Nicholas Paul KNIGHT

For starters to many requests. Today blow a p[ositive then immediately arrest take to Police Station either a further breath test on a dedicated calibrated  breath test machine or blood or urine.

Keep it simple , no need to seek permission if positive arrest , of unsure arrest , take to the station for either another breath test, blood or urine. No need to ask. Leaves out possibility of corruption except at the initial breath test.  

Note pay the doctor to come to the station easier.

A MAJOR GENERAL  no less, expounding HILTERITE to deter smokers. Completely contrary to the Hippocratic Oath , although maybe a Military doctor may consider himself exempt rather like Dr Mengele !!

Over the years whenever you see lorries with an extraordinary overhang of the load or even the Sugar cane lorries so overloaded that even turning is dangerous, you know somewhere somehow there is little of any oversight by the authorities and if there is oversight money has changed hands . 

Like all  road checks, some vehicles sail through even though you know they are illegal, overloaded, speeding etc. Overladen lorries are one of the causes of brake failure resulting in many accidents so lack of enforcement those corrupt officials are also complicit in accidents as well. 

Convicted drug dealer who escaped to avoid justice, sorry serves him right. Nice to see The Police interaction,. sad it did not work the other way around . 

Not a surprise whenever you as a Foreigner have to deal with any Government entity, it is very hard work and frustrating not all the time to be fair but if you want a decision, it is worse than watching grass grow. 

Thais are terribly xenophobic and dealing with a foreigner you can see them moving around to avoid dealing with you . 

Generally the Thai public are far better, but put them in a position of authority then the sloping shoulders and lack of customer service shows through , ,but do not get  me started on the Royal Thai Police . 

Sadly it shows again egos are more important than actually taking care of the people he represents. 

The security problem is the so-called bouncers thinking they have carte blanche to whatever whenever . RTP should control; their excesses or close the establishment that hire the THUGS 

As with many things here enforcement is the key. Simple ANY rider found NOT having the necessary documentation. Seize the motorcycle until he/ she produces ALL the correct documentation . T hen together with registration and photographing will lower over time the incidents of bad riders. 

I am sorry empathy went as soon as I read, overstay, drugs etc. Youth and sheer stupidity might be an excuse, lucky he got out alive or at least with nothing broken .

Not a story but a lesson not to try to be clever !!

Good ideas, however where are they going to find educational professionals , currently Education is a mess, supposed to be changing it for the last 22 years to my knowledge . Sounds like just another sound-bite top attempt to change an outdated system that will never change 

Thailand will do exactly nothing to improve Tourism adventures or visitors, having lived here for over two decades , there is still too many Tourist scams from Jet Skis to taxis. The infrastructure is poor despite promises to improve it. Toilets for example are a very good guide to an efficient tourism service, woefully poor standards in many places.

I enjoy Thailand but then I do not do the tourism sites. 

How can you JUSTIFY  the 100/300 per cent increase in admittance prices, when you do not improve said site at all. Pure Governmental authorised SCAM !!

So even if in a hospital and after footage gone around the world and viral videos , the RTP state they cannot proceed until they get a formal complaint. The police are worse than the Keystone Police , whose bumbling efforts poured scorn on Law Enforcement in the USA. Now Thailand has its own version, called the Royal ( I will do nothing unless I have to ) Thai Police . Any foreigner hurt who does not immediately report the matter to the police will get NO JUSTICE  !! Even if lying in hospital on life support !!

Serious doubts about being a mercenary, AND living here for 22 years, but often truth stranger than fiction .Sounds dubious at best, but5 many here reinvent themselves as it sounds better and justifies their odd actions.

Is not the first and unlikely not the last of disposing of a farang in Thailand, sadly investigative competence in Thailand is not good. 

Having serverd ion a maritime oprganmi9sation for over TWO decades I did visit many boat tour op[portunities when I first came here, canal trips opk, but on the open water the expertise and seemingly lack of competence showed by many crew including cap[taions, I vowed NEVER to venture on any boat run and crewed and captained by Thais . Judging by the number of accidents, mishaps etc over the last 2 decades seems like a wise choice .

There may be GOOD COMPETENT crews, boats etc,. but it is pure guesswork !!

arrested for driving under the influence ....NO, another wonderful f

job NOT done by the RTP

I is not the heat that is a problem, but the humidity. If low humidity heat is easily manageable, used to 42 i the shade in Yemen, but almost zero humidity.

JUST a blip why do people moan and groan 

Polce reform is two words, uttered every-time some Policeofficers get it wrong. There are TWO major problems with this.

those that used internal corruption to get where they are want to see a return o their efforts and actions thereby hindering any real internal reform and the the other point is the PUBLIC.

The Police need the public to Police effectively sadly virtually ALL trust is gone, Police not taking action as there is nothing in it for them ( quite from a recently retired RTP friend of mine ) plus the vast web of enterprises the Police are involved in officially or unofficially which `show that  they are corrupt. 

If you sort out the first then the second will follow. 

17 hours ago, ryandb said:

Poor women, we really send some of our worst over here don't we

No we do not SEND, BUT it seems some of our worst find their way to Thailand where compromise the answer to many problems 

e to the SO educated American Teen get is comeuppance. Typical mouth opens and complete rubbish comes out. Deport him never to return !!

One poster hit the al on the head, for some Thai Polie no reward means no policing and sadly any officer who siad to me karma would not be greeted with a wai, more a formal complaint .

The attitude of all of the officers involved beggars belief and this story should make the rounds internationally, to waqrn people of the incompetence and downright laziness of the RTP .