mikebell

Typical Thai police behaviour; they are above the law; menacing actions YET he STILL keeps his job! Banana Republic.

Blimey! Where do you shop? The only English I hear is 'No have' as the assistant can't be arsed to put their phone down. If you ask a question about the product they won't know anything.

Surely he's got enough in his pension fund by now?

He's only going 'cos he thinks Brussels = sprouts.

But not for the qualities listed below.

The BBC is a vehicle for wokism. You get a mention if you are female and/or have an exotic non-British sounding name.

Or the vicious homeowner has 'friends' in high places. How can anyone be allowed to beat someone up & not face prosecution! Banana Republic.

Not among dog owners.

Damn - Inflation!

Thank you. I'll stick with my 1,800 baht Extension of Stay.

The public spirited thieves should be rewarded for clearing up the detritus left by contractors after their work.

Thai males are hardly famous for their chivalry particularly towards women and children.

There's hardly a day in the year when a car ends up on the beach or in a ditch, mostly inadvertently.

The figures suggest 40 people a DAY die (but only if we accept figures at the scene). We get the same warnings about the SEVEN Dangerous Days at least twice a year. What is needed in Thailand to bring these horrific numbers down, is a police force.

I love a dog thread; it brings out the tree-huggers and besotted dog owners who hold themselves up for ridicule. Thailand is 60 years behind civilised countries in this respect. Not a week goes by without a story of accidents caused by strays; humans disfigured by bites; all the fuss about hygiene whilst tonnes of dog-dirt/urine are distributed in every soi in the country; rubbish strewn by scavenging strays. The do-gooders cannot see that allowing sick animals to continue in their painful existence is cruelty not kindness. The solution is obvious to anyone with an IQ of over 80 - a cull of all strays.

I have all the talent necessary as the author of a Thai-centric trilogy but I thought the 10 year visa also came with a many-million price tag?

See Ralf above. My distances are extracted from a book I wrote when living in Bang Sare. Any exaggerations were for the purposes of humour as I was making the point that anyone seeking a licence had to drive on highways without one.

Things must be serious if the club is named & no attempt was made to censor Fahrenheit from the other fracas. It's the latest weapon in the police armory; Pay or Be Named.

A python in the roof space keeps the rats down to merely plague proportions.

Many such centres are police-owned or 'protected'.

I feel sorry for Pattaya Plod; they've just overcome their fear of the dark and now are expected to confront bad people!

Similarly I wouldn't eat chicken from street sellers that's been marinating in carbon monoxide for several hours by a man with no toilet facilities and guarded by a pack of wild dogs.

Read what people say about Finnair's Cattle Herding journeys.

It won't happen; the police will never allow it. It's bonanza time for Plods all over Thailand. 'nightly raids in tourism zones at 2 AM,'

Never thought of that unless you can give the company a new photo. I always have six in readiness at Immigration along with my GCE Certificates & Sainsbury's Nectar card just in case!