Pattaya jewelry & bag snatches are one thing, but how does one snatch a buffalo?

How does one get change at the Buffalo Bank? Do you get horns & hooves?

10 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

A livestock official of Khao Kho district was, on Friday (July 21), ordered transferred to Phetchabun provincial livestock office pending an investigation into the disappearance of a buffalo under the Buffalo Bank programme.

Buffalo Bank????

Now where did he get off to? I left him RIGHT HERE, & just turned my back for a minute.

9 minutes ago, LazySlipper said:

Once again I will say... we did not have them when  we were younger. Hell no computers when I was in High school...

The computer was the library and the index cards we had to use to do our research.

Good old Dewey decimal system.

We didn't have computers either, though there was a typing class I could have and wish that I had taken. I type with two or three fingers, depending on whether I have a ciggie in my hand now.

I had an encyclopedia set at home. I constantly had my nose buried in it. I'd see something on TV about Africa or Asia & go look it up in my encyclopedia.

I had a GIANT Webster's dictionary always close at hand too.

I started reading adult level novels when I was maybe 10?

I was FASCINATED with "How the West Was Won"

It was about 900 pages or so & my first adult level book.

Since then I've probably read thousands of books.

3 minutes ago, greenchair said:

I just don't understand why playing phones was allowed in the classroom in the first place. 

My pet hate is the math teachers telling the students to multiply simple equations on the phone. 

Then we have teachers constantly giving children homework that require research on the cell phone. 

The children just copy it and the work is given a grade. 

For what? 

For taking a few minutes off from playing Angry Birds.

36 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

This wins the "Most obvious statement of the year" award.

Setting a great example !

Only problem is, if the teacher asks " what is 1 + 1, they ill all be snookered !  

Nah, they'll whip out a calculator.

41 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

“Cell phone-free classroom” good for students, teacher says

“Cell phone-free classroom” good for students, teacher says

You reckon???? When I was in school I was always trying pass notes to cute girls, were many boy & girls were doing the same.

If the teacher busted you, she'd read it out loud to the whole class and embarrass the shit out of the author.

10 minutes ago, Samui Bodoh said:

 

The above quote gets to the root of the problem. 'Reconciliation' cannot be achieved through a process where one side has all the power and doesn't agree that it is part of the problem.

 

If Thailand wants to achieve reconciliation, the military needs to understand that it is a part of the problem, and that power needs to be diffused to other sectors of society as well.

 

I ain't holding my breath.

 

Methinks the General's 20 year plan, is to hold elections, in, MAYBE 20 years.

Just hang a picture of this guy over the place.

On 7/19/2017 at 8:22 PM, JamJar said:

 

http://www.peachthailand.com perhaps. 

Probably. My company paid about $120,000 USD to rent a booth at a defense show in Kuala Lumpur once. It was a big booth/space with one truck sitting in it, plus lots of room around it.

Figure (just a guess) 1,000 tourists go to Koh Larn and spend 1,500 baht per day = 1.5 million baht/day X 4 days = 6 million baht.

Probably 200 vendors at the fleet show paying maybe $60,000 on average per booth = roughly 400 million baht/$12,000,000 USD.

10 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

The outpouring of love is for the kids and the officer, not the father.  We don't know what the father did to end up in jail, so we can't pass judgement on that.

Your point is a moot one.  I mean, should we not commend war heroes because there shouldn't be a war in the first place?

Fair point Mate!

6 hours ago, inThailand said:

A touching story indeed. Just to be ruined by some grumpy TV posters.

What's touching is guys like my brother-in-law, who works his tail off, has 3 kids & has never been to jail, but then we never hear reports about a building that's not burning do we?

My point is, this wouldn't have happened if the kids' father had never gone to jail in the first place.

8 hours ago, Happy enough said:

don't be mean jw. the dogs are alright.

I have 3 dogs. Nothing wrong with dogs. It's the half a billion strays that irk me.

45 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

I'd like to know too... where are these supposed collection centers where things like old batteries, florescent tubes, electronics, etc etc can be brought for supposedly safe disposal??  And not just chucked into the regular garbage.

Pattaya Bay.

7 minutes ago, Suzy said:

Sir, I hope when you are in trouble somebody throws you a cinder block at you, without the rope.

 

My heart bleeds. Thailand had maybe half a billion dogs. They could do with a few less.

Should have tossed him a rope...with a cinder block attached to it.

1 hour ago, Airbagwill said:

The authorities who profess to be guardians of Thai culture and heritage should hang the heads

....in a noose.

