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Having just watched the video I have to say that as PR stunt it went badly wrong. If anything it shows how woefully incapable they are at dealing with an armed aggressor. If you are doing it as a training exercise this would be the "slow time walk through" then you reset and the perpetrator actually behaves like an armed aggressor. Pretty sure whoever it was they got to play the bad guy is pretty unused to armed combat, judging by his stance and the way he held the weapon. Even having to be told to run away! No boys, you did yourselves, and tourism, no favours at all with that video.

Not a hope of the police here wearing body cams. If the govt. forced them to wear body cams it would be the most widespread case of faulty equipment in history because every camera would cease to work. Body cams on coppers here would mean a 60% drop in their weekly income

Only problem I've ever had with dogs here it has been dogs escaping their garden/yard and attacking me. Stray dogs tend to shy away, owned dogs not so much. I know why one of the dogs attacked me when it found the gate open. I had previously seen the owners whipping the dogs with a length of electrical cable because they were barking. Doesn't endear them to humans when they are treated that way.

Well colour me <deleted> surprised that those in power don't want togive up their carte blanche power over the country. Could NEVER have seen that coming! (Let's be honest, there are, as yet undiscovered species of dung beetle in the Amazon basin who could have told you that was going to happen!)

Except forthe factthat the ones with themostunpaid fines are usually the ones (especially motorcyclists) who consider insurance a suggestion rather than a requirement, so it still wouldn't be paid. Here's a thought, create a company under contract to the police (preferably staffed by farangs) to visit the homes of non payers and impound their vehicles. You pay the fine you get your motorcycle/Fortuner back,until then you walk.

Not allowed tocall it monkey pox now, the WHO saysit's detrimental to Africa. Which, in itself is a racist decision on sooooo many levels.

Now they're reopening all the nightlife a word of warning, many of the "ladies" may have Covid, the rest have Chlamydia, <deleted> the one's that cough, it clears up quicker.

So, you can advertise and sell/buy weed online but not beers, wines and spirits. Right. Dr. Steven Strange has a lot to answer for, all that f'ing about with the multiverse, he's left me in the wrong dimension.

Maybe we can get away with using masks the way Thais use crash helmets. So long as it is ON the bike it counts as wearing it. So, surely, so long as you have a mask on your person it doesn't need to be on your face? Hey, they set the legal precedent, not me. When in Rome and all that.

Only "social" part about the mask mandate is "social engineering" on the part of the government to keep everyone afraid and subservient and maintain the emergency powers for as long as possible.

Their aim seems to be to knock down the seedier (but up until Covid biggest revenue) areas and build more malls filled with expensive goods and designer names. Okay, for the big spenders that may be a draw but in tourism it's often the quantity, not the quality that sees you through. And anyway, big spenders can find the same big malls in Singapore, Macau, Shanghai and all have something Thailand doesn't, cleanliness. It's all very well having the expensive malls and hotels but they won't work if the big spenders have to risk life and limb on the roads or traipse through rubbish on the streets.

Not really, saw a news report yesterday that said the police are handing back 16 tons of weed theyd confiscated if the preivious owners wanted it. Which begs the question, why wasn't it destroyed? Perhaps they just can't find enough volunteers to open ganja stalls and sell it all for them?

Traffic police near me can't even enforce the rules on their own staff. Saw 2 traffic cops on their way to work this morning with their Desert cam SS caps on instead of helmets. Got to work and watched the traffic cop who was on duty at the school crossing having a joke with motorcyclists who were helmetless, well, one had a helmet...it was hanging from his handlebars.

Of course it isn't. By classifying it as a "Communicable disease under observation" he can justify keeping the emergency powers in place and exerting control over the population. Make it endemic and the emergency powers would have to go and that can never be allowed!

Yep, Covid on the wane so can't blame the "dirty farangs", best hurry up and find something else to turn the local population against foreigners.

And stop dumping paper records when their storage space is running low. No point having strict online protections in place when immigration just dump bagfuls of paperwork on the roadside because their archive roomis full

Maybe that's TAT's plan, bring in the high rollers and tax them on everything they're wearing or carrying. Mind you, it's not unique to Thailand, I've been done by customs in the UK travelling back from Central America with T-shirts and Chinos, all over 6 months old and still in the dry cleaning wrappers. They demanded I pay duty on everything, even down to the painted coconut I was presented with as a leaving gift! The only new thing I had that might have been liable for duty was my watch but they missed that. In the end I had to pay 200 quid (this was back in the 80's) so I paid by cheque, went through to arrivals, found a phone and reported my cheque book and Access card stolen so they never got a penny.

Really? He's in handcuff, on the ground. Procedure SHOULD be to transport them back to the station and question them about where the gun came from. Dishing out a kicking to some prone youths is not doing the police any favours on several levels: 1. It's bad press in a country desperate to get visitors to come here. 2. It does little to improve the reputation for honesty and above reproach behaviour for an already beleagured police force. 3. It makes people who genuinely need assistance far more wary about requesting it from the police which could lead to much worse treatment being meted out on youngsters by the many gangs roaming the place. 4. It sends a message to the youth gangs, if the police get you and you have a gun, use it on them or you'll get a kicking.

Well you didn't expect Thai coppers to give them a kicking uncuffed surely? They might have fought back!

Yep, god forbid you get peckish after arriving on your 16 hour flight and he spots you snacking on a banana! You'll be in a internement quarantine facility before you can say "Covid".

Nah use the rat control method from the Bond movie. Grab them all and dump them in a deep pit. Eventually they'll eat each other until there are only 2 left and all they'll eat will be dogs so you let them out on the streets to clear up the rest of the strays. ???? ????

Very misleading headline. They don't want to know what expats don't like, they want to know what they appreciate and how much. Perhaps better if you rephrased the questions to match the headline, e.g.: Visa and immigration - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 p'd off beyond measure happy

And the rest! I was still carrying one on operational tours well into the 90's. In fact they kept using it until the Glock 17 came in in 2013.

She knew the gun was loaded because she says she picked the round up off the floor. The Questions that need answering are: 1. Why did she load it into the gun. 2. What the hell was the instructor doing that he didn't see her load the gun. 3. Why was she even handling the gun if she hadn't yet learned not to point it at anything she didn't plan to kill. I've been to that range and it's not a big range, so somebody must have seen her load it and aim at the guy.

Amazing how his rank keeps popping up, considering he retired from the military. Okay, so he still lives in a General's house on a military camp and the press refer to him as General Chan-a Cha regularly, but he's not military any more.....honestly he's not. ???? ????