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This parking lot scheme not only affects the farangs, Thai's have to fork out to. My GF is also approached in various areas when parking and pays the 40 Baht..... Not doing so will mean flat tires upon returning to the car.

I hope the British press does a story about violence in Thailand and tourists cancel their trips here.

Wake up Thailand and put your scum in jail.

Farang MUST report every 90 says while your criminals are free on the streets.

I hope this story goes viral.

It's Breaking news on BBC World as we speaks.............. Probably

As a British resident he should have known how the situation with the parking fees here and swallowed his anger and paid up, silly man.

Doesn't deserve a beating, though.

Im astonished to see the amount of tourists in LOS who walks around with smartphones or wallets in their back pockets............might as well have a sign on them saying "Come on....pick my pockets" .............

Agree with Ping.....Bangla is not Patong.In Patong you can find quiet hotels,bars and good and cheap resturants if you just walk away from the Beach Road area.In my last 2 visits I didn`t venture down to Bangla once and I know several Patong expats who hasn`t been in Bangla for years.Don`t pay attention to the doomsayers ,Patong can be a lovely place !!

The Sky News reporter who stepped in to her own story should be ashamed of herself.

Yes and so should every expat who remains in Thailand for they all financial support such a regime. I hear so much about disgust and indignation and yet none of you really do what is necessary ... leave and ensure your money doesn't continue to fuel their corrupt ways.

And go where? No expats is going to leave and this story will slowly fade away and soon be forgotten..... Like it or not.

He could have been made to have an accident! Well yeah I don't know that.

Yep so you go to a bar to talk to the the ladies, remain sober,have an altercation about the price of the tea or something, then on ya way home you have an accident. Case closed. Everyone wins.

For once the cops are saying he "may" have been drinking.

I wonder why that is?

Regards

Or he could just had an accident, happens every day all over the world

I will believe it when the DNA results is a match.

they will turn to crime

Really ?? People all over the world loose their jobs or are being laid off for a period without resolving to crime.Why do many BM`s believe that those affected by job losses in the Thai tourist industry automatically will turn to crime ??

That's it....... The final nail in the coffin for the Phuket tourist industry

Leaving Phuket after nearly 20 years of frequent visits and living there a period, I was a bit sceptical about moving to Pattaya 2 years ago. Except from the traffic I'm loving it here at the moment, it has everything I need to be happy

There is more violent crime in Thailand in two weeks than many countries experience in several months

Be careful you don't hurt members feelings - remember this is Thailand ....

Members feelings are not going to get hurt.... Just amusing that some members post ridiculous claims how dangerous Phuket is every time there is a tragedy or incident.

terrible news for thailand it will most likely be another unsolved crime

How is this terrible news for Thailand ??

It will not make an impact on tourism or anything else here, or make headline news.

Thailand is quickly becoming the Land Of Rape

No it isn`t by far.

Hope the Chinese government strongly protest and demands for proper action against those thugs and I hope an example is set as for punishment- given to such criminals.

Panda why the police not releasing the footage of the video clip ? Saving a face? What if was the other way round ? Of it would be the Headline of every news room and electronic media.

Really ?? If the Chinese goverment should take diplomatic actions every time one of their citizens abroad comes in harms way they would be very,very busy.

Neither will this case make headline news in China,same as 99% of other cases of violence and accidents involving foreigners never makes it in the news anywhere else in the world either...................and the tourists will continue to come here to LOFS in the future.

Swollen leg - possible Viagra side-effect ?

Doesn`t it only affect the "third" leg ??

Same as Jimi, I had just the dogs going nuts outside. I went outside just in time to see 2m monitor lizard slithered into the small pond behind the house then ran across the road into the klong. They certainly are fast! I don't recall ever seeing one in the wild in Phuket before. What a magnificent creature. A living dinosaur.

I opened the door at 3AM the other day to get some fresh air. All four of our terrified cats raced inside. I wondered what was up.

We had a 1 meter long river monitor in the courtyard.

I killed it.

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It's abhorrent to think someone would want to kill one of these. Shame on you. You disgust me.

He's probably Thai

But a shame it is that someone feels the need for a kill on wildlife.

nanai rd the hub of patongs budgeting perverts,lowlifes, losers, and ageing alcoholic pensioners.

Talk for yourself

Let`s take away the civil liberties of those extremists that supports ISIL etc and that preaches hate.This is now a war IMO:

Nice

Thailand is going to lose its tourism industry unless it sorts out such situations and make Thailand, not just Pattaya a safe place for tourists.

It needs to take action quickly as well if the redirection of tourists to other countries doesnt reduce the tourism levels to a trickle

Incidents like this are also happening everywhere in the world and will not have ANY impact to the Thai tourism industry at all.

They are usually a bunch of cowards, who wait until they have a gang before trying it on. Get in quick before they have time to call friends. Problem is, most farang low lifes in Pattaya are too drunk to notice they are in trouble.

Good to know that the annoying Mr-know-it-all types realise to stay out of trouble when they are too drunk .

It just HAD to be Phuket ...

...............it also happens in other parts of Thailand on a daily basis ...................

Kinda ironic considering Phuket has a child prostitution problem.

Really ? Care to explain..........................

1.Bkk Pattaya,been there once and very happy with the experience.My 8 days there was covered through insurance and my insurance company said I should use only Bkk Pattaya

(years ago I`ve been twice to Bkk Phuket.....same terms and same positive experience)

What insurance u got?

An insurance company in my home country(Norway). Covered for 10 million in medical expenses and also medical flight back home in severe cases . A good deal for 3.500 Baht yearly premium.

But thats short time travel insurance nit good for long stays

I`ve previously had longer stays on the same insurance.It then gets more expensive (3.000 baht) pr.month and the same coverage still applies,which is a small price to pay.What shocks me most is the big amount of longstayers down here who has a cheap insurance who in most cases implies that you fork out the money to the hospital and later gets reinbursed.The good hospitals here aren`t cheap and most people here doesn`t have hundreds of thousands of baht in tthe bank.