Jonathan Swift

On 8/24/2022 at 9:53 PM, findlay13 said:

Such a pity he lost a finger Boo Hoo

"He then crossed the lane and crashed into his taxi from the front and slammed into the overpass railings, which sadly amputated his finger.". Sadly. 

On 8/24/2022 at 7:04 PM, RichardColeman said:

Chuck all these flaming arabs on toilet cleaning duty for 2 weeks if they do not stop it. 

I have a better idea. Deport all of the flaming bigots such as yourselves as undesirables. 

For those of you concerned about the money being mismanaged, I think it's still better to give with high hopes attached than to withhold because of something that might or might not happen. We shouldn't let cynicism take over our thought process. Then the bad guys win

18 hours ago, PremiumLane said:

I wonder why some people are so full of themselves that they post derogatory comments about people positing that they helped out?

Next time try "I know you are but what am I". Same level as your comment. Theirs was a legitimate comment. Some people do such things as much for their own egos as the other person. The phrase was some people. Some. Maybe 1%. Maybe 10%. Capiche?

17 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

I wonder why you perceive what people have done as them being full of themselves and their posts as being self-congratulatory.  (Actually, I don't.)

 

I realise you are very much of the mindset "Thai good - foreigner bad", but you could give it a rest where some foreign people are doing something nice for a Thai person in need.

 

Even if we were to pretend that you are correct, and the users that posted saying that they donated money did so out of vanity and the desire to show off, a very deserving person has received some free money to help her change her life for the better.

 

I see nothing but positives all round, but you choose to look for negatives.

You seem to be as full of prejudice yourself as you are suggesting. I see posts that are very likely as much self congratulatory as not. There is no cause for you to "perceive" the mindset of the commenter to be "Thai good - foreigner bad".  The commenter made an observation and a speculation. There was no hint otherwise as to his mindset or opinions. Project much? 

16 hours ago, Bannoi said:

An eye infection ????

Siamese twins

If I donate, I will not broadcast that fact here. Nor anywhere else. I don't need praise and a pat on the back for simple human compassion. 

18 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

I wonder why some people are so full of themselves that they post self-congratulatory comments detailing their contributions? 

Because they are not always giving out of pure kindness and compassion, sometimes just as much for praise and to make them feel good about themselves. Celebrities do it all the time. 

18 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

I just am wondering whether her being a 17 year old female has any connection with people willing to donate money to her .

    Would some people also donate if it was a fat overweight  male ?

I donated 2000 baht to a fat overweight male bar singer I know who was out of work because of covid and unable to take care of his family. He asked to borrow it, but I refused to require it be paid back. I just told him when you see someone else in need pay it forward. It doesn't matter to me or most decent people what a needy person looks like. There is something seriously wrong with your perceptions mate, especially with regard to 17 year old females. 

1 hour ago, 2009 said:

Yup, that's me. 

 

This girl deserves a leg up.

 

But I ain't seen any 60 baht beers in a decade or so. And I can't remember the last time I had service that deserved a tip. Even though I do tip occasionally nonetheless.

I don't know where you go, I find no shortage of cheap beers whenever I want one. Do you understand a thing called inflation? It's a math thing. According to a Thailand inflation calculator, 60 baht ten years ago is now approximately 70 baht today. I see 70 baht beers everywhere. And I see nothing but excellent service wherever I go. I've been here 10 years. Mind you, there are choices available, and I make them accordingly. Maybe you get worse service because they don't like you and your attitude. Nobody likes a complainer. Nice of you to tip occasionally. So you might be entitled to occasional good service. There's that word. Entitled. 

