ThreeEyedRaven

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

This arrangement with the vendors is clearly not working and is causing trouble, they reported. 

I suspect any arrangement made is not going to work as too many of these beach vendors are simply driven by greed. Much as a significant chunk of many businesses countrywide involved with tourism.

Sadly, addiction to online games and LINE is growing rapidly everywhere, and Thailand is no exception. Netizens were rightly up in arms over this, but think how much worse it would have been if the guy had died due to the nurse being distracted. This should be treated as a lucky near miss.

For workplaces, especially those where absolute attention to the task at hand is concerned, management really needs to draw a line in the sand and stop its use completely. Same goes for the roads, where you see people on the phone continuously, without a thought for the danger they are creating for themselves and others.

Ordering this to be fixed in 7 days clearly shows he does not have the first clue about the issue. I look forward to his excuse in a weeks time when things are about the same as they are now.

I don't think many who live in Pattaya use the beach, as no one likes swimming amongst a bunch of turds and the film of diesel from the marine craft. If I am going to the beach, I head down to Sattahip, near the naval base, just past Utapao airport. Clean sand, clear water and no beach vendors pestering you every five minutes.

I find this totally hysterical. We have a sitting president with numerous cases against him involving sexual episodes outside marriage, and who freely admits to grabbing women by the pussy, but some want to crucify Joe Biden for alleged behaviour of a far lesser nature. Some people who continuously accuse the other side of double standards should examine their own man before throwing mud.

1 hour ago, P Funk said:

Candidate for Father of the Year Award.... how could he not know about their mother’s abusive behaviour and still he leaves them with her... especially after the deaths of the other kids. And now that the kids are with the authorities, he makes them wait until the 8th to collect them?! Top flight parenting at its finest. They should find another relative or allow adoption rather than return the kids to THAT kind of negligent father! He should be ASHAMED!!

That has to be a candidate for worst and most ill informed post of the year. I am going to give you a couple of links to the original story, after reading which, it is you that should be ashamed. The father had been in an acrimonious fight for custody and his ex wife denied him any access whatsoever. When his son died, seeing him at the funeral was the first time he had been able to see his face in four years. Mother allegedly a drug user. She refused to even allow him into see his kids in the hospital.  And as for him collecting them on the 8th, he is not in the country. Do you know what documentation he needs in order to do so, or how long it will take him to collect it and get back to Thailand? No, you don't. There were also comments at the time that funds given to help the kids were taken by the mother. And yet you brand the father who reportedly tried everything in the custody battle a shitty, negligent father. Ashamed yet?

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/want-know-killed-kid-swiss-dad-speaks-children-plunge-balcony-thai-ex-wifes-care/

https://www.asiaone.com/asia/grief-stricken-mum-receives-5-year-old-sons-body-after-bangkok-balcony-collapse

32 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

PROSTITUTES working in the world’s sex tourism capital have been accused of using fake certificates saying they're HIV free.

Have to confess to having been with more than one over the years, and not one has ever offered me a certificate, real or fake and neither have i ever asked for one. TBH, at the time my mind was probably focused on more pressing matters, if you know what I mean.

Why do I somehow feel that this is just lies to support previous lies?

6 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Driver Paitoon Chaisombat, 40, said he swerved to avoid hitting a truck in front of him and lost control of the bus. It skidded off the rain-slicked road into the ditch.

What he really means is that he was driving way too close to the vehicle in front of him, with a total disregard for the weather conditions.

This is the sort of idiot who should be riding in a bus to work, not driving one for a living.

8 minutes ago, sweatalot said:

seems you don't want to understand. Trying to escape a police checkpoint is always highly suspicious. Police could not know if he was a harmless lawless Thai just trying to avoid a fine - or a wanted dangerous murderer trying to avoid arrest.

