Purdey

Being born a man doesn't automatically qualify you to be a father. Many Thai men cannot hold in their frustration and anger. I blame their parents. The habit of making male children the light of their lives and forgiving them their temper makes those boys terrible adults.

To be honest, based on what we saw under previous governments, I am not sure there will be an improvement should he go.

Wait a sec... 25 years in prison but must pay almost 8m Baht in compensation in 20 years? Shirley shome mishtake?

He looks like he is about to dump. ????

How can they tell he was actually in the national park when the fish were caught? It doesn't matter where he was photographed, the onus should be on the police to have evidence he caught them inside the park and not a 100 metres outside the limit. Will the captain and crew simply affirm it so they get off?

All the stories here seen based on marrying a bar girl. Doesn't anyone think of talking to educated women or are educated women not interested?

Playing both sides has been Thailand's strategy for a long time. Most of the billionaires here have Chinese heritage so no doubt they hope no invasion will happen here. I am surprised that all these joint exercises take place in Thailand but none take place in Hainan or Hawaii or California. After all, Thailand has an aircraft carrier....

I presume that if in England, a pensioner would receive the cost of living allowance that is not available for British pensioners in Thailand.

Wonder it it has a tick tock sound from its tummy as it wanders around?

Was the driver's nickname "Boss" by any chance? A souped up car sound like the modus operandi of the infamous Red Bull rich kid. Will this driver be apprehended and be punished?

Not sure how to deny he removed documents when there is a photo. As Trump was not known to read anything, it cannot be his library.

Curious story. So this guy either came to Thailand with a fishing rod or acquired one here from a Thai shop without the Thai owner pointing to local Thai laws about fishing. He then asked around where he could hire a Thai fishing boat. A Thai must have told him to talk to the Thai captain of a Thai boat. They reached an agreement on the price of the fishing expedition in Thai waters (which is is common tourist activity around the world). The Thai captain takes him to a place in a Thai national park without hesitation where he could fish without the Thai captail explaining that fishing in a Thai national park is illegal. Thais expected the foreigner to know something he had not been told by anyone. The only reason I can think for Thai ire is that they know he knew it was illegal and did it anyway because it is legal in his country. Do we know that they know that he knew that he knowingly broke the law?

Doesn't anyone wonder why, with all the foreigners being condescending towards Thais here, they all prefer living here than living in their safe, developed nations? It wasn't until the Vietnam war that Thailand's economy started to pick up and poor Thais began to make some money besides in agriculture. They found shortcuts to making money and people still want that laissez faire freedom to get rich like the American soldiers they saw based here. The difference is the soldiers have been replaced by tourists. The police also want to be rich and ethics don't come into it. Every time a foreigner says that dangerous sentence "where I come from..." Thais think "why can't I have some of that?." Every country has laws, so why do we have prisons if everyone respects the law?