Bangkok Barry

Can't you print off or send them details of how you CAN. Ferry website etc.

He asked for 20 million but there is nothing in the report to say it was paid. However, the court has seized 20 million in assets. Different thing, probably obtained by other 'arrangements' during his career.

They get bought off.

Why do they give the license plate number in these reports? It has nothing at all to do with the accident, has no bearing on it. Completely pointless. Weird.

The walkway has yellow lines on each side. Maybe, like road markings and pedestrian crossings, the locals think they're there for decoration. Maybe they are entirely unaware that the lines are a warning to keep off them and stand further in on the walkway or escalator. That way, you don't get your foot trapped in the side. Simples. This case is an example of poor parenting, guilty of what you say - Thailand safety always last. Don't blame the manufacturer. Blame people with no common sense.

Especially when the airport was closed between 2006 and 2012.

I doubt that very much. Apathy is generally the order of the day here. Really? Not that the riots achieved anything. They rarely do, anywhere.

We are not involved in Thai politics. But that doesn't stop us having a view and discussing what, ultimately, affects Thais and farangs alike. My sister lived in Spain and despite not being Spanish she, as a resident, was entitled to vote in local elections as the policies affected her as much as the Spanish. Logical. That will never happen in Thailand, but at least we are free to discuss the issues.

You could say the same, but more so, about the US. It's a strange world.

You say a great deal without offering a single thing to back up what you claim. No evidence, no article, no quote from a disappointed victim, nothing other than unfounded claims with no facts to back you up.

You don't need money. No-one is going to give you the bill /check once you start firing everywhere.

I've asked my wife about this. Apparently, and this is hard to believe, she tells me it is normal, if a person dies at home (or in this case 'dies' in transit), for the family merely to accept that person as dead. No medical personnel at all are called to confirm it. That only happens in the case of an accident or mysterious death (body found in field etc). I guess that sometimes the family member gets the diagnosis wrong and you get people 'waking from the dead'. Not the first case I've read of it happening here, and now I know why. I go to bed wiser than when I woke up, always a good thing.

Exactly what I wrote, and the post got a 'confused'. No idea why. Maybe you'll get one too.

This was in a ThaiPBSWorld link: The airport director and other senior administrators went to the hospital to follow up on the victim’s condition and promised to take care of her medical expenses and compensation... Better to read up on the event before posting an unjustified rant.

It was checked three days before.

My point was that there doesn't appear to be any gap big enough for her leg could slip in to.

That is exactly why they keep postponing it. If it is to be included in the ticket price, how is your status determined when you book, on-line or otherwise? The airlines have already told the government to take a long walk off a short pier as they have zero interest in dealing with the complications of an ill-thought out idea. It's typical Thai thinking - someone comes up with an idea and doesn't think it through, and anyone with half a brain but who is inferior in status to the boss can't tell him he's a idiot. Plus, Thailand is arrogant enough to believe that all the airlines who fly passengers into the country will add to their workload by determining who does or doesn't need to pay the tax. Airlines do not work for the Thai government. And so, before the end of the year, there will be another U-turn. Or the next government will dump the proposal in the bin where it belongs.

There are things here that don't make sense to me. The first photo shows very little damage of the walkway, and absolutely no way that could mangle her leg. The second photo appears to show most of her leg missing, yet the report says the leg was amputated below the knee. I do understand that she could trip while preparing to leave the walkway with her suitcase, and that might happen several times a day - especially if people are looking at their phone instead of paying attention (not saying that is the case here). But that shouldn't result in such an accident.

I see the PM has got his priorities right. In his own mind, anyway. A spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office Ms Trisulee Traisanakul expressed his concern for the country’s image and reputation abroad. ‘Because Don Mueang Airport is an international airport, the service users are both Thai and foreigners. This will impact the image of the country’s tourism.

Idiotic Comment of the Week. Absolutely pathetic.

If only the kid did as he was told, and the adult made him do what he said.

Bearing in mind that only 10% of Thais pay tax, or so I've read, then the government has to generate income by heavily taxing 'non-essential luxuries', especially imports. Which is why many imported items cost the same or more than they do in their homeland. It isn't only because of freight charges. It's a pain in the a***, but understandable. What I don't understand is the tax on imports from ASEAN countries. Beer Lao, and Thai beer that has to be brewed in Vietnam and imported into Thailand are examples. I thought that one of the points of ASEAN was that it operated rather like the EU, which includes tax-free movement of goods between countries. Perhaps, in true Thai fashion, the country believes the law doesn't apply to them and, as one of the bigger players in the region, they get away with it. I might be way off the mark, of course, and stand to be corrected.

The delay is because the Election Commission has to check each and every result for cheating. Many dozens are still on the waiting list to be approved. Just shows what a banana republic Thailand is, despite having a few tall shiny buildings.

If he wasn't driving at high speed - why? - then he would probably still be alive. But just one of the 20 or so motorcyclists that die on Thai roads every day. Somehow that mortality rate and the need to drive safely doesn't get through their thick skulls.

She overcharged him by 400 baht. I don't know how a cashier can make a mistake by scanning the bar code. So what was the 'mistake'? But, according to the article, the manager 'went missing' and as a result the man-child threw his toys out of the pram - or in this case his purchases out of the trolley.