RustBucket

I remember reading something about how Thailand is stepping up and strengthening measures to counter the spread of ebola and that it is safe, secure... blah blah blah. And the DDC releases someone without FIRST making sure he is NOT carrying/inflicted with the virus??? And then trust he will report to the department everyday? Thailand... how can you be so, so moronically stupid??? What IF he is in fact infected, and in between now and when he is discovered to be infected, has gone to places like Chatuchak market, Asiatique, Siam Paragon, Central World and... need I say more? Seriously... I am truly amazed how stupidity here knows no bounds. Amazing Thailand indeed.

I agree totally.

If he was running a high temperature, he should have not left the airport until his blood tests were clear. That would only take 24 hours so a minor inconvenience. Then and only then should he have been let out into the population.

If this guy does in fact have ebola symptoms, then this place is an absolute paradise for the disease to get out of control.

There are many ways to transmit it here, even just in restaurants for example. Coughing into his hand and then handing money over to the server to pay for his meal. The server then preps someone's salad. Or server picks up tissue that he has been wiping his mouth on with their bare hands and then continue to serve other people, prepare their food, hand change to others... etc.

If two US health care workers can pick it up which wearing protective equipment and personally sanitizing themselves, then just general contact is going to spread like wild-fire and that is before he walks to Cowboy or Nana.

He's got Ebola and he hasnt reported?

He's probably dead guys.

D'oh!!

Or

he never had it in the first place,

knows he has no symptoms

suspects the reason for the concern around him is his nationality............... and the hue of his skin.

Really?

Why was he singled out when he was travelling with 10 friends?

Probably because he was running a high temperature which is what they do to monitor it initially at the airports (including the US).

So chances are your attempt at the race card falls flat on its arse.

What colour people do you expect to travel from Sierra Leone?

<slaps forehead> ...when dealing with something so potentially serious and life threatening, why are people given a choice about whether they are detained?

Mind you, I guess the Thai's aren't so worried considering they have a cure for Ebola now. Not sure if it's actually been tested yet however or whether they just made it up.

They made it up.

Don't forget within days of the news breaking, they asked for 1 Bn baht for further development.

We all know the vast majority of the cash would have been 'absorbed' elsewhere.

We are living in a country that produces dozens of stupid schemes daily that all have a budget attached to them.

How else can they generate the flow of money to steal from?

Well well well - i guess most of us was wrong, looks like there are going to be some cleanup after all, good!

It will set a good example down the ranks. About time some of the big boys got named....

Let's hope the boys in green have the courage to clean up a bit in their own camp, as well

Yes... But this is probably an operation to relieve these cops of all their amassed fortunes to be distributed between the new boys on the block.

That is where all these assets will end up.

Same turd, different name.

How about 10 years in prison which will automatically mean they can't run as a candidate in the future.

So sad and unnecessary, all the death, destruction and harm. It's almost as senseless as killing a man for stepping on your shoe by mistake. If there's a gene for maturity, Thais got short-changed.

But it's all OK.... The Junta said all the problems in the south will be sorted within 12 months.

So everything will be fine and dandy I am sure.

I think they are facing a recession.

There is a big difference between reality and what the Junta are allowing to be released.

There is a severe drought bearing down on Thailand at the moment, that will have an impact and then we have ASEAN AEC coming onto effect and Thailand is not going to do well there.

Then we should safely be into a global economic recession when the USD collapses.

And don't forget that they saved Thailand spiraling out of control, that surely in the end would have led to a civil war.

Maybe that is what Thailand actually needs. A civil war.

It will be business as usual and an endless cycle of corruption ans demonstrating followed by coup, tearing up the constitution, trampling on the rights of people and on it goes. The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

One preferred eventuality rather than civil war would be a full on people's revolt. To show these political puppet master that the people are the ones with the real power.

But this is Thailand.... We will get much of the same once people get into power it goes straight to their head and doors open to massive wealth.

The trough will always have snouts in it, at the moment it is green dressed snouts.

