richard_smith237

18 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

3 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  Unpleasant comment .

They weren't aware that he was about to die , also, it hasn't be shown yet that it was the drunk that killed him 

Did you join them or how do you know?😳

‘cos its in the same manner that tens of thousands socialise in Thailand & millions socialise worldwide.

It’s quite normal to stay out until 4-5am when young - unless you don’t have friends !!! (Which would explain plenty of your comments). 

To suggest the GF & friend ‘watched him drink himself to death’ is a callous and unpleasant remark… Nick is right (whether his comments in other threads are disagreeable or not). 

2 hours ago, Brave-Fart said:

Friends and girl-friend all I would presume were with him and therefore also drinking , so why did they now suffer same or similar symptoms ?

This is what is remarkably odd - if there is any poisoning of sorts from the booze itself it’s likely other’s would also have suffered ill health. 
 

4 minutes ago, bannork said:

Unfortunately some posters don't seem to accept the first sentence in your post above.

Anyone, any military force is capable of lying to protect themselves - I think that is simple common sense to understand that.

Its also simple common sense to understand that Hamas are not playing by any rules, ones under which the IDF are being judged.

There certainly is no moral highground here, but I can understand why an IDF attacked an approaching ambulance. I can also believe the ambulance did contain a Hamas terrorist.

People are asking for verifiable proof / evidence etc..  which is impossible when they can turn around and simply say the IDF was lying.

There is a lot of heightened bias involved whenever viewing such events - the optics are often highly distorted, particularly by the varying media sources - they are then simplified and dumbed down in discussion forums such as this were bias takes precedence. 

Its clear in this thread that we have 'some' very anti Israeli posters and some others who are expressing an understand of why and how this may have happened.

I don't think anyone is Anti-Palestine, but Hamas muddy those waters incredibly so its impossible for anyone, intelligence forces, IDF, the Media or ourselves to know whether Hamas have masked themselves as Palestinians, and, as mentioned, in the 'fog of war' mistakes will be made... 

I'm sure the IDF operated from the perspective that its better to be wrong than dead when mere second are available for decisions to be made.

34 minutes ago, bannork said:

Unfortunately some posters on here who support Israel will never, ever admit the IDF are capable of lying. 

Its obvious that the IDF are capable of lying.

Its also obvious that Hamas have been using ambulances as transport and this is also a key factor, as is the fact that the IDF had already been involved in a fire-fight.

This has occurred in what could be described as the fog of war.

Smoke and mirrors - I doubt we will ever know the exact truth.

- Did this ambulance contain Hamas terrorists ?

- Was this a genuine ambulance ?

- Have the IDF made a terrible mistake and are now covering their tracks ?

What I do see in this thread are comments where 'sides' have been taken with refusal to understand that both sides are somewhat 'muddied'.

Its difficult for us (onlookers) to know what intelligence the IDF had at the time, if any.

But, its also understandable why, in such zone of heightened alert that such a situation can occur - ignoring this shows the extreme opinions rather than seeking truth.

Hamas are still holding hostages.

IDF appear to have made a mistake

The Ambulance 'may' have been carrying at least one terrorist.

54 minutes ago, 2long said:

While reading the start of the report I thought it sounded a bit 'pro Thai van driver' and was about to comment that we don't know what happened 'before the merging' and how the van driver had been behaving.

then I watched the clip and OMG. that roid thug really is a nasty piece of work, and if the locals don't find and get to him first, the legal system will.

 

I'm not generally one to jump on the band wagon, but this prick needs to be taught a lesson.

Similar thoughts here - we have the 'van drivers story'...   and they [van drivers] are rather notorious for their reckless driving.

... But then, like you I watched the video and there is simply no excusing the foreigners escalation... Firstly to cut off the van driver and stop in front of him and then to get out and escalate to violence. 

They'll catch the foreigner (from his license plate), this will cost him.

2 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

I guess she could just get a new passport and even change her first name.

Nope..  Biotmetrics - she'd have to also change her DOB, her Nationality, her name for that to potentially work.

1 hour ago, SingAPorn said:

What about those automated gated ? Last time I was directed to exit immigration on departure thru those automated gates. No check or stamp. So that gives an open option for the immigration fellow on next visit to start to make a fuss and falsely claim I have overstayed ? The more it goes, the more tourists never wish to come back to Thailand if it's just to get harassed or cheated all over.

