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22 hours ago, lvr181 said:
I understand what you're saying, but, it doesn't have to be confined to 1 taser being used. Whatever it takes to take the guy down, short of a bullet. And if that has to be used as a last resort, as Nike(?) says, Just Do It!
Generally speaking I think we're in agreement. But I've seen a guy take more than 5 tasers and not be affected at all. He just got more enraged and didn't even flinch with each zap. These cops are just completely ineffective at taking control of a situation and don't seem to know how to read when things are about to go south quick. If a guy is heading into a building when confronted, alarms should have been ringing in their heads like crazy. As many have posted already, there is a complete and utter lack of decent training for these cops here and people die because of it
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6 hours ago, jak2002003 said:
He only got 2 years for murder before?! I bet the family of the murdered guy did not feel like they got justice.
He got 2 years for manslaughter.
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On 2/8/2018 at 7:34 AM, lvr181 said:
The taser would be used BEFORE he went inside to get a gun.
That wouldn't be a bad idea, except with the drugs this guy was on, I doubt it would have had much of any effect other than to enrage him more. Not sure if you've seen how drugged up guys like this respond to tasers, but it isn't good. That said, a taser or just physical force is about their only choice to restrain a guy from entering the building. The whole thing was obviously handled horribly from the very beginning.
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6 hours ago, hansnl said:
Whatever the US laws may say, this yank killed an Australian on Thai soil. Hope he will rot in prison in Thailand and then burn in hell. Kicking a man's head when he is down is the most despicable act imaginable. His bloody US friends should get a long time in prison also, for not stopping the idiot, for not helping the victim, leaving him and for making pictures. Bastards of the lowest order, all of them.
Why stop with his friends? Wouldn't everybody in the bar be just as capable as the friends of intervening or helping the victim? I don't think taking pictures is a crime... It could even be beneficial evidence for that matter.
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17 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:
I was one boxed in, but the security guard had a rolling jack and moved the car in less than 5 min. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Yep, seen that a number of times. And I would think that Thais should know about that... or at least go talk to a parking attendant about your problem. Then the attendant would let them know that they could help move the car. No reason at all to come to such a ridiculous level of anger. We're all trying to live in this world together.... even people who need to leave their car blocking yours for a few minutes. But the BMW driver should have left notes on the windshields of the cars being blocked, not only on his own car!
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3 hours ago, ujayujay said:
Anybody here able to answer OPs question, or is this a babbling Forum.
In competition with the best of brooks!
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11 hours ago, zoza said:
Warning there may be bad grammar ahead do not attempt to read if you have a bad Attitude.
Ten mins after the ''plumber'' arrived today, and him and the condo handyman were informed there was no money getting stumped up .
all of a sudden there was nothing that needed fixing.
If you are referring to Shoeless Joe about the bad attitude part... I think you misinterpreted him. I didn't see anything in his post that carried any kind of bad attitude at all. Actually, he was being quite polite in his post. He gave you greetings and a salutation giving you his best regards. He even took the time to give you some advice, which others, like scottiejohn who made no less than 5 posts, none of which had anything to do with attempting to help you with advice or trying to figure out what's going on in your situation. I'd be wary of joining in the chorus of such rabble rousers who seem to have nothing better to do than find a problem where there isn't one, and try to get others to join him in his misery. I think Shoeless Joe went to a lot of effort to help you and it would be nice to acknowledge that. He wasn't degrading you by helping with your English. No need to take offense. Just as I wouldn't take offense with a native speaker (or a fellow native speaker of my own language who is better than me at writing) correcting me in my use of their language, unless of course they made some kind of nasty remark along with it, which Shoeless Joe did not do.
At any rate, I hope the issue at your place with the plumbing doesn't resurrect to anything more and all can be peaceful and happy at home!
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6 hours ago, lvr181 said:
My thought also. But tempered by the fact that the RTP are not really disciplined or responsible enough to use them, sadly, puts me off that idea. Certainly would have been the best use of taser gun in this instance but I see a real "wild west (east?)" attitude in different circumstances.
