Jonathan Swift

Angry at anyone and everyone who is happier than old "grumpy" will ever be.

How fortunate for the rest of us that you know so much about someone whom you've never met or even heard of prior to this story. You're no doubt an award winning biographer. Please do enlighten us with further details about this man's life and deeds. And your sensitivity and compassion are equally impressive and exemplary. So what have all the "greenie nutters" ever done to you to inspire such bile and venom? Did someone plant a tree in your yard without your permission? And what makes you so sure this man belonged to that particular club? Perhaps it's just a matter of you can't stand anyone who is of better character or might be enjoying life more than you are.

It was probably easy for the cops to trace the phone using the mobile network

Statute of limitations applies to time of arrest, not to people who have been already charged and escape. Otherwise anyone who ever fled prosecution could easily run out the clock.

Do you REALLY need this 'splained to you? Simple: Looks better in photos - more normal and less like an actual criminal. You know, doing the "perp walk" with or without cuffs?

Do you understand what a dictionary is? No, it's not racism. A nationality is not a race. Every country has laws that specifically regulate non citizen foreigners. There is no hate involved here. Thailand is not declaring any "race" to be inferior or undeserving of respect and decency. Foreigners are not broadly entitled to be treated the same as Thais under all circumstances. I've been here 10 years and have never seen or experienced any actual example of racism personally. I've seen Thai people who resent or don't like foreigners, but that's not racism, I can understand why they feel that way. Where I'm from, Hartford CT USA, racism abounds like an overflowing toilet splattering on everyone and everything. If you've never seen such things count yourself lucky. Maybe that's why you don't understand the meaning of the word - you've never actually seen the real thing. Thailand has the right to make laws as it sees fit, in spite of whiners who for some reason remain here in spite of all their complaints about imaginary racism. If laws are seen as two tiered or discriminatory, that doesn't mean they're racist. Again, consult your dictionary. It's how Thailand sees and deals with its problems regarding foreigners. I've seen way more dangerous driving by foreigners, way more accidents, Thai motorbike drivers actually know what they're doing even if it looks reckless to the uninformed eye (you). So with all of your nonsense, I'm thinking that you're likely an entitled white supremacist projecting your own venom and racism onto a culture you don't understand. No? Well that's what you sound like. Keep that in mind next time you want to cry "racism". When someone burns a cross or hangs a noose in your front yard then you can cry racism.

Sooner or later Darwin will take care of this guy. which is sad if in fact he is mentally ill.

Speaking of imagining things, your comment is pure baseless fiction. I'm from the US, 66 years. The cops in the US are actually attacking trans people and making their lives miserable. They're getting away with it. There is no predatory theft and violence being committed by trans people in the US like in Thailand, so there is no equivalency whatsoever. If it WAS a problem no one would complain about them being detained for probable cause. So the US cops ARE a problem. And cops who violate people's rights ARE getting sued, and rightfully so. Lawsuits aren't the problem. HUMAN rights are the problem. It's the right wing and white supremacists in the US who are threatening, ostracizing, assaulting, and murdering transgender and gay people in the US. The right wing congress is fostering and promoting malicious homophobia and violence against LGBTQ people. You might want to avoid commenting with your imaginary scenarios which are based on little or no real information, and certainly you ought not comment on countries which you haven't lived in and seen first hand. And if you happen to be American, then you should know better and ought to be ashamed. Meanwhile no harm is actually coming to these Thai ladyboys, unlike in the US. Hope I've clarified a few things for you, but I'm not holding my breath. I suggest you educate yourself a bit more, it might help.

A man in his 70s needing surgery. Right. Hard to believe.

Because it's how the game is played - for show. There are many layers to this, many players. Surely you don't expect them to be honest and above board?

Much worse than bad taste. You must think the holocaust is a regular riot. That you would even think, let alone write such a thing shows you to be a calloused, insensitive a------ . Do us all a favor and leave the country.

How do you know he hasn’t done that? You spoke to him or the police?

You have two Southeast Asian cultures whose leaders stole from them. From that you conclude "Asian people are blind to people that rob them". So it's because the people are stupid, is that it? Is that supposed to represent logic? 2 + 2 = 5? What, are those leaders supposed to fully disclose what they do? Seriously? Meanwhile most other cultures have had leaders who do the same thing, some a little more under the radar than others, most never get caught and are purposefully invisible to the general public. USA included. The US Supreme Court has recently been exposed as corrupt and beholden to billionaires. But it's because the American people are blind, right? You possess the classic mind of a bigot, to whom every conclusion is molded into your prejudices and favorite stereotypes. Nobody is "blind" if the corrupt leaders are simply expert con artists and able to hide their misdeeds, which means just abut all of them and not just your "Asians".

Nonsense? Really? You'd be surprised, if you actually tried, how much info is actually on the electronic record. You have to speak to the IT person at your bank who can read the codes and translate them. You also might have to speak to the receiving bank. There is an electronic trail throughout the path from your bank to theirs. Some banks will not process international transactions, but do not disclose this fact unless you dig into it. Could be a number of other reasons for this. Could be an oversensitive security protocol somewhere in the chain. If you want to figure this out you'll have to do the heavy lifting.

I think it was an aseannow admin.

If one might imagine justice, a jail sentence for assault, loss of taxi license. Letting him keep the license while he runs around with a gun? Mmmm. But TIT haha. Brown envelope justice.

I believe it was one of aseannow's own. Perhaps you can DM with a writing critique, I'm sure they are eager to improve.

Nope. Status quo.

Wonder how they’ll pull this off without forcing banks to disclose all incoming int’l money transfers? I will have to ask my bank. Seems like it might be hard to universally enforce this.

I think because all these tough Swedes are not racist bigots, nor are they vigilantes or murderers.

Just using it as an excuse, to do something that they knew was otherwise unjustifiable, but were itching for a way to get away with it. It's not really about compensating the families.

Transvestites and transsexuals are two different things. Read a bit more, you'll catch on sooner or later.

American here, living in Bangkok. You are not correct. In the US these things attract major headlines and are regarded as just as tragic as anywhere else. Don't know why you seem to be imagining otherwise and seemingly insensitive to the suffering from those events, but it is YOUR imagination and not reality. No one in the US is by any means numb to this as you would suggest. There are protests and outrage in the US every time this happens. The politicians refuse to enact gun control because they are paid off by the gun lobby. Tragedy is Tragedy. There have been shootings and murders within 100 feet of my house in the US. Sandy Hook is only an hour from my house in the US. It's not any worse in Thailand just because of the location. What IS worse, in my opinion, is that the cancer which is most virulent in the US and elsewhere now spreads into relatively peaceful countries like Thailand. That makes me terribly sad. The shooter has an American flag on his hat, but it is not disclosed if he is American. If he is Thai, it would look like the American cancer has infected him. America is the worst of the western developed countries for violence in general, it's one of the reasons I came to Thailand

Feel bad for these guys because most taxi drivers are good honest people, and in this case they were betrayed by their own. When you are a nice guy you tend to trust others a little too much sometimes. I have had many very pleasant rides with the good guys, often a fun challenge in trying to crack jokes and just converse with minimal language overlap. I've had drivers many times go out of their way to find me after I left things in their cabs.

The Thais should be proud that their culture is tolerant enough to put up with racist bigots such as yourself without deporting them. I've been here 10 years and the only troubles I've seen or had personally are with farang, mostly badly behaved Brits. It baffles one as to why you even live here, if you do. Did you come here because there weren't enough things to complain about in your home country? You should move (or go back to) to the US, they love people like you.