Liverpool Lou

Um, which other poster ? Gawd. The OP (opening post) from where I copied that quote!

Buy a helmet for 1 day yeah right Rent a bike and not use a helmet...yeah, right.

"you all got it wrong". So did you. "...he faced charges of riding without a driving license and was fined 1,000 Baht, and reckless riding, for which he was fined 1,000 Baht, and also riding in the wrong direction for which he was fined 500 Baht. In total he was fined 2,500 baht. The motorbike rental operator was fined 2,000 Baht for allowing riders who do not have a driving license to ride their motorbikes". https://thephuketexpress.com/2023/07/12/russian-fined-2500-baht-after-riding-the-wrong-way-on-one-way-road-in-phuket-old-town-video/

Quite, maybe the cops pick on foreigners on purpose cos they have money????? Maybe he committed three offences and maybe the rental company was fined also. Maybe you could read the link.

You could just read the link for the answer.

They do but those reports don't make it to the English-language oriented media, for obvious reasons.

There were...there's a link but most AN members don't read explanatroy links.

Why is that "disturbing"?

Nonsense. They have a phone number, why don't you call them and ask them what the issue is instead of posting false and misleading information?

How does it appear to be "blocked" as opposed to being "down", probably temporarily?

Same. It's just down, it'll be back in a couple of hours.

"A German expat [Mack is pictured] and his Thai partner have been arrested for allegedly trafficking underage children for sex. Nongprue and Provincial Police Region 2 Women and Child Protection officers raided a home on Soi Siam Country Club Feb. 18, apprehending the German [Mack] and a Thai man. Police had been monitoring the movements of the Thai man, who allegedly escorted a 17-year-old girl to the house in the Pattaya Green Ville development, with the German [Mack] following behind on a motorbike. There they found the German [Mack] sitting with the teen [the 17-year old] and a shirtless foreigner coming out of a bedroom [not Mack]. Later, police found a 15-year-old wrapped only in a towel. https://www.pattayamail.com/news/2-foreign-pedophiles-thai-pimp-nabbed-pattaya-trafficking-bust-203448

What a coincidence, that's exactly what the OP reported, also! "Just two years shy of the expiry of the statute of limitations".

Not even for taking money for sales? If he "took money for sales" he'd have to be working in the shop, not solely providing the capital, wouldn't he?

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How could he have a work permit for a business that doesn't yet exist? Even if it had been set up, he wouldn't need a WP to solely finance the business.

They were in the second decade of searching so it was more than one decade's hunt, i.e. it was a decades-long hunt.

Thai(land) Post is the Thai post office. EMS is an express (3 day?), signed for/insured postal service offered by Thailand Post.

The weed shops are supposed to be licenced/registered to be legal and only Thais can do that.

Not everyone wants something ridiculous. What?

You cannot depend on a single report that doesn’t tally with any other reports Why not, what makes the other reports so correct? You cannot rely on those, either!

17-year old. The 15-year old was with someone else.

Legally you are right. Yes, I know I am, thank you.

You should realise that this is a forum and there is no reason for its existence other than generating comments and that you are not here to monitor my posts so religiously, even though you seem to enjoy it so much. As it happens, most of the comments that I respond to are full of false information and accusations but, even if they weren't, I'd still be entitled to comment any way I choose as everyone else is. By the way, your stalking doesn't bother me, sorry to disappoint you.

No it's totally not okay and the media does a super bad job not even mentioning the stuff that happened 2018. Even if he didn't get convicted he got questioned and was present at a minor trafficking raid. "Even if he didn't get convicted he got questioned and was present at a minor trafficking raid". So, legally, that makes him innocent of the charges, regardless of his intentions and, as untoward as it may appear, just being there isn't illegal, is it?