jaywalker

42 minutes ago, sklmeeera said:

Can you read ??? Or did the bullets come out of his finger ??? .

Yes, they did come out of his finger when he (THE CRIMINAL) pulled the trigger.

The gun did not fire itself.

Just now, transam said:

I reckon if there was no gun a big knife would be in the topic header...

Or a sword/machete/bat etc.

I thought they all used stiletto heels for boxing gloves?

I bet those real boxing gloves make it difficult to pick pockets.

28 minutes ago, sklmeeera said:

Nice job . Was he brought up in the USA ? Now instead of getting some land hes got to share a cell with 50 other nutters for the rest of his life . 

Why is the USA to blame?

I've been around guns all my life & I'm 50.

I'd guess I've lived all my life (that I spent in the USA) with a gun in the house.

Never, has it ever crossed my mind to kill anyone.

The gun did not DO IT!!!!!!!!

The crazy PERSON committed the murder! Not the gun!!!!

Maybe if the father-in-law had a .45 pistol or an AR-15 then the murderer would have backed down or never even considered the dastardly deed in the first place?

3 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

The lot should be put down, problem solved there but that still leaves about 4 million of the pests still at large on the streets

5 HUNDRED million.

Population of roughly 70,000,000 and figure 7 or so mutts per person.

That's being conservative.

Aren't there some starving kids somewhere in Africa that could use some protein?

20 minutes ago, NormanW said:

Explain and demonstrate why things have to change while still maintaining their cultural heritage and identity. 

Also delete "Mai Pen Rai" from their vocabulary.

I wish this were the only story in every Pattaya, BKK and every other news outlet concerned with Pattaya.

Would probably take a year or two, but they "might" start to address the issue.

Russians & Chinese don't seem to mind the pollution though.

3 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Well I wasn't confused until I read your post!

She was robbed of 17,700 THB equivalent.

14,700 THB in Yuan and 3,000 in local currency. https://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/

Must've been that 20K she had to show at the airport minus taxi fare to Pattaya & a room.

14 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

You live on 1000 baht a month and you take in 70 dogs and then ask for help?

What tremendous sense of judgement she has. 

The woman is good hearted but at the same time a menace to society. Euthanize the dogs and tell her she is not allowed to take any more in,

Dog responsibility will never happen in Thailand.

She probably thinks euthanasia refers to punk kids on motorbikes.

Reminds me of, err... a friend getting busted with his hand on some gals breast by his wife at a Pattaya bar once.

Bargirl? What bargirl?

Deny. Deny. Deny.

His wife drug him out by his ear.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

E-cigarette seller drag off the streets of Pattaya in midnight raid

Why wasn't he frog marched like the skinny dippers?

1 hour ago, Briggsy said:

Even for Pattaya or Phuket, this sounds audaciously odd.

 

10 pm is a bit early for this kind of violent mugging. Also the vehicle of choice is always a motorbike not a pick-up.

 

Was there an altercation leading up to it? Perhaps relating to crossing the road in an un-Thai manner.

 

Thais like to do things in a habitual manner, even robberies. The correct way to do this in Thai culture is to pull the bag from the victim whilst riding pillion on a motorbike and stab them if they resist.

Yeah sounds like road rage lunacy. Glad it was a stick and not a sword.

I guess The Nation staff left their calculator at home.

She lost 18,000 baht (not 15,000 baht)  & a phone... Hang on.....maybe I'm wrong, but the article is confusing.

"She said she woke up on a footpath and it was raining. Her handbag, which had contained Bt3,000 and 3,000 yuan (Bt15,000) and a Huawei phone, were gone."

Is 3,000 yuan 15K?

1 hour ago, darksidedog said:

With e cigarettes found to be 95% safer than tobacco, one wonders what is the Thai logic for making them illegal?

Bwahahaha! Sorry DSD. I don't mean to make fun of you, but surely you had a brain fart as you wrote "Thai Logic"

4 minutes ago, bartender100 said:

But it does here

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1506351/British-couple-led-Thai-police-having-sex-sea.html

Thar she blows! Lower the whale boats boys! 

The guy literally took a grain (well a glob) of sand to the beach.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

He admitted that the process was not like an assembly, but rather a bureaucratic system

Which renders it useless.

