jaywalker

Oh My Gosh, and I actually thought this was a good comedy forum until the straight and narrow blogs showed up. Take a good look at the photo, one cop is laughing out of control and the others I'm sure are holding it in for the photo shoot. Sorry but this LB is uuugggllly with or without makeup.

Yeah....Imagine getting approached (& probably groped) by that character in the seedy areas of Orlando, Atlanta, Chicago, London, Amsterdam......

Any Red-Blooded heterosexual would clean his clock/knock his block off or at best give him a hard shove the other way.

It's just our natural reaction to aggressive homosexuals.....You can be homosexual all you want...None of my business. Don't grab my nether regions though at first glance.

When I was 18 (VERY young and STUPID), would have been 1985.....I took Carlos-the-translator with me in Panama City, Panama, to procure something illicit.....something that is now legal in Colorado & Amsterdam.

I had to learn the culture though........WOW!!!!!!! That was one scary walk thru a scary neighborhood.

I learned that night (quite well) how to deal with another culture........The culture of slime.

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This incident happened on Boo-Cow road. I always hated it because I had to drive it a few times.

It has to be one of the seediest areas of Pattaya.

It's like Parramore Street in Orlando. Folks go to Orlando to see Mickey Mouse. Folks with half a brain don't stumble around drunk in seedy areas of any city. NOT saying the victim WAS drunk.

There's just certain areas of certain cities, that one avoids.

Soi Boo-Cow is the primary one in my opinion.

If you don't like my spelling of Buakhao, then please reference the photo at the top of this thread.

It's no wonder Thai's believe in the "Phop".......The ghost that eats unborn children.

My Father-in-Law believes in them, so, my wife does too.

He was frog hunting in Surin, and actually SAW a Phop.

The description I got sounded like a Ladyboy on meth and would have looked very much like the charachter in the photo.

That SOB would scare the sh&t out of me in some Surin rice field late at night....

It would be really cool if Thaivisa can follow this story so that we find out the result of it going to court.

I hope that it goes to court immediately before facts and evidence fade...

well done the BIB for catching the perp, this was a violent crime lets not forget that!!

You do not need to hold your breath. If it goes to court, which it likely won't, it will be months from now, and the american guy will not be around to testify. Hence the case will be dismissed, or considered self defence or whatever story the ladyboy comes up with.

The ladyboys (and other criminals) know this, so worst case for them is a 500 baht on the spot fine. Not much of a deterrent, which explains their disproportionately high crime rate

HMMMM? I'm no lawyer, but (in the States), I've heard of something called a "Sworn Affidavit (a sworn statement)", that can be taken now by the police, and used later as evidence in a court when the case comes due before a judge.

Yeah, I know, that's stretching the bounds of logic for the BiB.....and I'm no lawyer, so that's just a thought.

At least they made an arrest.

Also amazed that 20 katoys and motorcycle taxi drivers didn't mob the guy and pummel him into the pavement.

Err....They probably DID, as 13 stitches seems a bit extreme for one whack with a shoe.

I lived for 7 years in Thailand and never had a physical altercation.

I've been back in the USA for 6 months and a guy wanted to fight with me 4 months into this stint. He was an IDIOT, and using EXTREMELY vulgar language around my 81 year old Aunt. I told him to leave the property.

My Aunt had met him at church & felt sorry for him, so had him over for dinner....The guy is a convicted felon & on probation & I never much liked him. He's just off doing 11 years out of a 15 year sentence for shagging a 14 year old when he was 17....Tried & sentenced as an adult.

My Aunt was giving him a free meal every evening & he starts getting vulgar with her = IDIOT with me around.

I didn't fight the guy. I walked away and called the Police. He now has a restraining order.

Sorry for getting off-topic, but....

My point is: It is IMPOSSIBLE to defeat an idiot in any kind of argument, so why even try?

I suppose it is better than the old American Indian joke, "why do the call you Two Dogs F......" 

The American Indian says:

Father, how did you name your children?

