jaywalker

5 minutes ago, dcnx said:

And they will all be making merit as if nothing happened. 

Yes.  

These thugs are no better than the Nazi's at Auschwitz.

Kinda looks like the farang is well liked by the rather gay looking kid to me.

25 minutes ago, jerojero said:

And your company name has to be Haliburton.

I forgot to tell you my Halliburton story.

I was in Kuwait, checking every new armored $100,000 truck that went to Iraq, & my boss showed up.

We ate at the Army mess hall, which Halliburton provided.

Great chow. Indians & Bangladeshi's getting maybe $1,000 a month working there.

My boss told me he'd heard that after Halliburton had jumped thru 19,752 (just a guess...I'm sure Cheney helped) bureaucratic hoops, it cost the US taxpayer $67 per meal to feed us, and there were around 35,000 people on that base any given day.

7 minutes ago, jerojero said:

And your company name has to be Haliburton.

Pretty close. This was a Thai company & I helped them edge into a few Thai contracts when I was working for a US company.

I got lot's a wining and dining but no brown envelopes. They are a good company, but they have to PAY to get any kind of contract.

There were 3 US companies in the industry I was in and they were/are engraved in stone.

They're all HUGE, as in GM/Ford/Chrysler huge.

Zero chance of an outsider getting in.

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I worked for the Thai guy on a contract basis about a decade after I met him, and he just supplied parts to supplement the end product.

He had an office slap full of people cranking out mountains of paperwork just so he could even bid on the contract, next the brown envelopes...

These were military trucks, and he recently emailed me, asking if I could locate some "Factory New" parts for a truck built in 1988!

It's like trying to buy "Factory New" parts for a 1964 Maserati.

They don't exist.

I did find him a reconditioned parts source though.

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

the position of regional hub of aviation, said Mr. Somkid. 

Yet another "Hub".

I liked U-tapao when the parking lots were empty & I could go to Samui or Phuket for a change.

I came back from Samui once & some idiot appeared out of the blue wanting to charge me for parking.

My truck had been there a 10 days & he asked me how long I'd been there? I told him 2 days and gave him 100 baht.

There was about 30 acres of empty parking out there, maybe 6 vehicles... I thought it was funny.

Ahh the good old days of U-tapao.

Same thing happens in the USA.

To even BID on a US Federal gov't project, you need to have been in business a decade & have 97 lawyers review the contract etc. 

You better have a staff of at least 25+ also to get them to figure out the mountains of paperwork, just to submit the bid.

I used to be deeply involved in many government contracts, both US and Thai.

The Thai contracts were won with a brown envelope...I have seen it with my own two eyes.

My Thai boss once told me he wished he could pay me more, but he had to bribe too many people for that contract.

It's almost impossible for any small company to edge in against any big company = the same companies get the same gov't contracts forever.

While what the thugs did was completely WRONG in every sense of the word, if the guy had been packing a .45 and/or AR-15, AND been wearing boots (he could have kicked back), AND was a trained professional, it probably would have never happened.

Instead he's just a poor old guy with a uniform & flip-flops!

Nothing against the security guard in the least, just saying he was ill prepared to provide any security whatsoever, so what's the point of him even being there, if he can only ask people to be nice & almost gets killed for doing so?

The video is sickening and the perpetrators should be dragged to the nearest tree.

2 minutes ago, uchibenkei said:

And you live in a world where you have some imaginary right to never feel uncomfortable and women never lie or falsely accuse men of sexual harrassment.  Somehow women can read a man's mind and determine he has sexual intent because in your world that's the only reason a man looks at a woman.  How nice for you.

Wouldn't it be nice if men had ESP?

Women try it all the time when they say "What are you thinking?"

If women can tell what men are thinking, why do they always ask that?

My standard answer is, "You're getting on my nerves".

On 3/11/2017 at 7:10 AM, uchibenkei said:

They should film a Police Academy movie here.

They already have a star for the lead role.

The skytrain is so nice, and I'm not talking about just the AC. I LIKE the eye candy.

I've been groped in Thailand more times than I can remember, by many women I wanted nothing to do with, in areas that were NOT redlight districts.

Sometimes irritating, sometimes humbly appreciated. 

