Crash999

17 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Not sure anyone believes they were the murderers, imagine that, being in prison for a crime you didn't commit 

Anyone who was paying close attention to the case isn’t so sure of that. There was the Met police investigation, the changing timelines of the defense, that the man’s phone was found at the Burmese residence (despite them saying they left before the couple would have walked past), the defense declined to retest DNA after it was possible, the testimony of the third Burmese, the running away and changing appearance before anyone accused them, and so on. 
 

Reason people didn’t hear about this stuff is that the Samui Times was on a crusade to free these two despite what the facts said. And international media assumed ST was a local news source instead of a blog being run from overseas. 
 

The court verdict and more importantly statements by the father who attended the trials explain everything. 

Interesting to see the flurry of news about this guy lately. The funny thing is nothing that he has done is necessarily unusual for someone in his position. 
 

Looks like it’s a power struggle and someone is muscling their way in. 

1 minute ago, 248900_1469958220 said:

With those ears you'd have thought he'd have picked up a thing or two about life. 

Or put them to use detecting life in distant galaxies. 

This is the same crew that was harassing people in Japan. Taunting someone in the train saying Hiroshima Nagasaki we will do it again. And going up to girls asking where they can find prostitution and calling them racial slurs. Charming stuff like that. 
 

Good to see they might finally face some real consequences. 
 

1 hour ago, pedro01 said:

He should have chosen his location more wisely. Doing this in a very nice 5 star hotel is idiotic. Doing it in Soi Cowboy wouldn't have had the police called.

 

Not that I advise wearing skimpy lingerie in trips to Soi Cowboy - but what did he expect, given the location?

Not only that, in the video they told him to stop but as soon as the manager left they started again. And they were live-streaming it. When the manager came back they were laughing it off and swearing. 
 

Was only then that the hotel GM came in with cops. 
 

The whole thing could have been avoided if they had stopped. Or acted humble in front of management. Or even at the station an apology and wai would have fixed it. But instead one of their idiot crew pretended to be a lawyer to try and see them. 
 

In Thailand you can get away with a lot of stuff. This is example of what happens when you do completely the opposite. 

Sucker punch and run. What a brave lad! 
 

Now instead of 10,000 Baht or whatever the tuktuk driver wanted he’ll be lucky if it’s only 10x that amount. 

2 minutes ago, mikecha said:

Walk away

Watch the video. He was swinging away not walking away. 

This isn’t America. If you take a swing at the DJ you can expect to get stomped. He is lucky he isn’t in jail himself for starting a fight. 

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

60 feet ... ????

 

We clearly have smaller feet in Thailand! 

4 hours ago, meechai said:

 

Why is this so surprising & automatically attributed to Sinovac?  Has it not always been known that the vaccine...any vaccine...is not a bullet proof vest?  That you may still contract Covid but "hopefully symptoms will be lessened?

Some people seem to think that getting a vaccine means you can never catch or carry the virus. 
 

It’s like using seatbelts in a car crash. Helps a lot but isn’t an invincibility pill. 

Lacking in specifics. What net worth or income? What are the benefits? Thailand Elite already provides access to the country if you have money to spare. 
 

The only angle for Thailand that I can see would be citizenship via investment as some countries do. But I doubt that would happen as PR and citizenship has been so restrictive in the past and even though they mention a global reset there hasn’t been a reset in mindset. 

Why isn’t crime one of the criteria. I wouldn’t live in some of the places on that list for that reason alone.
 

Being able to walk around without fear of being mugged is a major plus in my book.