bunta71

So he put his nuts on the line knowing he'd be out very soon? Perhaps not as brave as first speculated.

idiot

Seems it would have perhaps been helpful to post the man's photo in the OP during this manhunt.

Funny Thing Today we Phuket Game Fishing Club took an American visitor out Fishing and he really wanted to catch a Wahoo . We got him one and we got 16+ 1 1/2" Steaks out of it Great eating.DSC00476.JPG

Why didn't you put it back into the water for others to enjoy as well ?

This is called wound and release. Are we "trolling" instead of trawling for fish??

My laughter began at..."crack team of local forensic scientists to speculate"

These guys are obviously in the wrong. What strikes me is the scrutiny we foreigners are all under at all times here as highlighted by this story.

They really are not that bad...I have eaten them several times. They even served them in some of the Alaska Pipeline camps.

As noted by an earlier poster, do not scrimp on the preparation and extra padding if you do decide to ship yours over. I shipped an Eastman MD515 mandolin from California after having it "set-up" by a luthier. Unfortunately a small ornamental piece broke off when shipped though UPS. I re-attached the piece and although has no affect on the playability, it was still a shame on such an expensive mandolin. Photos of the piece and the mando are attached. It will be in Thai Visa classifieds within a week due to severe arthritis. Pad it good!

Not being judgmental, but a couple times a week I will take something written in Thai to whichever Thai person is close at hand for help understanding whatever is written. It is very common for whomever to pass the paper to someone else because a certain segment of Thai society cannot read at all. That has never happened to me in any western country. I have no figures, just observation and personal experience. I am not bashing at the moment but I do bash incompetent people who cannot do simple things no matter what passport they carry.

I cannot speak of the penalties of marijuana use. Let me tell you this, Every month I fly with my wife down to Bangkok (Women's Prison). Her daughter (Thai by previous marriage) is 23 and received 10 years for 3 tablets of yaba (personal use). My wife said she received a cal fst before they sentenced her daughter. The person on the phone (anonymous) said it would cost 1 million baht to avoid prison. At that time (2 years ago) she did not have the money..so guess what? Yep 10 years. 2 Completed...and we are hoping for amnesty in 3 more years. Once sentenced, it was not possible to avoid prison. Do what you can before sentencing.

I used to go to CM women's prison for massages.....they were very well trained on the tail end of their sentences.

So as most of them were in for yaba I heard a lot of stories.

I can tell you....you probably already know.....that 10 years for 3 pills is way out of line.

Sentences are pretty stiff.

Roughly I was told:

a few pills (like 3) maybe 3 years.

low distribution (like 50) maybe 5 years.

I agree with stiff sentencing for yaba.....it can make a real mess of people very quickly, it genuinely is a ruiner of lives.

However as I say 10 years for 3 pills is way out of line.

I know this family personally and what Slipper says is a fact. So...yes way out of line, but factual.

Lots available as has been said. What I would concentrate on is getting a place near to wherever you work or need to be a lot of the time. Traffic is horrendous and getting worse literally day by day. When I lived on Phuket, I lived in Neramit 1 near the Heroines monument. Cheap,8,000 to 12,000Baht per month, quiet and some very good neighbors. What became a problem for myself was the traffic as anything I wanted to do was quite a distance from there...

Any photo to perhaps determine the approximate length? I would never presume to call BS on someone without being there or seeing a photo.

http://www.siam-info.com/english/snakes_boidae.html

The link in the OP shows a photo.

I didn't see the link at first, thanks...after unwinding the head, my guess is about 3.5932 meters

Any photo to perhaps determine the approximate length? I would never presume to call BS on someone without being there or seeing a photo.

http://www.siam-info.com/english/snakes_boidae.html

Though I have done a lot of car mileage in Phuket, I was never stopped there. But lots of times on the highway going to Central Thailand and on to the Isaan. They will say that you were speeding though you were not, or they will say that you have to keep left, but you were overtaking. Guess I could try to play the smart guy and start arguing with them, but I just prefer to give them 100 Baht. Easy does it.To my experience, this is also what Thai people invariably do.

At least this thread made me decide always to keep a copy of my passport and visa in the car.

Oh well, I guess this thread is about to approach its natural end.

This approximates my experiences here through many years. I got fined for imaginary offenses 4 times on a trip from Chiang Mai to BKK and back several years ago, although 100% legal. I have not been stopped for maybe 4 years or so now and my 2 1/2 years living on Phuket I was always waved through the checkpoints. It truly seems to be the luck of the draw...

Spraying a strong solution of bleach and water around does wonders. Only problem is it gets slippery when wet. An old restaurant trick that I use...

Took my daughter to Top Chareon. Big mistake. Then went to the opthamologist at Bangkok Phuket hospital for a real exam and he discovered the two pair we had bought at the mall were less than half the power of her new prescription. Go to a real doctor first.

I have noticed through the years, many Thai restaurants in the States seem to close up after a year or so due to the competition of Chinese foods being so much cheaper with many of the same ingredients. Usually one can get a complete meal in a Chinese restaurant for $6-$8 and next door in a Thai place, even one small dish costs as much or more as a complete meal. Eventually, many fail.Just an observation, having grown up on the West coast where the dining experiences are endless...

You see it all here, but this is forum is as hypochritical as Judah paying Tamar for sex and then having her burnt for being a whore...

So all the TV members here are going for 'man of the year'?

Never broken the law here? Never got a hooker or a massage with a happy ending? Never driven drunk or without a helmet on or too lazy to pay your vehicle taxes?

never had a toke of ganga or slung a cop some tea money?

And here you all are complaining about some guys trying to get a very small slice of a very big pie which is Phuket.

n BKK

Id like to know what the TV members think a taxi driver should earn in Phuket, just for a laugh

I do not speak for all TV members, but I would say pay them the same as drivers in BKK plus a small perhaps 5% cost of living adjustment. Sounds hilarious to me... If the tuk tuks and the taxis went about their business using reasonable fares, we would not be having this discussion and now for the real hilarious part...if the fares were reasonable, less unqualified drivers would rent scooters and less people would die. 5555555 and by the way, I do own a Honda dream, along with cars other motorcycles, a car and a small airplane. You are correct about one thing though, I am a warrior. For real.

I don't understand why they emphasis the microsoft engineer part. Like its a really prestigious occupation deserving on the Nobel peace prize or something.

If he was an architect or accountant it wouldn't have made the headline.

RIP Microsoft engineer guy. I hope you didn't have anything to do with windows vista because it was terrible.

Hans, go back to my post #10 and at least for me I now understand how it may be relevant...

Might be a lucrative future in Thai politics for this cop. He does seem to wield some power