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6 hours ago, pomchop said:

Mr red bull has a very rich well connected daddy to pay off many other rich and well connected people to allow him to never ever be held accountable for killing a cop while all hyped up on coke and driving like a maniac then lying about it all and "hiding" in plain site for years....shame on the entire "justice" system of thailand for allowing this to play out.  Inspector Clousaeu could find him and arrest him in about one day but the entire weight of the thai police and justice system can't find him even though they have been looking for years....yeah right.

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22 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I don't disagree. However, that would probably reduce the profits of the status quo.

 

For example, the biggest karaoke/brothel in Chiang Mai is owned by a high police official.

Legalising it though it would open other income streams for the authorities. That brothel you mention would be able to continue operating but be legal. Tax liabilities come into play but a decent accountant can fix that without too much disruption. 

The faux shock on here from guys who very likely use these services I might add, is pathetic. Led by the noses by a headline. Doh!

what a lovely story..........just goes to show that good news is still news. It doesn't need to be negative all the time.

21 hours ago, transam said:

So, does that mean you think it OK to stitch-up customers.......?   

Yawn.

sex work is the oldest profession in the world and yet still we have people posting here like it's something to be ashamed of. Sex work isn't a problem, its "enforced" sex work that needs addressing. I've never met a bar girl in Bangkok who was forced into doing it and was unable to leave if she wanted to. 

There will be some but very very few. 

I think the people in authority who are supposed to protect them but extort them instead need weeding out but that's not going to happen any time soon.

The authorities should also make it easier for non-University educated girls to get a normal job instead of asking for degrees just to work in a damn shop. 

Sex workers for me should be applauded for the job they do......it can't be easy putting up with smelly, drunken, guys 7 days/week. And lets not forget the money they earn and put back into the economy.

Legalising it would be a good thing IMO

I haven't read all the posts but nobody seems to have mentioned that under the street lights and/or in the dark Thai money is hard to see properly and 1000thb notes look like 100thb notes - especially when you are a bit tipsy. Many a time I've taken a motorcycle taxi home and I find out in the morning that a 200thb ride home has cost me considerably more because the notes look so similar. 

The brit was drunk and it was dark and they were under streetlights........and he hadn't been here very long. 

I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks he gave the driver X amount and I wouldn't be surprised if the driver saw an opportunity to make a few extra baht.

The motorcycle taxis that take me home never tell me I have given them too much.....its not a scam though, its an error on my part. 

3 hours ago, Zack61 said:

Surely UK police checks would not allow this to move past first base. 

why not? The charges are alleged not provem.......what are you expecting police checks in the UK to unearth? This hasn't been to court and may not do for quite some time. Innocent until proven guilty? The UK authorities would have no grounds to deny this - it might be revoked though at some time in the future. 

On 4/29/2024 at 3:25 PM, ikke1959 said:

Not my words kids were saying that.... On the other hand we had a conversation with a few wives from policeofficers and they told us, that their husband was bored being a policeman as their boss wanted that they took bribes or unregistered fines and hand them to him( the boss).... just to say

Keep them coming.........

any successful coup would render the PM powerless wouldn't it? They wouldn't be having anyone arrested.

56 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

Why repatriate a corpse.

Cremation in Thailand and send the ashes home.

We 'posted' my father-in-law's ashes back to the UK from Australia.

I took some of my wife's ashes back to the UK for a memorial service after she had died.

its a matter of personal choice I think...you chose not to repatriate the body. There is no right or wrong choice though. It's up to the surving family members to decide. 

On 4/15/2024 at 7:04 AM, wensiensheng said:

Funding for what? He has died, not lying in a hospital bed waiting for repatriation.

repatriating a corpse is expensive. 

2 hours ago, ryandb said:

oh wow, so a French woman, Lebanese guy and an Australian are going to go through a he said/she said with the Thai police over kidnapping a kid from a prominent Thai woman... this is gonna get interesting, who has the most cash wins I guess

its a given the Thai will win. 

3 hours ago, Frankie baby said:

Everything blown out of all proportion as usual. Maybe the guy just wanted his money back?

"maybe" she was just a normal girl and wasn't for hire & had tried to tell him to go away but he was too drunk to realise or notice? "Maybe" she was his g/f and was acting like she wasn't and attracting as much attention as she possibly could to sate her desires? Maybe........................it was a storm in a t-cup and nothing really happened lol. 

that the term "foreigner" is used without mentioning his nationality would suggest he is Asian and probably Chinese. If he is why not say Chinese man? If he had been a "farang" we would have been informed which country he was from.....why the special treatment? 

Its never a good idea to hit a woman - better to just walk away and leave her if she's playing up. If he is just a bully though then he's likely done it b4 and he needs teaching a lesson.  

On 4/20/2009 at 6:51 PM, peregrine8 said:

Now but that was just a nasty little comment. Are you what they call a troll? I am a very good mother who just happens to be on bedrest for my pregnancy. There is nothing wrong with getting help. I do not have a mother or mother in law close to come help me. She is not watching my 5 kids just helping with my youngest 2. I do not think that I should have to pay for all nationality holidays because she is working for me. Now for the amount of kids I have is none of your business. If I want 15 kids then so be it. If we want to have sex fine seeing as we are married. So just get your mind up here with the rest of us and quite being such a jerk.

Peregrine8

whether you like or not or agree or not if you hire domestic staff in your home they are entitled to at least 13 of the Public Holidays. These are given to all workers by the Government - you do not have the authority to overule Thai law. My advice would be to sit down and simply discuss which 13 of the holiday she wants - bear in mind Songkran is a 3 day Public Holiday.

