Did he get fined 20K baht or 5K baht?

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Hang on. It was a 25K baht total fine.

LOH....Land of Headlines.

On 4/10/2017 at 4:17 AM, webfact said:

Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai

Try Don Corleone.

OOOH yummy!

Getting blasted with elephant snot!

The should have been warned, that way they could have had Ritz crackers & cocktail sauce to eat with their snot.

Give me refund!

"So solly. CANNOT".

TIT... Bend over & grab ye' olde ankles... and you might get 500 baht for doing so.

On 4/7/2017 at 9:29 PM, 1337markus said:

So whose fault; the rain or the fresh seafood?

Clearly a case of where "The Brakes Failed".

56 minutes ago, Minnie the Minx said:

To all in Thailand, time to get out of Dodge City if you haven't done it already. That or lock yourself up in your house.

 

I went through it in one of my three years there and never again. 

 

Let's just say there were pics of me soaking wet in a white T-shirt somewhere I never want to see again lol.

"And when the fat lady has sung in Bangkok...."

Are you that fat lady I saw singing on the last day of Songkran a few years back?

Just joking!

I went thru the Pattaya mayhem ONCE & it was a novelty.

I've despised it every since then.

I guess the brakes failed.

On 4/3/2017 at 4:17 AM, oldgent said:

the cop looks more interested in the the lady

Don't look like a lady to me.

12 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

" They have been told in no uncertain terms by police - show your breasts and we will fine you up to 5,000 baht, reported Daily News."

 

As opposed to the rest of the year, show us your breasts or we will fine you.

No fine, just no tip.

So for 10K (following traffic ticket rules), I can get a couple honeys w/ their puppies out all day....Just show the next cop who wants to raise a fuss that you've already been ticketed that day and carry on right?

52 minutes ago, bbbbooboo said:

hmmm.........stay out of Thailand(for Falangs) to avoid the stupidity and carnage of songkran?...... I certainly do

Yes.

Half the bazillion airport visitors Swampy is expecting for Songkran will be expats trying to escape the idiocy.

Songkran without the carnage

April fools day is long gone for 2017.

1 minute ago, Peter Pattaya said:

Well said . Fun? 

My first Pattaya Songkran was a blast. I've hated every one after that.

I know this article is a farce, but for a professional based in Pattaya, working in Sattahip & Rayong & Sri Racha, it's a NIGHTMARE!!!!

4 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

And very interestingly, it's the language of choice for intercommunications within the EU.

English is also the international language of air traffic controllers the world over, so I've heard.

I recall when the Bali Hai pier opened. Less than a year later it was falling apart, and a local guy got electrocuted (yes he died).

Baht buses were never intended for it, yet they were tearing it up out there.

Figure at least 40-50% of this 200 million baht will wind up in brown envelopes.

The rest will go to sub-par, subcontractors who will make whatever they do, just good enough to last 2 months, and then it will start to fall apart.

Not Thai-bashing, just saying what will probably happen IMHO.

On 3/29/2017 at 5:14 PM, Thaiwrath said:

30 hours should be enough to learn................... 'You pay me money !'

"You give me money NOW!" Should suffice.

22 hours ago, Rimmer said:

the islands themselves are uninhabited and their waters are not used for non-diving watersports or sea-walking.

What is "sea-walking"????

Reminds me of Abu Dhabi.

2 hours ago, gdgbb said:

Didn't think that you had been on it!  So why suggest that nonsense about the life vests when there is no connection and certainly no comparison between the Koh Larn ferries and the Hua Hin ferry?

Err... because they depart from the same pier?, Which is has been a cluster-<deleted> since day one of its existence?

I was there 2 months after the pier opened & some guy got electrocuted & died. Vely professional people indeed.

I'm terrified of any Thai mass transport.

Mayhaps this new ferry does have brand new life jackets?

Give it a year & they'll be rotten pieces of junk.

Once again I'll wish the best of luck to the operators and passengers, and if you like the service, then "Move out & draw Fire...Sir".

Not saying it's doomed, just saying that I think it's a Titanic waiting to happen.

It's not much different from your average mini-van or bus ride.

