mikebell

Fare enough.

I've been complaining for decades about the slow-moving speaker vans that some stupid companies & politicians think will enhance their public standing. Their effect is quite the opposite. Their message is inaudible; any visual recognition immediately puts them on my (s)hit list. Their contribution to the carcinogenic air quality should not be underestimated.

They will be if they are caught. That's why they flee.

That would have been a nasty way to die.

Speed kills yet the offence is ignored by Thai police all over the country.

When I came here 20 years ago, I got 73 to 1 UKP. I used to import 5K = 350,000 baht regularly. I spent freely; a new car every 3 years; an expensive house/furniture/clothes; meals out in top restaurants; etc. Now I have an ailing 8 year old car; a rented property; cook all my meals at home; and check supermarket prices to save a baht here & there. Any further attacks on my income will drive me to the Philippines where I will unfreeze my UK State pension and receive the equivalent of a 450,000 baht increase in my annual income.

A new record for photo-cops; 9 surrounding the arrested thief. The use of CCTV helped catch the culprit within hours; it could make the roads safer if any of the above camera-cops cared to watch before an incident takes place.

If he was living quietly, why did Pattaya police suddenly decide to raid his apartment?

I am about to send my usual 5K UKP this weekend. I usually put personal expenses. Kicking myself that I didn't do it before sterling slid back against the mighty baht.

Puts the tourists-peeing-in-the-sea story in the shade.

I think you missed the irony in this oft-repeated clause.

Insensitive, failed dog owners should be put out of their neighbours' misery by a vet-administered lethal injection. Usually someone lobs a quantity of rat poison over the fence.

The car was in Cambodia. The thief confessed to three counts of similar offences; two of the cars were recovered.

Previously unrevealed information: she was letting out her car (probably illegally to supplement her meagre nurse's salary.)

Do you know how much a nurse makes per month? Would you have paid the 10K bribe to a crooked cop? I thought so.

Not on TPB yet.

She was renting it out (I suspect this negated any insurance.)

Don't hold your breath, dear.

A full account of Pattaya's recent history. You stopped short of suggesting the police have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

Meanwhile two Aussie drunks brought the rest of Pattaya to a standstill and several people were killed on the roads.

ineffectual Pattaya police are on the rare occasions they are called on to work.

It happened to my S-i-L. Her car was stolen. The thief (a woman with a farang husband) was 'arrested' by family members; Dongtan police refused to charge her without payment of 10K. The car owner (a nurse) had to pay off a bank loan for four years without a car!

Another reader who understood my humour. There were a couple of snarky responses who missed it.

I also thought they were banned from flyovers? The newly opened ones near the Ambassador are choked with them; an accident waiting to happen as mad pickup drivers roar across at well over the 60 kph limit.

At last someone saw the humour in my comment. It went over the heads of a couple of respondents.