn't he walk around an empty beach saying he had investigated fully, also there was the case of sexual rape and robbery of the British girl as well which he allegedly investigated?

Then we have some dreamers on here trying to pretend he is Thailand's only honest cop when he's had more mud on him than a Hippo.

The only reason those in high power get annoyed and side against you is when they find out you have been skimming and not passing it around, just like good old Ferrari Joe was doing.

Looking for an honest cop in Thailand, you might as well look for virgins in Soi 6.

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2023/01/24/death-of-uk-diver-on-ko-tao-neil-giblin-resurrects-myth/#google_vignette

8 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

Signs of mental illness? What do you base that on? If he is clean a wrongfully abused in a plot to overthrow his chances of advancement to top position, is something nobody know. However, I find it hard to understand why someone would fight as much as him to get things out in the light? Never seen that before, and it would be very stupid if he was guilty.

We all know what party won the election, but the stronghold of power easily reversed that. We have seen many situation where uncomfortable persons get pushed away by made up stories, so this can very well be one of those. I am not posting he is innocent and squeaky clean, but instead pointing out the possibilities.

 

Writing like you have done Mr Spider, is very disturbing, as you have no back-up for it whatsoever. The only thing you have done, is to spout a lot of unconfirmed garbage.

The only thing that springs to mind is that he got a top job again after he made a big fuss when he was removed as Immigration Chief, maybe he thinks it will work again if he screams loud enough?

Now he's demanding the top job despite being dismissed from the force?

A bit like demanding an Oscar because you thought your acting was better than the movie that won it, and telling the panel to reconsider and watch it again.

As other posters have said, he just doesn't know when to call it quits.

No good will come from this methinks.

3 minutes ago, CartagenaWarlock said:

I think Chinese mafia is involved. What happened to those Chinese mafia cases. We don't hear anything about them any more. 

What happened to the US kid and that horse, that's what I want to know about.

Last I heard, he had "proposed marriage" to save a scandal.