If I were a cop and a guy produced a gun, I sure as hell wouldn't bet my life on a taser! Have you ever seen how totally ineffective they are on people who are high on drugs like this guy was? They just pull out the barbs and come at the cop who is now trying to get his gun out before the maniac kills him! Also, it isn't commonly known how often the barbs fail to hit their mark either.... definitely not a good idea to use a taser when a guy has a gun.... not in my book anyway.
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11 hours ago, twizzian said:
Proper police training to disarm & take down maniacs like this may have had a better outcome in this situation.
It looked more like a pub brawl spilled out into the street.
Yep.
It is a total dismal failure of the police to deal with the situation properly. There is no way on earth any decently trained policeman would have allowed that murderer to go back into his shop to get his weapons! The policeman died as a result of very poor police-work, to say the least. Very sad for his family. And one could say the same for the murderer and his family. If intervention was appropriately handled, who knows, he could be in rehab now instead of being a murderer. -
12 hours ago, marko kok prong said:
In the States he would be dead,not under arrest.
And he should be dead, if not now then after a speedy trial. He murdered somebody. This guy is nothing but an absolute menace to society.
Other than that... I don't think he would be dead if this happened in the States because he never would have had an opportunity to go back inside his shop to retrieve his guns once the cops were there! Nobody would have been shot at all. And the dead guy wouldn't be dead, leaving a family behind to suffer most likely. Your accusations of American police are so ridiculously unfounded it isn't even funny. It's the incompetence of the Thai police that let this happen. As usual, they didn't take control of the situation on arrival and allowed the murderer to retrieve weapons and kill someone. -
6 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:
Wasn't done up though, it was gone before she hit the ground.
Poor woman.
It may well have been fastened, or "done up", but so many of these helmets here use chin straps that are utterly useless in the time of need. A helmet is easily knocked off of the head if the strap isn't properly fastened underneath the jaw and not only on the chin.
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There is far too much to be said about how disgusting the level of "help" the refugees are given and I really prefer to avoid the slander laws in place here. If people really knew what goes on in those border camp areas, they would be shocked and appalled. I don't expect the details will ever make it to the Thai or international public, other than the public who live nearby the camps and some of whom have attitudes that only worsen things. This UN report only barely scratches the surface. But then again, if it dug a little more, then the light would also shine on the crap they are guilty of regarding these refugees too! The whole thing is so sickening. And after many years of involvement, I can only be encouraged by the will of the refugees themselves to make something out of the hand they've been dealt. Although, of course there are also those who don't have that willpower and whose lives are pretty much destroyed and utterly miserable.
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4 hours ago, nisakiman said:
What's with the 'Killer Elephant' headline, then? As far as I can make out, he's stolen some bananas and damaged some property.
Not exactly 'Killer', is it?
Did you happen to read beyond the Title? Like maybe the very next line?? " Dozens of local officials in five provinces are hunting a wandering wild male elephant that has killed four people, in order to chase it back into the forest."
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On 1/2/2018 at 1:11 PM, ChouDoufu said:
standard procedure in asia. it's a kind of neo-zen metaphysical driving philosophy.
ask not whether another vehicle could be coming around the corner.
there exists nothing there NOW.
those slowing and pulling over before blind corners? non-adherents
considering what the future may bring.
I definitely wouldn't lump all of Asia in on that, not in the least. I've driven pretty good distances in 6 Asian countries. None of the others compare at all.
There is a good reason that Thailand has earned their world ranking for traffic fatalities. Take a look at the stats sometime. Pretty much only African countries come somewhat close to Thailand's horrific death toll. Other Asian countries don't come close at all.
Otherwise, I like your idea about how nothing exists there now. I wouldn't be surprised at all if that figured in their thinking somehow.... :/ -
On 1/1/2018 at 10:11 PM, VocalNeal said:
Isn't this how one is supposed to ride/drive? Is there another way?
I assume you mean that one of the joys of riding is that there is no time to think about anything else. Which is why riding is good therapy for psychological problems and also good for preventing onset of dementia. So they say!
I've been riding for 30+ years (on and off road). It's not the same at all in the Maehongson "mountains" (hills) during the holidays. Not even remotely the same. I can relax and enjoy a drive through the Japanese Alps, the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada Mountains, etc. without wondering if a car is gonna be coming at me in my lane around every blind curve. It is of course something to be aware of, but it hardly even enters your mind when driving where most of the people on the road are sane.
