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The Thai guy was also fighting, you levied all blame at the Frenchman & have ignored the video evidence. I understand you want to apply balance and present a non-distorted opinion to counter what you believe are anti-Thai comments…. But, identifying that the media report leads with a false bias is not anti-Thai… the Thai guy was also fighting - that is the balance.

You just admitted to attempting to balance the scales…. In your view if you present a bias comment to counter an opposing bias comment believing it provides some balance !!!! It doesn’t… it just adds another unbalanced & bias comment. IF you can’t see that the Thai guy was also fighting and you are suggesting the French guy is 100% at fault - you are not balancing any scales… you’re just coming across as anti-foreigner…. Just as you did in another thread where your supposed ‘balance’ was anti-British. Your views which you claim offer balance clearly originate from a mind with an underlying agenda.

Both reengaged the fight when they could have walked away.

Was the Frenchman getting charged for DUI ? The report suggests they couldn’t as he was drinking later when they found him so couldn’t test him. What about the second French man? What crime dud he commit ? Or was he the fighter? Driving at night with red plates ? Is there actually a written law on that ?….. I’ve always understood it to be a myth…. Same as leaving the province…. The only regulation I know if is that the brown book must be filled in for the journey.

It’s an impossible task…. In some threads we see the foreigner doing wrong & blast him / her. In other threads we saw a Thai doing wrong & blast him / her. in this case the story has been misreported with bias from the offset heavily loading opinion against the Frenchman and painting the Thai guy as an innocent victim of an unprovoked attack. Highlighting that the Thai man is also complicit for his seemingly willing involvement in the fight as shown by the video does not present an ongoing hatred against Thai people, that’s just your profiting & bias shining through. Highlighting that the Thai man is also complicit for his seemingly willing involvement in the fight Is simply doing that… nothing more than pointing out ‘it took two to tango’…. Its also worth pointing out what appears to be an unbalanced response from the refusing bail when in similar & worse cases a Thai is afforded bail - perhaps the very point that foreigners present an elevated flight risk accounts for this.

Actually, they need to sit in a jail a few years for this violent attack. They need to be kept out of society for a while before being sent home and blacklisted. They??? You saw two French guys attacking the Thai guy without any provocation? Did you see the video at all? It was a fight, both parties guilty of poor behaviour… why such harsh judgement for the second French guy who did nothing ? The fight itself looked like a ‘tit for tat’ fair fight until the Frenchman landed a solid punch & the Thai guy fell hitting his head… it could have easily gone the other way….. …. at one point the Frenchman walked away and the Thai guy reengaged into the fight, then tried to run away & the French guy landing that final punch. All I see here are two guys behaving like utter idiots fighting… & no second French guy doing anything.

I think you made your point. Either you just trying to antagonise everybody here with your stupid defence of the French Thug or you are are indeed one of these foreigners living here who constantly look down on the locals and behave like the master race and behave like thugs. stop being a bell and move on from repeating the same over and over. My comments present no bias in highlighting the point with evidence that two people were fighting. If you think that is defending the Frenchman it is your bias which needs addressing. Nationality should not come into this issue at all…. Two guys getting into a fight. You have now brought further anti-foreigner bias into this discussion with some dumb & distorted master-race comment and suggestions that those of us who see a Thai also fighting are looking down on Thai’s…. That’s your bias again & needs calling out like the other unbalanced anti-forigner comments.

The ‘other person who knows everything’ says it was an unprovoked attack after she said the car was nice…. ….. are we suddenly believing everything we read or are told ?

Rich daddy That’s your only understanding of how someone in their 30’s can own something like a Porsche ?

If he was attacked defending himself doesn't make him a willing participant That depends how you define ‘willing’ & ‘reluctant’…. Walking towards someone who’s turning away to kick them perhaps exemplifies a little more than ‘reluctance’…. … anger, revenge, whatever the reason… the Thai guy also kicked out… it wasn’t defense, he wasn’t cornered… he was fighting…. No one deserved the outcome… just two silly men loosing their sense… I hope the Thai guy fully recovers, & I hope the French guy isn’t treated unfairly because he’s not Thai…. Any penalty should be the same as that any Thai guy gets under the same circumstances…

People travel all the time for triathlons etc… this is no different… We’ve brought in bicycles (for my son so a bit smaller), boxed up… … push-chairs, child car-seats, skiis… Just package it like it’s not new & you’ll be fine. Excess baggage etc is a different matter….

