Not on your life, and no matter how much we invest, at best, in their eyes, we're a tolerated inconvenience foreigners in their country, sort of tourist who came but never left, and as such it will stay for many years to come.
Too many cars on too little roads rouge attitude of Thai drivers and riders, badly synchronized traffic lights systems, very little traffic police presence if at all, can't see how the newly installed Bangkok Area Traffic Control Project (BATCP) can make sense of the road's mayhem that is everywhere in Thailand.
This median strip was erected in order to prevent U turns and bikes crossing traffic and to keep the traffic flowing, but Thai motorists, who are at best can be described as cowboy's style road users, are not used to such road's managements system and refuse to accept it.
Needless to say that that man has some kind of police record being the reason why his head and hands were removed to make it almost impossible to be identified unless they use his DNA to find out.
You wanna keep that kind of cash at home the least you can do is hide it well somewhere around the house and not easy to find, but what can you do when irresponsible, careless people makes thieves works much easier.
I get 1.65% pa. on my savings at KrungSri bank locked for 14 months and 1.3% pa. for 7 months, but open deposits in the account should bring at least 0.25% pa.
It is after all Pattaya, where on a daily basis, people get robed, knocked over, cheated, beat up, killed and forced to pay bribes, if it didn't happen there it will not be Pattaya.
"Let he, who is without a sin" the entertainment industry and other highly placed groups has indulged in the forbidden fruits habits, ( and still do) so why single out Elvis now?
Men are known to go to extremes length just to satisfy their lust for sex no matter how risky, costly or stupid the consequences are,
The sad part is that nor those perverts or those they feed on are going anywhere anytime soon.
Alarming news on mega proportions that should be in the headline but somehow we don't hear about it:
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/thai-companys-99-crash-triggers-alarm/news-story/cb8c9a22bf5b09fced7cde810c34e09f
They should do what others do in similar situations in other countries, go on a protests and a strike and lay the problem and the feet of the fat cats who run this fakakte clowns government.
Give it some time and a new bunch of undocumented sellers will take the place of those who got scared away, and as long as Thai police will be what they are now, there not be an end to it.
Now that the shoe on the other foot, it will pays to make a note of this case and perhaps bring it as example in future cases where the police didn't do their job right.
So a bunch of Chinese people and a local maid engaged in some shady dealing making a mockery of the local police hindering them from preforming their duty, I must have missed something as this is NOT the police i read about everyday arresting people on a whim alone.