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4 hours ago, connda said:
Just finished a trip though Mae Hong Son a couple of days ago. I watched more than one bike go squirrelly as I rounded a blind corner to find a big bike 'laying it over' in my lane. Unlike the trucks and cars who would simply maintain their line thought my lane and force me and other oncoming traffic off to the shoulder <Lane? What lane? I have big truck, get out of way little people>, the motorcycles would almost always correct their line in an attempt to return to their own lane or at least not intersect the line around the corner you were taking in your own lane. So hearing someone coming off the road with 5 large motorcycles, probably playing motorcycle grand-prix on those mountain roads like most I saw is no surprise. Well, at least none of the big bike convoys I saw were taking it slow and enjoying the fresh air.
RIP.I also just finished a 10 day ride around Maehongson about a week ago. Sure am glad I never experienced any bike groups (big or little!) driving as you mentioned! I did however think I was surely going to witness numerous incredibly insanely stupid car and truck drivers kill themselves and others. Is passing around blind corners and over blind rises in the road some kind of exciting pastime joy for these idiots!? I even had a number of drivers slow and pull to the side of their lane to let me pass, which was nice, since I had been following them for quite a while. But I was following them for so long precisely because there was no safe place to pass them yet! And then they try to get me to pass them by slowing and pulling a bit to the side JUST BEFORE A BLIND CORNER! It's like an invitation to suicide! In every case, there were plenty of opportunities for them give that gesture in a safe place, but they all chose to do it just before a blind corner. I found this trip a very bizarre experience and surprised that the death toll is not MUCH higher. I only witnessed one idiot motorcycle do anything dangerous. And, yes! It was the same thing - passing on a blind curve! And if he was in a car, somebody would have likely died. A police truck came barreling around the corner at just the right/wrong moment. If that cop would have had any sense, he would have radioed back to the police checkpoint that was about a kilometer ahead, and had them stop the idiot farang. He just barely squeezed between the two vehicles around the corner.
Nothing like driving for days on end with all senses on high alert and driving as defensively as possible..... -
I see everyone is answering as if he's asking about a rental. Maybe he is? But when I read the post, it sounds like he's looking for a place to buy. How else could he paint it himself, install air-conditioning, and furnish it himself? Perhaps it could be made clear what is being looked for? A rental? A place to buy? If you want to paint and furnish it yourself, I think it would be a very unusual find for a rental. Although, if you got a rental and installed air-conditioning in a place that didn't have it already (hard to imagine in a decent place), I'm sure the landlord would be overjoyed at the free upgrade to their property!
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Even a little common sense after thought could do the same.... It's called a locksmith.
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4 hours ago, Enoon said:
The "Good Samaritan" epithet is frequently, as in this case, misused. The "important" bits are underlined:
The parable of the Good Samaritan is a parable told by Jesus in Luke 10:25–37. It is about a traveler who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. First a priest and then a Levite comes by, but both avoid the man. Finally, a Samaritan happens upon the traveler. Samaritans and Jews generally despised each other, but the Samaritan helps the injured man. Jesus is described as telling the parable in response to the question from a lawyer, "And who is my neighbor?" whom Leviticus Lev 19:18 says should be loved. In response, Jesus tells the parable, the conclusion of which is that the neighbour figure in the parable is the man who shows mercy to the injured man—that is, the Samaritan.
Were this man a Burmese he might have been more accurately described as a good "Samaritan".
I wonder how the drivers would have reacted in that instance......when they heard his accent?
I'm not sure if English is your native language or not. You are right about the origin of the term "Good Samaritan", but you are wrong about the usage and/or meaning of it in modern day English. If you want to create a new definition and say it "more accurately" describes such a person, I guess that's ok, but it is perfectly fine to use it as it was used in this article. "Good Samaritan" simply means something along the lines of, "a stranger who stops to help someone in need". There is actually even a definition in law that I came across one time ago, it was very similar, but had an additional caveat that the "Good Samaritan" was helping voluntarily, that is, without being required to by any sort of law or duty. Neither of the definitions, in common usage or law, require a strict adherence to the biblical text as you were describing. That said, your point is well understood by anyone having lived here for any length of time.
