Expat Tom

People travel to learn new cultures and have new experiences. Maybe he should have spent the night with her/him. He might have enjoyed it. Who knows? Maybe he knew he was taking a ladyboy to his hotel and sobered up or lost his yearning for adventure when he got to the room. : )

Every time I hear crap like this I pray that he isn't an American.

Much of my career was spent as a transportation safety consultant. My specialty was high way safety analysis and accident analysis. Thailand may not have the most dangerous traffic situation in the world but it is certainly one of the worse. Basically there are three root causes for traffic accidents: 1) Poor engineering, design and construction to include signage. 2) Poor driver education and licensing 3) Poor law enforcement. In 99% of accidents one or a combination of these causes are involved. You are in danger just crossing the street in a designated cross walk and there are very very few stop or yield signs. If there were stop signs the Thais would just ignore them. If you live here, look around and form your own opinion.

Part of the local color? At least it isn't a drunken farang trying to sucker punch another farang.

REALLY!!!! Wow! I have live here for 15 years , I thought that it was always legal! Can I ask for a refund for 15 years of bar fines and money given to ladies because of their sick buffalo in Isan?

This country is run by inept stupid people. I have live here a long time it is nearing my time to go. I am 90% sure that I will be here for New Years 2025 and 99% sure that will be my last New Years in Thailand.

If there is ever a war I would not want Thailand as an ally. They would either accidently shoot themselves in the foot an become a liability or even worse, shoot you accidently in the back. I have owned two condos there in the past. I would never buy property here again. The country is inherently too unstable and run by a cabal of people in BBK with questionable intelligence.

Open and shut case to me. It would be interesting to know how the enveloper was....Thai?....Chinese? ....Where did he money come from. Anyone want to make a small wager that if the Chinese were the principals they were likely the funders... AH! How the Bangkok Buffoons love the Chinese.

The nationality of the foreigner was not given but with the HUGE percentage of Russian there the odds are....??? I lived in Phuket 10 years ago. I will not visit Russia, Ukraine or Phuket today. (Interesting side note; Check out transparency.org / world corruption index. Ukraine ranks 104th, Russia ranks 141st and Thailand ranks 108th out of 180 countries.) don't kill the messenger. https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2023

Cutting the head off would be a good start. The snake might stop if its head is dethatched from it body. I likely would have not escaped into the swamp with its head gone. DUH! And please spare me, if an animal comes out of a swamy to attach a human it should never have the opportunity to do so again...ever. Kill the damn thing!

The Thai police are just too polite and reserved. The USA is not a model for behavior and decorum. That, among a long list of other reasons, is why I don't live there. However, the police there would have Tased these two drunk <deleted> and got them off the street and into the lockup after they refused lawful orders to stop in a few short minutes. . By the next day they should have been on the plane back to the land of kangaroos and forbidden from returning the the land of smiles for ever.

I'm done with Thailand. I have been here for 15 years. According to "transparency.org" Thailand ranks 101 on the world corruption index. This country has millions of wonder people but it is run by idiots. It is s kleptocracy. This stupid move will bite the Bangkok Buffoons in the butt. If the leaders here fail to realize that the are competing for expat dollars and that there are MANY MANY other options around the world then they are truly naive. How to they propose that they discover my overseas income...???? Truly ignorant.

As a former corporate recruiter (head headhunter) we had develop RIL (Reason For Leaving, other than money, to entice a candidate to leave a job to work for our client. I have lived in Thailand for a long time and love my time here but my "RFL" list grown daily. Thailand is truly a wonderful country run by idiots. I high speed railway to China? Just what Thailand needs, a quicker way for hoards from the North in invade and bring gifts with them like Covid-20. It is not a conspiracy theory. It is a FACT that the first case of Covid 19 outside of China reported outside of China was a Thai taxi driver that carried some Chinese guests from the airport to their hotel in Bangkok. Thailand doesn't need a high speed rail link to China. Thailand need to build a wall on its Northern boarder. My "RFL" list grows as I work on my exit plan.

Obama runs America and Taskin runs Thailand. There is no democracy in either country.

HAHAHAHAHA! What a joke! Who is actually running the country. How naive do the power brokers in BBK think the Thai people are?