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3 hours ago, Dcheech said:

 

Been that way for two months now. What I do not get is how these prats down in Phuket do not seem to understand this. You do anything questionable, not lawful, you are a farang, you are going to be arrested or video-ed & get smacked.  Does not matter if Thais do it everyday, you are going to get singled out and splatted. 

 

Still the blockheads in Phuket line up to get kicked. Two months going on three and they have not figured it out yet. How dumb is dumb? 

Phuket has its issues, traffic congestion being one of the main ones.

but in what universe is being punished for breaking the law an issue? 
 

I spend quite a bit of time in Phuket and Udon Thani. Quite different places in many respects. I don’t feel the need to change my behavior between the two places, one iota. Then again, I am (reasonably) law abiding.

I also haven’t noticed any changes in Phuket from two months ago. It’s a little quieter now that high season is over and we approach the low season, but that’s about it.

It’s seems you don’t live here yourself, so ether you have friends who live here and are dumber than dumb, feeding you (false) information, or you’re just making stuff up in order to jump on a currently popular bandwagon.

anyway, enjoy your current place of abode and if it’s ok for you to break the law there with impunity, so much the better……..I guess.

52 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Where was it reported that the incident was a result of their being asked for sex?

It wasn’t. He’s just a troll making stuff up.

4 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

The Barbra Streisand effect.....     

... the unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness...

 

Thailand is great at this....  No one would have heard of this guy, now they push him further into the public eye.

 

Should authorities also punish themselves for making his videos reach a greater audience ???

 

 

The juvenile minds of those in authority seeking 'revenge' rather than whats best for the country again.... Also, if the guy's criticism are genuine and valid... listen to them, act upon them.... 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, it’s the sort of thing that makes it onto the BBC website and then is a worldwide story. 

1 minute ago, Hakuna Matata said:

 

You will receive a notice from the Customs in your mailbox. You will pay the tax online, you don't need to visit the customs office under normal circumstances. After you have paid the tax, Thailand Post will deliver the package to your home.

Doesn’t most the stuff come via private companies? Lazada, Kerry etc. maybe the post office does some but I don’t think that they do most of them

47 minutes ago, Trip Hop said:

Not unless Lazada sets up a system similar to what Amazon & EBay have whereby if you’re ordering from a different country, they charge you any import duty/VAT and then passes this directly onto the treasury. Your parcel is marked that all duty has been paid so it doesn’t get held up at the post office or wherever waiting for you to pay. 

True. Thailand is so good at setting up integrated IT solutions.

1 minute ago, paul1804 said:

Parking, traffic rules and most actions associated with driving in Thailand is a shambles, motor bikes park in car designated parking zones, all vehicles park in designated no parking zones, many vehicles park partially on the driving lane and sometimes as much as a meter blocking the lane for traffic to pass. They even sometimes park fully blocking the lane so they can go into a shop to make a purchase! They drive in the wrong direction in 1 way roads sign posted & flashing no entry lights displayed with arrows painted on the road! The entire scenario is a total shambles and all of a sudden in tourist high season the RTP decide to erect No parking signs, chain up bikes and fine people, why would they do this as parking in many tourist areas is often difficult to find. Property owners have also got on the racket and put road cones and barriers in front of their properties which is again just typical stupid Thailand, they dont own the road, its public property and the police do nothing about controlling this. What a joke!

In Phuket town, often it’s the shop that you park in front of, that dobs you in to the police. The cynical part of me says that there is a kick back to the shop for tipping off police, who of course collect on the fine.

Although the cutter cost more than the parking fine, superficially it’s a cost effective alternative because the cutter can be used again in the future, so he need never pay a parking fine again.

of course there is the damage to government property thing to consider 🙄

actually, his problem may have been that he didn’t know where to go to pay the fine. I was clamped in Phuket town many years ago and it took ages to find out what I was supposed to do to get unclamped. The ticket is all in Thai, as you would reasonably expect.

It’s not a new policy, so one that should have been factored into their decision making in terms of where they should retire.

Also, if they lived in the UK, even though they might get an increased pension, their cost of living would be far far higher. Overall They would be far worse off than they are now.

anyway, I can’t see much point bleating about it to foreign press. Make whatever decisions you need to make to continue retirement and get on.

I guess if she hasn’t got over it 3 years later, she isn’t ever going to get over it.

48 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

pretty sure they're doing just fine now...Ukraine need some men however, most are dying!

Quite clearly SOME are dying. Your statement that “most” are dying; ie 50% or more, is simply a falsehood.

so maybe correct your own statements before you correct those of others others and make yourself look stupid

39 minutes ago, ronster said:

More shootings on the streets of samui ahead then .

Where the hell did he get all the weapons and the rifle 😳

Although he's one of many I'm sure in samui who are of a similar like .

It’s a good point. Any chance the cops will follow up on who is supplying firearms illegally? Nope, didn’t think so.

Why call him a business man. So he owns a restaurant, he’s still clearly just another Russian gangster.

I hope that there won’t subsequently be any whining from the Thai populace about badly behaved Russians.

Thai people reap what their government sows.