Siamwhiteelephant

There’s more going on than at face value. Why does the Swiss guy and some of the staff look happy and it can’t have taken 9 of them to ‘nab’ him. They’ll all want a piece of the action, to claim credit, looking for a boost in self-esteem or ego, to make a good show, …..What's missing is the pointing. It’s all about ‘appearance’ again

The suspects: about as mindless as their headless statue.

in very poor taste.

Well, the suspects attacked someone and didn't mind what happened to the victim, death in this case. Isn't that a mindless thing to do?

The suspects: about as mindless as their headless statue.

Do Thais need goading even more to think about and compare what everyone's salaries are?

They already think it's ok asking What folly! Instead of unity it would've wrought divisiveness.

Hope they're not taking jobs from locals, we know how Thais don't like that !

No hope whatsoever. A few years ago, the last time I tried working in my home Western country; I was placed on standby from part-time hours with other local nationals, because the Thai workers had to be employed full-time. Furthermore, I was experieced in the field.

So I came back to Thailand to continue teaching English to Thais so they can go to countries like mine (and take away jobs from the locals). I’m not joking; this actually happens.

An unfortunate name for the band now, given that Muslim terrorists glorify death.

Wonder if they've considered a name change minus 'Death'.

My heart goes out for those who died and their families. But it certainly is odd that no-one among all those villagers acted cautiously concerning the three people mysteriously dying together. Eating very perishable food from the house where those deceased people had died or at least socialized beforehand would be one thing to avoid doing, I’d have thought.

Easy for me to say retrospectively, but it’s still odd behaviour. Perhaps, out of ignorance, they didn’t know how toxic contaminated food can be, so they couldn’t connect the dots to the three deaths.

Condolences to the family of the man.

It's probably one of the better ways to go. One time when I was biking up in the Pennines (England) in winter, my core body temperature must have been losing it despite some fairly hardcore exercise. I sheltered behind a wall from the wind and hail, and it was actually quite comfortable. You just get drowsy and want to sleep. If it weren't for my co-riders coaxing and dragging me I wouldn't be alive today.

If the guy just drifted into sleep, then perhaps even if he was with other people they may not have noticed.

I guess we're not far from that time of year where an 'emergency' shipment of blankets will be going North. Why they don't ship them in good time I can't figure.

Right, and as their brains go south, it would be too revolutionary to be prepared.

But here’s a helpful clue for the LOS: every year at this time it can get a tad cold up north ...and it will happen again exactly a year from now.

Next, brace for the probable pathetic penalty handed to the driver. Will it be similar to the pitiful suspended two-year jail sentence and a 1,000 baht fine handed to the reckless 25-year-old Thai driver who killed the round-the –world British cyclists Peter Root and Mary Thompson nearly 3 years ago?

Please surprise us by imposing a penalty fitting the crime; otherwise, would it be possible to be shocked more by even less of a penalty than the above?

Just as likely the guy's in Singapore with a new face and 10 pounds lighter.

In the same hotel as Ken Lay.

He’s a lot more than 10 pounds lighter, being only ashes now. And I don’t think he’ll make it to Singapore from Dalian city in that state, being dead.

i am sure when everyone on here dies, we will all make fun of you as well!!!

shame on all of you!!!!!

In a buddhist country you act like this!!!!

You came to Thailand to be a better person......it didn't work!!!!!

I agree, it was shameful of those making fun of the victim who died. But there’s no need to ‘tar us all with the same brush’ by saying, “…everyone on here”. We are not all the same at all.

You could also say it would be shameful to act like this in a Christian country. Also, I think few of the members would’ve come to Thailand to be a better person; I came here to try and find a partner and a job in my career. But your first point about the heartless making fun of the victim is your main point and a worthy contribution.

Being an elderly Chinese person, for most of her life she would have encountered throngs of bicycles only, but few of the faster moving motorised vehicles. Also, traffic in China is on the right-hand side, unlike here, although many Chinese pedestrians do take risks, such as crossing against the red pedestrian light.

You have more chance of getting hit by lighting then get killed by a terrorists attack in Thailand don't worry about it?

The same as in the UK 48people killed in the UK in about 10 years (and none of them by ISIS) but the whole of the UK fears them it's a joke , and we have just sent in jet planes to bomb them what a joke

Seriously I would say it's 100000 times more likely you die on the roads here

Dose anyone care about that dose that make the news no

12 pages of this already we are all looking at there site

Fear sells

Fear makes them money and then they start bombing campaigns on the back of it

ISIS have Killed more Muslims then Westerners but they don't talk about that in the daily mail do they

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Although we can't prevent lightning strikes and can only reduce road fatality rolls, we could halt ISIS with enough resolve, intel, and combat. Right, people can be too alarmed about the present low odds of an attack the threat ISIS poses, although if any of these people would die of a terrorist attack, that fear turns out to have been justified. What I'm getting at is, we don't need another threat to add to lightning, etc. as ISIS is that could mushroom in casualties in the long-term if not combated. They've only killed more Muslims than Westerners so far because these people are among or near them. Believe me, the long-term strategy of ISIS is to kill Westerners en masse. The bombing campaign at least slows down the advance of ISIS.

