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The roads may be fine, but the driving conditions and especially the large number of absolutely crazy fellow road users make it a different kettle of fish altogether.

If animals could hold and fire a gun, I would give them the right to protect themselves that way. See how many guys would still be tough enough to go out hunting (‘for sport’) if they ran the risk of getting shot themselves.

Makes me very sad to read something like this. Also makes me realize once again that humans are capable of anything, no matter how despicable. Hope they catch whoever did this and make them suffer.

I used to carry a stick, when I was walking or riding my bike, to keep the most vicious of those mongrels away.

Omicron is under control. Laughed so hard I actually fell off my chair when I read that. Prayuth and his cabinet couldn’t control a kindergarten class, much less the spread of the most contagious Covid variant by far to date.

I had a neighbor in CM, would rake together all the leaves and stuff in the garden every afternoon and then burn it, even if the air quality was already abysmal. And not burning like going up in flames and it’s gone in 5 minutes, but just smoldering and producing lots of smoke for hours on end. I could see fires like that all over the neighborhood every afternoon. I came to the conclusion that Thais, especially up north, just love to burn stuff.

This may be just a hunch, but I’m guessing that the 5,25 million people who died from Covid so far worldwide would strongly disagree with you.

In my country, about 10% of the people 18 years and older are not vaccinated, so it’s a relatively small group. Yet the vast majority (about 75%) of the patients in IC’s are not vaccinated. I’d say that is some pretty compelling evidence that the vaccines work.

Rest assured that Omicron is already here, it’s just not been detected yet. In my home country (Holland) they scrambled to get travel bans in place last week, but it turned out that Omicron had already arrived a week earlier. From what I understand so far, though, Omicron may be a mild(er) variant. Apparently when a virus mutates, it does so to become more contagious, so it can infect more people, but in doing so it loses some of its punch. Doctors/experts who know more about this, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

But they already are the finest examples, only of the worst human qualities, like greed, corruption, utter selfishness and amorality.

I’m not saying I have sympathy for the poachers, just saying you need to see the bigger picture, which is that the kingpins are the ones getting rich here, and they’re never brought to justice.

These poachers are usually just poor guys trying to get by and they get very little for what they catch/shoot. It’s the people (much) higher up in the chain that usually make the big bucks, but they are rarely caught. Big-time wild life traffickers make millions, and they are the real scum here.

I should hope they will not be tried as minors, but as adults, and for pre-meditated murder. When you chase someone and that person falls down and then you shoot him when he is on the ground, that is first-degree murder, there can be no two ways about it. Just hope they are not the sons of hi-so’s or police chiefs or something like that, because then they will surely walk, without so much as a slap on the wrist.

While it is certainly true that neighboring countries like Myanmar and Laos are contributing to the problem, I fear this will be just another excuse for Thai authorities to do absolutely nothing domestically.

Criminal mastermind at work there.

Maybe you should read up on global warming a bit before making remarks like this….

Such a shocking statement! So someone who is a cop and tortured and murdered someone is going to lose his job? Who’d have thunk it?

Nice little racket, 184 x 20,000 is almost 4 million baht. I wonder how much of that money ends up in the pockets of Thai officials. No wonder it’s so hard to get control of this.

They probably won’t do a darn thing about it, just hope to gain a better status on the 2022 Trafficking in Persons report. How nice. The victims of all that trafficking will be so happy.

Thailand’s schools and education system are among the worst in ASEAN, so that does not surprise me in the least.

Of course he knows where that little rat b@stard is, but he (together with many others) has been paid off to look the other way. And they’re certainly not going to bring him in, because they want to keep milking that cow for every last dollar and baht.

Maybe someone can push him off a mountain? By accident, of course!

It’s really amazing to see time and time again how the authorities get their panties in a bunch when it comes to ‘ morality’ or some such silly and trivial thing. All that time and effort and energy would be much better spent on catching actual bad guys. But that would mean actually doing their job, and we all know that ain’t never going to happen.

Because of its location it’s impractical as hell, but I love Hua Lamphong! It’s been the starting point (and also end) of many an enjoyable train journey for me. Would hate to see it being demolished a replaced with a block of flats or something. Or a shopping mall, even worse!

He’s not entirely wrong, of course, but he and his army buddies in the cabinet, especially the PM who got to power by staging a coup, are not really in a position to moan about it, are they?