Mr Meeseeks

The soldiers will stay in their barracks unless there are militant and prolonged protests from the opposition (see Red Shirts, Rajadamri, 2010). This is so typically Thai though. A shambles from top to bottom.

I knew the guys that committed that crime. They used to drink in Suk Soi 22 in Bangkok. All were Americans, not Brits. The British passport was a fake.

We'll need to agree to disagree. ???? Most are very decent people that have no education and no chance to do anything else. Just curious, what is your experience of working and dealing with Thais at middle management level and above, Thai officials (other than visa renewals at immigration etc.), and Thais at government level? FYI mine is quite extensive. I've worked closedly with the Thai government before, been here under the Petroleum Act as a foreign expert, worked as top management for large Thai companies and helped Thai govt. departments set up management systems and develop their capabilities.

That 'anarchy' was engineered because he conspired with the gangster Suthep to make it happen! Just as they did with the Yellow Shirts in 2006-2009. Cause anarchy to make an excuse for a coup and take power.

His lust and greed meant he could not help himself. Conspired with the gangster Suthep since 2010 to make himself dictator. If anyone thinks he did it for the good of the country or any other altruistic reason you are off your rocker.

Olaf has been arrested in Bangkok.

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Vulnerable, not stupid. Quite a few of Bangkok's most prominent bars in were built with money stolen from British and Australian pensioners.

The despicable dictator Hun Sen allowed and profited from this happening. Sihanoukville has been completely destroyed by Chinese colonisation.

So the Thai Police are qualified incident investigators? ???? I'm dubious that they hold recognised qualifications such as Kelvin Topset etc. As they evidently cannot deduce the causes of road traffic accidents, I very much doubt they are competent to handle something of this magnitude. My opinion only. Happy to be proved wrong.

Why are the Police doing the incident investigation and not qualified and experienced HSE accident investigators?

Wishful thinking I am afraid. I heard exactly the same sentiments from Thais and foreigners when Thaksin came to power in 2001.

Suthep and Prayuth conspired since 2010 to remove the elected government and engineer the situation to justify a coup (not that coups are ever justified).

This is also the way Thais operate in business.

Don't want to incriminate themselves. Hoping it will quietly go away. I recently dealt with a situation like this, won't go into details, but when I made my move there was complete silence from the other parties involved. Not unexpected, it takes honesty and courage to be a man. You would hope they would feel a sense of shame, but I doubt they are thinking about anything other than saving their own skin.

To Thai top management, that is health and safety. All show and no go. All mouth and no trousers. As I have stated numerous times before, health and safety is a hindrance to earning profits in Thailand and thus is ignored, dismissed out of hand or treated as a secondary concern. If there are health and safety systems in place they are often impeded by poor management and supervision, incompetence, arrogance, and laziness. I've seen it first hand at a number of Thai companies. Top management telling field supervisors that they know better even though they don't have any experience of health and safety at any level. Thailand has to get serious about health and safety and start properly punishing companies that are negligent. In the UK the HSE would be all over this with millions of Pounds of fines and charges of corporate manslaughter.

Trustworthy guys, Thai lawyers. Especially in Pattaya.

Yet you judge an entire segment of Thai people working in that industry? Ok then. In my 33 years of experience, those are the nicest Thai people that there are. Genuine people just trying to make a living. It's the ones with ambition, money, and connections that I have dealt with over the years, especially those in officialdom, that are the real danger.

Corruption of the RTP is not an urban myth. It's endemic throughout the force.

Why would mafia officials who are looking to skim money care about the community?

Several of the bars are owned by the Police.

They are but the rest of the bars, clientele, and attitude of the staff puts me off going these days.

Kiwi Resource Protection near Ban Chang also do fire extinguisher refills.

Not surprising. When I went for offshore fire team training in Laem Chabang back in 2016, one of the other guys on the course spotted the fire extinguishers at the accommodation building we were staying in had not been checked for six months! To be honest you would have been better off throwing the extinguisher at the fire, given the state of it. This is an internationally approved training centre btw. ????

Colour of his skin most likely.