jaywalker

It's BS.

Unless the UK is allowed to take its own DNA swabs from the suspects and compare them to what they have from Hannah, it's all a farce.

"Observe?"

It's time for the UK to get tough. I won't say how on this forum, but the UK wields a lot of clout.

Send in the Ghurkas, or a MacArthur, or an Eisenhower.

Where's the Iron Lady when you need her? A Rommel would even do. Monty....Patton.

Yamamoto...

Place is a basket case.... Then again that's the way politics go....Look at Obama.....Crimony....

He should go down to soi 6 and get some relief from his anger.

Dont send him home we need quality here.

HAHAHA!!!!!!!

I know I've been there & done that......PISSED off at the world about something....<deleted> it.

Soi 6 here I cum!

Walk away

I have so many issues with this I can't even list them all. Let's say for the moment that we get past all of the "can they" or "should they" do this questions.

Well, Thais are not very exacting when it comes to anything. Do you really trust a Thai person doing very exacting lab work. Even with highly trained individuals, the false positives on tests like this can be very high. I would not trust them with organization, handling, and potential contamination of the samples. I would not trust them with anything. Legitimately too, I really would not trust them with this sort of work, and anybody who would is crazy.

I would not take the test and just suffer the consequences, whatever those may be. As was already said it is just another way to shake people down, total joke. Tell them to take a hike (refuse with a serious vibe about yourself) and they usually leave you alone ironically. It is just a profit treadmill for them, you are putting up a stink and it is on to the next customer and greener pastures.

I was at the Eckamai bus station years ago, just arrived back from Pattaya, with my then girlfriend. We had been down for the weekend & just had a couple backpacks with us.

She scurried off to restroom as soon as we got off the bus, so I was standing around with a couple packs near me.

Two cops approached & wanted my passport. Told them it was at my apartment.

OK...Can we check your bag? Sure, knock yourself out.

OK, Can we check this bag? Not my bag.

OK, you can go.

... it would be fairly obvious that international respect for the Thai Police, judicial and forensic process has suffered and tourism has no doubt had a greyer shade painted to it .

I don't have a horse in this race however certainly believe the Thai authorities could have handled this much better and avoided the international furore that now exists .

I have serious doubts that the Thai authorities realize anything. If they do they're too scared to speak out. Might make somebody lose face ya know.

Another great is Edgar Rice Burroughs (the guy that invented Tarzan).

I loved the Tarzan series and Wizard of Oz series when I was a very young kid. They had a lot to do with my love of reading.

Yeah Burroughs is great. I read somewhere that he's the guy that coined the term 'Pulp Fiction'.

I had a SUPER BORING contract once, doing project management in Kuwait at a tank farm = I had to sit in my car with the AC blasting wide open 10 hours a day & watch 25 Indians all day to make sure they didn't blow the place up.

I'd download lots of books from gutenberg.org, copy/paste them into Word & increase the font quite a bit as my eyesight is poor, and read them on my laptop for 8 out of those 10 hours a day (I had a car charger).

Who's the guy that wrote How The West Was One? Louis L'Amour???

It was about 900 pages long & I read it when I was about 9 years old, cover to cover. It definitely got me hooked on reading. I recall it made my childish hands hurt to hold it for so long every night : =).

They came out with a TV mini-series of it in 1962 (I just looked it up), starring James Arness of Gunsmoke fame. I saw it many years later. I need to find a copy of that, as it was almost as good as the book. The book is for sale on Amazon.

Every time I read a Thai news story I can hear the same silly sound effects that are so common on their TV shows..

Anybody else suffer from this problem? :-)

Gotta love this place..

EVERY SINGLE TIME....now that you mention it!

What I read is that each tourist brings in 49.14 baht ( Wow ) to Thailand. 860 million divided by 17.5 million. Chinese tourist mostly so perhaps .... Hahaha... What a joke this is and anyone related to Thai tourist industry. Not to mention the guy who wrote this ..... Amazing Thailand

WRONG. Each tourist brought in 49.142857142857142857142857142857 baht!

Which "looked like a lot" to the nicompoop that wrote this article.

The clinic would be manned by experts - which country are they coming from?

Planet Pluto....Oh yeah, they can't get a work permit.

Who cares? They've got plenty of folks that can do the job just as well.

Only thing that could be funnier would be clowns on ice.

Or a bus load of retards on their way to Chuck E. Cheese.

"(he has a Maltese passport) stating that he's not a terrorist! Can Thailand get any crazier?"

