ThreeEyedRaven

If this is the best idea a "leading strategist" can come up with, it is little wonder the mortality rate nationwide remains so high. He clearly doesn't have the first clue about reality either.

They may well have not taken into account the dual pricing here, which means farangs pay a whole heap extra for anything to do with medical care. 

Given the morals of some around here, it wouldn't have surprised me to hear that someone had stolen the poor blokes crutches.

I recently got pulled over by the cops for one of their routine collect money stops, and while I had everything, I heard more than one tourist moaning loudly that they were paying out money for the stops that were "everywhere" every single day, and would never be coming back. Fair enough, they didn't have the right documents, but I have never been to a tourist resort that so actively looks to fleece their guests in such a way. Combine this with the murder of the town as it used to be and is it any surprise that the place is a ghost town?

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

A 70 million baht study for the Tram Way will be completed by mid 2020

4 Million Euros just for the feasibility study? Some serious money going into some slippery folks pockets there then.

All of the criticism in the above posts is fully justified. I am not even sure why TAT and here the Ministry of Tourism and Sports even bother coming up with such dumb statistics. It's almost as if they believe that if they twist things enough then all of the problems with an obvious lack of tourists will go away. Certainly nobody else believes any of the rubbish they come out with.

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said that he had been suffering from depression

Absolutely tragic that this should happen at such a time. Losing any family member is always hard but far more so when it is your child.

Green and yellow capsules sounds like possibly Tramadol, a pain killer notorious for being dangerous, especially if in combination with alchohol.

35 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The report said the man had been arrested on Thursday morning on Koh Larn after exposing himself to tourists.

I wonder if that could be used as evidence that the man is a dick.

Getting arrested twice in one day is truly amazing, even for a Russian.

The question now is do they kick him out or let him go and see if he can make it a hat trick.

This smacks of desperation to somehow try to reverse the trend of falling numbers. 

A little work fixing the many problems might be time better spent.

Getting a discount on one or two things isn't going to help a lot if you are being ripped off on most of the rest of your trip.

Tragic and senseless way to go. He was apparently with a friend who could easily have taken the photo, while he made sure of his footing.

Lots of people dying around the world paying more attention to the photo than their lives and not enough to the signs warning them of such danger. RIP.

I would say that a significant chunk of Thai motorists have so little idea what they are doing out there, that they should be catching the bus to work, not riding or driving. The only problem with that suggestion of course, is that the bus driver is probably even less qualified to be on the roads than the idiots he would be carrying.

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

The media described him as a well dressed older man. 

I would describe him as a rude, arrogant, slightly polished turd, in need of a good slap.

Fella was damned fortunate that no one really took offense. Pattaya has seen more than one person take a serious kicking for such miserable behaviour.

8 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Australia to help Trump reach the moon, and beyond

I will chip in personally if we can  send him on a one way trip.

15 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

And can I hide at your house please?

Of course you can hide here son. Pattaya cops will never think of looking for you all the way up here.

Now you go into the kitchen and make yourself a nice cup of tea, and I will see who that is pounding on the front door.

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

He reportedly started shooting at security first but was cut down himself in a hail of bullets. 

Pattaya experiencing an entirely new form of Boom Boom then.

And if he started shooting first then he got what he deserved, although those that shot him might be able to claim self defense, I am sure they will still have some explaining to do about why they were also armed. 

29 minutes ago, webfact said:

The YouTuber says in the video that he is "on tour". 

Well I hope he has had the good sense to continue on that tour well away from here. If he wasn't screwed in the massage shop, he most certainly will be if the cops get their hands on him.

I just wish that for once he could find it within himself to say "Sorry folks, I got that one wrong." It is a perfectly normal thing to do for rational people. Doubling down on lies and mistakes only makes him look even more stupid, if that were possible.

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

His victim turned out to be a former boxer who turned the tables on the thief and knocked out three of his teeth. 

 

The thief was given a right pounding by the boxer turned som tam seller.

Well that brought a smile to my morning. And as for the thief, now with a huge gap in his smile I can only say Som nam na!

Whole lot of missing information here. Released and bail money returned, meaning no charges were laid, then she is supposedly on the run, but found at the original restaurant, suggesting she wasn't trying that hard to not be found. More likely she knew nothing about the prosecutors change of decision and it just took the cops two years to bother going to look for her.

7 minutes ago, colinneil said:

What is all the fuss about?

So a Canadian monk has a bit of nookie, thousands of Thai monks do the same, and nothing is said or done about it.

Indeed. Many of them have been caught doing far worse, drugs, alchohol, fiddling with young novices, so this guy is only a relatively minor offender in the big picture.

This is all very well, assuming of course that the taxi drivers will actually turn on the meter rather than continue to charge whatever they feel like.