30 minutes ago, gdgbb said:

As you must have been on the HH ferry to know that the "junk" life vest they pass out "are 20 years old", what did you think of the trip?  You must be the only Thaivisa member to have used it so far, why not share it here?

Never been on it buddy, but have taken at least 100 trips to Ko Larn on the ferries with my wife & daughter.

They had life jackets that had been hanging on the rafters and/or backs of seats, that were so sun-bleached, they'd have fallen apart if you sneezed on them.

I always brought our own life jackets with us.

Luckily, we never had to use them.

I wish this ferry service the best of luck (and all who use them), but feel it's a disaster in the making.

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I was on Koh Phang An once, & could see the boats hauling a$$ between there & Samui at night.

Sure enough 6 people died that night in a 30 foot speedboat.

They'd illegally modified it from 2 to 3 engines & had it going 80 kph or so when the steering cable broke.

It capsized & killed people.

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I had bought tickets for a "Catamaran" out to Phang An for the wife & I & got presented with pretty much the same boat the next day (about 3 days before the fatal wreck). It was most assuredly NOT what I'd seen on the tourist flyer.

Next, being the STUPID-BOY I am, I got us a ride on a long-tail boat around Phang-An.

It was akin to riding a slave galley with the gunwales of the boat just barely above the waves, replete with a 4 cylinder Isuzu truck engine, with no muffler whatsoever blasting us around the waves.

The guy driving that boat every day had to be stone-cold deaf.

I peeled 4 cigarettes out & tore the butts off so we'd have earplugs.

Suffice it to say that I don't have a lot of respect for Thai mariners.

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First time I went to Koh Larn they had ancient jet-skis rigged up with 20 hp Yamaha outboard engines!

That thing could chop your neck off!

10 minutes ago, MartinBangkok said:

What have you been smoking annabel?

cheers from a happy Norwegian living in Thailand

Sent from my SM-N920C using Thaivisa Connect mobile app
 

My guess is that she smokes CNN (Clinton News Network) everyday, and has never gone fishing or out in a swamp to hunt for food.

I don't really like hunting myself, but LOVE fishing.

I've caught monster fish & even a couple hammer head sharks. They are fun!

I'd love to get out in Norway on a fishing cruise sometime....Maybe harpoon a whale if it was legal?

Yes they were hunted stupidly in the past, almost to extinction, but these days, sometimes a culling is required, or at least a quota.

I think Thailand might be a happier place if they'd cull the soi dogs.

1 hour ago, cardinalblue said:

Collecting herbs from the forest land they burned illegally previously?

 

More to this story than just pissing off an elephant....

Yes, he was maybe/probably an ivory poacher that lost that hand of poker.

We'll never know.

All I do know is DON'T F with elephants! 

I won't even get within 50 yards of the ones that are supposedly tame.

Same goes for lions, tigers and bears.

2 minutes ago, balo said:

Stupid woman , we only kill the minke whales , only short season and a few animals each year to sustain the specie, and the meat is delicious . Should we stop killing cows too ?

 

Meat is meat . 

Well said.

A cuddly newborn cow calf is cute, yet turns into hamburger someday, which tastes good!

I've never been to Norway, but am guessing it's a bit like Denmark, where I worked for 6 weeks once upon a time in Aalborg, Jutland.

If I believed in reincarnation, coming back as a Danish bicycle seat would be fun.

I had a blast in that town on the weekends.

22 minutes ago, annabel said:

yet another intelligent person on our failing planet ... If it's about your wife and not whales I don't give a sweet <deleted>>/// That's your bad luck .... but when it come the our planets animal life that is a much bigger priority to me than stupid ignorant and cruel human beings as we like to call ourselves ..PFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!

https://awionline.org/action-ealerts/tell-norways-ambassador-us-stop-killing-whales

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/norway_save_the_whales_33/?absNRcb

Luv you too!!

Save the whales!

7 minutes ago, Suradit69 said:

That would probably require an improbable major increase in the average tourist's intelligence. 

 

 

"Psst. Wanna buy a Piaget watch for 50 baht?"

I snagged two Tag-Hauer watches for my brothers once, knowing they were fake, but ah well.

One lasted less than 24 hours. The other one lasted a whopping 2 months.