I have a Maltese dog & she's definitely a terrorist!

Although it's "mine" I think the reactions and facial expressions are priceless.

Years ago my brother was telling me he'd met some super hot deaf chick in a bar & was going on & on how well she danced.

How could she dance so well if she couldn't hear the music?

Should've seen the look on his face!

They are filling in the reservoirs in Jomtien and constructing condos. (Theprasit Soi 9)

Would they do that if there is a water shortage?

YES ,this is Thailand

You beat me to it.

I was going to reply "Probably"

thanks, altho according to their site the PO is closer and half the price

Probably like most Pattaya websites. It was built a decade ago & hasn't been updated since.

I was looking at the Fair Properties website in 2009. When I called them about this or that rental, "No Hab".

I just looked at their website again last week. The same properties they "No Hab" 5 years ago are still advertised on their website!

Same falangs are really realy annoying a french guy last night was really rude to the staff in 7/11 he kept semanding malboro light menthols but the lady behind the counter didnt know the color neither did he so he held up the line yelling at her till she cracked and yelled at him......

I understand why staff are rude and dont give a shit.

Same happened to me in a 7-11 once on Khaotalo. I think the guy was Scandinavian, not to bash Scandi folks, he was just a rude old fart that could barely speak English & knew not one word of Thai.

The poor lady got tired him trying to say Red LM cigarettes (I couldn't really understand him either), he started yelling, so she gave as good as she got.

The cantankerous old geezer left empty handed. I speak some basic Thai & would have helped him if he hadn't been such a sour-puss.

I told the lady (in Thai) he was a mean old bastard & couldn't even speak English & she'd done a good job. She replied in perfect English "Thank you" & smiled big as ever.

I was glad I could make her feel better after that mean old geezer had been so foul to her.

Oh yeah, nothing against old folks either. Some are nice as can be & some are geezers.

I used to enjoy a quite drive through there & on towards NaJomtien with those wetlands either side with all sorts of bird life & the odd local fishing.

It's a true crime against that enviroment to see those empty monstrous blocks there with more planned.

I see the Cambodians workers fishing there now amoungst the rubbish that has been dumped in the little bits of the wetlands that remain & I feel truely saddened.

Yeah I used take my daughter with me for a drive through there when she was 5 or 6. She got all excited to see a horse or cow or elephant.

Sad to see it go.....

They have already scrapped it. Bangkok post this morning.

Do you have a link to this?

Go to the Post website & type police bribe in the search box.

I would love to hear how TV posters would plan to stop corruption. How would you in a short time get across the message that bribary is not acceptable? Previously i would have said it will take generations, but with off the wall ideas like this something may be achieved. Make the bribers afraid to bribe. Give the bribe takers a good reason not to accept bribes. If it works it might be a good idea. Forget the ideas of morality etc as we know that up until now bribary is accepted practice. I agree that increasing the salaries so that bribary is not needed would be better, but that would take years to change peoples habits.

Maybe this idea would not stop overall corruption, just Highway Robbery.

Offer one of these button hole cameras http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/321376274552?lpid=82 to every 50th or 100th person applying for a drivers license and offer them 10,000 baht if they catch a cop trying to bribe them, and let it be known that any cop caught taking a bribe will be fined 20,000 baht and immediately fired and prosecuted, facing 5 years in the clink.

They'd probably only need to issue a few dozen a year, at random times throughout the year.

Of course that would require planning and honesty from a few folks issuing the cameras, which would probably be typical junk that wouldn't last 2 weeks....Yeah, right, I know. One can dream though can't one?

According to the article I read, they had scrapped it because it caused folks to be suspicious of the cops, which violated one of their "Rules".

Heaven FORBID that the BIB ever violate a rule! Perish the thought!

So now we have sunk so low that we have to pay the police for being honest.

No finer sight in the world than a Thai policeman on the mend, however watching a Thai policeman doing an honest days work is like watching a dog dancing on his back legs, it isn't done well but one is surprised to see it being done at all.

My Aunt has 3 mutts that dance quite well on their hind legs. One must dangle a junk of ham for them to do so though.

I can't dance on my legs very well either, but for 10,000 baht a dance, well....I might get better... Thainess & Thai logic.

Why in the world would you even think, without a lease, that the landlord has to inform you of anything

First: It's a question of good manners, isn't it?

Second: Talking open and fair could help to avoid a lot of problems and/or misunderstandings.

