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I had just reading this story on the 'unmentionable' newspaper over morning coffee when it popped up on the Work Point TV news show. With access to privately-owned cctv so prevalent here, I can't imagine it will be too long before they catch this evil soul. I assume they've checked him mum's house after turning up a no-show at his digs. It's also possible that a burned out Mitsubishi pickup should be found some time soon with his body nearby.

So the "phone-a-friend" cop drove this drunken grub around for at least two hours before going to a hospital they probably knew couldn't do any blood alcohol testing. What's the betting on the blood sample turning up missing?

Classic witless post (again).

You are paying 3600 baht/year for your fiber connection and we assume you have home wi-fi running on the back of that. My internet connectivity as follows: 3BB fiber home router with LAN and wi-fi (749 baht/month) = 8988 baht/year Data SIM (in Wi-fi router with LAN in my shed) = 1480 baht/year AIS SIM unlimited internet 2Mbps on phone (90 baht/month) = 1080 baht/year DTAC SIM non-stop internet 500 Mb + free calls on phone (199 baht/month) = 2388 baht/year The AIS phone data package is on top of a basic call/sms package but since most of my calls are via WhatsApp, Skype and LINE, I'm not too worried about it.

Have a quiet word with her parents?

Air over hydraulic brakes only work properly if the truck isn't overloaded. I know been there done that. My point is they work pretty well either way when properly maintained. Here in Thailand, if there's an issue with a brake system that has redundancy, the 'mechanics' effort is to get them working fundamentally without considering the redundancy. The quick fix. Not too surprised when I read about a bus flipping on a downhill grade on Highway 2 around Kabinburi because the driver claims the brakes "ran out of air". I was following ten-wheeler with a trailer that was empty and clipping along the Mitrapharp at +60 kph in the 'fast' lane on the Udon bypass. One of the brake accumulator bottles on the main truck's rearmost axle had snapped off and was bouncing and sparking along the highway only tethered by the brake lines. I caught up with him at a traffic light and managed to get the driver to step out and take a look at what was happening at the back. He was a bit perplexed and obviously clueless about what he was looking at. I suggested tying it up. He asked me if it would last as-is until he got to Khon Kaen (about 120 km away). The quick fix. I shook my head , got back in my truck and quietly drove away.

Like the Swedish 'Moose Test' that Toyota's Hilux epically failed a while back?

Turn on mobile data on your phone THEN subscribe to the same package. If you don't enable data on your phone, it will 'eat' your internet allowance in a heartbeat (as you just found out). I have an AIS monthly internet on one SIM that's around 90 baht. I stream internet radio on it (via Bluetooth to truck, speakers, etc..) and never maxed it out. I once hot-spotted for my oldest lad who's a game boi and he blew it up within a few hours. The DTAC offering on the other (backup) SIM is a bit more, maybe nearer 300 baht for the month? I run two SIM's as I travel a fair bit and sometimes AIS roaming deals are better than DTAC (and vice versa). The offers that AIS or DTAC send you via sms are "tweaked" in that they're based on your usage history, hence someone may get a data deal for more (or less) than what they offer you for the same package. Most of the really sweet deals are NOT available on either company's app so pay attention to their sms offers.

I see BYD Atto3 several times a day in and around Udon Thani and it's not the same one either. I noticed a transporter offloading a pile of them at the new dealership up here middle of last month. Saw a nice pale metallic green one yesterday.

Shameless bump of your "solar panels on the car port" thread. Good job sir!

Air over hydraulic brakes only work in the developed world. This is due to most truck owners and operators being legally obliged to make sure the systems are maintained and repaired properly. Looking at the condition of the truck, there's no telling what sort of working brake system it had before it allegedly "failed". Inspection? Tax? Chains?

Google image search is your friend... Good tip. Lazada app is better than their website and when I am browsing, I use the app to load stuff in my wishlist. Their website is my go-to interface when I want more details on what I have added to my wishlist and/or make the purchase and tracking the order. Another tip is when you are looking for something and the only option appears to be China, don't rush to purchase but either add it to your wishlist or check for it again a few days later. I have frequently found some items that were only from overseas the previous week have become available locally. If I need something and it's only available on Shopee (only twice in three years), I get my wife's niece to order it for me. A common complaint from the Thai shopaholics at my house is that Shoppee has more cheap rubbish than lazada.