When your sister was born I stepped out of the teepee and saw a running deer, so I named her Running Deer.

When your brother was born I stepped out of the teepee and saw an angry bear, so I named him Angry Bear.

Why do you ask me these things Two Dogs F&^%ing?

Anyone who believes they are avoiding living in a police state by living in Thailand are dreadfully ill informed....how much more of a police state can you get then getting arrested for reading in public, I mean isn't that the quinessential "Police State"???...not sure if those are the rules anymore, but anyone yapping about how much a police state the UK or US has become, just remember, no one ever has been arrested or prosecuted in either of these countries for freely speaking about government officials or reading books in public!

In many ways, European countries and America enjoy A WHOLE LOT greater freedom than Thailand, and I never really understand exactly what people are getting at when they claim encroachment of civil liberties by the government, after all we haved faced and continue to face a serious threat from Islamic fundamentalism and if listening to phone calls is going to play some effort in preventing another tragedy from happening, I say go for...it.

As I said, at least at the end of the day, I can walk down the street in London or Washington DC, saying whatever I feel like about Her Majesty or Mr Obama, without worrying about any sort of criminal consequences.....

And when you see an army general breaking broadcasts on friday to give an "update" to the country, I don't know how you can get anymore BIG BROTHER than that

Well said! You make a very good point.

I stayed out of the US of A for 7 years straight though, and decided to come see my aging mother & Aunt.

However, I bring up this point:

“The system itself could not have intended

this in the beginning, but in order to sustain

itself it was compelled to go all the way.”

—Milton Mayer

They Thought They Were Free :

The Germans,1933 –1945

There's no "right" or "wrong" answer to this argument about Big Brother.

To each his own.

Also, keep in mind this statement from 1941 or so.....

Herman Goering explained:

No end of the rearmament is in sight. The struggle which

we are approaching demands a colossal measure of

productive ability…the only deciding point in this case

is victory or destruction. If we win, then business will

be sufficiently compensated… It is entirely immaterial

whether in every case new investment can be amortized.

We are playing for the highest stakes… All selfish interest

must be put aside. Our whole nation is at stake. We

live in a time when the final battles are in sight.

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Kinda sounds like the US "War on Terror".

I would go to hell...that would be any country in the Middle East...no booze...women covered from head to toe...instant conversion to Islam...all the goat you can eat and sheep you can...bleep!

I drank more booze in Kuwait than you could shake a stick at.

I had my wife & daughter with me, so it was cool. I DID, however, hire a full time driver/bodyguard for my wife so she could go shopping while I was at work.

I actually miss Arabic food. Never ate any goat, but the lamb & chicken were pretty damned good with some moutabal & fresh pita bread!

Oh Yeah, Kuwait & Saudi are the only countries I know of where booze is illegal.

I've been to:

Kuwait

UAE

Qatar

Yemen

Oman

Egypt

Jordan

Iraq

Afghanistan

Bahrain

Never been to Saudi, but I hear it's dry.

All the others, well, they have bars you can belly up to.

Yes, Australia is a fabulous destination if you can afford it, have a job, a working spouse or five friends to share with otherwise forget retirement unless you can afford to buy your own home.

Yes. I spent a couple weeks in Darwin once & really liked it. I only had one day in Sydney, but it seemed nice enough.

I've heard nice things about Perth, though I've never been there.

I'm not much on big cities....Can't stand BKK nor Atlanta for that matter. I was in Atlanta last weekend. If I never go back it will be too soon!

Also, I've GOT to be someplace TROPICAL. It's flippin' August here & gets down to 68F (20C) at night, then shoots up to 98F (37C) during the day. Also rural Georgia has the most annoying bugs (knats) of anywhere I've been.......Well the flies in the Kuwaiti desert in the winters are exceptionally annoying as well....

Then again, as I mentioned above, the Police State is alive and well in most every "Developed" nation, which is something I prefer to avoid.

Big Brother is WATCHING You!

