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17 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

Yeah well, he wasn't just filming.

He was being a total and absolute arrogant ahole AND he threatened the bar owner.

You couldn't pay me enough money to run a bar with all these drunk aholes in there.

 

We normally only see the beatings that take place. This is a good video that shows how people can act like total aholes and absolutely deserve the beatings they get.

 

 

Great - so the perfect solution is violence ?

What a laugh with the selection of photo at the head of that article. That place isn't quite ready to transition to bing a clinic :))

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

the inefficacy of current infrastructure investments and highlight the need for rigorous enforcement of traffic laws.

... meaning drivers still ignore pedestrian crossings even though these are painted red and have flashing lights.  - Police should be stoping and fining drivers who charge through these crossings - easy to do and good money to be made!  (But I guess it would cause the mother of all traffic jams because 99% of cars would be stopped.

Better idea might be just to cancel driving licenses after two or three offences. 

Whether the guy on the ground was intoxicated is entirely irrelevant to the fact that the driver injured him.

These are small interruptions in keepling things safe and legal. Good on them for the effort. 
Try living in the U.K. instead where the police have lost the streets to crime and can do nothing to retrieve the lawless situation..  

On 5/1/2025 at 2:26 AM, BritManToo said:

London museums and parks all free for everyone.

How is this possibly relevant?  Economic demographics of the two countries are totally different both internally and in relation to tourists too.  Besides the UK is socialist-cum-communist and Thailand's philosophy is principally self-sufficiency and less state interference.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The issue is magnified by the spread of fake news, with netizens posting alarming, outdated images that evoke memories of the devastating 2004 tsunami.

The ignorance quotient of the average person everywhere these days seems to have risen hugely on the back of a preference to believe any sensationalism and an inability to inquire.

Difficult to know what to make of this.

On one hand there's no indication he had a prescription for cannabis and so was attempting to break the law in seeking it for fun use and getting onto any altercation with a dispensary is totally dumb and arrest is entirely defensible.

The car but of the story is very odd - on one hand he says he had the owner's permission to drive it but then, because he was drugged at the time wasn't aware of anything.

None of this seems to hold water and looks like typical Daily Mail rabble-rousing.

Then his Mum's bit on the GFM page further embroiders the tale of woe with your even mentioning the original altercation he started with the dispensary which cause the original address.
 

On the other hand, IF his story of captivity is true at all  (and how can it be if, as he says, he was hallucinating) the Police concerned ought to be in big trouble.

in my view - based on what is reported - this little angel is not telling the entire story and giving it plenty of "poor me".

28 minutes ago, jippytum said:

Thaksin's human rights record was shocking when he was officially in charge. Little wonder he endorses sending these refugee to a life of hell in China. 

He is also lying. 

USA, Canada and Australia repeatedly

offered asylum for these people but Thailand refuses that and sent them to hell instead.

1 hour ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

If indeed no other countries offered them asylum then it’s all empty talk now from US and EU

He is lying - USA, Canada and Australia repeatedly

offered asylum for these people but Thailand refuses that and sent them to hell instead.

17 hours ago, Purdey said:

Poor Thailand, always a balancing act.

Poor Thailand?  It's what happen when human values are thrown out of the window purely for self-interest.

Another case of people neglecting proper insurance and then expecting the public to cough up......

quote from Daily Mail....

<<<

John said: 'We have two insurance policies. One was for like 134 days, which covered us for India. And of course, we came over to Thailand. 

'What they're saying, because we were in India and then went to Thailand, we're not covered on the insurance policy. 

'The [other] they're saying you get 31 days of cover, which is free, but because we left the UK on November 2, that cover ran out on December 2. We were thinking that would cover us for Thailand, but it didn't.'
>>>
Idiotic - making assumptions instead of reading the policies. (The first was for India only and the other appears to be their U.K. health insurance which gives 31 days instead of the 134++ days they spent away. Basic wilful ignorance.)

If it really was a safety issue, since much is made of safety in their statements, should not the aircraft have landed at the nearest airport which would seem to have been Songkla instead of the long leg back to Bangkok?

1 hour ago, impulse said:

 

You'd have to pay 260 baht to know for sure.

 

You're confusing sex with gender.

1 hour ago, baansgr said:

I wish people.would stop calling africans and middle eastern people British. They are not, never will be and never have been. There is more to being British than having a plastic passport that can be taken away at anytime

You are wrong. There is nothing more to British citizenship than a passport and it cannot "be taken away at anytime".

1 hour ago, Celsius said:

Maybe he was arrested because he didn't run and volunteer the info to the tax office like many scared farang on this forum do???

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9 hours ago, proton said:

 

Where does it say a few days over? could have been months or over a year. Thailands treatment of illegals is better than the UK's as it's far more effective, apart from the odd idiot who thinks the rules don't apply to them.

Read before you comment and with your attitude I hope you get to experience it sometime yourself.

Guilty until proven innocent apparently.

6 hours ago, BarBoy said:

That would depend on where she was crossing the road.

 

At a crosswalk when the lights are on red then yes, that is correct.

 

But as of yet we don't know where she attempted to cross. Pedestrians have no rights at all on main roads unless they use the designated crossings.

I can hardly believe the idiocy in which this is written. I hope the writer does not have a driving license.  - Blaming a road death on a pedestrian and presuming rights of way for motor vehicles over the rights of life of pedestrians.

8 hours ago, tmd5855 said:

Have no sympathy.... Why!!

 

Brought up a son who started smoking weed at "Primary" school, weed maybe safe for adults, but, it does strange things to young boys minds going through puberty.  My other son wanted a padlock on his bedroom door, then they wife wanted one on our bedroom door.  My ex tried to understand and gave hundreds of last chances, I told him that taking drugs would end up in one or two ways, Jail or death.

When folk who are not smart think they are we are getting into troubled waters.  I used all my contacts, influence and money to keep him out of jail.  I were working abroad when 4 uniformed cops, 2 plain clothes came my home with a sniffer dog.   He were no longer an addict, now a pusher, he were not home when cops arrived he were out and told to head straight to the station, phoned me out in Indonesia asking me to fix, told him I cannot fix this time.  I were the bad one.

Done jail time and jail got him onto harder drugs.  UK jails have drugs freely available.

 

On the 29th December 2016, my son took his own life aged 27.

 

No drugs he would be still alive.  

 

Taking drugs is a choice, nothing more.  Drugs never end up well, it splits families and creates wounds that will never heal.

Sympathy with you mate. You did what you could. Reality is that the only person who can fix it is the individual themself. The same happens in alcoholism too - it's just more insipid and slower in killing people.