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On 3/16/2021 at 8:19 AM, Will27 said:

Stranger Than Fiction: The Murder of Angie Dodge 

Thought this one was really well done.
Available on Lime.

Summary: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- Nearly a quarter of a century after the grisly rape and murder of her daughter Angie, Carol Dodge's tireless pursuit of justice led to the overturning of a wrongful conviction that had held for two decades -- and helped authorities put the true murderer behind bars.

I've just finished watching this 1 hour 20 minute documentary.
It was an absolutely incredible story, not least the sheer determination of the victim's mother to find the real killer of her daughter and clear the wrongfully arrested man.
Well worth watching imo.

15 minutes ago, Old Croc said:

Considering also your more recent travails, have you thought of getting a car?

No problem. I'm just the fall guy, looking after the safety of the other members.
Yer can't keep a good man down (not for long anyway).

I had the same thing happen to me about fifteen years ago.
A motorbike behind me clipped my motorbike which knocked me off and into the next lane. A pick-up truck hit my head.
I kept the helmet, which had black rubber tyre-marks on one side and white scratches on the other side, from the concrete road.
Neither the motorbike nor the pick-up stopped. A witness called the police and reported me not as a casualty, but as a fatality.

Quck, Prayut's on fire!
I'm really sorry, we're not supposed to throw water.

2 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

A pratical suggestion, but if Big Joke says the obvious he'll be in the wilderness again.

59 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

It's high time to hold them accountable!

I'd agree, as the only idea of accountability China has is to themselves.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Bryde's whales were seen feeding off Ang Thong islands in Surat Thani province.

How many islands have the whales eaten so far?

Thanks so much for all your comments and good wishes, I’m overwhelmed.
Around 66 replies & 66 likes so far.

I can’t reply to all of them individually, especially as I’m supposed to spend nearly all my time lying down for the first month..

Thanks for ColinNeil for posting while I was in hospital about what had happened – with his usual sympathy!

It was good of Owl Sees All to come and visit me at the weekend, thanks Owl.

Despite the many suggestions, I didn’t get my leg over with any of the nurses in hospital.
Nurse Ratched would have made sure of that anyway. Not for concern about them jumping on my ‘bones’ - broken or otherwise, just her evil unsympathetic nature – can’t have patients appearing to be happy, can we.

Two days ago, the doctor who hit me when I was cycling came to visit us at home.
There was the  usual Thai custom of bringing me a spray of flowers (I’d hesitate to use the word ‘wreath’).
She also gave me a supply of Calcium tablets and Vitamin D to help mend the bones, and some stronger pain relief drugs as well. She seemed critical of the hospital giving me just Paracetamol and some moderate pain relief pills.

I will post an update to this thread as things develop.
 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The effort marks just the latest in a series of unsuccessful efforts to reduce the country’s bloated and top-heavy officer corps.

'top-heavy officer corps'    I always thought it was due to their big heads.

5 hours ago, WineOh said:

8 hours ago, edwardandtubs said:

Some posters seem rather narrow minded. Dogs can do more than fetch sticks.

can they now? 

Yes, you should see the state of the footpath on the road outside our house.

4 hours ago, rabas said:

Old technology.

Helsinki Airport.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/world/europe/finland-dogs-airport-coronavirus.html

(from the link to the NY Times article)

"A couple of coronavirus-sniffing canines began work at the Finnish airport on Wednesday as part of a pilot program that aims to detect infections using the sweat collected on wipes from arriving passengers."

???? How apt to have a 'pilot program' at an 'airport'.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

 DSI believed the illegal violation might affect national security.

Surely the Burmese must be number one at this?
According to recent news reports they can breach national security with a Hi-Tech plank of wood laid on the barbed-wire fence erected by the Thai Border Police. They can simply walk over the fence into Thailand.

<For the hard-of-learning: The text above may contain traces of sarcasm>

Hello, hello, I'm back again - with the emphasis on 'back'.