While I understand your point, I can't recall ever hearing of a serious criminal being arrested at a routine checkpoint. 99%+ of those trying to evade a stop do so for minor reasons to avoid paying the cops money. That aside though, there has to come a point at which reasonable levels are used by the cops to stop that person riding off. Smacking anyone around the head when they are on a moving bike can kill. If we take the stop people breaking the law at all costs, where does it stop? A cop shooting at your car for doing 45 in a 40 limit? After all, all they need to catch up with you later is your registration plate, so there is no reason to be excessive..

Sure these people should have stopped, but which is the greater lawlessness here? Not stopping or hospitalising a toddler?

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

He was hailed as a fine man doing everything for his daughter while he claimed that his wife was unfaithful and lazy. 

He would probably have been better advised taking the praise on offer, but keeping his mouth shut about the wife.

She may well not have said anything if he hadn't decided to lay it on thick and slag her off.

Now he has gone from hero to loser.

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I'm more worried about the blatant racism Thailand shows towards white people.

Racism is alive and thriving here towards all foreigners, especially the neighbours, who are considered less than human by many Thais. White folk are kind of tolerated, though definitely not loved, but clearly there is a mindset that dark skinned people are almost universally not wanted. Judging a book by its cover I believe is the term.

2 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

Usually the goal, when Thai cops deal with fleeers, is to knock the bike over. They often do this by kicking them off. Volunteers are even worse as they are totally untrained, eager to prove themselves and younger and more impetuous.

 

Fleeing a checkpoint is a risky business. You have escalated the issue with the police. Thai police are irresponsible and unaccountable so if you choose to escalate with them, you are taking a big risk. Notice how the husband continued to escalate further by fighting with the police and then fleeing for a second time. You cannot count on the Thai police to be concerned about your safety.

 

Bad decisions all round.

I agree with virtually everything you say with one exception. The father started fighting with the volunteer cop to prevent him causing further injury to his child. When your child is in danger, the overriding priority is to protect and to me the father is quite correct to do what he did. In fact I would go so far as to say the cop was lucky that he didn't get beaten to death for striking and seriously injuring a baby. 

6 minutes ago, taichiplanet said:

he should've announced that before the election, then he would've won by a comfortable margin!

Without even having to cheat. Could have been the best promise by a politician ever.

Excellent news that vicious thugs are going to jail, but realistically, how are they going to be able to pay the compensation? A 20 and a 24 year old pair of scumbags are unlikely to have two brass cents to rub together, and they won't be earning much in jail. In the meantime a man is crippled. When will the state pay such compensation and then pursue the miscreants for repayment?

With all the bad press about election irregularities of late, it is indeed nice to have something to make the whole nation happy once more. If only he had never started in the first place, what with his shit awful songs and utter claptrap which anyone with a third of a brain could work out was a pile of lies and propaganda.

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

A one on one fight broke out in Soi Yen Sabai, Pattaya, after a 45 year old Thai man saw an Omani national talking to his girlfriend. 

Well that makes a change from six on to one. By all accounts the Thai man was drunk and obviously jealous. 

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said that the Thai man had grabbed him by the neck and pushed him and a fight ensued. 

If he picks a fight after being told there was nothing going on and ends up dead, where does that leave the other fella, who was most likely simply defending himself? 

I can only pray that come the next election day that American voters do not make the same mistake again. Large chunks of the world view Donald Trump as an absolute disaster for the country and the planet. Never before has a president of the United States been so nasty, vitriolic, untruthful and unhinged. Giving him another four years would have to amount to gross stupidity.

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

He also thrashes his motorcycle for good measure. 

Yes, well we have seen this sort of behaviour before, haven't we?

I am not as old as he is, but I have insurance. I would be ashamed to have to put my hand out on a go fund me, or other money raising effort. If you live here you absolutely need insurance. If you don't have it, you should be in a position to cover all of your bills. Relying on the generosity of strangers is just wrong. I do accept in this case, someone else started the funding.

Unbelievably stupid driving by both bikes. If that is indicative of the amount of care and attention of road users up there, I am not surprised there are lots of accidents. A blind man would be paying more attention to what is going on than those two.

44 minutes ago, KC 71 said:

His name was hujanickabollokof


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And his wifes name no doubt, was Nikkas Offalot.