A completely flawed comment which highlights a complete lack of understanding. 

Your comments suggests the immigration system in Thailand is antiquated and analogue relying 'only' on passport stamps and that Immigration are using e-gates to 'catch people out and profit'...  which isn't the case at all.

All details are registered in the Immigration database - every entry and exit is logged digitally whether using the e-gates or a 'desk'....

4 minutes ago, thongplay said:

If these routes are not safe for Songkran they are not safe any day. If these measures are necessary for Songkran they are necessary every day.

Similar to years gone past when an announcement has been made that riding in the back of a pickup is illegal and such laws will be enforced over Songkran... 

.. Then a backlash from the public as they claim the poor are being targeted...   

A further announcement is then made that its ok to ride in the back of a pickup, but only over the Songkran period - no further announcements and the flat bed of a pickup remains standard 'seating' for the extended family and friends... 

These simple issues and the manner in which they are addressed highlights Thailands haphazard almost absent minded approach towards road safety.

51 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

+1 from me

 

This thread is just an invitation for some to ‘Russian-bash’…. 

 

Just to make it clear - the relevance of the overstay has more significance than the nationality….

That’s a long overstay for someone so young - he surely knew what he was doing…

But..  this is of interest: 

1 hour ago, Georgealbert said:

led by Police Colonel Thanissorn Sangthanak, conducted a routine inspection in areas known for housing foreign nationals at risk of overstaying.

There are areas known for overstayers ?

Really ? 
 

Another Malcy faring bash….

Also covered in the thread below…

As for why… some ‘people’ are just idiots…    all nationalities, foreign & Thai…

What can ‘we’ do ? (as in the general foreign community)…..  

Ans: Continue to behave politely & respectfully… that includes not drink-driving etc… 

20 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

I could send you screen shots but I think it might be against forum rules, and obviously unethical.

i didn’t claim within days but it was early on. 

Haha.. of course !!! 
 

The irony of you, an openly admitted drunk driver, drug abuser & monger attempting to ascend the moral high ground with claims of ethical standards cannot be understated !!

12 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

in your blinkered view of the world that never happens.

But some of accept that it does happen,

 

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2025/04/07/crazed-foreigner-terrifies-locals-scottish-man-attacks-shop-owner-his-wife-and-children-in-phuket/

 

Interesting to hear your spin on this one.

I’ve already given my opinion (no narrative comment below)

Anyone who reads the news accepts there are idiot foreigners who misbehave. 
 

Link to as many stories as you like - there are some idiot ayhole ‘people’ in Thailand, both foreigners and Thai’s…  outside of Thailand too….

Your view is binary - Foreigners bad - Thais good - you fail at any level to see balance instead choosing myopic & delusional bias.

None of that impacts the perspective that something is missing from the build up in this story (this thread) & you are either too blind, too dumb or deliberately ignoring this. 

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

No narrative - a lot of foragers in Pattaya are utter tools, they drink drive, act out, are idiot bigots, treat Thai's with exceptional levels of disrespect....   There is no narrative from anyone (myself included) that suggest this does not occur too frequently. 

9 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

Yes, the foreigner started it.

The foreigner walked up to two Thai's, and out of the blue, for no reason whatsoever simply started assaulting them...  

No trigger point, no lead up, no dispute and nothing happened before the video started... 

... the foreigner just walked up to Thai's and for no reason whatsoever started on them because he felt like it..  

9 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

Clear as day, video evidence backed up by witnesses, sorry it doesn’t fit with your drunken foreigners in Pattaya are always innocent t narrative.

No narrative - a lot of foragers in Pattaya are utter tools, they drink drive, act out, are idiot bigots, treat Thai's with exceptional levels of disrespect....   There is no narrative from anyone (myself included) that suggest this does not occur too frequently. 

But, it is also fairly clear that events such as this (shown in your video) have a trigger point - something that led to someone turning on their phone and start filming....

I don't believe even the most stupid of trolls can truly believe the videos show the whole story, 

Drowning is the leading cause of death of children in Thailand up to 15 years of age and it has been for quite some time.

This fact alone should flag something in government that basic but key safety skills need to be taught in all schools.

1) Water Safety

2) Road Safety

3) Electrical Safety

'nearly' every person in Thailand will be near a water hazard at some point in their life, will be on the road in their life, and be exposed to substandard electrics at some point in their life...   

