Bangkok Barry

Yet another example of the police refusing to do the job they are paid to do, unless a bribe is paid. One of Thailand's biggest problems is a corrupt police force, as that undermines the mental wellbeing of a nation. The police force is supposed to be the body you go to for help and protection. Instead, they are considered by many to be the country's biggest criminal organisation and a body to be afraid of and avoided.

The media reported that the corrupt engineer would be transferred out of the district within the next one to two days. Furthermore, his employment status may be suspended during the investigation of the case. Should the accusations against him be substantiated, the officer will face dismissal. No mention of prosecution. I can only surmise that corruption isn't illegal in Thailand. Instead, he gets transferred and he may be suspended while they investigate - despite "I know who he is, and I have evidence".

You are suggesting that having more choice leads to more consumption. One does not necessarily lead to the other.

It's pretty frightening how dangerous it can be in Thailand while you are simply going about your business. Guns and low intelligence and low esteem do not go well together, and you could be shot over nothing at all at any time,

Better than Oil, I suppose. Or many of the ridiculous names they conjure up for themselves.

Exactly right.

It doesn't have to be world-shattering, does it? These people inform, and people watch in enough numbers for the producers to make money from it to live on. You might not be interested, maybe you don't even watch so aren't actually qualified to comment, but plenty of others do. That's the job they chose, they make money from it and, if it doesn't fit your concept of a job, I doubt very much that they care.

Even Thai lawyers can't be trusted. There have been plenty of tales about that both on this site and elsewhere. Dealing with anything involving money is a minefield in Thailand.

No. The Englisher has lived his life in a country where people have morals and pretty much all the time comply with the law. He has lived his life trusting those he deals with. Different standards apply in a country riddled with corruption and scams, and his only mistake was in trusting the system.

Geez Barry. You seem to habitually make up stories about "only Thailand" when plenty of other countries have the same issues. Please fact check on google before making things up. You conveniently, for your response, forgot to also quote me about American sports arenas.

Is there any other country in the world that gives bail to murderers?

The penalty for not using meters or overcharging passengers is a fine not exceeding 2,000 baht. That's okay then, still a 3000 baht profit for them. Not that anyone ever fines them anyway. The main problem is that when the exhibition centre was built it was provided with no public transport access at all, apart from a local bus route, Only Thailand could build a 10,000 seat arena with no way to get to it except by road and taxi. (I guess though that many sports arenas in the USA are the same, but they don't have gouging taxi drivers who are out of control?) Only now, decades later, are they fixing that little problem. As for calling the taxi complaints number, I once did. They told me to call the tourist police. I did. They told me to call the taxi complaints number.

You clearly haven't thought this through. You expect all the other people and companies from all over the world that send mail to Thailand to write the address in Thai? With only the country name in English? That might be quite a challenge. Anyway, thanks for ignoring what I said about the Thai postal authorities understanding English, as they really have no choice. Because of what I've written here. The entire world sends mail to Thailand addressed in English. Perhaps you didn't know that. Your original post was simply an ill-disguised sneer at someone you think should understand Thai after living here for 10 years. So here's something else you don't understand - not everyone has a talent for languages. Some even struggle with English, as you did in being unable to accurately state what you actually meant in your sneering comment about the OP.

Local residents told The Phuket Express that the first man was looking into the well before he accidentally fell in. This then caused a chain reaction of various others falling in after they attempted to help as well. Lemmings. You just couldn't make it, could you.

The driver was Thai. That's all she needs to understand.

Strange that you tell a stranger how he should be conducting his banking. You obviously write from ignorance, as UK banks do allow long-standing customers to continue banking with them even if they now have no UK address. I am one. It's called grandfathering.

I once went 18 months, same situation. Turns out it was too much trouble for the postman to actually deliver the mail so he burned it. Now the postman is a family member and delivery is guaranteed. In my native UK the postman would have been jailed for delaying the Queen's/King's mail, but as far as I know he was just allowed to retire.

What an idiotic statement. I assume, if you had known how to write correctly, you meant to say his address in Thai. Are you sure that the US postal authorities where he posted the letters from understand Thai? The OP, I am sure, wrote his address in English because it is a universal language which even the Thai postal authorities understand.

I might be wrong, but aren't there a lot more Thai lawbreakers in Thailand than foreigners? Shouldn't they 'crackdown' on those first? Especially in Phuket, hub of rip-offs.

And they are too stupid to realise that they lose even more face by being locked up. Too stupid, or typically Thai in living only in the moment and not thinking about the consequences of their actions.

Thai culture allows young males to do whatever they want. From the age they can walk they are not disciplined and so it is hardly surprising that as a result they have an attitude of entitlement. So it isn't a genetic disorder, it is a cultural disorder, and we read the result of that every single day.

But but but, he was friends with the police who refused to prosecute him. What a surprise. Hom revealed that her employer, named A, attacked her around 1.30am on May 19, after getting drunk with some officers from Mae Hong Son Police Station at a local restaurant

It's what can happen when the 'invaders', evil colonialists, pull out and leave the country to govern itself.

“The police confirmed that the police department does not extort monthly tribute. So, I proposed setting up an ambush to arrest them together so that they would know which agency they came from or if they were just imposters.” No messing around with MFP, is there. Not accepting the inevitable denials.

Exactly. They are designed to fail. Any idiot would know that strong winds getting inside a structure is liable to lift the roof off, but there are countless examples of it all over the country. You just have to wonder at the mentality. Brainless idiots. And so people die.