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Could it have been all the passengers standing to grab their cabin luggage from the overhead lockers before anybody else that caused a shift of weight which in turn caused the hard landing?

Chinese organised crime.

Use the airfare comparison websites to gain information and then book the ticket on the website of the airline itself.

Upon arriving at the house, what exactly did the police "check"? Did they interrogate you? Did they search the property for armaments? Did they take away your phone and computer? Or was it just a totally pointless box-ticking exercise that has been filtered down through several layers of bureaucracy until any possible benefit, if any ever existed, has long since been discarded and now the only purpose is the photo which will be passed back up the chain as proof the American has been "checked" and the order has been followed.

Apparently it's the kites and Chinese New Year.

I did say Euros. That would be around 730,000 Baht.

That is not the goal of the police here. They pay to join, pay a lot more to join as a commissioned officer, pay for promotions, pay for postings, need to funnel money upwards each month. All opportunities are monetised. A foreigner killing a foreigner is often a superb opportunity. There is no local family to put pressure on the police. Of course, I could answer in response to your question the stress of the uncertainty of the situation, the being locked up for a few weeks on remand whilst the financial pressure is imposed and the cost of, say, 20,000 Euros is a deterrent but clearly it is not justice.

That is so strange it sounds like deliberate obstructing of the process. I suspect they would like you to use one of their preferred agents. The fact that others were rejected may provide some evidence supporting this idea. However I would add the balance failure was not surprising, that is a black and white rule. Surprises 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8 sound deliberately designed to make the process more difficult.

The probable outcome is that in under 6 months, this thug will be back in Sweden or Turkey or anywhere but a jail in Thailand. There are various ways the police can put the fix in but they all involve money. Look at the similar killing of Benjamin Robb in Pattaya in 2018. The killer, Jose Manuel Polanco Jr., 43, was allowed to leave Thailand.

The killer will pay his way out within 6 months. I don't think it will get to trial. If it does, it will be far more difficult at that point for the Turkish-Swede to buy his way out. It will never get that far. There was a similar case of an American who killed an Aussie on Soi 6 in Pattaya and paid his way out. These cases are pay days for the police.

No, but the Western Complex is the nearest and frankly probably only feasible area a tiger could migrate from and find itself in Doi Inthanon National Park. There are wild tigers in Thailand but they have been poached or hunted for a long time, their prey is much reduced and their habitat is highly fragmented. This means viable populations find it very hard to survive. (One or two tigers in a forest is not a viable gene pool!) Tigers in the wild are now missing from the majority of Thailand's National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries.

Safe entry with DTV? That does not bode well for DTV holders like myself.

I am not sure why you have introduced "the bottom of Thailand" into the conversation. There are wild tiger populations in the Western region, Tak, Kamphaeng Phet, Mae Hong Son and probably over the border in Myanmar. Perhaps you could clarify what you meant.

This is very strange. Tigers do migrate in search of territory and prey but I feel this is much more likely to be an unauthorised release as the article seems to hint at. The level of habitat fragmentation and the nearest viable population would suggest it was.

Nowhere in the story does it say they escaped China because it is not a free country. The MO for Chinese working in Cambodian scam compounds seems to be to enter Thailand illegally from Myanmar or Laos and then to exit Thailand illegally into Cambodia and then at some point do the same journey in reverse. Not sure why they do this.