Mr Meeseeks

If you don’t return the card you will be arrested and deported.

Indeed, however, it could have all been premeditated to steal his business and assets. I wouldn't put it past the devious locals to have set him up. To clarify, I personally know of similar cases. This is Thailand, nothing is ever what it appears to be.

You seem to take a lot of glee in others' misfortune.

Yep. I believe someone wants his elephant business and maybe other assets. Folk here can't see the wood for the trees.

You absolutely can settle criminal cases with money in Thailand.

Mentally ill? Hard to tell here.

What a surprise. TiT.

Not saying that is what happened, only pointing out the possibility that many Thais will side with other Thais whatever the circumstances.

You take her to beer bars, and you have a 'proper relationship'. OK then.

Germans would never do that.

On the contrary, I think it is likely they collaborated and he noticed. He's a foreigner, they are Thai and that blood is thicker than water.

Any bar in South East Asia that has visible 'bouncers', I avoid like the plague.

All they are good for. Utterly useless to a man. I remember one cop that loved a photo op, look what is currently happening to him. 🤭

The Police offer that service? 🤔

They need to change the culture of irresponsibility and indifference. The only way that will happen is with proper enforcement and harsh punishments for offenders. Impossible to achieve in Thailand at the current levels of education and development, I am afraid.

This was exactly what happened to me when I bought my Seal Performance. I had to redo the finance agreement because the price of the car dropped by 100,000thb from when I initially went to purchase it.

And one that wouldn’t happen if the rider was properly trained and competent.

They managed to squeeze in a bad foreigner at the end of the article though, even if it was in another part of Thailand and completely unrelated to the original incident.

Not all of us are potless two week tourists like you bub.

Indeed. I was on one of the last flights out, and was stuck in Phnom Penh for several days, until I decided to overland it back. Lucky that I did, as the airports were closed for about three weeks iirc.

Just... wow!

The monorails in Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook, all had issues when they started operating too.

Tell that to Swissman David.

It hasn’t seemed to work so far…

A couple of years ago, we sent a couple of our very experienced offshore crane ops to a well known training centre in Songkhla for the local crane operator refresher training. The training was done in a run down old simulator and the guys were assessed by someone who didn’t have a clue what they were doing and wasn’t even a qualified offshore crane op. This is offshore, which has a fairly high level of crane and lifting safety (normally they follow UK LOLER offshore), so I’d hate to see the level of training crane ops and inspectors are receiving for construction sites. I know it is regulated by the Dept. of Labour at this level. They are all over the place when it comes to lifting safety in Thailand, as the regular crane collapses, lifting incidents and fatalities prove.