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2 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

He/she could actually see the make and model of his watch from the TV pictures?

Look a few posts up from here and you can see the pics for yourself. Pretty hilarious and typical of a politician. Not much to be skeptical of IMO....

1 hour ago, bob smith said:

just asking for a 2nd opinion. 

 

its obvious you hate thaksin and democracy. why dont you get it together?

You may be unaware of the notorious unreliability of ChatGPT when it comes to politics and ideological leanings.

2 hours ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

Like a rock star! 
who else can command such a hero’s welcome after more than 15 years away

Anyone who has owned dogs or monkeys could tell you how they respond when the one who fed them them what they wanted and trained them to think the way they needed to get rewards....

2 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

Still looking good isn't she?

Yep, that's pretty typical of what wealthy corruption can buy.

On 8/19/2023 at 3:16 AM, The Theory said:

In Thailand a car won't considered  luxury by make/model, but the "price" will. Perhaps 5M. ???? A Jeep Sahara is a Luxury as well ????

Oh wow, that is hilarious! Jeep Sahara!?????

14 hours ago, pedro01 said:

It's a luxury price....

No doubt about that! Insane.

On 8/19/2023 at 2:29 AM, VinnieK said:

It costs a fortune here compared to the US

Yes, as do all foreign makes as far as I know. I'm no expert, but I didn't think price alone defines luxury. I guess it's in the eye of the beholder and in the eye of the taxman.

10 hours ago, gaucan said:

I'm European white male, if u find that relevant.. not to say that Europe is any good either..

 

seems like typical American white ass behavior tho... to move your broke ass over to third world Asia to save money and then  belittle everyone who wasn't privileged enough same way as you were. 

 

if you not gonna respect locals despite their lower IQ cuz of broken education system, and despite less opportunities than you had, you might as well fck off Asia, noone wants you there.

 

you will never be able to look at things objectively, privileged white ass

I agree with some of your sentiment, but your marginalization, or stereotyping, or prejudice against Americans was an unnecessary bit to throw in there. You're behaving the same as your criticism. I've seen plenty of that kind of behavior from Europeans, Brits, Aussies, Chinese, Arabian, Russian, Indian, Korean, etc, etc.... but you decide it's an American white thing????? Should I stereotype what Marxist wokeness is?

9 hours ago, Scott said:

Racist post and replies removed. 

 

As noted by a number of posters, the alleged perpetrator was a Shan national.  I think we can dispense with the unsubstantiated claims about Thai males.  

There is no such thing as a "Shan national". That was from what appears to be a poorly translated article from Thaiger. No other article that I've seen (In English or Thai) makes that uneducated error and they all simply mention that he is a Tai Yai person, of which, by the way, there are probably somewhere between 100,000 - 300,000 in Chiangmai province. I've heard all sorts of estimates. I've never seen an real studied estimate of how many of those may have been here for centuries and how many were born in Burma, but of certainly many were born in Burma and many were born in Thailand.
Tai Yai people have been in the area of present day northern Thailand for ages and were clearly a part of the Lanna Kingdom before Thailand annexed these northern provinces. So, as far as anyone without more detailed info than news articles have given can tell, this guy is Thai. If he were from Burma, I'm sure the media would have gone out of their way to say so. They love to pin blame on anyone not Thai. That's probably why they labeled his ethnicity because their history has shown a long honored tradition of prejudice against the ethnic minorities, sometimes referred to as "hilltribe" people. So, they show their ethnocentric prejudice and others display their gross racism against Thai males here... all the same disgusting thing.

11 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

The guy was not Thai! 

 

Thanks for the racist rant though...not.

What makes you think he wasn't Thai? I agree with you on the racist part. People are nuts sometimes when they go on about that. But just because this guy is of the Tai Yai ethnicity doesn't mean he's not Thai. Thailand consists of people of multiple different ethnicities, just like everywhere else. He may have been born, raised, and educated in Chiangmai. No article I've read would lead anyone to think anything different (Other than the Thaiger translated article that appears to be poorly translated, calling him a Shan national, of which there is no such thing).

1 hour ago, farangkinok said:

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/man-kidnaps-and-murders-5-year-old-boy-in-chiang-mai

Thanks. I just saw your reply after replying to another answer on that. If it has any interest to you... it's likely the comment just above this one....

18 hours ago, Docno said:

It says it in the second article above: "... identify the suspect as 29 year old Jai Kongkham, who is a Shan national living in Thailand."

