Jonathan Swift

Thailand's version of "Florida man . . . "

Umm, because there are laws that say so?

He likely had some arrangement in place before he made his plans

"They carefully removed the stainless-steel device, providing the much-needed relief". Ummm, "relief"?

And that is the definition of predatory lending.

vanity, status are not limited to Thailand

Oh, so humane of you to sympathize with these murderers. Will you be contributing to their defense then? If there is so much of this terrible injustice and it bothers you so much why are you here? It's their country. They have every right and justification to delegate their priorities as they see fit with regard to foreigners who commit crimes without explaining to you. Plus, you don't know what goes on behind the scenes, the stories that don't make the papers. A crime by a foreigner is news by its very nature. They are often international criminals. Crimes by Thais are not necessarily priority news. How much of what you think is unfair is simply the news media making its own choices? But wasn't there a Thai woman who poisoned a bunch of people? Did the police do their jobs on that one? Kind of proves you wrong, doesn't it? Plenty more examples which you conveniently ignore when you whine about "injustice".

I used to do this in the US, it varies somewhat country to country. As I recall you can put the name of your contact at your hotel and the hotel phone number for person inviting you. I think I used to use a lady friend and her phone number, even if I didn't know her number, I think I used the phone number for my apartment. A lot of times you have to guess at what to put in. You can even make stuff up sometimes. There is no real reason why you won't get it, but if there is any issue they should contact you and inform you what is needed. Thailand is uniquely straddling extremely modern culture as well as extremely backward artifacts. Something to be mindful of ahead of time. As an example, when I file my 90 day report online fully half of the form's lines are left blank, and it goes through like that. In another case, when I had to enter the type of retirement visa, which was non-O, I had to enter OA for the form to progress. Good luck and have fun, cheers.

"the growing needs of tourists." haha. I think we know what will be growing.

Is he doing this to intimidate Russian refugees fleeing forced military service? Methinks so.

This is the guy threatening the west with tactical nukes.

Trying to get away with such a crime in the land of CCTV. Not too smart.

Must've been a blσσdy mess - ugh, the horror

Depending on which Thai dialect

I advise people tp go online perhaps Lazada or Shopee and look for repellent with the highest possible level of DEET. I wouldn't trust that 7-11 stuff. I brought my own from the US, high concentration made for hunters and campers. It's a little smelly, not in a real bad way, but it works very dependably.

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The problem arises from the breeding areas, standing water, probably the canals, swamps and ponds, rice paddies. Myself, I would question the toxicity of the insecticide used, but might be worth the risk. If they spray they'd have to do it multiple times in the day since windows are usually open and allow them in all day. But I defer to the professionals, I'm sure they already know how to approach this, it's not like it's a new thing. In the US there is a program where thousands of genetically engineered sterile males are released and the females then lay unviable eggs. This has proven successful.

Horrible thing for his poor family.

Which is precisely the point

Within certain limitations there are still always choices and possibilities. You'll never know what your opportunities might be if you don't explore each and every possibility.

You don't know the details, and you can't trust sources like this. For example, they may have added all the sentences together for the sake of dramatization in this article. You also don't know the specific law and how it reads. You may be right, maybe not.

He's obviously old enough to have known better. I feel bad for his suffering, but come on, did he not know about drugs and Thai prisons? Why take those kind of chances? I knew about it long before I came here, and I wouldn't at the time (10 years ago) even go near anyone smoking weed.

Funny thing about that brown envelope cliché, I was getting paperwork at my bank and they put it in a big brown envelope and so I said to the teller, "ohhh, brown envelope, dee mak" and pretended to hand it under the counter, and she completely cracked up - I had wondered if they knew.

In today's world amputees begin rehab relatively soon since it helps with the overall recovery and result. The longer a person is off their feet the longer it takes to recover. Meanwhile bear in mind that these stories are not written by medically educated people who then make their own interpretations of what is said

The original story discloses that the guy has made a small fortune doing this, and it's quite likely that suddenly everyone now wants to wet their beak. We all know that porn sells, every Thai person knows there's a cottage industry here for it and that most hotels are brimming with porn creators, he must have committed a big blunder to attract the wrong kind of attention. Could be he picked the wrong hotel to do this, could be he copped an attitude toward the manager, maybe made a ridiculous amount of noise, could be he should have cleared it through the manager first and cut him in for a brown envelope. I don't think he's at any real risk, but now the gov't has a poster boy to make an example of and present this as a show case for the sake of tourism. I think they'll look at his income numbers, demand receipts and tax returns, bank account balances, and then come up with an appropriate "fine" with no further jail sentence, he may be deported or banned, or maybe not, maybe they'll want him to continue to bring them more revenue.