it's an Island, everything is more expensive, not sure about full of scammers..can you give a personal example?, but yeah, many people so 'out of it', they can end up falling in storm drains, drown, crash bikes. Unfortunate, but they are a minority
So, the Snopes 'fact check' is that it's the entrance gate and not to an empty lot?? regardless of gate or lot, she is still dolled up, clinging to the fence with crocodile tears for the 'photo shoot'.... just capturing her at the right moment.... oh and not a Child in sight!
what ever happened to the good ol' 'kids in cages' like trump era? are there any rep's there, dressed in white, clinging onto the fencing like AOC did for a photo shoot😎
showing you age there keith, people got there as
A, it's part of the backpacker route
B, it's the cheapest place to get your open water diving cert
C, it's an idyllic island to get IG photos, pissed out of your brain & laid!
very few at a guess. the Island will not suffered in any way from this news and didnt from previous sensationalised stories, kids don't care and if anything it's put the Island on the map for older crowd with families.
if you look at the thread here about the burmese guys appeal you will find a link in there to a uk site regarding Theos body being found, i believe it was the mail online who ran the story back then, maybe the 1st or 2nd April. i cannot remember exactly, feel free to check.
i have tried a few searches but nothing comes up. it would be a lot easier if you posted a link, i've been on & off Tao since 2003 and not once heard of a policemans being shot at the pier. i think perhaps you got mixed up with somewhere else.
i didnt spend any time in NZ, but when in Aus people would get refused entry to places if they looked too drunk, mind you, when backpacking we did get through a few goonbags a night, but never anywhere near Thailand levels.
the island has been extremely busy since before Christmas, 10's of thousands of people come n gone. this is the only death i've heard of in that time, well, there have been numerous motorbike deaths mostly alcohol related. and lots of emergency evacuations to samui hospital,.
nothing has been kept under wraps, it was reported on 2 days after it happened, there was already a thread about it here, it's between the family and embassy and respect should be given to them until the autopsy is done or investigation concluded.
he wasn't stuffed in anywhere, it is an open stormwater drain, quite a large one too, that is an over active imagination on your part!! there is nothing official to say he even had a phone with him for it to be missing.