jaywalker

Now surely the name of "Kwame Rasheed Jackson" would raise some questions when leaving the US?

It doesn't sound like an American name?

Sounds like a good candidate for president.

This guy was a US congressman.

You got to love these finger pointing photos.

It's Thailand Bro.

Even though the article says "SHE" stole the items, finger-pointing is required to point out the female in that picture.......Ya never know...

Meanwhile you can see Thai clowns in their underwear fishing with nets in roadside ditches all over the place.

Took off her top in the lady's room........THE HORROR!!!!

No video about not defecating wherever the Chinese feel like it though. TIT.

Why take him to the police station and not a psych facility for assessment?

Because....."At the station a translator was contacted"

Only thing I want to know is what clown "loaded" the M-16 with a magazine and who took the grease gun?

Looks like a dent puller & a turkey baster there in the middle.

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If the cops got all that stuff in the first picture in one week, imagine what they'd get if they were police all year long!

Instead of being praised they should all be sentenced to 50 lashes with a wet 2 X 4 & twenty years on a fishing boat for gross incompetence for allowing that much garbage out there in the first place.

Charges should definately be brought against the parents. RIP little one.

There should always be someone watching pools where people are swimming, particularly kids, I mean pools which people pay to use, even if it means charging a little more.

I was at a pool in E. Pattaya once.

The ladder at the deep end had no rungs (steps) on it & the upright bars were loose & flopping all around.

Kids were standing on these rails, unattended (except by me - an onlooker), precariously about to break their necks & diving off them like maniacs.

Some Westerners come to Thailand & behave like retards.

I'd venture to guess that they see the locals doing some of the most asinine things, & they just think "Why not?"

That swimming pool would have never been allowed to open in the USA.

I'm no fan of the Nanny State, but I am a fan of safety at swimming pools for kids.

I somehow have brains enough to watch my kid every second at a pool though without any laws.

I would honestly put a .45 to my head if I had allowed my kid to drown. I wouldn't be able to live with it.

Can you imagine the poor little guy's last thoughts?

So this geezer steals a small "big bike" and goes for a joyride,

not wearing a helmet, threatening people to run them over if

they stand in his way and it's all OK?

Chairman Prayut & his Great Leap Forward.

I made sure my daughter could swim when she was about two.

She's 9 now but I still watch her like a hawk when she's at a pool.

Many, liberal-biased 'news' stations. And then there is Fox.

Do the pale eyes that glow in the night frightens liberals so?

For decades they 'owned' the nightly news. Now that they don't, they cry.

I agree.

I think every bleeding heart Liberal out there should send me a check.

I'm down & out. Send me free money!!!!!!!!!

Andrea Tantaros on FOX makes me want to go practice having babies...

She's hot!

Liberals love Hillary The Hog.

Megan Kelly is an idiot & don't get me started on Greta....Can't stand either of them.

I like Bill though.

local people could still make their living by renting beach umbrellas to tourists at the rate of Bt200 each,

200 baht for an umbrella?

The last time I went to Phuket you could rent a beach bed that already had an umbrella for 20 baht!

But that was than long before the turn of the millennium, decades, lol,

that you have been on the expensive island of Phuket, the Monaco of South East Asia.

I moved to BKK in March 2001. I then moved to Pattaya in 2002.

Back then Google & ThaiVisa.com were still wearing diapers & the info age had just kicked off.

There used to be a rickety wooden pier in Pattaya just north of Walking Street.

A whopping two or three ferries went from it to Koh Larn every day.

Russians were unheard of. I really don't mind Ruskies, just saying they weren't around in droves back then.

A beach chair was 20 baht.

Only folks on the island were squatters. Super nice folks really.

Around 2005 it got developed... The GOVERNMENT came in to HELP.

They completely ruined the place.

He said there were several farang who earned their living from tourism businesses on Phuket beaches and several of them have Thai girlfriends.

Does he mean foreigners?

What a nasty word.

Twilight Zone.

Imagine, if you will.....................

A USA, Australian, UK, German, French government official saying there are several chinks who earn their living with their local girlfriends as fronts.

I'm sorry, but if this isn't entertaining, I don't know what is.

