Everyone here dislikes local law enforcement and what they stand for.
Condolences to their relatives, but when you're in the line of fire as a hard target, do not be surprised when these attacks affect you one day.
The dudes in the pics look like teens, y'all. I can't believe they are 30 and 40 already. You wanna catch some bad guys, better come up with more recent pics to identify them.
Often they are hidden in drainage pipes running under the roads. Checkout some pictures online of the aftermath of some attacks; often you can see a crater in the middle of the road, right through the concrete or asphalt.
They always know when the 'enemy' is supposed to pass by. I have lived in the region for 8.5 years and have been on countless roads with IEDs buried beneath them, some of which were detonated less than an hour later.
Still, I'm not afraid. As a farang I'm not on the hit list and the insurgents never randomly detonate those explosives inshallah.
Us British fellas instead prefer the inked-up, brown-skinned, flat-faced, wide-jawed, pint-sized Issan spinners who can suck a knob like a vacuum cleaner and do the gogo shuffle like a pro.
Go go England! 🏴⚽
Probably paying using PromptPay QR codes.
I have a Thai bank account with a banking app on my phone, and I use it to pay for at least 80 percent of all my payments anywhere, from Big C to the local market. Only our 7-11s do not accept it, but they do accept True Money wallet payments.
Nice thread about a country most of us wouldn't visit now.
As a fellow teacher in a "dangerous" area, Narathiwat Province in Thailand's restive deep south, it's good to read about a country I'd love to visit one day. Just not under current circumstances.