Bangkok Barry

I don't think anyone anywhere weighs up the possible punishment before they kill or injure someone.

Its perhaps time Facebook did too! Usually, yes. But 1 - this wasn't a scam and 2 - I wouldn't expect FB to monitor what goods are legal or not in every country and geo-block ads for them.

Yet again, a brain-dead idiot promoting the sale of illegal good on-line, too dumb to know that not only potential customers can see it but also the authorities. Happens over and over again, be it bike race location and time, girls pimping other girls etc.

I'm sure that some are better than others. My local village hospital is excellent, and I happened to be there one day when they were even carrying out a mass casualty exercise, complete with volunteers covered in 'blood' etc being brought in by ambulance and other vehicles. Another time, I had acute food poisoning, diagnosed as pneumonia by a doctor from a larger hospital who was also working part-time at a clinic I went to. I eventually went to a private hospital, where they told me I would have been dead in two days. But, even there, the water pump failed and staff had to carry buckets of water up to my room, and when my drip failed I found the emergency bell didn't work. So - the answer is you take your chance with any hospital in Thailand.

Yes. A nephew that lives with us has been learning English for eight years but can't put a sentence together. But he was still given his turn as number one in his class for English.

Indeed. Thai parents often differ those in the West and don't even raise their kids at all, but pass them on to grandparents or other relatives. We have a nephew living with us while his mother spends most of the year in Hungary with her Dutch husband. And another sister-in-law is raising another boy while his parents work elsewhere. Thais have kids as an insurance policy so they will be taken care of in their old age, and otherwise have little interest in them. With no pension scheme to speak of (I think the government pension is 600 a month), it could be argued they have a point, but that still doesn't excuse them taking little or no interest in their offspring. Ironic when every book we read about Thailand tells us how close Thai families are.

And one of my family here, also a teacher, believes that New York is on the west coast of the USA. Mind you, if you asked Americans where places are.... well, I'm sure we've seen videos of reporters on the street asking them such questions. At least by doing that they recognise the problem. I'm not sure that Thailand does.

I've long been registered at my local village Homo Sapiens Maintenance and Repair Centre. I went there after an incident (dog bite, i think), they entered me in their records and so I'm registered. I have a small card with my number, and that is used when I go there to see my drug dealer who sells me pills to keep blood pressure etc in check. So I don't really understand the post. Nothing new to see here, move on.

So far they have never "exploded into uncontrolled violence", while there were a few minor skirmishes. But this could be down the road soon. Oh really? What would you call this? A minor skirmish? You either know nothing of Thai history or have a very short memory.

Average man knows and is used to it. It's perfectly normal and the way of life in Thailand. They don't expect anything different. It's part of being Thai. And, now and then, it becomes too much and they explode into uncontrolled violence when the pressure cooker of holding their resentment in gets too much.

Common sense, really. I don't understand those who say they can't remember if they ordered anything or not. And a parcel arriving when you haven't ordered anything is a red flag - I read of a woman who did that and it turned out to be drugs that her dealer boyfriend had ordered and she was jailed as an accessory. It might have been in Thailand but I can't remember for sure. If you don't remember if you ordered anything then you have no idea what is in the box.

Fills me with confidence. If a similar incident happened to me I now know that, as a foreigner, I might be refused treatment. Staff there allegedly refused to admit Chen, despite his severe injuries, because he was a foreigner.

Good try. But Staff there allegedly refused to admit Chen, despite his severe injuries, because he was a foreigner.

Don't worry. This will all be forgotten next week, as has last week's unenforceable rule that although the bars can stay open until 4 they are not allowed to sell after 2. Imagine - bars that can't sell alcohol, a world first I expect. But now quietly forgotten. There'll be another hair-brained idea to ignore and forget next week.

My friend in Australia has spread the word..... https://www.gourmetontheroad.com/2023/12/thai-bars-ordered-to-enforce.html?m=1

I will never understand why people come to this forum to ask for medical advice, rather than going to a clinic and asking the professionals.

Amazing how this driver and others act as they do, despite knowing they are being filmed. How dumb can you be? But I suppose backing down is out of the question as they'd lose face. Thinking ahead to knowing they'll lose even more face by being 'dealt with' is also out of the question for yet another idiot who lives only in the moment.

She didn't. She refused. That is the entire point of the thread

A hospital is obliged to treat such people, and if they refuse to do so then that hospital/business is not fit for purpose and should be closed down.

It means they are removed from receiving a share of the money 'donated' by the public in gratitude for not being prosecuted.

Plenty of CCTV coverage reported in the link, even including how they looked in the lift. But all of their arrival. How did she look as she was leaving? Happy? Distressed? As usual, the reporter misses the most important part - but does tell us what clothes she was wearing and their colour. He did miss out the registration number of the motorcycle they arrived on though. Careless.

How do you suggest 'the people' change it? They've tried street riots and blockades, burning down of buildings, mass rallies for weeks on end (none of which affected the economy, by the way). Now what? It's Thailand, it is what it is.

That is a worldwide problem, because most people are not too bright and have no real understanding of the big picture. In my native UK that was most evident during the Brexit vote, when even the politicians didn't really understand what the consequences would be and and addressed every issue by saying they would deal with it down the road. The problem is, what is the alternative?

Yet another who can't understand that the laws of the USA are not enforced by political parties, but by the courts.