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7-15 baht for 100 pages is too expensive!?? I would think they'd be losing money at that rate! Are they printing on leaves!??
I saw somebody mention that they thought you meant 7-15 baht per page? But that would be so insane that it's hard to believe any shop with those prices could possibly attract a single customer. But... there is one potential factor that I haven't seen addressed.... are your pages all a bunch of color photos?? That would be a completely different story than printing simple text. The kind of paper can also make a bit of a difference, or a very big difference if printing photos on photographic paper. -
On 11/7/2017 at 1:08 PM, Tchooptip said:
Yes! In US it would have been, drop the knife, drop the f**ing knife right now boum boum boum boum boum boum boum boum boum boum boum boum boum boum........
Where on earth do you get your ideas about the U.S.??? I know the media is a bit nutso on its reporting every possible negative thing that can be dug out of the shadows in the U.S., but you're taking it even one step further. Shoot a self-threatening man who isn't threatening anybody else? Not likely, to say the least. I guess Thai police don't have tasers. That seems like it would have been a safe alternative for all involved.
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Clearly a taxi driver off duty
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4 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:
And you pick a story of one taxi driver out of about 150 thousand that are operating in Bangkok. Yes there are bad apples - but they are not the norm. And indeed this story was very unusual and no you can not be guaranteed there are hundreds that do not make the news - any such action would indeed be covered by the news.
I don't believe you are correct. The story is not so unusual, although the weapon aspect is a bit unusual, although not unheard of at all, since I think it is common knowledge that many (most?) taxi drivers likely carry a weapon of some sort. I've seen them in the door pockets as well as in the trunks. That said, it doesn't mean this stuff is something that happens every hour. But it is not surprising at all as it is commonly reported by the news as well as word of mouth. You can read stories like this a half a dozen times a year from just one news source. And the ones you don't read, because the news doesn't cover every instance, even when cameras just happen to be rolling, I feel quite sure, are easily multiplied by hundreds. But I could perhaps be persuaded that it is merely a bit over one hundred times. But of course, that doesn't make it the norm, I never remotely alluded to that preposterous idea as you insinuated I did. And if you read a bit more carefully, you'll see that I also didn't say that you can "be guaranteed there are hundreds..." as you claim I did. There are good reasons for using qualifiers and it would do you well to pay attention to them when you read. It will help you not assume things about writers and avoid putting words into their mouths.
If you bothered to read any more of the string here, you would know already that I have mentioned some great taxi drivers that I've met over the years (rare exceptions). But I think there are a hell of a lot more bad apples than you seem to think there are. And I don't have any problem at all agreeing to disagree in that. That's based on a wide variety of variable factors and reasonable to have disagreement.
You appear to be incredibly naive (maybe that means you are a super nice guy or girl?) to think that "any such action" like this taxi would be covered by the news. I can't hardly take you seriously if you really believe that. I've witnessed bodies floating in the canals, a crazed bus driver causing multiple collisions, a shooting, a knifing, 2 gang fights take over a street, and even 3 taxi drivers get into physical altercations with people on the roadside... all in BKK and none of which I ever saw on any news anywhere. If you really expect the news to cover "any such action" you would need to demand them to have a million eyes roving the streets 24/7 and to publish a MUCH thicker newspaper. Are you not aware that the media purposely limits their reporting on various things? This has been well known public knowledge for decades, but seems to have escaped your attention.
One more point, just for the sake of argument... I think that the insanely low fine for this incident shows that it is not a rare happening. I believe it can be shown that things that are rare and outrageous typically demand a higher penalty rather than a lower one. Just as traffic tickets have lower penalties, but rape has a higher penalty.
I should have known I'd get some kind of unreasonable comment in this forum... unfortunately, that is even more expected to happen than crazy taxi drivers doing nutso things. -
I still can't fathom people defending the indefensible taxi drivers around BKK....
This story that just appeared today here is just another common news story that appears on regular occasion. And if this kind of stuff makes it into the news once, you can almost be guaranteed there are at the least hundreds that never make the news. The guy goes for ramming the other car and then goes for a weapon in his trunk and goes after the driver. All of this while he had a passenger in his taxi! Gets a 400 baht fine.... He should be in jail!
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