Sviss Geez

We don't know that the fake banknote was from the bank. It is allegedly from what the buyer of gold says. I don't exclude the possibility that the seller at the gold shop introduced the fake banknote. The police really needs to investigate this thing.

For what purpose?

Clown. Exclude that possibility.

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This reminds me of some videos I was watching on YouTube yesterday about car accidents. It was a compilation of car accidents in Russia, where the insurance laws require every car to have a dash cam. Some were funny, some were serious. But the one thing I noticed in about 95% percent of them is that people actually, stopped, and got out of their cars to inspect the damage in the minor ones. No yelling and screaming at others, no guns pulled and shooting the other guy, and in the serious accidents, people NOT involved, actually stopped to try and help.

Compare that to Thailand, where NO ONE dares stop, and everyone does a runner.

Back in the US, I've stopped at a number of accidents scenes to try and help when I could, do to my background and training, and even managed to save a couple of lives. Never worried about being sued by anyone, and quietly accepted the thanks and gratitude I received from victims and family.

Again, compare that to Thailand.

It was a compilation of car accidents in Russia, where the insurance laws require every car to have a dash cam. Some were funny, some were serious. But the one thing I noticed in about 95% percent of them is that people actually, stopped, and got out of their cars to inspect the damage in the minor ones. No yelling and screaming at others, no guns pulled and shooting the other guy, and in the serious accidents, people NOT involved, actually stopped to try and help.

Strangely enough, I was also just looking at some of the Russian accident YouTube videos as I'm looking at getting a car cam. That is also something that stood out to me that they always stopped, including witnesses to it, and try to help out.

Well, the videos that were posted on YouTube show those that stopped, obviously. That doesn't mean everyone involved in that kind of incident stopped. If there was any way that they could be identified they're hardly going to post videos of themselves doing a runner, are they?

Those videos don't indicate that Russians, or any other nationalities, are any more righteous or honourable than Thais.

This reminds me of some videos I was watching on YouTube yesterday about car accidents. It was a compilation of car accidents in Russia, where the insurance laws require every car to have a dash cam. Some were funny, some were serious. But the one thing I noticed in about 95% percent of them is that people actually, stopped, and got out of their cars to inspect the damage in the minor ones. No yelling and screaming at others, no guns pulled and shooting the other guy, and in the serious accidents, people NOT involved, actually stopped to try and help.

Compare that to Thailand, where NO ONE dares stop, and everyone does a runner.

Back in the US, I've stopped at a number of accidents scenes to try and help when I could, do to my background and training, and even managed to save a couple of lives. Never worried about being sued by anyone, and quietly accepted the thanks and gratitude I received from victims and family.

Again, compare that to Thailand.

"Compare that to Thailand, where NO ONE dares stop, and everyone does a runner."

There seems to be no limit to the nonsense some people come up with.

How can you run over someone, and not STOP...

How could you live with yourself after doing something like that ????

Seems to be only in ''Thailand''...

So So Sad.....

Yes, that sort of thing only happens in Thailand. What sort of blinkered world do you live in?

To use their own adjectives a bunch of dim-witted, lazy cretins are posting in force again with unreasonable criticism of the police, and there is nothing worse than a bunch of them.

Indonesia will pay dearly if they carryout these executions. Sad they arent intelligent enough to figure it out ahead of time. Southeast Asia with the exception of Singapore are illiterate fools who are still living in the jungle.

The executions will go ahead and Indonesia will not suffer at all from any consequences, quite rightly too.

Singapore has the death penalty and enforces it as much as any other S.E. Asian country, why do you give them the exemption from being "illiterate fools" even though not one of those countries is considered illiterate?

I must confess, originally i did not mind and often said, well its the law of that country so deal with the consequences.

However after following the story and reading from the start , i have changed my mind because on this case, its totally wrong.

1. Australians were caught smuggling OUT of Indonesia, NOT into. They were only caught because one of the parents contacted Australian Federal Police.

2. There 2 guys have changed 100000%, they did not turn into thugs but turned into very good people, helping hundreds of inmates.

3. The Brazilian is mentally ill, its a fact. Executing mentally ill people is simply wrong. There are reports that he does not even understand that he is about to be killed.

4. Philippine girl was taken shopping by her new boss who bought her clothing and "suitcase" which turned out to be stuffed with drugs.

None of this people are some major drug dealers or any danger to Indonesian security or threat to Indonesian society.