Show me your papers!

If you see something, say something!

That last line is remeniscent of what I've read about Saudi Arabia & East Germany, where neighbors were urged to spy on each other.

I would urge the original poster of this question to do a Google search for "Sovreign Man Simon Black" and sign up for his newsletter.

I lived in Thailand for 8 years, and yeah, it finally got to me.

I'm looking into moving to the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean, as they speak English & I can get a passport from there after buying a house.

Then again, I've been a bit of a gypsy since 1998. I'm back in the USA now (southern, rural Georgia). Bit of a culture shock really, but at least I speak Southern (born in Florida).

I got pulled over at 11:15 PM the other night. I was driving my flip-flops (walking), under a street lamp, next to the Montgomery county courthouse, right next door to the Sheriff's Department main office, and some fat lard-ass redneck cop asked (TOLD) me in a very Gestapo-like manner "Show me your papers".

I'd had a few beers, so decided to walk to the store to grab some beer & ciggies.

Pissed him off because I asked him "WHY?" He said I looked suspicious. He ran my ID and it came back "No Wants, No Warrants". He looked like some 9 year old kid that just found out there's no such thing as Santa Claus.

I've spent the night in 45 countries & speak passable Spanish.

One of the primary beefs I have with Asia is the mindset of overcrowding. Taiwan (mentioned previously) is SUPER over crowded & I hate Chinese food.

I loved Mexico. Puerta Vallarta & San Felipe are beach towns. It was 2000, and I passed out drunk on the seawall in San Felipe & woke to a nice sunrise. Not the smartest thing I've ever done, but, it happened & I was OK.

Argentina would be nice. I spent 3 weeks in Buenos Aires in 2001, and a week in Bahia Blanca.

Panama & Costa Rica would be other places to consider, but traffic is mayhem (much like Thailand).

"When in Rome"... people make mistakes, nothing bad happened and because of this the Thai would have thought it a personal attack from the American. If the opposite had happened and the American had been at fault and put his hands together and said ka toot kap the Thai very most likely would have given the same "polite" gesture and moved on. When in a country that has a "polite particle" in their language for both male and female, even if you are in the right a display of anger is considered very impolite.

I quite agree.

As an American living in Asia many years, I have come to realize that Americans are prone to quick anger and

vulgarities. Americans seem to think this is normal behavior, but in Asia if you get nasty and call people dirty

names as a result of some minor incident, it is not taken lightly.

As this case demonstrates, Americans who plan to visit or live in Asia would do well to learn a bit of manners

and civility. Otherwise they would be better off to stay in America.

Could replace your word "Americans" by Westerners

Why does this article even address a person's nationality? Are we not all humans first?

It was an incident between a bicyclist ant a motorcyclist, that escalated into attempted murder.

They can get cheap 400 baht cameras from Pantip Plaza. No need to hook them up. Just put them there for scare tactics.

It's what they do all over Pattaya.

How many times have we heard that "The security cameras were not working" in Pattaya?

2,500 baht??????? Whoever robbed this train was a regular old Jesse James wasn't he?

A motorcycle hit my wife in the driver's door about a year ago. He was illegally passing on a double yellow line, zooming around traffic as they do, and it broke his leg.

She was fined 2,000 baht for violation of right-of-way, and a further 10,000 baht to the "police" otherwise "she would have big problems".........WHY? She has a farang last name.

The cop actually said that to her.

"You have a farang husband. All farangs have big money"

Edit: Oh yeah, the moto driver had no driver's license nor insurance either.

I have worked extensively with the Thai Army, Air Force and Navy (Marines) off and on since 1999.

The Marines are FAR and AWAY more professional than the Army (they actually take their jobs seriously), so there might actually be some hope here.

Many of them (Marines) have done tours with the UN to Sudan & almost every one of them have done a tour in Southern Thailand.

I always see them taking their jobs quite seriously. Every Army base I've been to, well, they are all sitting around picking their noses.

