khunron13

even though it has been stated from the start, and countless times after that, that the witness filming this only started filming after she noticed the guy being, apparently unprovoked, severely smacked over the head with something hard.

That has never been "stated", not even implied, and in fact the person who took the Video has, to my knowledge, not yet even been traced.

He / She almost certainly started taking the Video once she saw this lumpen Farang moron abusing BTS Security Staff who were simply trying to obey their instructions not to allow Balloons onto the BTS System.

Patrick

Ummm...directly from the Andrew Drummond website where this was initially posted on Sunday. Still wondering why it took 4 days for it to make the local papers!

"Gee Gee added: “I took a video of the last couple of minutes because I was so surprised at the behaviour of the guard."

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Totally bizarre, most likely a troll.

For the sake of newbies, adults in Thailand are expected to give up their seats for children young enough to be accompanied by their parents. Usually by the younger and fitter adults in the vicinity, but I've seen what I would consider pretty old people doing so, but generally polite people will give up their seats to the obviously infirm just as we (should) do back home. Obviously monks have top priority. Being female in itself doesn't factor into it - remember when a man used to give up his seat to a "lady" in the west? Thank buddha that's gone by the wayside. . .

I gave my seat to a monk one day when I first arrived here, after it was evident none of the Thai passengers were going to get up. Some passengers gave me a look of bewilderment, while the others gave me a smirk, as in "see, we made the buffalo stand up". Guess what? Never again will I give up my seat. But I also don't feel the need to fight for a seat when I'm only going to be on the train for less than 5 minutes. I'd rather spend my energy fighting to be first out the door so I can then stop right outside the door and make a phone call or search for my ticket!

Sorry... ...but you started it!

Good point!! The balloons had to have been filled with helium, which is an inert gas. Guards totally in the wrong for stopping him. Wonder if anyone tried explaining this to the guards, or if they have even thought about it?

The guards are not in the wrong they are following the rules. There are signs that clearly say "no balloons" near the BTS stations.

I ride the BTS from Phrom Phong at least 5 days out of the week. This morning I went out of my way to look for signs stating that balloons are not allowed. None to be found, but I did find signs forbidding food, drink and something else, inside the turnstiles!

Care to meet me this afternoon and show me the signs? Oh better yet, let's make it tomorrow afternoon so you have time to go to MBK and have some made!

It's great that they are finally implementing some minor measures to address the problem. Kudos for that!

What is so irritating about this whole mess is how long it took them to acknowledge there was a problem. And I do consider it a problem since the Pooyai's in charge started throwing out excuses once they realized they could no longer ignore the issue. If they had addressed it BEFORE they zoomed past max capacity, they would have saved themselves a ton of bad press!

Go back home and leave your superior attitude there where it belongs.

Another pot calling the kettle black!

For those who speak a foreign language but cannot read and understand pictures?

But you know how some signs are so badly translated here that you might start to ignore the English translation.

He might have thought it meant no skinny ties.

+2 for originality.

As for Nisa, judging by the level of your posting, I'd gladly send you ten balloons today for your graduation from Grade 1.

I made a concerted effort to find this type of sign at Phrom Phong station this morning and it's not there. Oh, maybe it's posted INSIDE the turnstiles with the no food and no drink signs.

Have to agree with you about Nisa; it's arguments border on being more childish than immature.

It's not about Thai or Foreigner, It's about Rules is Rules.

No, this is Thailand; cash rules!

Call your local BMA pooyai to reserve space for your somtam stand!

The other way around and it's just a misunderstanding with no arrests!

Stupid and pointless comment. Just shows how little you know about Thailand. People like you need to get a life.

Really? Well, I know a pious, pretentious, holier-than-thou post when I see one.

The other way around and it's just a misunderstanding with no arrests!

What a crock of sh-t. A less than worthless comment.

And your post added what to the topic ? Whatever.