30 minutes ago, farcanell said:

Each and everyone of them a Thai Mcgyver. ?????.

Yes. If the criminals could use every scam and shortcut in the book they know, for some kind of good, they'd already have a colony on Mars & we'd all be speaking Thai as the world's defacto language.

8 minutes ago, Ricardo said:

 

You appear to assume that he has a vehicle, to get them and their bikes home, and also that he can leave work when he feels like it ?

 

I'd also doubt that he has the right to physically-punish someone-else's kids, wouldn't that be assault ?

I appear to assume that the kids would be safer.....somehow, if they were taught a lesson in safety.

Trust me. I could never beat a kid, but crimony! Beating their asses has to be a better option than giving them 100 baht & wishing them luck on bicycles in Thailand!

He could have (theoretically) called a cop to take them home. It's what would probably happen in a civilized country......But then the cop would shake down their mother for gas money probably in Thailand.

2 minutes ago, Ricardo said:

" Apichai gave them 100 baht each so they could buy lunch and filled up their empty water bottles before bidding them farewell for the long cycle home. "

 

IMO this prison-officer should be promoted, or at least recognised in someway, for his humanity & having given the boys practical help like this !  A good example for others to follow ! 

He should have given them a ride home & tanned their hides for riding bicycles on the road......Of Thailand.

I was about 7 or 8 & had a bicycle out on the road in rural Florida. Mom caught me & scolded me quite harshly. Said if Dad had seen me on the road with a bicycle I'd probably wish I'd been run over.

1 minute ago, DM07 said:

Oh great- another no-story about a good looking police woman!

Just what we needed!

She looks better than these guys & it's good for a laugh.

2 minutes ago, Rancid said:

 Be thankful I suppose they don't have a local arms industry to enrich whilst impoverishing the rest of the nation into unsupportable debt.

Ooooh, but they do.

They have 30-40 year old trucks that the have to buy parts for all the time.

I was involved in this as a consultant. Safety/Schmafety!

Trucks falling apart but it depended on which Thai agent would/could afford to pay off the colonels & generals to get the contract.

I have SEEN, with my own two eyes...brown envelopes changing hands.

6 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

International racing teams and the world's arm's manufacturers have applauded this move as they have long known about the secret arts of guncraft and auto tuning in Thailand.

Williams has tried in vain to get a twenty year old  Mitsubishi Lancer (fake Evo) to win a world championship. And Remington has failed in its attempts to make a fine rifle out a bit of pipe, bailing wire, and a discarded bit of spring.

AND it takes 3 years worth of non-convicts to build an underpass in Pattaya.

Also, I fault you here...."and a discarded bit of spring."

I'm sure you meant to say STRING instead of spring. 

23 minutes ago, wombat said:

its my understanding that the Gulf of Thailand is to shallow for subs .......is this true or false ?

Average depth is 190 meters (600 feet or so) according to Wikipedia, which means they "might" be able to elude a destroyer.

On the surface a WW2 P-51 could sink them. NO WAY they could stay under long enough to be anything other than a minor nuisance to a modern navy. They are diesel electric = they have to surface to run diesel engines to power battery banks, so they can stay under for 12-14 hours....At least that was WW2 Technology.

Modern radar could spot them quite easily on the surface, daylight or dark.

An F-16 could blast them to kingdom-come.

Unless Laos or Cambodia or a new Ho Chi Minh (who actually wasn't the evil guy) arise like Hitler did, then they are just a waste of money to line some admiral's pockets.

The RTA has to keep the RTN appeased is all I can see here.

1 minute ago, Zack61 said:

Not just Pattaya. The whole of south east Asia is the same. No such thing as a nice beach any more. The ocean is a dumping ground, the worlds biggest toilet and the beaches are where it all collects especially when it rains. 

Until we can change people's attitude about how we dispose of waste then we'll be pushing shit uphill with this problem. Good luck and get used to it. 

Agreed.

That's one of the precious few things about the USA I still like. DO NOT LITTER!

1 minute ago, Cadbury said:

Yes they want to increase income so they can increase taxes to pay for their waste. 

 

Just love the line about .....“If they have good skills with gun making, they may work well for authorities in the legal line of gun manufacturing,”

 

Good idea PM. Then after they learn from the professionals they can go back to the underground to make bigger and better guns.

What is it about this man and his government that makes them keep coming out with asinine ideas?

I'd like to see convicts/criminals make all the cop guns.

The public would probably be safer as, when they tried to shoot out tires, none would work.