Iron Tongue

I hope they find the Bitcoin memory stick he hid up his backside

The best thing would be to turn Ma over to the Chinese. While China turns a blind eye to most crimes their citizens commit overseas, these call centers target China and the CCP is very sensitive to their citizens having their life savings stolen. If Ma gets turned over to China, he will live the remainder of his life in a hard labor camp, whereas he would be able to buy a comfortable prison life in Thailand.

Sure, blame the victim for providing good customer service at his business. If they were suspicious of everyone and only brought out one item at a time to examine, you'd probably complain that they hated Farang. Sounds like those Aussies came in with a plan to distract, steal, and pass-off to another.

I really don't get it. Why hazard smuggling weed by the kilo from Thailand to UK, when they could simply truck a ton of it over (or under) from Holland? The Dutch know how to grow high THC weed as well. Not that there aren't grow houses well established in the UK. Can someone please explain why ? Seriously.

This guy managed to blow through 43,000 baht overnight before they found him. I wonder if the Tourism Bureau will count him as another "rich" Indian visitor.

Where do you get your news? WHY would ships enter port if there was no shore leave? How would that work? Rather than your silly belief, Pattaya looks on US visits as significant boosts to the local economy. Last year when the US Fleet visited Pats, 6,000 sailors were granted shore leave. Didn't tear up the city.

I remember. 25 years ago, Phnom Penh bargirls and hookers were all Vietnamese.

Was thinking the same and wondering why the bullet has been so sensationalized. I'd ingest a handfull of bullets vs being beaten with baseball bats and metal rods. A 9mm would likely be FMJ or fully jacketed in brass. There wouldn't even be a risk of lead ingestion.

Supposedly, hydro grown weed produces higher THC content. I don't smoke weed, but I've lived in N. California long-enough to hear the "talk". If you know different, then I defer to your experience.

Those burnt boxes and the big tank on the right looks like a hydroponics set-up. No soil, less water, and higher THC %. But I don't see any burnt plants, so it is either just starting out, or they just harvested. It'd need a lot of power to run, so I have no doubt something overheated, or wires got crossed somewhere.

You are thinking like a Westerner, only skim a bit so it doesn't get noticed. In corrupt countries, the "skim" can be anywhere from 30%-50%, even 100% if there are no auditing processes in place.

Oh yes, in San Francisco the businesses are definitely legit, but getting robbed at gunpoint while shopping isn't all that fun, and then you discover that your rental car has been stolen, but worse of all, you step in human faeces while walking back to your hotel.

Not back but the side, from the looks of it. Probably misjudged distances by inches and got his wheel or handlebar caught in a tire and that was that. No way the truck driver could have done anything to prevent this.

Yeah. Eighteen going on fourty. Ick.

My thoughts exactly. It looks like they've decided to slap "AI" in front of everything to sound like they're up to date, but behind the curtains, it's just the same rodents running on their hamster wheels.

Huh? The French guy was the one stabbed. It was an English guy that presumably committed the stabbing, and he left Thailand the same day.

Disappointed. When I saw the subject line "... Phi Phi Tip Theft..." I thought this was going to be about something completely different! And not even one "Just the tip" comment!

You're right! 50/50 it was a Ukrainian that dropped-a-dime on Pavel.

You mean during the Vietnam War and the fall of Laos & Cambodia? Sure! Just GIs coming straight from combat into Bangkok for 2-weeks of R&R "to blow off steam" before going straight back into combat. Nobody ever got into fights back then, never!

Giant lizards are considered a staple food in parts of Mexico and Central America where they're called "Chicken of the tree!" I tried a lizard once, roasted. Nasty.

I'd say the steel lasted better than the Thai concrete.

Another reason why I refuse to ever wear those stupid shower sandals that are so popular with this subset of humanity. If this guy had been wearing lace-up runners, he would have been able to out-maneuver and out-run those goons.

Relax. Dial your outrage back a bit. Those aren't explosives. They aren't even "grenades". Those are inert mortar rounds, probably left over, picked up, from the Vietnam War & all the little messes afterwards. There are no explosives inside, and they don't have fuses to make them explode. It is obvious because the mortars are sitting on their noses where the fuses would be screwed-in to arm them. They are as dangerous as scrap metal. This jug-head probably wanted to bring some souviners home. Whether legal or not, they are not active explosives.

No idea who this guy is. I thought it was a pic of that Jerrod @ Subway pedo.

Nonsense. Just biased political drivel. If you actually know what you are talking about, you'd know that Biden's policies from Day1 caused the rampant inflation to hit the USA and which spread throughout the world. On Day 1, Biden cancelled all the fossil fuel initiatives that made the US a energy exporter. Without gas to fuel a continent, businesses had to fight for gasoline -which resulted in multifold increase in shipment costs which was added to product costs. And since the US was now competing for gasoline, this affected the costs for every other nation in the world. And who really did all this since Biden has the mental capacity of a potato?