I've posted the gory details of my near-death experience in the cycling forum here:

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1209848-cycling-accident/

Just don't fall about laughing when you read it.

As someone slightly more famous than me once said, “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

I have recently been cycling a new route I worked out, a 37km loop which takes me an hour-and-a-half.
So there I was minding my own business about 9 a.m., cycling along an 8km stretch of the Udon-Sakon Nakhon Road (Highway 22)
I was (as always) in the motorbike/cycle lane on the very left side of the road.
It was a nice day, not even anyone driving in that lane in the wrong direction.

Suddenly from behind there was an enormous thump and I found myself flying through the air. I hit the ground further ahead on the cycle lane, landing on my back, staring up at the sky.
It seemed like ages before it dawned on me what had happened, as it was all so fast.
Tilting my head I could see a car stopped ahead of me. There was a woman from the car coming towards me.

She asked me if I was all right. I said no. I attempted to sit up slightly, but my back was really painful, so I lay down again.
The woman asked if I could move my feet. I could. Then she asked could I turn slightly?
I responded by saying that in an accident you are not supposed to move the injured party in case of a spinal injury. I asked her sarcastically if she was a doctor?
She said she was.
Where?
Nong Han Hospital.

The doctor said she just wanted to check my back.
I did try to turn a little, and it was extremely painful.
The doctor called an ambulance. I asked her to call my wife as well, to let her know what happened.

Two police turned up. They asked me about the accident.
I told them I had been hit from behind, and the driver already admitted that she didn’t see me - even though I had a reflective high visibility vest (and as always, my cycle helmet).
While we were waiting for the ambulance, one of the policemen had picked up my glasses off the road and gave them to me. I noticed the lenses were both scratched.
My wife arrived and came to see me. She talked to the doctor and to the police, one of who by coincidence was a relative of my wife.
Even as I was laying there I told my wife to take a photo of the car registration (better to trust no one else and be organised).

The ambulance arrived and I was put on a flat board, which was lifted onto a trolley/gurney.
We went to Udon Thani Hospital. A most painful journey, as the gurney didn’t have any suspension and I was sure the ambulance must have been modified for off-road racing – I could feel every single bump on the road.
 

At hospital I had my back X-rayed and I was told I had fractured my spine and might be in hospital a few weeks. I was transferred to a bed on a ward.
There were 32 beds on the ward. It was a new building, very impressive looking. Perhaps because it was all new, I don’t know.
A couple of hours later another doctor came along. He said the fracture wasn’t too severe and I would probably be there for perhaps three days.
 

Later in the afternoon, I had a visitor: The doctor who had hit me.
She genuinely seemed worried about me, she did cry a little.
As well as bringing me the obligatory food package, she also brought two doctor friends with her from Nong Han Hospital - orthopaedic specialists. They looked at the X-rays and asked me few questions about the pain.
It was then they told me I had also broken my coccyx (tail-bone). They said it would become more painful over the next few days (they were right).

The senior nurse on our ward I thought of as Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest). She had a loud voice and appeared to be very unsympathetic to her patients.
She was obviously aware that three doctors from another hospital had descended on the ferang in bed 14. They had told Nurse Ratched how they came to be there.
I overheard Nurse Ratched asking the doctor who had hit me if she had พรบ (insurance) to pay my hospital bill? The doctor told her she had, and would cover everything.
The next daylight the doctor came to see me again. This time she brought her insurance details. I just hope when we get to that point, the insurance claim is sorted without any problems.

I ended up in hospital for three days/two nights.
I have a combined front & back metal brace I need to wear for the next three months. I’ve been told that the first month I need to spend the majority of the time laying down, to allow the fracture to heal.

I have a cycling App on my phone to track my speed and log the route. I’ve had a look at it since and the irony is that in another 200 metres I would have turned off  the main road onto a minor road and wouldn’t have been hit.
Now wouldn’t that have been boring.