Jabberwocky

They need the taxi driver. The kick to the head confirms what low lives we are sometimes dealing with. That is jail time.

Here is what really happened. Somebody didn't fail in Math. A legal retirement visa costs 1900 THB plus perhaps s.th. for the income confirmation at the embassy. Each exit stamp is another 1000 THB Retirees who like to travel would save money by just leaving every 60 days, or even after an extension once in a while. No other paperwork anymore.

Marihuana may lead to brain damage. Not a therapy for everyone.

It was enough to scare that YouTuber RW4U away for most of the year, as it seems. Those loaded with money get nervous.

What I don't get is why they don't kill the dog on the spot. If you strangle him already, just finish the job.

Interesting read. Here is what I learned from this thread: You can't snort an emu or an ostrich.

So they came to make money without a work permit, like so many YouTubers?

Go to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital. But they might be busy, too. A friend went to Dental Paragon in Pattaya Klang, they also had a specialist.

I guess you are talking about women advanced in age who do not have too many choices, or in your other example of a rather unattractive one. Anyway, as the above wasn't married, she might have ended up with nothing and was clearly overpaid with a house in Thailand and half a million baht for a 5 year relationship. It would have taken me 10 years to spend such money with young freelancers, just to give a comparison. In your other example you talk about a woman who wouldn't take other customers although she receives only 5000 Baht from a foreigner. Perhaps she is an exception from the rule. I saw dozens in my room in such situations. The 5000 (or even 20.000) were always wasted and they just did what they wanted, f... around and lied to their sponsors on the phone.

Just go to a movie before it starts and watch what's happening. "Family is everything" as long as you pay your share. Family loses interest often enough when s.o. who is supposed to support (e.g. their parents) doesn't do it.

That isn't valid anymore. Look at last election results. Even poor people can sit in front of embassies and stir up media. I personally know of a case where not so poor people just convinced themselves that their daughter was dead, as she had left and never contacted them for 5 years. They never investigated until an NGO convinced her to return. So there is more to it. It's the same characteristic which makes them so disinterested that they rather have dozens of children burned alive in buses that could be secure. They do not value individual life enough.

That's not what I want to know. The question here is only if the accused has worked for 20 years at a Thai university (I.e. until the age of 62). If we know the institution, we can ask there. It was given as an argument for his innocence,and I doubt that it is valid.

Ok, than let me know the university and I check it.

How likely is it that a man just shrugs his shoulders and says: "Ok, she ran away with someone else"? I also doubt that he worked at a Thai university "for 20 years", he might have done that briefly (common retirement age here was 60 until recently). Anyway, the main disappointment seems to be the lack of engagement of her family to push the search from the beginning. This would not be atypical for Thais, in my mind it is some sort of autism. If I'd disappear, my family would most probably stir up a lot of trouble. Thus this may be another example of how low some Thai think of the individual human life.

What does he mean with settling the issue "Iike in Pattaya"? Just yesterday I had to respond to an urgent call while on the street. A group of bikers (in this case foreigners, too) arrived and I couldn't understand a word anymore. Imagine you are in an emergency situation. This is common in Pattaya and also a potential risk, as you can't hear any other vehicles approaching etc. There are several Thais doing it all year round without obviously being bothered much. The police is too lazy and weak in that respect. At traffic lights/crossroads those bikers could easily be fined but when do you see it happening? The policeman will usually not leave his booth for it.