Aren't there laws restricting alcohol sales now near hospitals, or such? I know on Sirimangkalajarn Road, near to Suthep Road there exists a 7-11 shop without BEER. The clerk told me 'too close to xxxx' and i think he said hospital, or mental hospital.

Really the only external method that could restrict alcohol sales would be massive taxes on every drop. Well worth it too, then funnel the revenue into education, etc. Another good idea comes from OZland where i hear of far-reaching and severe penalties for drink driving. One beer over the line and you are walking for 6 months. 2 over, walking one year. No escaping the penalties. I'm totally in favor of such near-draconian laws on alcohol and car usage.

I'm also somewhat sick of hearing all the moaning about the smoky haze caused by the farmers, and those health issues, raised by beer swilling expats sitting on the pub stools smoking the fags.

You can triple the cost of alcohol and ban cigarettes completely. It won't achieve anything at all.

They tried that in the UK and it failed there.

If people want to drink and smoke, they will.

It just drives the problem underground, and increases the illegal brewing which many police will have a stake in from collecting bribes to actually having these places run on their behalf.

Thisis Thailand. Your measures don't even work in the real world let alone this bloody world we find ourselves in.

Also the big business who drive the drink and fag industries here have so much influence at government level and line far too many influential pockets under the table your so called cure is not even remotely likely.

Also it is not fair on those of us who drink responsibly. You obviously don't drink or smoke,,,, Don't speak for the rest of us. Some of us still beleive in freedom of choice whether you like it or not.

He was clearly a potential whistle blower.... end of.

Almost in all transfers you get the reason, this time you didn't and now the guy is dead.

2+2=4

Seems like Pol General Chatchawal Suksomjit has just seen 'Shawshank Redemption'.

Money is going to change hands between certain big private firms and certain influential figures in the prison and justice system.

Nothing to do with human trafficking at all.

Are they going to post convicted ladyboys along Walking Street? Seeing the sex industry is rife with forced sex slavery.

I can see that the Thais are really intimidated by the new Pattaya beach law enforcement / crime suppression units.

Are you joking me or what?

I had two of those buzzing around me a few weeks ago. I hate em... Didn't realize they could kill.

Yes and by the way, we sell packing boxes for a stupidly high price.

(Compared with the west).

And foreigners wonder why some Thai dont like em... Seen this happen all to often..

Really?

First time I heard a story of a blatant attempted full on rape of a flight attendant anywhere in the world.... You must live in a whacky place if you see this all to often.

if all reporting correct sounds like a right loser what a tosser

I would not say these were the actions of a drunk person.

These actions are much more in line with someone who is totally mentally ill.

I have never known a degree of drunkeness that would compell anyone to do that. The alcohol required to engage in such a blatant crime is way more than enough to render you totally unconscious.

Is it possible that this is a counteraction story concocted to balance out the attempted rape of the Venezuelan girl in Kiri Khan?

Sorry but this just seems far too bizarre to be true.

yes doctor may i leave now ??

Only if you get my point.

But many on here will claim they have been smashed out of their skulls enough to easily do something like attempted rape of a cabin crew member on a plane full of passengers.

Sorry but many years of drinking and sometimes plastered and I wouldn't and couldn't do this without some sort of complete mental breakdown.... If it actually happened at all.

Not sure why exsoldier would be used to describe the molestor/thief. The object of the attack (lady) was reported as being from Venenezuela where was the attacker/thief from?

Considering he was an ex-soldier, then I would assume he was from Thailand.

Pretty sure Burmese can't enlist.

But anyway.... Seems that rape/murder of tourists is becoming quite a common Thai passtime with Thais. Maybe it is the loud message the RTP are sending out via the KT case and the lack of desire to build a case against five Thais who admitted murdering a German on Samui etc etc etc..... That is is fine to try your hand against a farang, it is more likely you will at worst come up against a police force and establishment with little desire to punish Thais in case it confirms to the world that there is a problem.

Typical Thai.... head in sand = problem doesn't exist.

Let's see what happens to this guy.... Oh wait, we will never find out. This story will be hushed up on orders from the junta.