steffi

Have a good look at the photo of the police. Do they inspire confidence in you? What a crock the police are. Poor families who have to deal with these incompetent crooks.

Obviously, the only way to control these hoods is to convince the local mafias - state and private - to control them, a la US.

Why do they stage a reenactment when they have the whole thing on CCTV? That just doesn't make sense to me.

This really is a case the boss having a cunning plan and the subordinates not having the balls to tell him that making an announcement like this isn't such a good idea.

They will randomly shoot two guys they can fit up with the offence.

It is disturbing indeed because they can just go out and shoot anybody who's a close fit to just end all the bad press and get this story out of the news which is primarily what they want.

TaT not having a good week are they. They are going to have to start a "Thailand is safe, jing jing" campaign very soon if this keeps up. "Land of Smiles while we stab you in the heart" just isn't doing it.

Better to stick to blowing whistles in parking lots.

What is the age of consent in Thailand and why is this not statutory rape?

I am wondering if you walked around the bars along Sukumvhit or Patpong how many Thai flags would you see?

Are you an experience handler? Have you handled a Coastal Taipan or a Eastern Brown snake before? If not I would leave the stick handling to the experts. Thailand is not the place you want to bit by a snake. The hospital stay will cost you an arm and a leg and they will stop giving you vials of anti-venom if they think you cannot pay the bill.

sigh....to much beer just now....not going searching for a website to prove a point...but even the website i put up above calls it a rainbow...as well as the red neck one.....so perhaps it is a nick name.

Anyway....there was 2 or 3 sites that also called it rainbow....

More importanlty....I found the snake I saw out front last night....the one I decided notto play with cos I had had a few drinks already.....it was a banded krait..

Banded Krait will kill you and they are more active and less docile at night time.

Sounds like you're not in Bangkok if you're seeing Banded Kraits.

Caught this one a few weeks ago...

and this one...just a baby at our back door, 7yo girl nearly stepped on it...

The green one bit my wife's mother last year.

White lipped pit viper. Pretty common around Bangkok.

The second one looks like the large eyed variety.

Some people call the Bronzeback's Rainbow snakes. Which site did you find them call it Rainbow snake then?

If you google you'll see people calling all kinds of snakes Rainbow snakes, such as Bronzebacks, Sunbeam snakes etc. In this forum we prefer to be less vague and see little point in referring to snakes with ambiguous names.

I'm guessing Laotion Wolf Snake or possibly a Mangrove Snake. Hard to tell. Snake ID posts should always include location.

I think I remember reading a bite from these can cause renal failure.

It was / is a Keelback.. more specifically it's Xenochrophis flavipunctatus. Close relation to Chequered Keelback, known as Yellow-Spotted Keelback or Common Keelback

Species has a very mild venom & will bite if provoked, but the poison is quite far from lethal.

check the photographs on the snake from Khon Khen, not from pattaya.

Has anybody ever seen a Malayian Pit Viper in Khon Kaen? I doubt it.

The head is a result of having it's head smashed in. It's not normally like that.

The only reason balloons are banned is because they take up too much space on the train.

Thailand needs to have a shocking advertising campaign along the lines of Australia's road safety campaigns. That would have an impact.

This is just a ploy for Thailand to have it's own Robben Island and a grab for the contract revenue for building such a thing. You can bet that anybody accused and found guilty of Lese Majeste would end up in such an establishment. I think if you canvas Thai society they would consider it cheaper to put a bullet in the head of Drug Dealers than to waste public money on an Supermax style prison.

This sounds to be nearly 2/3 at least of McVies bomb in Omaha....

I'm going to say it was Oklahoma

Anybody who thinks it's a coincidence that these numbers are being released at the same time the embassy's are issuing Terrorist warnings is a fool.

Important things to know when reporting snake sightings. Location, color of bands if any, how far apart bands are etc etc.

Many bands across their body? Where is this?

The coloring but not the head always reminds people of the white lipped green pit viper or the yellow lipped green pit viper.

Can't you get any more pictures?

Rayong area