Note that agoda.com and booking.com are owned by the same company but hotel availability/cost isn't exactly the same across both websites. The booking website shows the final price on the 'front page' so to speak whereas a few extra clicks are needed to get the final price on agoda. Some prefer that. Some prefer to think they are being scammed by agoda. I haven't seen any significant differences on the final costs for the same room in the same hotel between these two websites beyond a few cents/pennies. There's absolutely no truth in the claim by some that the price they get charged by agoda is higher than the price they are presented with on the FINAL booking confirmation page and agreed to pay.

British Prime Minister Sunak. Irish Taoiseach Varadkar. Former Peruvian President Fujimori. @roo860, a good old Chinese name.

Medical evacuation doesn't have a fixed cost and can vary widely. Standard practice is to move the IP (injured party) to the nearest center of medical excellence for their specific or medical condition. For example, I had an employee offshore Nigeria who caught malaria but through a previously un-diagnosed medical condition, had life-threatening complications. He needed critical care including dialysis that wasn't available in Port Harcourt or Lagos. The medevac flight arrived from the UK, the team stabilized the IP before transferring to the aircraft, whereupon he was flown to Nairobi in Kenya. I would imagine that the IP in this story may require a large support team and complex handling because, 'He currently has external pelvic fixations and cannot move from a laying down position. He needs a second operation to insert internal fixations before he can start the long recovery process ahead before he will be able to sit on a flight to get home.'

They only want residents of Jersey or obscenely rich people with private islands in the Caribbean who own their own airline as a customer. Same goes for Isle of Man.

Not sure about the tech jargon but my eBay frequently launches similarly unformatted and unworkable. So it's either a cookie purge or VPN job to get it usable again: neither method guarantees success. A few times though, it launches OK without the faffing about.

That's a worry. I opened a Barclay's account as a backup in 2018 and my only two walk-in dealings have been quite fraught as the 'advisor' was pretty obvious in trying to catch if I was truly a UK resident. One trick question was reading out my street address as she typed on the computer, then qucikly turning to look at me while asking innocently, "Whereabouts is that?" Luckily, I know the town well enough that it's not in any named borough so the confident answer was "You know, off the A9, between the industrial estate and the river."

As an international gypsy since 1977, it is a struggle these days. After my parents passed, the 'holding address' duties were taken on by my sister. Then she had a stroke just before Covid and working through my autistic niece was challenging. I shifted my address to my mate's place last summer and all under control for the moment but he's planning on retiring, selling his house and moving to Thailand! There are several UK companies that wil provide a mailing address and have different packages for either opening/scanning/emailing or physical mail forwarding. If you form a company through an agency, some of those will include the same mail holding/processing/forwarding for a fee. I held onto a PO Box in the US for several years after my departure but gradually the expense wasn't worth it. As banks, businesses and subscriptions pushed for more electronic document format and less physical mail, there was no point in paying my lawyer's assistant to do the monthly box emptying and forwarding. I still use their office address to satisfy the residency rules but for the likes of online purchases, there's a couple of international package consolidation and forwarding services that work fine.

Maybe the insurance company is waiting for proof that alcohol was NOT involved before handing out the cash? It's possible there's a police report on the incident or they are seeking eyewitness testimony? It's also common for medical evacuation to be an add-on or only available under more expensive 'Premium' coverage. Either way, it's still their money.

Apart from your misinformation regarding passport turnaround time at the US Embassy in Bangkok, I assume most folks who know how a calendar works handle their passport renewals without drama.

On Firefox, it doesn't load properly using 3BB direct but is fully functional using 3BB via my (US) VPN.

Us professional snooker players pot the brown off the pink.

What? You've never heard of "parking the beef bus in tuna town"?

We brought our pre-schooler along to immigration when renewing a marriage extension. He absolutely charmed the female officers on what transpired to be the fastest marriage extension filing ever. I would imagine that the letter of the law says they need to see the child, especially if it is the first extension filing. I have heard that some offices will appreciate that the kids are in school when doing a renewal. Better the OP ask at the Immigration office he will be using.