Iron Tongue

The dirtiest place everyone has to be careful with are ATM keypads and touch screens.  #1 place where nasties get traded between people.

I'm so relieved that China is sending 2,500 more medics to help out in Wuhan, a city of 11,000,000 people!

I do wonder what actions China is taking to relieve pressures like food availability, water, sanitation needs, fuel, etc.  If the action is just to encircle an area of 50,000,000 people and wait for the infected to die out, there is going to be uncontrollable break-outs by those inside the quarantine zone.

It is merely based-on "perception" of safety, not actual crime stats.  More people are visiting Cambodia so more perceptions are being logged.

Types of crimes are not distinguished so being scammed with a bar bill is considered the same as being razored by a thief or your wallet.  

I'd rathered be scammed in PP than shot in J-burg.

Have you reported your presence to your embassy/consulate yet?  As this is a drug offense and very minor, they will provide no help, HOWEVER, if something does go wrong during your trial and you somehow disappear into the Thai legal/jail system, they will know you are in Thailand and inquire about you.  This is just a back-up insurance policy that will likely never be needed.

So has the TAT rolled-out the "No visa fees for Chinese tourists!" campaign yet?

56 minutes ago, nausea said:

As an example to others, maybe.

That's just a bad movie plot.

Loan sharks are in business to make money not kill people and hurt their cash-flow.  They need to squeeze their debtors for regular payments, which usually just goes towards the interest while the principal never gets paid down and usually keeps growing.  Debtors never get out from under this.  Owning a "book" of these debtors is where the profit comes from, like a herd of cash cows.  You don't kill your herd, maybe just smack one every once in a while. 

5 hours ago, emptypockets said:

Or the debt is sold and the last thing you see is two guys on a motorbike with reflective visors

 After that you don't see anything else

 Ever.

Why would debt collectors and loan sharks kill their debtor?  They want the debt back plus interest.  

Only way is to make the debtor work to pay off the debt. 

In instance posted here, the teacher was likely offered the job as yaba mule to help pay down debt.

Now this teacher/drug mule probably has the cost of the drugs lost added to her total debt.

I agree that it' be easier to keep tabs on son thru his cellphone.  You'll know where son is, not where the bike is parked. 

There are even hidden apps that will also let you record conversations and read texts/emails.  -Of course discovery of you keeping tabs may permanently damage relationship with son!

Very interesting find, from the pic posted, I'm glad (most of) the head is still present.  I feared that the head was already sitting in the residence of some tycoon in Hong Kong or China.

Does "Ice" mean meth like in the USA, or is he called Ice because he's a cold killer?

2k baht each?  Is that the going rate for "short time" with a Ladyboy?

Perhaps these two just had buyers remorse after the fact.

Near Cambodian border across from Battambang.  This probably started-out as a military outpost/fortified village anytime from 1950's-through Pol Pot era of Khmer Rouge, but became purely civilian settlement as military hostilities subsided. 

Thailand took 3 provinces from Cambodia during this time and suffered raids from communist forces into the 1980s.

Have the child sing English songs.  People don't stutter when they sing, as they become more proficient singing, their confidence develops and stuttering decreases or stops.