Oh yeah, somebody mentioned seeing Humvee's (HMMWV - High Mobility Multi-purpose Vehicle)......The Navy doesn't have any of those trucks. The Marines have about 75 of them though & every one of them is in top condition.

I enjoyed working with the Marines because they actually give a hoot about their jobs.

Try Baht Sold or Thai Visa classifieds to sell the car..or even Craigslist

Yes Bahtsold.com worked for me once to sell my 2005 Nissan pickup in 2012.

I advertised it with several pictures at 300,000, hoping to get 250.000.

3 days later a Thai guy came and offered me 260,000. We settled on 270,000. I had paid 400,000 in 2006, so I was happy.

A couple guys with some common sense could/would/should come over with a couple cork-pop guns (maybe a couple .22 single shot rifles) and take over the country.

I've worked with the military there - in the USA at the moment - & they are the biggest joke I've ever seen.

I completely refuse to EVER work with Thai people EVER again. I can show them 99 ways to Sunday on how to do something better, and they IGNORE me.........Hired me to show them how to do it better, and ignored 99% of what I said.

It's like trying to pound brains into a rock with a sledge hammer.

I ain't saying the USA is any better. It just seems to be endemic in that politicians are all corrupt.

What fool takes a Tuk Tuk when there are air conditioned metered taxis.

Exactly my thoughts.

I took a tuk-tuk once.......ONCE. It was also the LAST time. Noisy, obnoxious, hot as hell. He did his best to take me to every scam artist around (tailors/jewelers etc.).

Meter taxi's are the way to go......then again I'd never be out at 3:00 AM anywhere......maybe in the jungles of Panama with an M-16, but I was real young back then.

I don't see any problem with re-entering Thailand.

I've done 3 or 4, two to three day overstays years ago (back when the fine was 200 baht/day) and once when it was 500bt/day.

Been married to a lovely lady for 13 years & we have an 8 year old daughter. I'll definitely be back soon.

I have my Thai marriage certificate & my daughter's (born in Surin) birth certificate. Show the bank statement of 400,000 baht (I think is what the requirement is?).

I'm 46 so retirement visa is not an option yet.

When I left Kuwait to return to Thailand in 2009, I was pals with the Thai Ambassador and his minions...OK, there were only 3 other Thai guys working there.

They'd come over and get sauced at my place and I hit more than one embassy party.

Stamp-shlamp! Visa-smchisa!

They never asked to see anything. Just gave them my passport and I had a 1 year marriage visa in 5 minutes.

As to the question of my attire and grooming standards when I recently left, it was a personal choice.

By all means go deal with immigration with dreadlocks and flip-flops......Make sure you wear a Bob Marley T-shirt with a giant pot leaf on the front........Good luck.

It's amazing / ridiculous how a country that thrives off of tourism has such a blatent disregard for tourists safety. I remember going to Koh Phangnan in December '04 thinking the speed boat was completely full and about to leave. But no, another, at least, 20 people were ushered on to stand in the middle with pretty much nothing to hold on to. It was no surprise the following party a boat capsized and double figures died I believe.

Where I am from, if there is a chance of a serious accident, you don't do it. Here it seems that if there is a chance of not having a serious accident, you do it.

$$$

I was on Phangan at the same time in Dec 2004.

As I recall the incident, it was a boat rated for 2 engines, but had 3 on it. It was going as fast as it would go when the steering cable broke, putting it into a high-speed turn in rough seas.

It capsized at high speed & killed a couple of Swiss folks.

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Same kind of ferry accident as mentioned in this original article happened in 2002 or 2003 off of Pattaya........started taking on water & everybody ran to the top deck.

As I recall that one, 3 or 4 people died.

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Working in BKK right now. The work can be a bit dangerous. I've been begging the boss to have weekly safety meetings....it only takes 30 minutes a week.......something I was doing 30 years ago.

The safety meetings tend to increase overall awareness. They keep safety at the top of your brain.