We apparently have a new word now, courtesy of Aseannow's anonymous writer - "HIV-ers". How do we pronounce it? Like people who hunt beehives? Hive - ers? Did this writer ever ask an HIV sufferer how they would feel about being called that? They make it sound like having HIV is some kind of sport, like divers, hikers, runners. HIV-ers. I won a gold medal in the HIV-ers marathon championship.  Or is it a club? The girl now belongs to the HIV-ers' club, having passed the initiation. What an insult to a person who has a potentially deadly disease and who suffers the stigma from it, trivializing it into an insensitive  slur. I've never seen anything more ridiculous. I had Covid. Am I now a Covider? If you have the Flu, are you a Fluer? If you have cancer, are you a Cancerer? Is this a non English speaking person pretending he has enough grasp of the subtleties of the language to create such words and have them make sense? We've seen that in the staff writers here plenty of times as they try to sound dramatic in the tradition of imaginary 1940s newspaper reporters from old Superman or detective TV shows, throwing out obsolete English slang phrases that sound cartoonish in their awkwardness. 

Covid?

7 hours ago, whereyougo said:

Back to instability and another coupe.  This wont end well

Well, if it's a Coupe DeVille it might not be all bad. Make mine a '59 in Parisian Pink, convertible

On 8/19/2022 at 10:38 PM, BKKBike09 said:

Indeed. It's a sorry tale. From the rambling Walter Mitty statement of 'facts' allegedly penned by the boyfriend:

 

"It was intoxicating being around someone so inexperienced and green behind the gills ... Ashley had no street experience. Hardly any life experience either. She’d never attended university ..."

 

Anyone who's a parent of a typical 'normal' 19-year old should empathise with this poor girl's situation. 

 

The boyfriend's statement has been redacted in places. However, whoever did the redacting didn't do a very good job and the underlying text is still there. It makes for very interesting reading. For legal reasons I shall neither provide a link to the statement, nor make any reference to its content other than the excerpt above. 

 

 

 

Your secrecy is misplaced. Tristan Nettles, the American boyfriend/drug dealer, has a video on facebook where he discusses what happened. Seems the Thai police presented her with a document written in Thai that turned out to be a “full confession”. The recruitment of naive young girls as drug mules, informed or uninformed of what they were doing, is common in the business, and prisons worldwide are full of such victims.

This is the drug dealing boyfriend’s statement
 

https://www.facebook.com/happeningnewssa/videos/940954116604233/?extid=NS-UNK-UNK-UNK-UNK_GK0T-GK1C

On 8/19/2022 at 10:38 PM, BKKBike09 said:

Indeed. It's a sorry tale. From the rambling Walter Mitty statement of 'facts' allegedly penned by the boyfriend:

 

"It was intoxicating being around someone so inexperienced and green behind the gills ... Ashley had no street experience. Hardly any life experience either. She’d never attended university ..."

 

Anyone who's a parent of a typical 'normal' 19-year old should empathise with this poor girl's situation. 

 

The boyfriend's statement has been redacted in places. However, whoever did the redacting didn't do a very good job and the underlying text is still there. It makes for very interesting reading. For legal reasons I shall neither provide a link to the statement, nor make any reference to its content other than the excerpt above. 

 

 

 

The words of a predator

On 8/19/2022 at 9:12 PM, Chelseafan said:

What a waste of her life. Still better hers than those she was going to ruin 

There’s no evidence that she had any involvement with the drug dealing. Major screwup being involved with such a person, but we don’t know the facts. Shame on you for your sanctimonious judgment. 

15 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Not if I had met him or her, at a party, and had brought, or was given ecstasy by them. 

There are infinite reasons why you shouldn’t sign and take legal responsibility on someone else’s behalf. Packages can be re delivered. You should never sign for a neighbor’s mail.  

1 hour ago, KIngsofisaan said:

When I read stories such as these, I always ask myself, is Thailand really worth it?

 

To break the law and risk going to prison for an excessive amount of years just to live in Thailand?

 

At bet at her age, she now wishes she had never heard of Thailand.

Your question should be “is breaking the law in Thailand really worth it”. This could have happened in any country and she would still go to jail. For her, the question might have been “is being involved with a drug dealer really worth it”. Living in Thailand is obviously worth it to many thousands of expats who manage to not break laws

On 8/19/2022 at 9:23 PM, law ling said:

Yes, it was an uncomfortable case: "just signing for a delivery" ending in life, or 33 years (or worse).

 

Take away: don't sign for other peoples' deliveries.

Especially if they are for a drug dealer

I hope someone sets up a go fund me or something similar for the little girl and other victims. I'm in the US right now