VanHelsing

Let's rephrase the title so you guys will clearly understand what exactly happened...

"Red light district confuses alleged drunk driver into taking out Phuket power pole dancers"

same kind of news i heard from a friend hearing it from her favorite fortune-teller she pays for playing solitaire...

me thinks ngc and discovery will make good business from this "thai expert"...

Is april fools joke a month-long activity?!

poor soul...

he's not supposed to be involving himself in the first place, less sporting a red guard shirt...

what he said were all but lame excuses. i guess he's now rushing on his flight out of the kingdom as we discuss his stupidity...

I agree that the Red Shirt leadership were foolish in not accepting Abhisit's compromise without trying to attach ridiculous conditions, but fail to understand how their surrender yesterday meant they abandoned their followers. Were they supposed to encourage their followers to fight to the death?

This is a stupid and irresponsible editorial.

This is NOT a stupid and irresponsible editorial.

If you are closely following the events in the last few days, there is a very clear sign of these Red Shirt demi-gods losing their grip on their radical members. I guess this is the same reason why their stupid proposal for a ceasefire was denied as they cannot even guarantee that they can stop the monster they unleashed.

Oh and of course, I guess you also missed the point when the red radio incited their brainwashed zombies to torch their own country to ashes right after the 2 poor pawn-leaders decided to surrender. Couple it with the red shirt God's recent rhetoric in CNN - "I am NOT a Red Shirt leader"

I wonder what happened to Dr. Weng Frankenstein who said that putting a child over the barricades is A-OK as long as the parents consent on it.

Checkpoints = Extortion

I have been driving my motorbike around central Bangkok for a year now but these past few weeks have been the worst so far. Getting trapped on those midday checkpoints particularly over the weekends, Sundays in particular, and being extorted by these damned "ping-pong boys"!!! These "highway robbers" always start setting up checkpoints around the Sathorn-Narathiwas area.

Once these traffic police starts to know that you are a farang, oh boy, negotiation starts at 500 baht depending on your violations. My 1st violation was a missing left-side mirror (after being stolen at a carpark) and the officer, which has a ready-made english flashcard of offences, kept on pointing to me my violation as - "Vehicle not roadworthy --- THB 400". The 2nd one, 2 weeks after, was "driving at the right side of the road" and stupidly missed seeing the checkpoint ahead before I prepared myself for the next U-turn. Both negotiations ended up at 200 baht.

Both these checkpoints happened on a Sunday at around midday so it may be worth taking note of. I would assume these robbers are planning a lunchtime weekend party as I noticed them manning the checkpoint in full force