Ah, I see. I hadn't scrolled down to see that second article. It looks like it was an article originally written in English by a Thai writer. I have serious doubts that it is accurate since they misuse the English language in identifying the suspect as a Shan national. There is no such thing as a "Shan national", as I explained earlier.
The writer is a 27 year old who grew up in Bangkok, studied in Bangkok, and lives in Bangkok. Of course she could be very well studied and extremely diligent in her work and do a fantastic job, but maybe just missed this bit here, but if she might match my experience over the past 20+ years with Thais and their knowledge of history and of the northern minority ethnic groups, my guess is that she is wrong and the guy is a Thai national who is of the Tai Yai ethnic group. At any rate, there is no info regarding his nationality.
Since she is a translator... I'm wondering if she might have based her article on the Thai language article in Thai Rath or, more likely, from the article that the photo on her Thaiger article is attributed to, from the Facebook page of "chiangmainews". In That article, they identify the perp with the same language as in the Thai Rath article - and from that, she likely translated this part incorrectly. It wouldn't be surprising at all.
Anyway... thanks for pointing me to that second article that I didn't see.

2 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

LAX, yes it does occur and not all incidents make it on the news or on youtube.  However I do agree with you on the "quota" hiring practices of large American Police Departments. I know because i spent 20 years on one this departments located in Southern California.  I won't name it but you can guess.  Also, this video only captures about 2 minutes of this entire incident.  It does not offer the full context.  

Yes, it certainly occurs, no doubt about that. I only was contesting the part about it occurring often. Of course, that is subjective as to what "often" is and how often does it need to happen in order to qualify as such, but in the hundreds of times through airports and never having seen anything even remotely similar makes me doubtful re it being often. Airports can be strange places. One of the places I do my best to make my time in them as short as possible.
Yeah, I can imagine you have a number of stories about your time in LA. I have a number of friends who are and were police as well as Highway Patrol. One of my cousins is retired San Francisco PD and his brother was a Deputy Sheriff in Santa Cruz County. The stories can be pretty amazing, in many different ways.

On 8/12/2023 at 3:35 AM, simon43 said:

Why on earth are you quoting from Black's Law Dictionary?  We are in Thailand!  You need to cite the relevant para in the Thai Criminal or Civil Code ????

Yeah, I guess I walked into that one. By the way you commented, it appeared that you already seemed to think that you know what assault in Thailand is. So, you could always say so more directly.....
But since I stepped in it and gave what is just the law in the UK and the US as a reference, which is admittedly out of context, I suppose I should follow through and see about Thailand specifically, since you aren't being more forthcoming about your insinuation that it isn't assault if there's no contact in Thailand.
I figured it wouldn't be difficult, so here you go, after about a minute to search and about 5 or 10 minutes of reading. It was actually fairly interesting.... and what do you know! They have the same understanding that criminal charges (whether you translate it as "assault" or not) are applicable with VERY similar definitions.
Of course translation will give some difficulty, but it is understandable enough.
Since assault in the UK and US, as I was mentioning, would include the following, even though they don't translate it as "assault", I believe it applies. The main point being that contact is not necessary to be charged with a crime.

(Any typos in the definitions are from the website that I snapped the images from.)


Section 397 appears to not be in force anymore? I couldn't find anything regarding what it says here about being repealed....

Then there are these that could apply to this case as well -

24 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Did he?  Did the skateboard ever hit the officer?  

He doesn't need to come into contact. The threat and capability of carrying it out is assault. It's a common misunderstanding of the law.
Just so I don't have to get into it beyond this with anyone... here's the definition from Black's Law Dictionary.
"An unlawful attempt or offer. on the part of one man, with force or violence, to inflict a bodily hurt upon another. An attempt or offer to beat another, without touching him; as if one lifts up his cane or his fist in a threatening manner at another ; or strikes at him, but misses him. 3 Bl. Comm. 120; 3 Steph. Comm. 469. Aggravated assault is one committed with the intention of committing some additional crime; or one attended with circumstances of peculiar outrage or atrocity. Simple assault is one committed with no intention to do any other injury. An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another." thelawdictionary.org/assault/

12 hours ago, webfact said:

No unusual activities indicating an assassination plot

Just the usual ones....

They could combine the base on the beachfront with a hub for their soon to be expanding submarine fleet!