I asked my Tilac, who is a cashier/bartender at a local pub, whether they would be closed. She asked me why and I explained that it was due to the funeral of HRH Princess Bejaratana. Her response was "who?" This is not that big of a deal for most Thais!

The other way around and it's just a misunderstanding with no arrests!

Police helps out long-line problem at Suvarnabhumi

In light of several complaints over the long lines of the immigration check-in counters at the airport, ...

-- NNT 2012-03-16

LMAO!

Simply stupid idea. By sending budget/domestic airlines to DM the immigration traffic at Swampy will INCREASE, as passengers who would normally be in transit at Swampy will now need to clear immigration there before going to DM. Currently they clear immigration in Chiang Mai, Phuket etc. (and vice versa) Doh!!

Great point! Moving the domestic operations back to DM will actually increase the amount of passengers going through Immigrations.

I don't know who is worse, the Houston's or the Kardashian's. Bunch of drama queens!

What everyone seems to ignore is that the electorate must rule in such discussions. I am neither pro nor anti-Thaksin. Yes, I read the charges against him and the opposing arguments, but T.I.T. That is the lynch pin in my non-argument, and not to be dismissed as a mere notion. I am simply saying our opinions as ex-pats are not only wildly speculative, but also demeaning to Thais.

If the majority of Thais hate him, let him stay away. If the majority loves him, then bring him back. Whatever they decide we should wave their flags--it's their country, after all.Root for the home team, because they pay your wages and secure your well-being and that's the way it goes EVERYWHERE. Enough with the egregious finger-pointing. What the majority of Thais want to happen in Thailand, no matter how much we disagree with it, is what is going to happen. Live with it, wanke_rs.

How can a thinking person, in one breath, say that no one here gets jailed or elected without influences, and then also say that they know what is going on and who is the bad guy? That is vapid in the extreme. It does not equate, at all. Either we are in the dark or not, and the evidence is that we are totally in the dark. I can say I like this guy and hate that guy, but with such restrictions on freedom of the press it is quite likely we are basing assumptions on red herrings, cooked slowly over burnt rubber and served up as caviar. And some idiots call that gourmet.

But we don't like that, we don't like not knowing. And we never will. Almost like being in America again, for me.

I really don't care if he comes back. So many people here are just bickering, like old hens over an egg that already spoiled and belongs to someone else.

Worse, we came here because our own countries let us down, disenfranchised us, or screwed us in one way or another, and too many suggest the Thais should have the same model. If at first you don't succeed, make other messes ad infinitum.

Really, there must be a lot of bored arm-chair political experts teaching first grade floating around here.

FF

I bet you also wai fellow foreigners!

I remember seeing videos of Hiro-san the night he was killed wearing a helmet and flak vest. Obviously he knew the risk, so the only one that owes his family anything is his employer!

I've see many a femboy prancing through. But even worse are the group of Thai girls that think they need to pass through three or four abreast!

You can try this http://www.r-tt.com/data_recovery_macintosh/. I used it to recover about 3Tb of lost data from a HDD with a bad partition, but not so sucessful recovering a formatted HDD.

Changing the language settings from English to Thai is simple; changing back can be bear if you don't read Thai or don't remember where all the icons are.

Pay the THB 500 at MBK to unlock the phone. I've done the unlock by myself before, and it's worth paying the money to have them do it, unless you just like doing those kind of things.

I hope they block Facebook or we're going to have cars all over the Expressway! 555

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/536909-facebook-partly-the-cause-of-unwanted-thai-teen-pregnancies-nesdb/

Kind of hard to be a revolution when digital programming has been the standard in the civilized world for years!

Hmmm...is there an equivalent word in the Thai language for hypocrite?

Hmmm...is there an equivalent word in the Thai language for hypocrite?

"Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra told a cabinet meeting that "the flood situation is serious, more than a tsunami because a tsunami comes and goes but floods last longer," government spokeswoman Titima Chaisaeng said."I hope for the sake of Thailand and it's future that this is a misquote, and she didn't actually make such an asinine statement!