emptypockets

None I have my own intelligence. I don't need an artificial one.

Sad fact about kids being run over is that they are often run over twice. First when reversing....hear/ feel the bump and then vehicle pulls forward to check what they hit and runs them over again. I know this from the personal experience of a friend of mine. He was never the same again and his marriage broke down due to the blame game between him and his wife, when really it was a tragic unforseen set of circumstances.

Thaksin will be the unelected dictator if this goes to plan.

That's what has been reported in the media. What do you think the real reason is?

Shame they couldn't both blow the bejesus out of the stupid temple, then they wouldn't have anything to fight over.

No worries. Drifting a bit off topic though. Back on topic the school near the village of Chokchai just out side amphur Sangkha has been hit as has the rual hospital at Ban Dom. Not exactly prime military targets. From the information I have the place is pretty well deserted now so hopefully nobody was injured. The granddaughters were sent home from school around lunchtime when they started hearing gunfire. Too close for comfort. Something young girls shouldn't have to experience. Having said that the wife told me she went through a similar thing many years ago when it got a bit antsy on the border.

I don't drive to Prasat to get to Surin from Sangkha - that would add a lot of driving time. The 'rural road' from Sangkha is the 2077, pretty well a dual carriageway all the way after Loet Arun, through Lamduan and takes about 50 minutes for the drive.

Prasat to Sangkha is the main highway to Ubon. The road from Sangkha to Surin is pretty good after the upgrades over the last few years, but it is a different road.

It's a triangle. Sangkha to Surin town. Surin to Prasat. Prasat to Sangkha. So yes, really. Driven all three roads.

That would not surprise me at all.

Different road from Sangkha to Surin town.

Pretty well the whole of Sangkha and the surrounding villages are on the move. Quite a big traffic jam on the road to Surin, traffic at 20-30kmh according to the daughter in law.

See it's now changed to the Old Country

I thought across the pond referred to someone from the USA. Why would the British embassy be involved. Proof read your made up stories Rooster.

Thank you