Dolmance

Anyone who is worried about rich people carrying a fake Gucci bag or sunglasses in Europe or the Americas, should book an appointment with a psychiatrist. This is a law that Thai police, and police everywhere actually, should just go passive/aggressive and refuse to enforce. I´d much rather see someone in Thailand being able to put food on the table, than some gringo being offended because someone else is walking around with a fake Gucci.

I've never been on a Harley, but experiencing a hair raising commute on a tiny little motor scooter for over an hour each way to the University in Chiang Mai for several months, and nearly crashing more than a few times, I would have done anything for a big fat motorcycle, no matter how loud it was. I can´t believe I actually survived that commute without having a serious accident and waking up in an emergency room.

Obviously I can´t speculate what this fellow was doing in this particular neighborhood, but most of the foreigners in that part of town are `tricks,` using economic power to sexually exploit young females. I´m sure it gets annoying, especially to a little girl who has to live in that environment, and whom I have no doubt has seen more than her share of extremely repulsive foreigners on their worst behavior in that part of town. I know for sure her behavior would have been seriously frowned upon in the Thai boonies where I spent about a year. See, tricks, well, they get treated like tricks. Doesn't matter if it´s Thailand, New York or Timbuktu. When your 18 year old sister, or your friend's sister is getting banged on a daily basis by grossly overweight and supremely unattractive septuagenarians pumped up on too much alcohol and Viagra, and waving around way too much money, you become intimately familiar with the attitude known as contempt.