wadman

Your opinions are way off. They were not "making life harder for foreigners". If it was a Thai or Asian customer who punched/slapped the bouncer unprovoked, I'm sure he would have gotten his come uppance too.

Either way, the security guard struck the marine with a lot of force, enough to knock him out cold. The Brit in Pattaya slapped the Thai bouncer hard too, it was a full swing of the arm.

It's not the arguing with the Thais that resulted in the Brit getting a lesson. He took a swing at the head of a Thai. How is smacking someone in the head not "common knowledge"? Is that a "socially accepted norm" too, in Britain maybe? He broke the barrier of respect, decency, socially accepted norm (whatever you want to call it), and then expected to be treated by those norms?

Suggests that there is more to the story. As reported by that fine bastion of journalism, the daily mail: "The 37-year-old said: 'The bouncer became aggressive with me and I said 'do you want to fight me?'. He started fighting me. I came outside and he pushed me to the ground and my shoe came off. 'I stood up and my shoe came off. I stood up and said 'sorry, sorry' and I gave him 2,000 Baht. Everything was OK.'" Were father and son trying to walk off without paying their tab?

I would argue that brain-wise, that has happened already. Father sees son pick a fight, getting thrashed even while down. So what does father do? Picks a fight, and gets thrashed while down.

And both in the same weight class, right? The foreigner will be a lot less of a tough guy all of a sudden. It never amazes me how some people think 1 vs 1 is a fair fight, if one guy outweighs the other by 2x, and sometimes 3x.

Unfortunately not a sure thing that it's lesson learned for them. They are well into adulthood, they have almost certainly done stuff like this before, and they still haven't learned their lesson.

In my estimation, the chances that the Brits have learned their lesson, and will not do something stupid like this in the future, is only 50% at best. I really don't care as to what happened to them, and whether it was a reasonably response by the bouncers. Idiots like that don't deserve any kind of respect.

And that's the whole idea behind what some might consider to be an overreaction by the bouncers. By getting their behinds and heads kicked, the Brits MIGHT learn a lesson, and correct their behavior. Any lenient response, and they for sure will not learn a lesson. It's a public service the bouncers are doing.

If a heart attack really did kill Mr Mack, an autopsy would have shown so. Therefore there was no good reason for the accused to panic, and think that they would have been accused of murder. They need to hire a better lawyer, the current one doesn't come up with very good excuses.

Surely you mean frau. Fraulein is the diminutive form of frau.

If the hospital is forced/coerced in letting him go without receiving full payment, then the next foreigner in an emergency will not be treated until payment is received upfront (or sufficient guarantees are provided). I don't see how that is a good thing.

It depends on what lead to the fight. IF (big IF) it is really true that the Canadian was drunk, belligerent, and started the fight, then why would the beach chair vendors want to fight "fair"? Not to mention that average falang is significantly larger than a Thai, how is that fair anyway?

Sounds like he really did walk 500 miles, and rolled another 500 more, just to fall down at her door.

The husband not reporting her missing may not be as incredible as it sounds. Best as I can piece things together from several news articles, this is what happened: - in 2004, Thai wife leaves her husband, goes back to Thailand for 1 month. While there she had at least 1 phone call with her children in England, so they know she is in Thailand. - she then returns to England, but it is unclear as to whether she returned to the husband, and whether he even knew that she had returned to England - if the husband didn't know that she had returned, then as far as he was concerned "she went back to Thailand to marry another man". Which is what he told their 2 kids, and what they believed until the body was identified in 2019 - the son was around 12 years old in 2004 (when the wife disappeared), so he was plenty old enough to understand things. If the wife had returned to live with her husband (and his parents), and subsequently disappeared, the son would not believe that she would be in Thailand. In 2016, the son visited his maternal grandparents in their village in Udon Thani, wanting to invite his mom to his wedding. He was still in the belief that she was living in that area.

The road checkpoint in question was on the night of Jan 4, and early morning of Jan 5. So July 4 should be Jan 4, but you know how it is with the ineptness in Thailand.

The issue with vapes is that so many Thais use them openly. And they are sold openly. Police sees them and does absolutely nothing, if they are Thai. But for a foreigner it's a hefty fine. Implementation of a law in such a way doesn't deserve any respect or credibility. What next? Fine people for jaywalking? 10k for foreigners, Thais go free?

Chuwit had an online call with Mr Sky for 1 hour. Apparently they communicated just fine.

Too sad for words. What the RTP really needs is permission from Singapore, for their police to travel there in any kind of official capacity. If they go, even in civilian clothes, and seek out and talk to Mr Sky, I'm pretty sure they will get arrested. States are incredibly touchy about their sovereignty in this way. For a case like this, where there is no strong evidence against Mr Sky in a serious crime, there is no way they will get permission. It's just all talk on the RTP's part for PR purposes.

It will be both. Turn a blind eye if it's a Thai. Arrest/court/fine/jail/deportation for non-Thais.

She needs to make a skit (a short movie) about it, and post it on YouTube. Bet that would get a lot of views.

It looks like the RTP just might travel to Taiwan after all. To offer an apology and repay the 27k baht.

1. for Thai police to travel to Taiwan, and do police work (even if it is just talking to her) requires official permission from Taiwan. I doubt they will grant it. 2. She won't be afraid of Thai police in Taiwan, she will laugh in their faces.

If she made her statements while in Thailand, then she did run afoul of Thai laws. You and I may or may not agree with the Thai defamation law, but it's their country, and they can make their laws as they like it. But it seems that she made her statements outside of Thailand. For Thailand to file charges, and claim that that specific law applies in this case is serious judicial overreach IMO. It's essentially Thailand trying to control her freedom of speech outside of Thailand. I doubt they will file a case with interpol, it will only get them laughed at.

The fact that the police claims that they have CCTV footage and it exonerates them, but refuses to publish it tells you all you need to know.