Bangkok Barry

It might be a nice gesture if her management and record company severed all contact with her. Let's not forget too that this imbecile admitted to a desire to kill, to murder. Another mentally ill person allowed to roam the streets.

The same. One victim was from Myanmar.

The hours that a business operates should have nothing at all to do with government. Control control control - which does nothing but open the door to 'incentives' being paid to turn a blind eye.

I agree. It would be useless for a mall shooting - the sound of bullets being fired was enough to alert people at Paragon. But for the very rare situations affecting masses of people, yes. Do it. Follow the lead of other countries. Catch up.

Haven't we read similar tales dozens, maybe hundreds, of times where the person who has been tricked is a foreigner. Not involving such large sums, of course. Interesting to see there are gullible Thais as well. But I don't see how he has any grounds for fraud. Everything he gave her was of his own free will. Trying to save face, I suppose, blaming her instead of himself. Just another example of a Thai never taking responsibility for their actions.

I know what the rules are. And yes, I expected flexibility and common sense and for the staff to know that just because a package says it contains a volume when sold it doesn't contain the same volume after being almost used up. The limit was 100ml and I'd guess I had less than 30 remaining. But the TUBE said 150 and that was all that mattered. As for my airport of origin, I'd guess that it's more likely that the staff there were incompetent rather than flexible.

Most drivers who are not Thai, and I am sure I can include you among them, would know that you need to brake and steer clear of any obstacle in the road. Some can do one or the other, but not both at the same time. Some others can't even do one of the two.

What made me angry was that I was well inside their limit, but the TUBE said 150 so it was a security threat despite being almost empty. I struggle to deal with the brain-deads here. I thought of asking for the tube and then emptying it over their counter, but I would probably have been arrested. My greatest 'indiscretion' though was to try and take a pack of mints onto a plane in the US. The x-ray machine alerted security to my outrageous behaviour as it was unable to tell the difference between explosives and silver paper. That's about the same time as I began thinking the US was not a place I wanted to visit anymore. I have a very low tolerance for stupidity.

Such empathy. I'm very glad I don't know you.

Wouldn't have happened at DM airport. Ok, security is necessary these days. It wasn't when I was younger, but the world is going backwards and we have to live with it. On Monday I flew to Bangkok for one night to see a colleague who was visiting. I took toothpaste in my carry-on. No problem at my local airport. But when I flew out of Bangkok my toothpaste had suddenly become a security threat. 150ml size toothpaste, only 100 allowed. The fact that it was 3/4 empty and therefore was far short of 100 and even further short of 150 was irrelevant. Taking that into account would have required common sense, which is entirely absent in Thailand. So, on the way home from the airport I had to buy new toothpaste, no doubt another that I could fly TO Bangkok with but not FROM Bangkok with. On the same day that my toothpaste was deemed (but only in Bangkok) to be a threat to public safety a kid was able to walk into a shopping mall in the city and shoot people dead. Good thing he wasn't carrying toothpaste or he'd have been in real trouble.

I have little doubt that it does, but usually it doesn't make the headlines.

I respect your opinion, even if it isn't based on any solid facts. You might be right.

The real reason has nothing to do with morality or the ethics of laws. The real reason is that this people were threatening the gang that already imports these items for sale in NANA, MBK, and JJ Market. Just take the soap-shaped penises for example, and see how many stores sell them openly. I'm not sure why you quoted me, as your response has nothing to do with what I wrote. To respond anyway, how are you aware of the gang that you claim import the goods? And no stores sell soap-shaped penises openly as they are probably illegal.

I have little doubt, from my own experiences, that there are doctors in Thailand who qualify by purchasing a white coat. One told me I had bronchitis when it turned out I had a severe stomach bug that a real doctor said would have killed me within another couple of days. There are good ones of course, but they aren't the problem.

More Darwin Award nominees.

If you had a brain you would know the site is called YouTube, not UTube. And while you're so consumed with insulting other posters here due to your superior intellect, this site has been AN (Asean Now) for a long time now, not TV. You really seem to struggle with the names of sites you access, don't you. Why you want to come on here and rant in a manner that suggests you're an idiot, I have no idea. But you've done a very good job of it.

I love the way that Thais promote their illegal activities on social media and then are surprised when the BIB show up. Pimping, street races, sex toys....

I carry a copy of my hotel reservation on my phone in case there's a problem at check-in. Useful too, apparently, for finding the hotel later if I get lost. Actually, I'm sure that there are many that have done so. Just doesn't make the news.

I wanted to correct what I wrote above, in case someone picks me up on it. The boy had been with the policeman employer for three days and was raped once. Not raped three times. Memory slip.

I read this several years ago, and kept it. And every time my wife goes out I stand and watch her leave.... I lost a beautiful Lady to a drunk driver in 1993, I never had a chance to say good bye, the last time I saw her she was walking away to buy flowers, I was too worried about missing my plane to go to work and didn't say good bye. Life is not a dress rehearsal.

As is violence in Thailand. At the weekend a man in the next village to mine murdered his sister, and yesterday someone posted on here of a neighbour, a policeman, raping his 12 year old boy servant three times. Neither have made it to this site. How much more do we never hear about?

Not a word on the reaction of the school, only of the teacher who, of course, denied everything until shown the video. Even then the teacher insisted he wasn't at fault. Why does no-one in Thailand ever, ever, ever take responsibility for what they do? I grew out of that when I was about six years old. Normally I am against students having a mobile phone in class, but it seems that in Thailand it's an essential tool to capture video proof of assaults by teachers. It's something we read of over and over again. Certainly, in this case with the teacher denying - read lying - about what happened, nothing could have been done. As for the mother filing a police report of the assault, we can be 100% sure that they will do what they are best at - which is nothing at all.

The tourist insurance plan didn't happen. What a surprise.

Happens everywhere, all over the world, all the time. And then the rules are often not enforced, as they aren't in Thailand. A recent wedding fire tragedy comes to mind, and plenty of nightclub fires. I watch YouTube videos called Fascinating Horror about such incidents, and it's amazing how often those responsible escape any real punishment, even when they are dozens or more deaths.

Both his parents are professors. Smart people you'd think, although in Thailand that is relative of course, but obviously not smart enough to raise a kid and to know he has a hoard of guns and ammunition in his room. Just another example of Thai parents not actually parenting.