Third: Even without a written lease-contract, you have in fact a contract with certain mutual rights and obligations.

For instance: The Landlord can not just end that contract at his own will.

If he wants you to move out and you refuse, he needs to get a court order.

He might not want to do that in order to avoid an investigation into tax fraud.

I believe that's what happened in my case...

I guess your brain is still in nanny state mode.

In Thailand there are no "the renter is always right laws", even if you have a legal contract, and you may consider yourself lucky that there hasn't knocked a bouncer on on your door yet.

Edit: realised that I was talking to the OP

If he were Thai he'd probably get squatter's rights.

I'd get a new place lined up. The BIB will toss a farang out on his ear........Unless there's a brown envelope exchanged.

'Thailand is free of Ebola.'

Now that is catchy?

Run with it guys, as you would have to be <deleted>##ing geniuses to come up with that one.

Yeah! Reminds me of Thaksin saying Thailand was "Drug Free" years ago.

I hope the Yo-Yo that said that about Ebola was knocking on his head (knocking on wood) when he said it.

Someone right at the top needs to step in quick and sort this out once and for all before this farce goes on any longer . . . or those tourists numbers you are all so desperate for (but continually downplay and deny are important to you) will be dropping even more . . .

The Top Bloke said it was a perfect investigation. So fat chance. The way this investigation is going to end is sick. A total disgrace.

But, but, but...He SAID it, so it must be true!

I just watched a documentary about Germany 1946-1949 today & some of the former German soldiers were "re-indoctrinated" to THINK for themselves. One said it was a completely alien concept to him.

Sounds like lots of folks all over are that way these days, but seem to stand out in this particular case.

If Obama was not so weak, a lot of the bad things happening around the world, would not be happening at all. The bad guys just can't help themselves with such a putz in office. This is their big chance and there are two whole years left.

I've got an update for Jimmy Carter. IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS.

They released them on inauguration day after he lost the election.

He was a weakling. Obama is no better.

Remember all the saber-rattling Khaddafi used to do? He pretty much shut up after Reagan bombed his house.

I've just finished a number of books by Wilbur Smith.

I found the four of them a good read like most of Wilbur Smiths novels.

The only ones of his that I have a problem with are two books in the egyptian series.The 1st two "River God" and "The Seventh Scroll" were fine but I felt he went a bit overboard with the 2nd two "Warlock" and "The Quest".They were almost entirely based around the occult,hocus pocus etc.I can appreciate that the people in the era that the books were set in may have believed in that sought of thing but it does nothing for me.

I am currently reading two books that are E Books from kindle by using the kindle app for a computer.

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FOR SURE! They do not get much better than Wilbur Smith.

I always thought he was my favorite author, till a buddy turned me on to H. Ryder Haggard.

Haggard wrote King Soloman's Mines & played a part in S. Africa's history. He also wrote about 25 other fiction novels, all of which are fantastic.

I'm quite certain Wilbur Smith took a lot of inspiration from Haggard, yet both are very unique from one another.

Another great is Edgar Rice Burroughs (the guy that invented Tarzan). His Barsoom series about John Carter on Mars was excellent (the women never age & do not wear clothes :=).

If you go to gutenberg.org you can find the Haggard & Burroughs novels for free online there as the copyrights expired years ago.

The People Of The Mist by Haggard has to be my most favorite book of all time. Keep in mind, Haggard was writing in the late 1800's so his style is a bit different. Whereas Wilbur Smith will grab you by the nuts in the first 2 pages, it takes Haggard a good 20-30 pages before you get hooked......then you can't quit. The guy's like heroin once you get into his books a bit.

I just read a non-fiction book called Son of Hamas by Yousef Mousab. You see that guy on CNN every once in a while. Pretty good read.

I was blundering around in Pattaya Makro a few years ago, talking to my daughter who was about 6 or 7 at the time, & turned around to see some of the scariest frogs I've ever seen in my life, all piled up on ice.

It was a great big honking table of them, that looked like they could take your thumb off with one bite. I was startled for a second, but my daughter saw me get startled & they scared the holy living crap out of her!

Poor baby. I've gigged bullfrogs in Florida when I was a kid & ate fried frog legs that my Mom cooked. I've ate gator & rattlesnake as well.

I've butchered alligators, hogs, deer, cattle, squirrels, chickens, turkeys, frogs & probably a few other things I either shot or stabbed, but them damned Thailand frogs...........NO THANKS!!!!!!!!

Sumbitches scared me & I ain't scared of nuthin'!