SamPedro

Start of alien invasion !!!!

Respect

OK Mr. Rooo

I will be there with her indoors (+1 )

Its amazes me the Farangs that are on holiday here piled up with a whole family on a bike, no helmets etc. I think a people must remove their brains as soon as they land in Thailand!

there are much more middle aged to old Farangs everywhere, who seem to live here on Samui, on their motorbikes equipped only with slippers, shorts and a t-shirt, just like at a harmless European summer camping area

Oh come on!

Aren't these the ones in the brand new Fortuners and CRVs?

And in any case for every one of these there are 500 Thai loonies who have never had a driving lesson in their lives and don't know right from left, all flying about at high speed like witless wasps and believing they are immortal. You can't blame the lunacy on Samui's roads on the 1% of pensioners that are pottering along slowly on bikes, whether you like slippers or not!

(I didn't notice that the Thai public service video showing all the crashes (and trying to explain to the dull-witted public what traffic lights were for) featured any ageing or confused farangs . . . )

R

Rob

Are you inferring that us old farangs in brand new Fortuners and CRV'ss are a road hazard?

I do not normally eat ribs but last night I tried them, Wow I could not finish them, even though they tasted really good there was so much, next time I am in need of a good feed that’s where I am going.

SamPedro

Why don't you start a list of confirmed names smokie, ala Pattaya party?

Great idea! It would be fun at the start of the evening looking around and thinking "hmmm, I bet he is smokie36" or "do you reckon that is Rooo?" or "nah, can't be carmine, he doesn't sound like a red wine drinker" etc.

I'll be there Rooo thinks he might need a bodyguard

Sampedro

THAI authorities have detained five people who landed in Bangkok in an east European cargo plane full of heavy weapons that originated in North Korea. The plane's pilot asked to land at Bangkok's domestic Don Mueang airport on Saturday morning, and on inspecting the aircraft Thai officials found the cache, government spokesman Panitan Wattanayakorn said.

"An eastern European airline asked to land this morning at Don Mueang airport to refuel its tank. When Thai authorities examined the aircraft they found a lot of weapons and detained up to five people," Panitan said.

He later said the weapons had been transferred to Takhli Air Force base in the central Thai province of Nakhon Sawan.

Lieutenant General Thangai Prasajaksattru, commander of Thailand's Central Investigation Bureau, confirmed that five men from eastern Europe had been detained, but he did not yet know their nationalities.

"There were a lot of weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), missiles and other war weapons," he said.

National television channels reported that four of the detained men are from Kazakhstan and one is from Belarus, and said that US officials had tipped off Thai authorities before they found the cache.

But a spokesman for the US Embassy in Bangkok, Michael Turner, said he was unaware of the incident.

Air Force spokesman Captain Montol Suchookorn and special branch police said the chartered cargo plane originated in North Korea's capital Pyongyang.

"According to my information, the flight originated from North Korea. It was a cargo flight that requested to land at the civilian side of the airport," Montol said, adding that the Air Force was continuing to guard the aircraft.

AOT, Thailand's aviation authority, said Don Mueang airport remained open to passengers.