Somehow I managed to survive.

Why can't folks the world over get over this "sensitivity" issue?

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I worked at a place that required us to go through a "Sexual Harassment" class once a year in the US.

It's not what you meant, it is "How It Is Perceived".... Like I'm supposed to be a mind-reader!

LUDICROUS!!!!

Nothing wrong w/ a plant that grows in the wild, although I'd rather have hot needles shoved under my toenails than listen to "hip-hop".

Up2U.

I had this speech (see below) almost memorized & delivered it to my little brother once when he caught me & my buddies toking a J. 

We were 20-21 & he was 10. 

It made absolutely no sense, given the circumstances, but the way my buddies kept a straight face while I lectured the boy made it priceless.

28 minutes ago, Ceruhe said:

Already looking forward to getting the warning about cold showers in winter.

Don't forget the warnings to "Not run with scissors" along with "Don't stick your hand in the fan".

42 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Erm, say what?

I say TIT. This story has been a great laugh for me.

I can't quit chuckling.

Thailand.......Always good for a laugh!

23 minutes ago, samjaidee said:

Why did you write that when clearly they don't look anything like the aforementioned character?

It's the CRAZY eyes.

First thing I thought of was Chucky.

I can't imagine what's wrong with the ocean???

14 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Videos from this event are interesting.

 

 

Reminds me of some US churches.

28 minutes ago, fforest1 said:

When people ae no longer scared to swim in the ocean I will be a believer...

When people are no longer afraid to wear a bit of jewelry, I'll be a believer.

He's off to a roaring start.

2 hours ago, pumpuy said:

We do what we can to help those dogs , that farangs seem to hate so much . I agree that there are a few aggressive ones , just buy a taser , they run away scared just by the sound of it ... If you fear for the safety of your kids , be a responsible fatyher and just do not take your kids to places that could become dangerous for them , If you do not and you encounter problems it's Your own fault .

People so full of hate intoxicate everything near them with their negative feelings , and hate is not god for your own health , too . It makes you stressed , and that leads to heart attacks , strokes , etc.

Learn how to live with it , or move on ... you cannot kill them all , in this country karma will have it's revenge on you , if you do not believe it , just wait ...

Not an iota of hate on my part.

If the dog wants to be friendly I'll gladly stop and scratch his head or rub his back.

If the dog wants to try to bite me and my daughter for ridiing a bicycle down public, residential street it's OUR fault???

54 minutes ago, FarangEskimo said:

Just like bar girls like there old business 555 TIT This Is Thailand... The Land Of Cheap Hoes

 

What you just said is a micro-aggression against the the women of Idaho.

7 hours ago, pumpuy said:

Here in our property we take care for 14 dogs in the moment , some of them partly injured ... We take care , feed and provide medical care for the dogs outside as well , do not know how many , may be about 30 to 40 .

All of them are our friends , they are happy to see us as we are happy to see them in good health and condition .

The problems are always caused by the people , not by the dogs , they are gentle by nature .

I suppose that if everybody in Thailand were to take in 14 dogs, it wouldn't hurt anything.

Just your neighbor's sleep.

Old lady that lived across the street had a poodle & 4 soi dogs she'd feed right outside her gate every night = the lived right outside her gate.

That poodle would yap,yap,yap for 12-14 hours straight every night at the soi dogs just outside the gate.

That little <deleted> came over & sh*t in my driveway a couple times.

Talk about a Florida Boy wishing I had my .22 varmint rifle, though I suppose a Walther PPQ .45 would have been more sporting.

I had this beautiful house up on Mount Khao Talo, with wonderful ocean breezes, and had to listen to Yap-yap-yap-yap! All day and all night.

My wife wanted to feed them soi dogs.

Awww. HELL no! 

4 hours ago, fruitman said:

Nuting still keeps them on the road causing accidents.

I'll pay for bullets for them, or even better let the cambodian workers catch/eat them.

I hit a big one, once. I was going 110-120 KPH or so and he popped out of a ditch 10 feet in front of me...Great big rascal.

He almost tore half the front bumper off my Nissan truck. It was 2 wheel drive & only sat about 5 inches off the ground, cars & motorbikes all next to me and behind me.