I suppose possession of a brain is a prerequisite.

I get totally ignored. One of his workers will get killed or maimed.

Maybe then he'll listen to my idea.

I may be more inclined to accept the point of these arguments if the two ASEAN member neighbors to the South did not also drive on the wrong side of the road. However, that is not my main concern.

You will remember Sweden switched from the wrong to the right side of the road several years ago--the Swedes heavily advertised the switchover for a couple of months beforehand, then at midnight one night, they made the switch. A few accidents were reported, but not many, and the switchover was made.

Let's suppose the powers that be in Thailand decide to switch driving to the right side of the road--how many, well, you fill in the blanks?

I'm from the USA. Born in Orlando Florida, so we drove on the right hand side of the road. I either take a taxi or have my wife drive from point A to B in LOS.

It would just make matters 1,000 times worse in Thailand if they changed the rules (one would need a large imagination to even THINK they have rules).

They can just somewhat slightly follow the rules as they are.

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I was WALKING I don't drive here..........to Top's Supermarket last weekend. It's maybe a mile or so away.....Good exercise.

HOT out so I took a break at a bus stop on Rakhamhaeng Road.

A cement truck came screaming by............He had clearly just been in an accident as his front left fender was caved in & rubbing his front left tire.

A rather nice-looking Thai Lady was at the bus stop also.

She was as flabbergasted as I was.

We looked at each other & exchanged <deleted> looks.

as it costs investors extra logistic expenses for having to change the car engines when crossing the border.

Obviously the guy knows what he is talking about, makes a lot of sense to change the cars engine! after all a left handed engine works different to a right handed engine, it turns in the opposite direction!!!!!

Dous that mean we would have 4 reverse gears and one foreward---------------- cant see that that is going to help??????????

The bone-head was probably talking about the steering system, which is quite a bear to change.

Ever notice how a right-hand drive car in Thailand has half the leg room of the left hand seat?

Largest markets are for left hand drive, so the left sides have larger leg room (for clutches & brakes etc)........Just a thought. Maybe it is right, maybe it is wrong.

I'm sure this must have been said in this thread already, but, Thailand's failure to integrate (with anyone) has nothing to do with which side of the road they drive on.

It is caused because the country is controlled by total numpties like the one making this announcement, and the millions of sheeple that have been brainwashed into believing them.

End of.

I've been working here in the defense industry off & on for the past 14 years.........Currently working with an agency.

They are complete idiots. No matter what I say, to try and help them, they just grin at me & continue to do it the Thai way.

They hire me because I'm an expert, to teach them, and then ignore everything I say.

I've tried to organize safety meetings.........it goes in one ear and out the other.

One pr1ck had the gall to tell me "Hahaha! This is Thailand!"

Fair enough. It is Thailand.

I've also been informed by upper management to never act angry.

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I love living in Thailand, but working here is for the birds!!!!!

I can't get anything done on any kind of schedule. Even my Thai boss is perpetually late to any kind of meeting.

It gets to be absolutely ludicrous.

After 14 years and it still bothers you? The money must be good for you to endure this torture.

Go with the flow, remember you are living in the land of pushing water downriver with boat propellers.

Take the cash and smile every day.

Good luck. Now about those birds.............

You are correct my friend.

I do enjoy the country as much as I can. I just find Thai folks to be rather nice overall, but extremely difficult to work with.

I have driven down the wrong side of the road back in Florida though! I actually ran somebody off the road once after a 26 hour trip to get back home!

I was jet-lagged (yet sober) out the wazoo & thought the other driver had a death wish.........It was ME that was wrong!

Changing which side of the road they drive on here, should start with.........I won't even address that topic as it would take them 50 years to do it & 50 years for me to explain it.

I guess my point is, TIT..........My bitching point is, they hire a farang to show them how to do a job to farang standards, & then laugh about it.

Simple stuff really. Simple organization. "HAHAHAHA This is Thailand" is what I get in return.

