paul1804

if you dont mind telling me what was his sentence?

Like most countries its not usually the legally issued firearms that are used in these shootings, its the illegal ones! Not including the USA!

Are we looking at the same picture? I see 4 red in colour shot gun cartridges in the picture, that is not "Full rounds of ammunition" just 4 cartridges!!

Juvenile or not, he should be treated like an adult given the nature of the crime!

He should start by sacking all those useless senators getting paid 120,000 a month

They are saying 6,000 for biopsy and polyp removal which is on top of the price for a colonoscopy! Most hospitals in Thailand will charge you somewhere between 18,000 & 25,000 for the procedure plus extra for the removal of polyps and a biopsy. Bumrungrad and some may charge more but thats the range I got last year from 3 BKK hospitals.

Bangkok Hospital Samui quoted me last year 40,000 plus extra for polyps etc. Some hospitals try to get you to overnight which is BS so dont fall for that one unless of course you have other health issues which may be a factor. You will be put under for the procedure so may wake up a little groggy which means you probably shouldn't drive until you have eaten and feel normal.

Sadly sometimes yes but many because its easy money! Why be a hotel worker where you earn 12,000 a month when a good looking "working girl" can earn many times that with far less effort. For many of these ladies ethics doesnt come into it!

You mean the "smiling assassins" who say see my beautiful smile while I overcharge you! They are dining out on history long past!

The longer I stay in Thailand the more I realise that telling "porkies" is a cultural habit!

I presume his legitimate salary is the lesser of the packages that come with being almost at the top of the food chain!!

In normal circumstances I will only take metered cabs, I had a flight to catch and was in a hurry, opportunists!!!!

I had the exact same scenario last year in Bangkok, I got charged 300 Thb and told it was a 20 minute drive to the shopping mall, less than 5 minutes later he stops and says here’s your destination which it was. So I asked him so why is a less than 5 minute drive a 300 Thb fare and he answered, today Sunday no traffic! I said to him I suppose that’s welcome to Thailand taxi driver ripoffs and he laughed! sadly they are too short sighted to realise long term they will be the losers and the authorities do little to fix the problem except talk about it.

This incident is almost as comical as reading the comments posted here! It was a Chinese tour group on board so almost definitely a Chinese owned bus with a Chinese level of maintenance, add that to a "Thai driver" anything is possible!

Encroaching would probably be the only reason RTP would bother and of course to get the picture taken showing how great they are!

It is a pointless excercise and there are possibly a few Thai's that realise this but they like to "think" they have control of us aliens, the jokes is on them and thats why they need new leaders like Pita to enlighten the clowns who currently make these rules.

Any thing can happen in LOS, simply unbelievable how screwed up many people are and what they accept!!!

How does he propose to either reform or expell 95% of Thailands Law enforcement and those in places of authority ??

So a Police General who is obviously a receiver of "brown envelopes" is the newly appointed education minister!

That doesnt sound like a very inviting scenario for new long term residents & retirees to me!!

Its just another reality check on the level of corruption in Thailand which is not just in the RTP and its probably going to get worse!

You are correct but Thailand and its neighbouring countries have and will always be like that unless the people demand change which would mean confronting the corruption from most leaders past & present including the military and the RTP & enforcing reforms. If Taksin had no money we all know where he would be but he may be genuinely sick. He was a man for the people and he didnt knowingly or intentionally kill anyone like a number of other high profile people with money who are not behind bars!!!

No, just castrate him, there is no excuse for that type of behaviour so without testicles he will not be able to repeat that act. Probably she is not his first victim, the guy has to be sick in the head given her age!

It sounds like the Russian mafia are handing out brown envelopes in Phuket !!

Thailand continues its love affair with China, the only foreigners happy about this is the Chinese tour operators in China & the Chinese partnered Thailand businesses here in Thailand. This will increase the number of the "cheap Charlie" Chinese tour groups which is exactly the tourists Thailand says they want to discourage. The wealthy Chinese will just pay some agent to expedite their visa process and come anyway which in my view is who they should be targeting.