Watawattana

I'm sure this is entirely an isolated incident. A single rotten egg in the coop. One misshapen brick in the hod. The one black sheep in the flock. I'm sure the PACC will be able to stamp this out across the whole house building industry.

Well done the driver for his swift actions.

Apologies @metisdead - your edit makes it look better...

Lucky the mummy & daddy monitors weren't in there too!

I've got complete confidence in this expression of remorse.

Ouch!!! Hope you have completely recovered now.

More wokeism.

The UK's parole system is generally pretty good. The reoffending rate is pretty low, 0.5% I believe - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0CPJW85Y1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_351_o00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (beware this is a paid-for book, but it is written by a senior parole board member (Rob McKeon, he's been on radio and tv talking about it, so his name is public domain). Just let them out when they are no longer a threat to anyone. Same goes for thieves and anyone violent, probably a lot of other categories too. The criminal justice system should be protecting the law-abiding public or anyone vulnerable. It currently is not. The latest reoffending rate I could find is 37.4% - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/proven-reoffending-statistics-april-to-june-2022/proven-reoffending-statistics-april-to-june-2022 The parole system seems a better judge of potential reoffending than, well, judges.

The world will be a better place without this <deleted> gobbing off. I'm sure he'll really enjoy the Romanian prison system. Long may he rot in it.

I don't mind reading stories like this. It's a reminder of just how shallow some people can be and how low the bar can get. Of course, I'm not shallow in any way whatsoever... 😬

And find whoever supplied the Meth and do a Duterte on that person.

Lies and deception is front and centre of every politicians job description and CV, irrespective of the colour of their tie or dress. I'm sick of all of them. Bring back the Monster Raving Looney Party!!!

Yeah. Ever heard of the saying '2 wrongs don't make a right'? Well in this conflict, ongoing since at least the middle of last century, it's been tens of thousands of wrongs and still not one right. Yeah, the Israeli retaliation would be seen as 'right' by some, not going to argue against that, but ultimately it's just another wrong. In a very long line of them. Oh, and the planners and executors of the Oct 7th attacks were very, very wrong too. But some would think that is a 'right'.

No 💩 Sherlock. But it's good to see this being admitted/reported.

Sad.

I've seen this lack of maturity elsewhere in Asia amongst teens/20-somethings. I've chatted with quite a few locals where I live about this, and it's almost universally blamed on overly protective/domineering parenting and aggressive/bullying school teachers. Not sure how this aligns with Thailand, but I've heard a few similar stories about the schooling. The school system here is the number one reason for families to emigrate to Canada/Oz/UK; those are normally the parents who want their children to mature into well-rounded human beings who can think for themselves rather than being robots. The one big difference is that the children are all well aware of the unacceptability of violence, backed up by a very proactive police and criminal justice system. This is obviously very different to Thailand. It's incredibly unusual to hear about similar murder/suicides like the one in the OP, but the suicide rate is very high amongst teens/20-somethings. I've got a friend who is in the police here; the number of suicides she has to attend to in her patch is truly depressing in its scale.

The biggest surprise would be that anyone is surprised by this. These people make the rules. They could change them to totally ban all gifts of any value. Of course they won't. All at the same time pensioners on the edge of poverty will lose their winter allowance, whilst the MPs keep theirs.

Not much inflationary pressure on fines in 12 years, must be the only thing that hasn't risen in price!

I heard a rumour that it was a policeman holding the video camera.

Yeah, completely agree.

Bacchetta is an Italian name. First found in England in 1891. Not sure where the Mohammad references come from, but never mind. Don't care about her size, it's not relevant. She looks a bit embarrassed to me at having to be carried. Hope she recovers quickly.

How many people from the higher ranks of the Catholic church are in jail for this cover-up?

I've no evidence to suggest this is false. What I do know, seen with my own eyes, is that the catholic church boosted school fees by an extraordinary amount just when all this started to kick off. But those weren't 'donations' of course. They were school fees from hardworking American families who felt (ahem, were bullied into believing that) a Catholic education was best for their children

Maybe big enough to carry the invoice for advance payment for being rescued?

It's time for...