SaengSom

I hope that the owners of this Mall sue the finacial backers of the Red Shirts for every penny they have!

Txs for the laugh dude. You have a better chance of seeing a 30 mile wide comet slam into Lumpini Park.

Thanks for this comment. The comet made made me smile again.

Actaully a good friend of mine works, no, now i have to say USED TO WORK in that mall.

The moment i heard about the fire 10 minutes ago i only was thinking of her and the people that i know there.

Doing a hard job in all that loud surroundings, Neon lights and so on.

They lost their job now.

Maybe people died or got hurt.

Its so bad. i want to scream and cry and beat and hit some of the people who started the fire.

Its so bad....

The comet-thingy just gave me a little moment of patience, a little smile.

Even if all i wrote is a final thing. Not possible to bring that back....

No politics here, never did and i will not now.

But

THIS IS BAD, VERY BAD.

SHAME ON THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT

I feel sorry for the people of Thailand.

I really dont care for a sugar shortage as i dont like to get my soup with sugar.

However, i am so happy to see that this finally brings back a CRACKDOWN again.

I missed that so much.

Normally, over the last years almost every single day, or at least every week there was a CRACKDOWN.

I already thought that this will never come back again. Maybe, so i thought, there was CRACKDOWN on CRACKDOWNS

I have been witness of the following scene some weeks before:

In Buayai was one of those typical festivals also with sport events and, most attractive to the youth, a bumping car booth.

This place was surrounded by young thai boys in between 13 and 21, i guess and also girls in the same age.

As I know in Thailand it is not allowed to sell alcohol to underaged but most of the kids were drunk. And police, uniformed as well as civil clothed were nearby watching the scene.

I was curious about this place as i´ve never seen such in TH.

My GF and her friends told me not to go too close as this place is the "warm up place" for the guys to start fighting.

Knowing about that we went back to our house.

On the way there we watched a guy, obviously drunk, driving his motorbike with a minimum speed of 80-100Km/h through the walking people.

He was shouting and he swang a big, really big knive.

50 meters behind the point he passed us i saw that he was coming back from anywhere carrying a bigger knive than before -It was such agri-cultural used knives with a grip that is about 100 cm. The knive itself also was about that length-

He was drunk. Really drunk, i mean.

Stopping his bike in a hurry, leaving the engine running he jumped off it, ran to a group of 10 guys hitting them with the knive without hurting anyone.

Then he got surrounded by the guys, slammed down to the ground and all guys, now about 35, were beating and kicking him.

As I said he was laying on the ground already but all the guys around him did not stop for about 2-3 minutes.

At the end the last guy kicked him two times directly into his face.

I went to help but i was stopped by my girlfriend and other Thais around.

I´ve seen the guy laying down bleeding all over from cuttings and also stitches.

SO.

At the end I have to say this:

As long as Thai youth does not learn to behave and to respect live,

as long as Thai TV is showing american made movies full of violence,

as long as Thai shops sell the legal drug alcohol to underaged,

as long as Thai police is watching the youth getting drunk and driving motor bikes,

as long as such stupid behavior goes on day in day out also foreigners will be killed by Thais that feel powerful enough to to what thy want to do.

Thai men grow up fighting. Its nothing special for them.

A dead person more or less - who gives a shit for that, who cares?

Visitors in Thailand should get handed out a small book if they intent to visit "dangerous places" that tell them about all the cases that could happen to them.

But even then we have to read about foreigners all day, I guess...