RobU
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Here's a thought, why should they risk their lives for peanuts? Low wages, debt having to buy their own equipment. I don't know about police widows pensions and disability pensions but I'll bet they are virtually non existent
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1. Pay a decent salary 2. Supply all equipment required to do the job, free of charge. (I understand traffic cops have to buy and maintain their own motorbikes, I don't know if they have to buy their own uniforms) 3. No on the spot fines, all fines must be paid at the court. 4. All weapons to be supplied by the force and checked and maintained by an armourer. When a policeman is retired, sacked or suspended all weapons should be handed in and accounted for. 5. Proper investigation of corrupt practice by an independent authority Policing can be a dangerous job police run towards trouble when prudent citizens run away. Police officers can feel alienated from the people that they protect and think they may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb so start taking bribes.
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Thai woman seeks refuge in temple after being beaten by Austrian husband
RobU replied to webfact's topic in Pattaya News
You have a point. Hope against hope that she will change and she continues her behaviour. Exactly the same as the beaten wife syndrome except it is the man who constantly forgives and tries to make things work. Beaten women sometimes resort to poison of abusive partners men in a similar situation tend to be more spontaneous they crack up and use their fists. -
According to other sources bits fell off (again) and damaged a car and a motorbike. Parts of the system were found scattered over the road below. I don't understand how the owners of this company and other big businesses get away with poor maintenance and dangerous installations. One day there will be a major incident where one of the trains details and falls to the ground
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Foreign woman criticised for urinating on Bangla Road, Phuket
RobU replied to webfact's topic in Phuket News
Foreigners always taking the p****, should be deported immediately. -
Mayor's Deputy Arrested for Extorting 20,000 baht from Employees
RobU replied to webfact's topic in Central Thailand News
What is it with well educated Thai's? They are given authority and high social position and immediately start using it to extort and abuse those they consider inferior -
Pickpockets theft of Norwegian-Thai couple was karma, say cops
RobU replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
If true, this is a prime example of corrupt and lazy policing. Police officers standing around 'being policemen', not doing any actual work -
It seems that usually the only way to get the police to do something is to 'play the social media card' so yes I agree otherwise the jerk woman would have been allowed to get away with it since her boyfriend had already tried to 'negotiate' with the police and if not for the furore on the internet his 'negotiations' would probably have been successful. The russian woman did something dangerous to a pregnant woman. I don't think she kicked her I think she knee'd her in the groin
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I hope you mean that the Russian woman was a jerk, not the Thai shopkeeper
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Interesting that the language of the article portrays them as naughty boys rather than disrespectful vandals who engaged in a pre meditated action designed to cause offence and anger and get them noticed. They initially bought the spray paint then chose a target then posted a video of their actions
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Possible diversion tactic. When I see political outrage like this in the news, in any country not just Thailand. I look for what appear to be minor news items which are 'overlooked' in the feeding frenzy. These 'minor' items often have greater impact or are more outrageous but are deliberately played down.
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Seems like he has uncovered a can of worms and those corrupt officials he has targeted think they have teeth
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Thai MPs score controversy with illegal match stream in Parliament
RobU replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
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Rouble trouble: Russian woman fined for assaulting pregnant Thai
RobU replied to webfact's topic in Koh Samui News
True, and I would make the same complaint about such lenient sentences elsewhere. Case of a British woman graduate being given a lenient sentence because a stricter one would have affected her job prospects or the American undergraduate who was basically let off after raping a woman. It tends to be money and/or educational status in the west. -
Rouble trouble: Russian woman fined for assaulting pregnant Thai
RobU replied to webfact's topic in Koh Samui News
It's a Swiss guy not Swedish -
Rouble trouble: Russian woman fined for assaulting pregnant Thai
RobU replied to webfact's topic in Koh Samui News
Wrong, she could have caused the pregnant woman to overbalance, fall and damage the baby or go into labour. At that stage a woman and baby are very vulnerable. She is a selfish little girl. I would suppose that the judge was male, treating her as a little girl, feeling sorry for the daughter of a wealthy foreigner having problems with her period. The boyfriend already tried to influence the police, probably this time he succeeded with the judiciary. -
Missing Canadian found dead at central Thailand railway station
RobU replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
400 baht per day is the proposed minimum wage it remains between 325 and 350 per day depending on the province. Small subcontractors rarely pay minimum wage, a man desperate for work will not complain. Often employers include meals as part of the employment and subtract the inflated cost from the employees wages -
Missing Canadian found dead at central Thailand railway station
RobU replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Just a theory He sat on the platform between carriages with his legs dangling over the side. He took his shirt off because he was sweating. His legs hit the partial construction at the side of the track (which was not a problem if he had kept his legs in). He was dragged off the carriage platform by the force of the impact. He managed to crawl under the track platform where he died. I suspect his shirt will be found either on the carriage platform or somewhere along the track where it was blown off by the wind or dragged off with him. RIP -
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Good for you, but mine will not accept a Bangkok Bank debit card
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Russian woman blames period for assault on pregnant Thai shopkeeper
RobU replied to webfact's topic in Koh Samui News
I seriously doubt what you say. If you had been coming here for years you wouldn't be so disrespectful of Asian custom and practice. You are trolling l, trying to start an argument. How old are you? Probably under 16 years. You probably think you are very clever having developed an on line persona but your language gives you away -
Thanks Steve my bill is due within the next few days. I will try it. Do I select iBanking from within the PEA app?