24 minutes ago, nasanews said:

I once did it but in a swimming pool around 3:00 a.m

You rebel you!

Katoeys reported them. They were angry because the couple had no pockets to pick.

11 minutes ago, Pridilives said:

Goog god. Only an American can write such nonsense. 

Only capitalist work hard for money - like Wall Street you mean. Banker produce nothing but take billions dollars. Global financial crisis 2008 create how many job. Bailout cost how many billion. 

 

Best system is is welfare state like Canada Australia and Scandinavia country.

 

you can think anything you want about yingluck or thaksin or anything just have to remember opinion is not fact.

 

 

I was referring to my Thai brother-in-law really. His name is Na and now lives near Prasat, Surin.

Not Wall Street bankers who are are so deeply in with Washington.

The guy had NOTHING, but a motorbike to start. Married my wife's sister, and grandma/grandpa took care of their first baby, while he made 25,000/month as a moto-taxi driver, and his wife worked in a factory making about 15,000 a month (I'm taking a wild guess as their salaries).

They saved money and Na bought a tractor to plow farms in Isaan. He now has 4 tractors and 5 guys working for him and makes around (guessing again) 100,000 baht per month.

He has a nice truck, decent house, and just works his butt off all day.

Should the government take money from him to feed those who think others are "Rich" and have no ambition?

If they did, then many more people would lose out. No plowed fields = no harvest = he can't feed his kids.

Allow the man to be free and thrive. He WORKED for it! Allow him to enjoy the fruits of his LABOR.

Labor seems to be a word that socialists cannot comprehend.

2 hours ago, Thaidream said:

Let him stay but I hope he heeds the advice of many people to stop some of his silly nonsense > he is on shaky ground as he made many Thais lose face with his ridiculous video mocking Thais English proficiency.  For a person who speaks Thai he knows little about Thailand and its culture and social mores.

Here's some Thai "Social mores" for you.

2 hours ago, Thaidream said:

Let him stay but I hope he heeds the advice of many people to stop some of his silly nonsense > he is on shaky ground as he made many Thais lose face with his ridiculous video mocking Thais English proficiency.  For a person who speaks Thai he knows little about Thailand and its culture and social mores.

I daresay you know less?

60% want him hung from the nearest tree, yet most of the comments here are of the "Live & Let Live" nature.

17 minutes ago, Ricardo said:

You're welcome  ...  it's a fairly-long & complicated story.

Kinda like trying to keep up w/ the new "Draft Charter".

Capitalism vs Populist/Socialist idealogy... my view.

A capitalist works hard, earns money and re-invests his money, to make more money. Along the way he creates jobs for people with no money.

Along the way the lazy socialist will say "That's not fair! He has more money than me!"

Now, in Thailand, who you know, many times, but not always, making money is corrupt to the core.

Not & never will say Thaksin is whatever (guilty or not - I'm not a judge), but he worked at KFC in college, in the US & created AIS, that employs how many thousands of citizens?

I 'think' Yingluck is a pawn & Thaksin was trying to buy his way back in,

Prime ministers/governments who can grant amnesty come & go like vendors on a street bar in Pattaya,

Before you reply hating Thaksin, are you using AIS?

I do not like nor hate any of them. I'm apolitical the world over, as I believe they are all crooks. But Thaksin did start something that many people find useful, unlike General P, who has done naught but roll out tanks and clean up a few beach chairs.

9 minutes ago, Ricardo said:

 

"he has not been back since"

 

Actually he returned for several months in February 2008, when PPP were in-power.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/28/thailand

 

 

"He was not there at the trial"

 

He was there, but left with the court's permission to attend the Beijing-Olympics, and failed to return for sentencing.

 

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1831769,00.html

 

" Six months after returning from exile in triumph, Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra fled to London on Aug. 11, the same day that the former Thai leader and his wife were due to face corruption charges in Thailand's courts. "

 

I stand corrected. Thanks.

8 minutes ago, JAG said:

Ah, so that is what you chaps mean when you talk about putting gravy on your biscuits. I always thought it would melt the chocolate on the digestives, and make a most unpalatable mess of a custard cream...

By the way, are "grits" something you use to surface your garden path?



Nice thing to do by the way.

Intermission over - back to the political sparring.

Grits are hominy, which is a type of white corn. They taste like utter SHIT without salt on them. Very much akin to rice.