These key lessons would be far more important than many other things taught in schools.

2 minutes ago, SMIAI said:

Or @richard_smith237 he could just be winding you up deliberately.

He's clearly been trying to do that for over year already...  

I've got an hour to kill... sometimes its just entertaining to get involved while chilling at home... 

7 minutes ago, SMIAI said:

@richard_smith237

 

To be fair, they are getting precisely the reaction from you that they wanted. That's the point of baiting and trolling. To get a reaction. Better to counter them with intelligence. 

These fools are incapable of engaging in anything resembling intelligent discourse. Instead, they contort facts like cheap circus performers, bending reality to fit their own pathetic, self-serving rhetoric.

There is clearly a glaring absence of information regarding the trigger point in this incident - anyone with half a functioning brain can see it. But these intellectually bankrupt cretins rush to lap up every scrap of media narrative like obedient little dogs, never stopping to question the gaping holes in the story. Critical thinking? Utterly foreign to them.

The original news commentary either deliberately omits or is too incompetent to capture what actually sparked the situation. But rather than ask the obvious questions, these deluded simpletons swallow it whole - blind, brainwashed, and utterly pathetic.

To miss such an obvious gap in the narrative isn’t just careless, it’s staggeringly stupid. It's either a sign of wilful ignorance, unhinged delusion, or a bias so corrosive it’s eaten away whatever shreds of objectivity they may have once had.

2 minutes ago, Dan O said:

I never said that so don't be a retard.

 

There was interaction before that short video clip to start with. It wasn't just 1 thai fighting with the fat foreigner, there were at least three if you even watched the video. But none of that fits your narrative and we know you cant ever admit when your wrong.

He’ll twist, distort, and outright lie about anything you write if it doesn’t prop up his tired, blinkered rhetoric. It’s like watching a malfunctioning parrot squawk the same nonsense over and over.

This inability to process even the simplest information without injecting his frothing, delusional bias reeks of something seriously wrong upstairs.

We’re not talking about a minor lapse in judgment — this is full-blown mental rot masquerading as opinion.

Yes, obviously - blindingly obviously - the foreigner in the video behaved like a complete idiot. No one is defending him. No one. But it takes more than a rabid keyboard warrior to pretend that’s the entire story.

Anyone not suffering from terminal idiocy can see there's a gaping hole in the narrative - the 'trigger point' is conspicuously absent. But acknowledging that would require critical thinking, and for this clown, that's clearly asking far too much. He doesn’t want the truth - he only wants to troll with his delusions to fuel whatever festering little fantasy he’s living in.

5 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

No but you might want to listen to the eye witness interview and you will see how wrong you are.

You, Richard and Dan were not there and are just making things up to suit your own biased narratives as usual. And then if anyone disagrees with your anti Thai chorus you accuse me of trolling which is ironic.

The eye witnesses blamed Fatty Farang. 

Of course, the eye witness statements are 100% reliable...  or someone of your bias certainly believes so...   No person in such a situation ever misrepresented the facts or truth, right ?

It has been said by everyone - the foreigner behaved terribly...  You are refusing to accept that the Thai guys 'also' behaved terribly.

You 'wish' to believe that the foreigner attacked the Thai guys for no reason, with no provocation and that the Thai guys were simply innocent victims.

Your delusion & your bias is extremely idiotic - no surprises.

16 minutes ago, SMIAI said:

All this you deliberately ignore in your attempt to bait and troll. 

Do I need to read nationalist comments on Facebook from people who weren't there?

4 minutes ago, Dan O said:

Exactly my point. If you dont see the whole interaction you can't judge from a short video on what actually happened or what instigated the conflict. The media's job is to get readers so they tend to sensationalise everything to accomplish that goal. 

100% – 'the' dim-witted little troll has only one pathetic goal: to spew negativity. He’s clearly nursing some warped obsession with slandering foreigners in Thailand, like a broken record.

Yes, everyone with a functioning brain recognises that some foreigners misbehave in Thailand — but the likes of MalcolmB, with their laughably one-eyed, brain-dead prejudice, can’t even begin to acknowledge that plenty of Thais behave atrociously too.

He clings to cropped, context-free videos like a drowning man to a twig, desperately flogging them in his twisted crusade. He latches onto any half-baked headline or offhand quote that supports his ridiculous narrative and parades it as gospel. It’s not just idiotic - it’s impressively stupid.

