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So a sad end to a 31-year-old man with a young child, who was working, going about his life and doing his job. He was providing for his family only to have that taken away from him by a 23-year-old idiot who booked a taxi knowing he didn't have the money to pay for it. A show of bravado in front of his 16-year-old girlfriend?? To then try to use the depression excuse doesn't cut it in any way. The mother then, in her great wisdom, decides to desecrate a corpse, by setting the body on fire and stealing his car. I don't suppose calling the police was a factor in this reasoning? What a great parent. RIP to the poor victim, who set off home that day just to earn a few baht and didn't know it would be his last day on earth.

I recall bikini clad Thai women (looking like Coyote dancers) dancing at a cultural event attended by HM The King's mother. It stopped and many red faces and people scurrying for cover when the King's mother said she felt it' inappropriate' for the said event. Realistically, a few signs around and about cultural awareness would stop this behaviour in its tracks, it's through ignorance not intent to offend. Storm in a very small teacup.

Yeah, A well-organised powerful mafia, but that doesn't sum up Japanese culture

It's called backing up your phone.

Yeah, Smart enough to get a youngster to sell his backside, not his own! Maybe an entrepreneur.

Maybe, or on the other hand, maybe an opportunist.

He's 19, maybe still learning the ropes. Surprisingly or not, though, obviously the pimp didn't bat an eyelid when he thought he was supplying Thai kids to Thai adults. Hence, the ability of the cops to snare him.

Why?

The most ridiculous thing about it all is you can walk from the 7-11 to the Mom-and-Pop store next door and buy booze all day. That includes Buddhist days and Royal birthdays. Similarly, you can buy cigarettes in singles or three sticks at these stores, something else that was outlawed, and reappeared as fast as it was forbidden. It's all completely daft. Various excuses have been used for this 2pm–5pm alcohol ban on selling, the last government stated they were going to repeal the act/law as it no longer served any useful purpose, not that it ever did.

They were using a mobile credit card reader. It was recovered from their room accommodation. The Vietnamese woman had made 23 trips in recent times to Thailand. That, in itself, should have rung alarm bells. I personally am not sure how the mobile credit card reader works, but it most certainly worked to their advantage. I've only ever seen them in restaurants.

On my list to get to that country for a one-month visit. The place just sounds amazing from what I have heard and seen on travel programmes.

Give the lad a chance, he's only 13! Bombs and shooting in is next years curriculum.

You seem to expect a lot from a 4,000 baht phone. By the joy of the Turk, you'd think it was an i phone 15

Well, In the UK at least you will get to know the reason for the death, unlike over here where it disappears into the abyss after a shocking headline. Tragic, a little child of 7 years old has met their end in any circumstances. RIP.

A picture of health and a fine specimen of a Scotsman.......

Duh! Because they said he was ' British ' that gave the rest of us a clue.

Or killing their parents for refusing to give them money to buy drugs, or stealing/cheating land from their relatives. It's really best to keep your head down and focus purely on what you are doing, and the needs of those close to you. Neither listen nor get involved with outside influences in this country, it always leads to disaster. One thing I have learned here,' Everybody knows how to make a lot of money with somebody else's cash '

First, it's a big ask expecting to be charged the same as the locals when it is in bred into them to charge you more because in their small minds, you can afford it, just the same as a Thai coming and buying something in Isaarn who comes from Bangkok, that doesn't know the price of something. Sometimes you can be ignored entering an establishment as the Thais do not feel their English is up to standard to converse with you. Scams are worldwide and cross all boundaries of race, nationality and colour. Immigration, a tricky one, you can have bright smiling IO's or surly horrible ones. Luck of the draw, on who you meet, and what side of the bed they got out of. You are paying taxes for doing business, it is the price you pay in every country. It's nothing to do with the' Thai in the street ' Contrary to your belief, Thais do not automatically give respect or decency to other Thais, it's a mechanism for dealing with people, and they are good at hiding their feelings.......usually!

Well, That paragraph is definitely true. There have been a number of occasions when I have wished that I didn't understand what they were saying.

Could always take them on an educational visit and teach them Chemistry in a Meth's lab on the border with Myanmar. OR.......................... Let's go caving in the rainy season.

That will be great. If they don't shoot each other on the rifle range with the military guys, they can go learn how to drive like a lunatic with a free bike for the day. No crash helmets required!

Nobody knows where he is, and that is how the authorities intend it to be and will go to extremes to make sure that remains the case. For everyone else, it's a guessing game.

A person as vain and full of his own self-importance as Thaksin, would make damn sure he had very regular health checks as a matter of course, just like his mate, Hun Sen does.

How ridiculous she was, reporting a child under the computer crime act because the kid didn't like the crappy school meals, instead of addressing the issue. Stupid woman! She needs to get a proper job!

Thais have this marvellous ability to be incensed by unimportant things but seem to have an uncanny knack of ignoring real issues in the country. Ridiculous.