Mr Meeseeks

I guess they learned that form of discipline from their colonial masters. It does tend to keep the place more 'civilised'.

He went and carried on as normal even after he was involved in an incident in which there was a fatality? ????

Seems to be open season on foreigners now.

This seems to be a regional phenomenon.

Not so nice when the boot is on the other foot eh?

Correct. Thong Lor and the adjoining Lumphini are notorious for their behaviour. They are however where all Thai policemen aspire to be posted as they are in the most affluent areas of the city. ????

Thong Lor Police are a law unto themselves, wholly corrupt and don't care.

Thailand has been a hub for these scams since I arrived here 32 years ago. Most of the big expat bars on Sukhumvit in Bangkok were built on boiler room scam money in the 90's and early 00's. Hardly, if any prosecutions happened and when foreign police forces got involved there were arrests and deportations as a show but the operations kept going and those criminals came back unimpeded.

As predicted, Customs clamping down on imported cannabis from the US and elsewhere...

It is but when have the Police ever cared about the law when they are out extorting foreigners?

I've been stopped and searched a number of times on Sukhumvit, Thong Lor cops are notorious for it.

That bumbaclart never been fit.

This seems to be typical among those in charge here.

It has worked in making certain people an absolute fortune though.

Nothing as fragile as a Thai male ego.

If you are worried about the amount of nutrients get an EC meter. Cheap as chips on Lazada. Feed them 200-250ppm for the first week then up it to 500 for the second week then 700+ for the rest of the veg state. When in flower over 1,000ppm is the norm.

Only thing they can do. Not clever enough to do anything else.

Always, the place is forever going to be like this. Wait until the Thaksin affiliated parties get back in control again, they will be itching to get revenge on the Buriram mafia, and what is an easy way to do this? Criminalise the cannabis businesses again.

Sold as novelty golf ball finders in the British tabloid papers. ????

Pornthip Rojanasunand, Director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science, also defended the use of the GT200 devices, claiming that they were effective when searching for bombs and even nails under water. She said: "I do not feel embarrassed if the bomb detector is proven ineffective. Personally, I have never handled the device myself. But my people have used it and it is accurate every time. Long long time ago, people believed that the Earth is flat and anyone who said otherwise faced execution. Things which are not visible does not necessarily mean they do not exist. The devices are there and no one has the right to ban their use. I will continue to use it." ???? what a ????

A national treasure.

I've commented several times before, that everyone knows he was the one on the take. A bit like the buckets full of toiletries the monks receive as alms at the temple, back on sale next day to more happy customers.

Surely the head of the Army at the time, needs to be held accountable for this? ????

Selected facts: Figures updated in 2016 claim that the Thai government spent 1.4 billion baht on the purchase of 1,358 devices between 2006 and 2010. Even after the efficacy of the device was debunked by Thai and foreign scientists, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, then army chief, declared, "I affirm that the device is still effective." The GT200 case was a unique scandal because the devices...seemed to fool only the people closely connected to their sale and purchase." In total, 14 government agencies were duped into buying GT200s: the Central Institute of Forensic Science (!); Royal Thai Army Ordnance Department; Customs Department; Provincial Administration Department; Royal Thai Aide-De-Camp Department; Provincial Police of Sing Buri and Chai Nat; Songkhla Provincial Administration; Royal Thai Navy Security Centre; and five provinces: Phitsanulok, Phetchaburi, Phuket, Yala, and Sukhothai. The head of Ava Satcom Ltd., the Thai company that sold eight GT200 devices to the Royal Thai Aide-De-Camp Department in 2008, was sentenced in September 2018 to nine years in prison and fined 18,000 baht. The purchase cost the government more than nine million baht. The week previously a court had sentenced him to 10 years in prison for selling GT200 devices to the army for 600 million baht. The judgements will be appealed on the grounds that the GT200s were imported on the orders of the military. The defense claims that army officers approached Ava Satcom with instructions, and specific specifications to buy, import, and resell 535 GT200s to the army.The military men involved have never been censured for their obvious gullibility and possible wrongdoing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT200

Bachelor Degree in Engineering from a Thai Uni probably but die in a drain because...? Answers on a postcard.