The workers are entitled to be paid for these days too. Stop being a tightarse and think about the well-being of your helper for a change instead of your pocket.

If you dont know the law then find out, there is plenty of info on Google to keep you on the right side of it. 

4 hours ago, rct99q said:

As they say nothing good ever happens at a playground near the Vatican, or 3am in Thailand!

yeah right.............that old saying.   ????

20 minutes ago, Ajarnbrian said:

‘Outbreak of law breaking by foreigners’, is surely an exaggeration if it involves less than 0.1% of the many thousands of foreign visitors in Thailand. Let’s see the offenders dealt with and deported, the vast majority of law abiding, respectful foreigners can support that.

with percentages like that I'm surprised this "crime wave" hasn't been re-labelled a Pandemic. 

3 hours ago, steevjee said:

Easy, corrupt cops rule in Thailand and they're the crims best friend, as long as the RTP palms are getting greased.

that's exactly how things work here and how the RTP make any money. They wouldn't be able to survive on the salary the government pays. 

15 hours ago, Dolf said:

She is faking it. Trying to get money.

where there's blame..............................

2 hours ago, Ausie11 said:

You are funny guy with had fully in sand. Look around you ffs. Did you see what lady boys do on the street

Nothing funny about drunk foreigners shooting their mouths off but to then start whining when it goes pear-shaped is a joke. It doesn't matter that t was a ladyboy, shoot your mouth off because you're drunk and you shouldn't be surprised if someone pulls you up about it. You being an Aussie (I presume) will know what I'm talking about. You guys dont tolerate having the p*ss taken out of you so why do you think a ladyboy should let it go? 

Or are there different rules regarding ladyboys, are they "fair game"?

On 3/30/2024 at 9:52 AM, Yagoda said:

Some foreign dude stopped it. 

 

Soi 11 is the pits. 

 

I saw a dude slap a bar girl and start pushing her the other day.

 

Folks need to sdmoke more weed and chill.

Has it "gone"? it was a nice soi before the lock down.

On 3/28/2024 at 2:15 PM, Rampant Rabbit said:

I often wonder why people have the need  to tell others of their preferences  in life, I dont run around screaming  about it for sure.

exactly......the LGBQT community shout from the rooftops about their sexuality. They bring traffic to a standstill with their rallies all over the world and att axpayers expense. Just be gay if you're gay ffs. 

Shoving it down peoples throats is the wrong way to curry support. 

Those people who come knocking on your door to sell God are irritating too but at least they dont get aggressive/defensive/abusive if you have a different opinion to theirs. 

I have no issue with gays or trans or bi's or whatever.......genuinely! But dont push it in my face or you might see my opinion change. 

I think if yoo that with anything you will encounter resistance - not appreciation and support. 

On 3/28/2024 at 3:45 PM, watthong said:

 

"Its posts like this that do more harm than good the the LBGTQ community." Really? "Stoking up anti LBGTQ feeling by telling people who have a different opinion that there opnion is wrong and is bigoted." Can you read? Or you would rather spin?

 

I didn't tell "people who have a different opinion that there opnion is wrong and is bigoted." so don't broad-stroke my comment. I'm calling a bigot, quote by quote, a bigot. Simple as that, got it? FYI, bigotry is always there, all around us, but unlike soi dogs, you don't make them go away by ignoring them. On a forum like this one, if you don't play wackamole with them, they'll metastasize like cancer. However, bigoted comments are allowed to run rampant whenever gay topic - marriage especially - comes up. Unfortunately, yes, but that's nothing new.

you need to get that chip off your shoulder, yopu'll feel a lot better for it. Just be gay and be saitisfied, is that too difficult to do? If you encounter someone who is not gay-friendly so what? Plenty of gays these days are not particularly straight- friendly either but we dont make a song and dance about it. You have your Gay pride rallies all over the world, can you imagine the hell that would be unleashed if someone organised a Straight & Proud rally? Through the middle of one of the major cities and affected traffic?

Just get on with being whatever you are for christs sake. Others dont have to approve, it isn't compulsory to approve it you know! Grow up. 

2 hours ago, watthong said:

 

 

 

 

I used to take a stance of ignoring the bigots, and trying to hold on to the topic at hand which concerns the wellbeing of the LGBTQ plus community. But that doesn't stop them bigots from hijacking said thread by inflaming it with their vitriols. So let's call a spade a spade. (To steal a line from my "sister" Jingthing:) You are a hardcore homophobic bigot ! So try to find your place in an enlightening society if you can. FYI, bigotry will not get you neither here nor there.

 

It's you who at the first place brought up the idea of sodomy/buggery - which involves a man/woman butthole, so again let's call a spade a spade. What's a vagina and a butthole have in common? They both discharge body waste. Therefore what makes sodomy more "sickening" than vagina-penetrating intercourse? Bigotry, that is. Just an aside, in my inexperienced teens I was lured into intercourse with a female classmate. Turned out she was having her period. I was turned off because of her female genitalia - which I finally had the chance to observe up close, and nah, not to my liking - but not because of the sight of her bloody tampon, which I considered a necessity to her natural bodily function.

Its posts like this that do more harm than good the the LBGTQ community. Stoking up anti LBGTQ feeling by telling people who have a different opinion that there opnion is wrong and is bigoted. Telling people what they can/can't do is only going to fuel animosity. Why shove this down peoples throats? Be gay if your gay and just be happy..........but don't think you can tell me how to live my life just cause because I'm straight.