mikebell

So I wonder why the cops decided to pick on this one?

Eventually.

And all done in 9 days? I'm sure there will be an appeals procedure for the 55 who wouldn't pay the price.

I like series where the writers have the time to do character relationships. I just started watching 'Psych' (I think there were 8 or 10 series) where a supposed psychic helps inept police solve crimes in a lighthearted way.

Why didn't he just shoot the dog? Or resort to the Thai poisoned meat lob.

'Jonathan Leo, who relocated to Thailand in 2017' - he's already here.

Alternatively, it is easier to deny it's in Pattaya than to do anything.

Despite, or because, he was heading towards a traffic light, a high-speed collision took place. Thai drivers will empty their tank to get one place in front of you at a red light they didn't see, until they were 30 metres away.

I don't recognise any of the background in the video so maybe the police are right? (There's a 1st!)

Eighteen of them rushed to the scene by ambling out of the front door.

It's an old picture from the last time they had a crackdown.

There is outrage, rightly, about the (likely) number of deaths in the earthquake skyscraper collapse and an investigation into the possible sub-grade steel used. Yet figures suggest that the numbers missing are merely two days'-worth of road casualties. Yet there is no outcry about the lack of policing that is responsible for the majority of these incidents.

And all because RTP in Pattaya are non-existent. Lax law enforcement is responsible for the majority of the daily road deaths/injuries.

Meanwhile on the roads, at least another 40 people were killed.

How does accepting police corruption make my life better? How does it make problems go away? Rose coloured glasses make you see no evil; accepting it is condoning it. 'You must have experience. A professional I would say.' A professional what? Experience of what?

'The House of David' (him with his mate Goliath.) I like a costume drama and this seems to have been well researched regarding the historical period. Could do without the wailing songs in Hebrew!

From jealous club owners nearby, Laughable that the RTP have to justify their existence. Gottfrid - QED.

Well, he's called Mr. Big Top which is where clowns work.

Gottfrid - QED.

Those rose-coloured glasses prevent you seeing the wider picture; you are focused on this one case. Almost weekly there are reports of police inactivity being reported on Social media sometimes resulting in police being forced out of their air-conditioned offices to do their job. Observe their diligence on the (now) 14 Dangerous Days in the year when they get overtime for staring at their phones by the roadsides. My comprehension is not aided by your final question.

Indeed I think they do - I think agents are on commission. They went along with the crooked policeman's version of events as it was easier. You underestimate the fear that bent cops generate in society; my (ex)wife paid up rather than chance my visa/marriage going up in smoke. One day your rose-coloured glasses will slip off and you will view RTP for what they are like most contributors here in my gang.

There was no police work. The Bolt drivers did it all. The positive side is the motor bike was returned to its owner. I am also positive the police did nothing.

My negativity is based on personal experience; I do not belong to a team. I'd had the usual run-ins with RTP where a hundred or so soothed away various sins that I had allegedly committed, but the 1st big one was a scruffy Sattahip cop, arrived at the scene of my accident about 20 minutes later. I had been run into by two helmetless, licence-less tearaways at 90kph whilst waiting to turn right at a U-turn. He adjudged I was at fault! I was stationery at the time. This cost me 90K & two years of torment as my Insurance company accepted his reading of the situation. The cop also took 15K off my (then) wife to ensure there would be no problem with her husband's next year's visa. My wife's sister had her car stolen; the family made a citizen's arrest after recognising the thief and called the police. I took everyone to Dongtan cop-shop Jomtien and was in the room when the fat officer asked for 10K to pursue the case. The car owner paid four year's of bank loan for a car sold in Cambodia. Nothing I have read or heard since has changed my opinion in the last ten years.

Totally agree. During my nightmare 9 hour bus journey to Korat, every visible tire on the vehicle was utterly devoid of tread. It pulled in to a Weigh Station where it underwent a police(?) check and was declared roadworthy. Half an hour driving at 15 kph immediately prior to this check was presumably to fool authorities into thinking the driver was not a speedster.

See my comments on Pattaya police work.