I'm curious as to what Liberal TV show, shows ignorance of the general populace like this?

Filmed in 2014. USA debt was $16 Trillion.....It's now $18 Trillion.....Yeah, government is the answer to all.......Right.

AND......I hear crickets chirping.

Still waiting on a Liberal news/entertainment show that can buffoon conservatives the way Watters does when he visits bastions of liberals.

Allow me to help out. Here's my man Sasha B Cohen to the rescue (again)....

I'm sorry, but if this isn't entertaining, I don't know what is.

I'm curious as to what Liberal TV show, shows ignorance of the general populace like this?

Filmed in 2014. USA debt was $16 Trillion.....It's now $18 Trillion.....Yeah, government is the answer to all.......Right.

my thoughts also

how can you not see a cement truck?????

I recall reading a few years back about a motorcycle mechanic that was test-driving a bike "at a high rate of speed" in Pattaya that ran into a cement truck head-on. He died at the scene.

Article went on to say that he was driving against the traffic flow, with no helmet, looking at the gear shifter near his foot when it happened.

Cement truck driver fled the scene.

That's one way I've read about on how to "not see a cement truck".

Only in Thailand........

He should have an election next week then and he'd obviously win it

http://youtu.be/CgbhyjuhbX8?t=1m13s

Can you quote the law that says that for any riding you need an Intl DL?

I have one, but in 4 stops (just minor stop/check everyone type checkpoints) I've never been asked for it. Only my home country DL. I was under the impression that there is a 30 day grace period under which you are allowed to ride a motorbike with only your DL from home. If you stay longer, you're then expected to either have an Intl DL or get a Thai one. I'm speaking in reference to the Thai laws, not insurance rules... they may be 2 very different things.

I do fully agree that there are far too many people coming here that get way too comfortable with flaunting the rules and/or their own limits... and end up paying for it. It's not always their fault, but it often is. The vast majority of accidents I've seen foreigners involved with here did also involve someone who was consuming alcohol. And that person may or may not have been wearing a helmet. Lack of familiarity with Thai driving styles + no safety gear worn + alcohol is a bad recipe.

Gear up, ride sober, be very aware and ride defensively... it wont 100% guarantee you wont have an accident, but it will greatly reduce the chances.

It's all fun & games till somebody loses an eye - then it's hilarious!

No, seriously, cops & rental agencies could care less till you get in an accident.

Then it's "What boxes did he NOT have ticked? How can we weasel our way out of paying any money?".....and insurance companies are at the top of those trying to figure out all the above.

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I drove my 82 year old Aunt to the doctor the other day & she complimented me on my driving skills - in RURAL Georgia, USA.... There were a whopping 3 cars around us & we hadn't seen a motorcycle in MONTHS!

She'd have a heart attack on-the-spot if she ever tried to drive in Thailand.

I just told her it was pretty easy to drive like I had half a brain over here, as compared to driving in Thailand.

I always loved the guy. Sad to hear of his departure.

Just glad he went at 83 & not before, like that episode where those flying things stuck to his back & started feeding on him.

That CREEPED ME OUT as a kid.

RIP Leonard. You were a true icon that will never be forgotten.

Please give me the number of the gang if you have it as there is a pathetic yapping thing opposite me that could do with being kidnapped. I would pay good money to have it misplaced.

My neighbor had a poodle that annoyed the life out of me.

If I could have ever got ahold of it, it would have gone the way of the Lindberg baby.

810 days = 2.21 YEARS!

They could have done an overpass in 6 months or less & I've yet to see an overpass flood.

It seems that every day now, some farang is found dead. Makes me wonder.

Just don't wonder into the sea.

"It is believed that the man had had a lot to drink the night before and had wondered into the sea."

I'm just surprised the Bungling Boys In Brown didn't call it a suicide.

great can they only send 4 or can they do 1.4 billion?

I knew somebody would beat me to it.

I was going to suggest it'd be a great idea if they could send them all.

So, is it arriving by road or train? Clearly, not by air or it would have to pass over a few other provinces first.

Just twigged. Probably referring to Surin in Pattaya.....

Or maybe to the Surin Island(s?) in the Andaman Sea???

Excellence in journalism at its best here.