The Fugitive

Great helpful info! Thanks very much.

Sounds like the best solution. Fixed gratings over the windows and substantial openable 'gates' at front and back doors.

Quite correct, we don't have any grass or flower beds even. Tiles and potted plants for easy maintenance. Enough space to park two vehicles and an area with table and chairs for karaoke.

Good suggestions thanks. It would take a lot of work to make my doors and windows secure. The local builder fitted metal sliding patio doors everywhere. No bars. The windows are the same type, they just don't go all the way to the floor! They are so low you can step through them. A sliding lever 'locks' them. If you rattle them back and forth three or four times the lever slides to open position. Our CCTV was originally four cameras with no sound. We have since added another four, this time with sound and lights. No motion detection. It must be very unnerving to be burgled when in your house. My Thai mother-in-law's house was burgled whilst the family were asleep. Amazingly, the only things that they took were plates from the kitchen. Bizarre!

Good suggestion thanks. We do have a small one (think it's a Bichon Frise) but it likes everyone and only yaps when it's very happy! Maybe a re-think required!

Family opposite have two sons in their early 20’s. Both drug addicts. Father likes a drink and is light-fingered. He has previously called the police on his sons for stealing. Yesterday one of the sons burgled the house next door to us, a Japanese guy with a Thai wife. They were both staying away from home overnight. The Japanese guy was alerted by motion sensors via his mobile app. They rang the police who caught the lad in their house trying to crack the safe. Police asked us for any CCTV footage but our cameras don’t cover the Jap’s perimeter. Stepdaughter took photos of the cops arresting the lad. Been trying to think how to improve security? We don’t have a safe so that’s one thing. The wife’s gold is the most valuable item we have. 14 year old Acer laptop and 40 inch 5 year old Aconatic TV aren’t worth much. Niece has the latest Samsung mobile provided by her employers plus a laptop, stepdaughter iPhone 8 and iPad, myself iPhone 8 and wife iPhone 7. No house insurance but it’s something to consider?

Interesting, many thanks for your report! Raises the question; how did your Thai doctor know? Suspect he really meant to say that there's no way of proving it (either way).

Defence will go into hyperdrive on this. The mind boggles at the amount of money Astra will put into fighting this case. Possibly working along the lines of; A) Insufficient analysis has gone into defining Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT) i.e. It wasn't the vaccine that caused the damage. B) Jamie Scott was already suffering from a condition of which he was unaware. C) The very low numbers of other victims; try to establish some common link (genetic weakness perhaps) absolving the vaccine from blame.

Thanks for this! 4 days/3 nights is exactly the timescale we would be doing because my Mrs runs a religious goods shop so we have to work around the 'Buddha Days'. Recently hired a luxury van for a break in Laos and we were taken to a Chinese cosmetic/remedies/tea etc. warehouse obviously geared towards tourists where they sit you down to watch displays, hand out cups of tea then make you feel obliged to come away with 4 tubs of handcream costing $100 USD. Fortunately, no shopping malls!

The coffee is calling me! Nothing I have yet tasted in Thailand tastes and smells as good as the coffee in Portuguese cafes. Want to visit Vietnam to sample their's so keep trying to persuade the Mrs to go on a short break to Saigon.

Friend recently retired (made redundant), sold his house in Stockport and bought another in Benllech. Wife soon admitted that when you live near the sea it doesn't have the same appeal as previously.

Not only involving rent. Deposit scammers operate Worldwide in property sales too. Classified ad online. You go to view the house. The 'vendor' tells you he has several prospective purchasers but, so far, nobody has yet come up with any money. He is desperate to move because he has secured a new job abroad. That's why he's advertising his house at a bargain price. Whoever is first to come up with 10% deposit gets his house. Of course, he isn't the owner.

Recommended by a friend because of low cost of living and good food, warm all year around and with the same quality of services we are used to at home e.g. reliable water and electricity supply, public transport options from baht buses to NakonchaiAir plus railways (albeit infrequent and slow). Came for a holiday and indulged myself in LK Metro and also on the more relaxed 'dark side' of Pattaya and decided he was, of course, absolutely correct. When I discovered that my criminal record was no bar to obtaining a Non-O (Retirement) Visa and subsequent extensions I couldn't believe my luck!