Good… it is only when officials are held accountable for their failure to protect the populace in allowing continued corruption that things may improve… Its is the very absence of this accountability which enables the safety shortcuts, the payoffs, the signing off on unlicensed venues, the back hander for the inspection certifications etc…. Endemic throughout society, corruption only lines the pockets of those in these positions, those who swan through life on a wave of entitlement targeting their opportunities to profit from thr shortcuts they offer…, Will anything change???… we hope, for the protection of the innocent.

Agreed… the wife ( of the Thai guy in ICU ) has clearly fabricated some utter BS and the media fell for it…. …… no one attacks ppl because they said their car is nice !!!

No we don’t know that at all…. That is just dumb s#!t you just made up. …..‘something’ happened, as yet the trigger is unclear, there was a fight… the Thai guy lost. The incident appears to have been misreported….. but the French guy is definitely responsible for his part in the Thai guy ending up in ICU. He deserves the same punishment a Thai would face in the same circumstances.

The people of a lot of nations do….. The disabled are more often than not considered a burden here. That is slowly changing. Try at a hospital for the disabled badge, I recall reading in another thread that they do exist. Additionally, just park in the disabled spot anyway… you are visibly disabled so no social justice warriors will complain to you.

Have you watched the video? …. it was a fight between two guys… not a savage unprovoked attack… he didn’t stamp on his head, use a knife or glass him savagely in the face…. The Thai guy fell hitting his head badly after getting hit… very unfortunate…. But it was a fight between two guys, not a savage attack. The video shows the Thai guy kicking out twice & the French man hitting & kicking him back…. What occurred before this point is not clear.

The media has reported the incident as an ‘unprovoked attack’ & distributed a clipped video which lends towards a bias and untrue view of events. The longer but still clipped video shows what appears to be a fair ‘fight’ between two adults… What this story really needs is a video & information of what occurred leading up to the fight….. instead the media run with the injured Thai’s Wife’s version of events which paint the ‘Thai fighter’ a saint & the ‘French fighter’ a villain…. Something is clearly being kept back, we don’t have the full story. Maybe the police do, so why have they only released this incomplete information to the media… Was there an earlier impact / collision which triggered the incident ?

Dumb post…. Visitor or otherwise no one should behave like that…. The Thai guy was also fighting, he doesn’t need to abide by the same rules you expect the foreigner to abide by ?

The intentions of what is being discussed is incorrect. The French guy didn’t ‘put’ the Thai guy in ICU…. Not in the manner which is being discussed here… the consequence was not an intention…. It was a simply a very unfortunate consequence of two guys getting into a fight. It could have been the French guy who fell very badly hitting his head on the curb stone. The Thai guy was extremely unlucky to fall in such a manner.

It’s on asean now… the other pruning thread… can watch the vid embedded ( can on iPad anyway). The vid shows the Thai exchanging punches & kicks with one of the French guys and completely contradicts the ‘unprovoked attack’ false reporting. Why the second French guy was also arrested us just odd… he’s just a bystander.

If the French guy stayed in France…. The Thai guy wouldn’t be in ICU if he didn’t fight…. He is also complicit & not the innocent victim some are making him out to be. Both parties were fighting each other. Both behaved very poorly… both responsible. An extreme and unlucky outcome which could have gone either way with a lucky punch or kick.

Both stopped to fight, neither were defending themselves, both were the aggressors exchanging kicks & punches…. What happened before this is unclear. The media is calling this an unprovoked attack… the video shows two guys fighting each other… There’s more to this story….. unless the French guys really dud attack a guy because ‘his wife said something nice’ ….. hmmmm…. I don’t believe that for a second.

Post a link The video posted by ‘solidad90’ is on the 5th page of this linked thread… (can’t copy & post that vid here for some reason). The video shows both the French & the Thai guy getting into it…..

Agreed… one punch, hit his head on the ground. Both guys were fighting, could have easily been the other way around. Its stupid to allow any situation to escalate.

Thai guy got off his motorcycle too…. The fight looks to be both guys behaving aggressively.