And... to be clear: while the foreigners in these videos should be called out for their actions, anyone with an ounce of critical thinking can see that the “trigger” - the part that actually explains what caused the incident - is suspiciously missing.

But not our frothing little friend. His bias is so rabidly entrenched that he’d deny the sun was out if a foreigner told him so.

Even more revealing? The thunderous silence from these bigoted clowns when it’s Thais attacking foreigners - suddenly they vanish, slinking away like cockroaches when the lights come on. Because acknowledging that doesn’t fit their bitter, hate-driven script. Its pathetic.

4 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

12 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Boomer comment - not really worth discussing.

 

 

Social media makes the information more available to us with videos etc - takes some mental discipline not to immediately believe everything we see and read. 

 

Overweight part - yep, I get your point... thats not a new thing, its just easier to eat poorly these days - too much cheap junk food about.

 

 

(nice try) I'm not sure about that - he wasn't drink driving.

It sounds like despite the video evidence of the farang starting it you are trying to blame the Thais?

You are consistent.

Underlying issues.

No it doesn't - it just reads as though I've outed your unhinged pile of utter rubbish yet again... 

Its clear to other posters that my comment was irrational and flawed.

As correctly stated by  Dan O (below)  - we have no idea what led up to the event, but we have every idea of your bias now, you've made your conclusions based solely on the video report without any critical thinking as to what may have happened leading up to the confrontation. 

As I wrote: it 'takes some mental discipline not to immediately believe everything we see and read' - in lieu of pushing your delusional rhetoric, you clearly have none.

3 hours ago, Dan O said:

You dont know if they were harmless or not as you weren't there and all you have to reference is a video and that doesn't show what really lead up to it. Im not condoning the fat guys actions but either way to come from behind and hit someone with a bottle in the head like he did was a pussy move. 

I completely agree with you Dan...  my comment outed the halfwits bias... 

52 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

I'm a bit confused by the OP.

Are there predictable and unpredictable quakes?

In simple terms no - with existing technology short-term predication of  a pending earthquake within months or even years is impossible. 

Probabilistic forecasting might tell us there is a xx% probability of >6 Mw magnitude earthquake occurring within the next 20 years etc...

2 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

I think there are more these days, weak spoilt upbringings and social media frying brains might be part of the reason. 

Boomer comment - not really worth discussing.

2 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

The farang was overweight so that indicates a spoilt upbringing or someone who can not control himself. 
 

I hope he has learned his lesson.

Social media makes the information more available to us with videos etc - takes some mental discipline not to immediately believe everything we see and read. 

Overweight part - yep, I get your point... thats not a new thing, its just easier to eat poorly these days - too much cheap junk food about.

2 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

Also it is Thailand, he might have imagined he had corrupt police friends so thinks he is above the law.

(nice try) I'm not sure about that - he wasn't drink driving.

21 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

Reported as being drunk and maybe on drugs.

Similar to the Brit who was throwing bottles of petrol and pushing Thai kids off motorbikes yesterday in Phuket.

They reported he was on drugs ?...  

There was a Brit throwing bottles (plural) and throwing kids (children) off motorbikes (plural) ?...    Agree though - a complete ayhole, a particularly extreme event even without your exaggeration.

21 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

A lot of idiots around these days.

Agreed - idiots have always been around...  of all nationalities, local and foreign  - I see them acting superior, or just rude, or drink driving etc... 

The drunk blond foreign woman dancing in the street as if this was a party after rolling the car (a couple of days ago) springs to mind.

21 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

It was in the report if you bothered to watch it.

Watched both videos...  no indication of what triggered the drunk drugged up violent foreign thug walk up to two innocent skinny Thai guys and just slap them for no reason...   

... must have been the meth he was on...  it happens...   just happened in Phuket with a Thai guy attacking a western woman - it was the drugs (no deflection - to quote you: << A lot of idiots around these days. >>)

1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

Drunk, speeding and apparently no seatbelt.  🤦‍♂️

The trifecta !

27 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

1 hour ago, Dan O said:

You have no idea what started the whole thing

I know what started this whole thing.

The Fat Farang hitting the Thai who was sitting down.

Any idea why the fat farang thug kicked off and slapped the two harmless innocent Thai guys across the face ?