Came pretty close to a wreck as my truck jumped about a foot straight up.

I could later see that one of the frame rails nailed the dog in the head, so he had a quick death.

There was NO WAY I was going to stop.

I'd have been surrounded, with somebody demanding 10.000 baht for their "precious puppy".

I almost ran over an idiot cop like that too near the Ambassador Hotel in Chonburi.

I was on my way to Cambodia & they were running out in the middle of the road. They didn't want me.

I glanced in my rear view mirror to try and see what it was all about? Just wanted to not do whatever those folks were doing.

Some cop popped out of a ditch in the middle of the road & there might have been a centimeter of air between my mirror and his sexy, tight brown shirt....I was doing maybe 50 or 60 KPH.

I almost had a heart attack!

I don't think I'd have stopped for that one either.

1 hour ago, Tilacme said:

This dog problem is not confined to the city or within the cool air of 7/11.  The head of my village has recently had his entire chicken stock slaughtered by a night pack of dogs, and just a few nights ago I witnessed 3 soi dogs running down a chicken. Nobody does anything about it,  the dogs own the place at nightfall.

I had two Golden Retrievers at one point in time, out in North Pattaya, on the Darkside, 

I only had two neighbors out there, & they both had noisy chickens.

My dogs only cared about the tennis ball & their food dish.

Their chickens were going missing.

My dogs got the blame, till they found a 12 foot python with a belly full of chicken.

That was a big-ass snake!

3 minutes ago, Seeker1953 said:

I am NOT the cause of the problem. I live in a small village. I attempt to walk quietly and peacefully, not bothering anyone or anything. The dogs ALWAYS alert to me. I do not do anything to disturb them. So I'm pretty much a prisoner in my house. 

 

Your comments reflect your own very narrow point of view. Good for you, dogs like you. You like dogs. Great. And it sounds like you are doing your part to help the situation. 

But your wholesale condemnation of those who disagree with you and your incredibly over-generalized judgements are difficult and divisive. 

Amen Seeker.

I tried to go out jogging with my dog one day MANY years ago, before I realized the stray problem in Thailand.

We hadn't gone 50, maybe 75 yards out the gate & got SWARMED by vicious strays.

My tame dog ran back home to my wife & I had to kick the tar out of a couple of them to make it home in one piece.

I've been lucky though, as none have ever broke the skin on me.

I saw a farang guy walking down Beach Road in Jomtien one day, minding his own business, all alone, high noon = it wasn't 3 AM & a dog just ran up and bit him for no reason at all.

I was on the phone with a friend who'd had been bitten at a temple the same way 6 months before & had to get the rabies shots.

I just happened to be looking over that way when the dog bit him.

Of course he turned around and kicked the shit out of that dog, & here came some Thai guy giving him a hard time for kicking his dog.

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I was once working in Pathum Thani with a Tesco express nearby, maybe 300 yards away.

Figured I'd go over there & get something to eat.

I had to walk by a car dealership & they would "Loose The Hounds" at night.

Luckily the sidewalk was falling apart (I was ON THE SIDEWALK!) and I managed to find some large chunks of cement & nailed the pack leader mutt first & got aggressive as hell at the other dogs, waving my arms and yelling at them.

Just another day in BKK.

On my way back, the night (car dealership) watchman had my hotel night watchman out there, & the car guy was mad as a hornet!

I had hurt one of his dogs!

That dog was about to eat me ALIVE, as I walked down a flippin' PUBLIC sidewalk!

If the pack leader had gotten in there, or If I'd ran....Same...I'd have had 15 or 20 bites.

I pretty muchly told the car guy to go pound sand.

I mean really? Get mad at me because your junkyard dogs were trying to kill me on the sidewalk?

Hell yeah, I'm going to defend myself.

I rather enjoyed nailing that dog, with his teeth flared out, coming at me for all he was worth, with 5 or 6 of his buddies.

It was a 3 or 4 pound (about 2 kilos) chunk of cement right between the eyes from 10 feet.

I pulled a Tom Brady/Brett Favre/Dan Marino on him.

It was either him or me.

If I'd had a pistol, I'd have shot him in a heartbeat.