Governments of respective countries made countless pleas and offers, only all to fall in deaf ears.

And the biggest slap was to issue the 72 hour death notice on Anzac Day to 2 Australians. Killing them is not enough, Indonesia also wanted to insult the country as well.

It doesn't matter whether the drugs were being exported or imported, it's still a capital offence.

Of course the two Australians who will be executed will do everything to give the impression that they have changed, they don't want to be executed. They haven't turned into "very good people", they're convicted drugs offenders who showed no regret for their actions trying to hoodwink authorities.

Both of these Australians were major drug traffickers who remain drug traffickers trying to get out of what they deserve.

I see a few liberals here whining on about how cruel this is and yet not one of them giving a shit about the poor families whose lives are destroyed by drug dealers.

Joko Widodo has it right ... execute them and send a clear message. Still if you're a greedy moron who doesn't care about destroying the lives of others and is willing to try smuggling drugs go right ahead and hopefully you too will me caught and executed.

Joko Widodo is doing the world a favor and I for one applaud him.

I suspect that you are in minority and I applaud that.

Capital punishment does not work.

The only thing that works is catching people.

State sanctioned executions just brutalise everyone. Do you understand that?

The more executions the more people are de-sensitised and the more murders occur.

I can give some leeway as Indonesia is developing and have an immature civilisation (look at the way they torture animals there....)

My nephew died of a an overdose.

Do I want the people executed.

No, but I would like them caught.

Drugs are a complex problem. I don't have all the answers.....

I tell you what though, if you got rid of all the people who take ice, cocaine, heroin and the rest from Phuket it would be a MUCH nicer place.........

I suspect that he isn't in the minority and I applaud that.

Capital punishment does work, it very successfully kills the people who break laws the penalty for which is death.

"Catching people" does not work, drug trafficking still happens.

Executions do not brutalise people, do you understand that?

Just sheer nonsense that more murders are committed if executions continue.

You don't seem to have any answers, never mind all of them.

I'll tell you what though, if all the people who trafficked and sold ice, cocaine, heroin and the rest were removed from Phuket, and everywhere else, those places would be MUCH nicer.

4 mechanics to test-drive ? business must be slack.

And took it back to the shop ? I see no shop in any of the pics. maybe the shop is invisible, as are the mechanics.

As the incident didn't involve the shop but was a fire in the car why would you expect to see the shop or the mechanics pictured? Maybe it was opposite the car, maybe it was out of shot?

Why is it that every event, a murder, a normal death of an old person; anything at all; is blamed on Thai's or Thailand. He we are, TV posts questioning Emotions and Leadership of Thai's. All you need to do is to read the U.S news where everyday gruesome stuff are reported. Police brutality, gun violence, school kids murdering their own mates and teachers, even cannibalism. Why don't these bastards who whine about everything here crawl back to wherever they come from...

This is a story of a Thai man murdering his wife. Why would we be discussing cops and school kids killing each other in America ?

Have you seen the news whenever a American cop kills a black man or a school massacre happens in U.S. school ? Have you noticed no one starts a news report by saying "this happens all the time in Thailand".

There's also the childish ' if you don't like it here ' leave comment.

So to fit in perfectly we can never say anything negative or criticise to prove how much we love the country ?

I'm sure the people who come out with the ' leave ' comments have never had cause to complain about anything.

It would be really interesting to hear you explain how your negativity and criticism (irrational and nonsensical, more often than not, in your case) proves "how much we love the country".

A Sargent is a leader in your mind?

At 29 years and 31 years old these were not leaders.

Mark Zuckerberg one of the richest people on the planet is 29 - what's your point ?

Zuckerberg isn't a leader either, what has his age and wealth got to do with this?

The emotional immaturity of yet another Thai man on display.

The sad thing is these people are the leaders. What chance do the rest stand.

A Sargent is a leader in your mind?

At 29 years and 31 years old these were not leaders.

They were in the police force. A force that is meant to lead a country. Does that make them leaders or followers ?

You should look up to a countries police force. Tho I can see why you wouldn't look up to them in this country.

You are very misguided if you seriously think the existence of a police force is to lead a country, bizarre. Police forces are not there to be "looked up to" they are there to uphold the law, nothing more, and I doubt if anyone would look up to a police force anywhere in the world.

Starbucks in Terminal 21 for babe-spotting.