Same as Brits then.

Thanks for the info. One is, of course, too many. It would be interesting to know how many were '100% fitted up' by the police. That's slightly different to police being convinced they've got their man according to profiling and gut feeling then suppressing the one and only item of contradictory evidence that would free him. That happened in U.K. Fortunately post capital punishment but the poor retarded guy suffered both physically and mentally during 16 years in jail and never recovered from the trauma. There is doubt over more than one historical case involving Home Office pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury but, so far, the British Criminal Justice system have avoided anyone 'opening a can of worms'.

I broke a tooth and went to a local general dentist who told me filling was not possible and gave me two options; 1) Extraction 2) Root canal, post and crown. She would have been able to perform the extraction but as I opted for the root canal I was referred to a specialist dentist in our next larger town. Fortunately, he decided he could fill the tooth. He could, of course, have gone the root canal route especially because I was already prepared for it. Or, he could have recommended extraction followed by an implant. Ironically, two years later, the same tooth broke again. This time he told me there wasn't enough remaining to do a root canal, post and crown and referred me to his general dentist for extraction. I came away afterwards with a leaflet about implants!

What a logistical headache regauging all railway lines! Interestingly, I understand India uses the widest gauge in the World. Iberian (Spain and Portugal) is apparently the second widest. A railwayman once told me that the speed benefits are not all that great. All I wish for is to be able to travel by FREQUENT and fast rail services between Khon Kaen to Pattaya. Not much to ask for, especially since no more direct flights to U-Tapao.

I was experiencing headaches when in U.K. My GP referred me to an ENT specialist. This was before our hospital had CAT/MRI scanners. X-Rays were taken and the specialist informed me; 'Your sinuses are all aerated'. He could do no more. Eventually, I was advised that the cause was an unnecessary prism incorporated into my last pair of spectacles. What I am pointing out is that a scanner is not necessary to investigate your sinuses. X-Ray's can do the job too.

Slowly is the operative word. Took 3 years for the failed street lamp outside our house to be repaired. That a relative is the partner of a high ranking woman at our TessaBaan and also knowing several workers made no difference. We were repeatedly told we were on the list and just had to wait.

Same with U.K. OK if you already took out your bank accounts and cards whilst in your home Country. I had similar happen with a credit card issued by a U.K. bank. Although I was queuing on their customer service telephone system for 40 minutes or so, the call was Freephone and the issue was instantly resolved, existing card cancelled, replacement ordered and credit for the fraudulent transaction placed upon my credit card account.

Thanks for the information. Definitely shouldn't be happening. The lack of customer service from Wise is disturbing. It should be possible to speak to someone and have the issue resolved immediately.

Stefan Kiszko. Convicted 10 years earlier he could have been hanged. Disgrace that police suppressed evidence that proved him innocent. Stefan fitted their profile so they 'fitted him up'. The police responsible were not prosecuted on the basis that they wouldn't receive a fair trial in the light of the publicity surrounding the case.

Interesting suggestions thanks! As regards deterrent, it's impossible to count how many criminals have been deterred by the threat of capital punishment. I find the experiences of Botswana intriguing. Former British colony, their police continue to this day to be unarmed. However, they retained hanging. Reserved for the worst of all criminals e.g. armed robbers who set out to murder their victim plus any other witnesses. Obviously, the deterrent effect hasn't worked in those cases.

In the case of 'whole-life' sentences I feel for the prison staff. How to manage an offender without any tools to work with? Offender managers use such expressions as; 'give you something to work towards'. What has the prisoner got to look forward to? Absolutely agree that capital punishment should be scrapped Worldwide. Police cannot be trusted. Jury members must be incredibly reluctant to vote guilty where they know the sentence is going to be execution.

Thanks for this! Something I wasn't aware could happen. I suspect many other people aren't either!