I'm taking this one with a pinch of salt. I find it hard to believe that ISIS gives half a toss about Thailand.

That might be so, but I would take notice that they’d plan to take out as many Westerners in Thailand as they could. And they likely wouldn’t be thrilled about the wretched extremist Muslim conflict in the south, either.

Too complicated and muddied affair to take at face value, but his mother's poster message touched a chord and she probably isn't after monetary gain after all the on-going plastic surgeries and other expenses entailed. We're not getting the full picture, only a little of it..

Aww ....! Thailand will be happy then. She’ll get to spend her new bf’s yuan soon: “… some traders who do a lot of business with China might negotiate with their trading partners to use the yuan in the near future”

They need to put their energies to safe pursuits!

37,000 tons out of 17 million tons = 2% spoilage...

Correct, the spoilage rate isn't high for rice stored for years. The question is, why was rice that couldn't be sold bought at far more than its worth, leading to a loss (here alone) of some B650,000,000?

Of course, the question is rhetorical. It was needed to prop up a corrupt and inept government who had used the scheme to buy votes - cancelling it could have caused far more dissent than already being expressed.

To get an answer to your question you need to do a little research about Yingluck government’s rice pledging scheme.

The high price was to give growers a high return for their crops, but the govt. greedily and unwisely tried to manipulate the global rice market and miserably failed, with cancelled contracts, an inability to sell it, and a rice mountain to pass down as inheritance

Oh, I see. Xenophobia aloud allowed! So, there’s no contradiction in having Thai lawyers practice law in Western countries, and they do?

The Thai law system is great, full of honest lawyers and many an expat 'farang' happily goes their merry way after having placed their colossal scam victim, corruption or legal problem in its hands!!! - not

Bangkok doesn’t need 500 more serious polluters. Would Thailand convert to having electric tuk tuks?

Years ago, I saw a BBC documentary about the issue. A Bangkok tuk tuk driver was lent a new electric tuk tuk to race with another tuk tuk driver and his conventional tuk tuk. The film footage showed the electric tuk tuk win the race, the documentary interviewer offering the tuk tuk driver the electric one as a prize, but then he turns the generous free offer down!! The interviewer is visibly at a loss for words, so would I have been.

Faster and much cleaner technology for free, …. but no. Who can understand the paradoxes of this country?

What a golden opportunity to take a lead in SE Asia and introduce battery-powered or other 'green' tuk tuks. How about taking just one step making it a more people-friendly (and animal) planet? Based on previous experience in other realms, I'm bracing for bitter disappointment.

Don't you just love breathing deeply the smoke-belching tuk-tuks while having your ears assaulted with their roar at the same time?

I suppose it was his own fault for stopping at a red light. If his colleagues had taken their job seriously all year round and enforced traffic laws (God forbid) this may never have happened. All i can say is mai pen rai.

Sad but true. If the police would actually enforce driving laws and actively pursue bad drivers with fines and/or jail time instead of just occasionally setting up stops for tea money, then incidents like this might, and hopefully would, be reduced or prevented.

Thai drivers need to shoulder the full weight of responsibility of those breaking the law, no matter if it is enforced or not, otherwise why have any road laws? They know the score. The police have taken a big hit here already, losing one of their senior staff, who worked two jobs. The driver in this case appears to be even more culpable, given that he’s living in New Zealand where traffic laws are strictly enforced and DUI offences carry heavy penalties.

Bagnato telling his wife to delete all text messages from her phone relating to the vehicle rental should have roused in her concerns and suspicions of him committing a serious crime. I’d say her having known that doesn’t bode in her favour in being completely out of further investigation proceedings.

"His body was found buried 2 meters deep under the ground at a roadside bush.."

How could they find him then, buried 2 metes deep at a random spot?

Perhaps further details will reveal this.

If you read the whole article, it gives the answer to your question: “… police could locate the pickup truck which the kidnappers rented from a car rental shop on Pattaya Sai 3 road fixed with GPS tracking system. Checking of the vehicles GPS position showed it stopped at Phra Tamnak hill” and in the other article here: ”Police used a GPS tracker fitted to the Black Toyota Vigo pick-up used in the abduction …”

Can speculate why a guy with a serious recent criminal history is allowed into Thailand, but it doesn't stack up. Oh, I forgot. Firstly, for visitors, they want only 'quality' tourists. Secondly, for residents, they want ...