The following put me off the place for about a month though:

One evening this gorgeous Thai babe happened to be seated at the table next to mine scribbling with pen on paper. I screw up my courage to the sticking point and say to her it's refreshing to see someone write and not tap. She looks up at me like I'd just crawled out of her croissant but deigns to answer in perfectly accented English, "I am writing poetry."

That's all the opening I need. I tell her I love poetry, had a minor in literature in college, still read in my spare time and ask what she's writing about. She answers it's about the pain chicken feel when farmers take away their eggs to sell.

I didn't know what to say. I think I nodded, finished my cappuccino and left quickly. To this day I have no idea if she was serious or yanking my chain.

I know what she means.

Where do chickens live? Chicken ......

What ryhmes with that word. Think of an event that happened here in thailand last year.

Sadness and loss feature much in buddist teachings. DUkka and sokaya, I BElieve it is in pali (is it sanskrit? I DOnt know)

Its what we feel when something dear to us is taken away

"Where do chickens live? Chicken ......

Why is this called drama ?

Should say magical birth on speedboat.

Why should it be called "magical"?

Is there ever an occasion in Thailand when police do NOT 'rush' to the scene?

Reading ThaiVisa, one would think, no.

Thai police really cannot win, can they? They were responding to a report of a murder, if they sauntered to the scene of the incident people like you would have a go at them for that also.

Reading Thaivisa one would think that it is populated solely by Thai bashing pedants, no?

Get jealous, kill wife. Formula well known in LOS. It would appear that many (if not most) Thai men have the emotional maturity of a 12 year old.

I don't think that you'll find many 12 year olds' killing as a result of jealousy but you will find that many forum posters have a cerebral maturity level similar to that and post nonsense quite regularly particularly in respect of Thai people, men or otherwise.

Good.

Now go cleanup all the other Sois.

I stay on Suk Soi 20 when in Bangkok and have not gotten a ride in years. Have to walk all the way to Sukhumvit to get a ride.

Every one of them is a criminal posing as a taxi driver.

If this happens to you, you can contact the Land Transport Department Hotline on 1584.

You need to make a note of the license plate or the number painted on the door, taxi colour and the time and place of the incident.

The driver will receive a 1,000Bt fine for every complaint when he renw=ews his yearly permit.

"I stay on Suk Soi 20 when in Bangkok and have not gotten a ride in years. Have to walk all the way to Sukhumvit to get a ride. Every one of them is a criminal posing as a taxi driver."

As an example of unjustified over-exaggeration and generalisation this nonsense takes the biscuit.

You are full of crap my friend.

Walk out of any hotel on Soi 20 and try to get a taxi to use a meter.

Impossible.

There goes the last remnants of your credibility, the only ones that are full of it are the ones that make statements like yours when those statements are blatantly untrue.

It is not impossible to find a taxi in that soi that will use the meter, I know, I've lived there.

BKK taxi drivers late at night are scum. They prey on tourists.

Or to be more accurate, a very small percentage of them are.

Good.

Now go cleanup all the other Sois.

I stay on Suk Soi 20 when in Bangkok and have not gotten a ride in years. Have to walk all the way to Sukhumvit to get a ride.

Every one of them is a criminal posing as a taxi driver.

If this happens to you, you can contact the Land Transport Department Hotline on 1584.

You need to make a note of the license plate or the number painted on the door, taxi colour and the time and place of the incident.

The driver will receive a 1,000Bt fine for every complaint when he renw=ews his yearly permit.

"I stay on Suk Soi 20 when in Bangkok and have not gotten a ride in years. Have to walk all the way to Sukhumvit to get a ride. Every one of them is a criminal posing as a taxi driver."

As an example of unjustified over-exaggeration and generalisation this nonsense takes the biscuit.

Sounds as though he had a heart attack............but.....anyway, he's in hospital and a warning to others that venture into the hot spring water.......

It's a joke right??

Sounds like anything but. The quote from the doctor explained what happened to the man.

Three minutes later?

Yes, that's what it said, it probably doesn't take long to get an umbrella and it takes even less time to drown.

Hmmm, "float" that method of committing suicide past me again.

Something not quite right here or am I just overly suspicious?

You're just an overly suspicious conspiracy theorist.

I just can't get past the bad English in the headline.

You can't get past the bad English what? Do you mean (what you perceive to be) the bad English grammar?

TAT at its exaggerating best. Within hours of the festival ending they can quote an estimated revenue.

It doesn't take long to estimate that 100,000 people spending, say, on average, 2,000 baht will generate 200m baht. Can be done in 30 seconds easily.