I really don't need this gig I'm working now, it's just something I'm good at & somewhat enjoy doing.

I'm probably going to tell them to stuff it at the end of this year & go back to being bored......Better than being frustrated.

I'm sure this must have been said in this thread already, but, Thailand's failure to integrate (with anyone) has nothing to do with which side of the road they drive on.

It is caused because the country is controlled by total numpties like the one making this announcement, and the millions of sheeple that have been brainwashed into believing them.

End of.

I've been working here in the defense industry off & on for the past 14 years.........Currently working with an agency.

They are complete idiots. No matter what I say, to try and help them, they just grin at me & continue to do it the Thai way.

They hire me because I'm an expert, to teach them, and then ignore everything I say.

I've tried to organize safety meetings.........it goes in one ear and out the other.

One pr1ck had the gall to tell me "Hahaha! This is Thailand!"

Fair enough. It is Thailand.

I've also been informed by upper management to never act angry.

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I love living in Thailand, but working here is for the birds!!!!!

I can't get anything done on any kind of schedule. Even my Thai boss is perpetually late to any kind of meeting.

It gets to be absolutely ludicrous.

Uhh --

Wait a second, guys. How were these tests run? How were the children selected? What were the criteria for deciding whether somebody was "addicted" or not? Who ran the tests? Who paid for the tests? How were the tests desiged? Any biases on the part of the testers or sponsors?

We don't know a darned thing about what actually happened here, but we've already got the testers expressing conclusions and the posters commenting on those conclusions as though they actually meant something.

Come on folks. We can all be a little smarter about this.

Sure, it's scary to watch a kid spaced out on a computer game, but I'll bet I look about the same when I watch "Mad Men" or "Breaking Bad". And I don't think I'm addicted. We all get "carried away" with something we enjoy. That doesn't mean we're "addicted". We're starting to throw that word around pretty loosely. Maybe we should all step back and take a breath.

My 8 year old Daughter loves to watch Barbie videos on YouTube.

She also likes to draw, color, do homework & play ball & is a fanatical swimmer.

Pretty sure the only thing she's addicted to is the joy of life.

Living in 2013 involves a computer is all. I only wish more Thai folks would embrace the new technology.

My father passed on a few years back....He never did figure out a computer. He called the mouse a rabbit.

I have a younger brother that was constantly in trouble with the law back in Florida. He's in a mental institution now. I bought him a computer & hooked him up with a net connection several years ago at my parents' house.

He'd sit back there half the night, drinking sweet iced tea, surfing the net.

Mom was "worried" he was spending too much time on that "inner net"..... I asked her if she'd rather have him out running the roads drunk & stealing things (he's quite the klepto-maniac) or in his room drinking tea?

I bought my Mother an email machine for Christmas once. It would dial an 800 number every 12 hours to check for inbound messages & send any emails she had written out. Just a gray screen & a keyboard.

I think it was about $100 USD for a year. I was working all over creation, so couldn't renew it for her back in Florida. She never did figure it out.

My point is, there's nothing wrong with being a bit tech savvy in this day and age.

There aren't too many places in the world where a public official is happy to have his photo taken while holding a dildo.....classic!!!.

Probably his first time. I am always afraid of trying to bring one into the country, I would not like having to say that it was for my personal use.

My Canadian buddy was bringing back an inflatable sheep to his Kiwi friend in Abu Dhabi as a birthday gift gag....just for laughs.

Abu Dhabi customs busted him........Pulled it out of his bag & started blowing it up.

Said he wanted to crawl under a rock.

My take........They're going to pass out all the Viagra in Isaan right before the next election.

This way they make sure that no one can complain they didn't "have a proper erection".

I wonder if anyone can find a dipstick in the country ?

Nope. I've been helping our agent here train his guys (5 each) how to rebuild some military trucks.

Re-installing the engine & I asked "Where's the dipstick?"

None of them had a clue. They started stumbling around & bumping into each other looking for it.

We wound up having to rob one out of a wrecked truck.