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Some thoughts: 1. lucky the bus driver was only armed with a bus rather than a machete, revolver or machine gun. 2. The bus company may be lamenting the damage to their bus. But it’s their own fault as a result of hiring a complete maniac 3. don’t see why anybody is paying anything in compensation. Surely both have insurance. 🤦‍♂️what am I saying, don’t I know where I am?

Mr O is the grab driver? Not the driver of the bus

I think your comment about reducing risk of the man doesn’t change partner all the time, misses the point. The prostitute IS changing partner all the time, so by definition, the man is changing partner every time, even though it’s with the same prostitute. if the man switches prostitute all the time, mathematically he is probably increasing his exposure both first and second hand, but sticking to one prostitute is no panecea for safe sex. Maybe you were just referring to mathematical odds rather than actual risk.

It’s an urban myth debunked by Pattaya police several times. There is NO prostitution in Pattaya.

Would eyewitnesses really describe her as erratic? Surely blind drunk is a more obvious description.

Does it really matter? The subject is man threatened with a meat cleaver by another man. Their name, height, weight or ethnicity doesn’t really matter, unless there is a desire to escalate any offense committed, to a hate crime ( if Thailand even has that distinction in its laws)

Unless of course he had been attacked by the grab rider or taxi driver, in which case we would be having exactly this discussion. Or maybe he might have had a motorbike crash or car crash. We know how safe Thai roads are. it should be safe to walk home minding your own business at midnight. The discussion should be on how to make it safe and the first step is catching these particular 6 thugs.

I was waiting for the first post to say it was his fault for walking home. Congratulations!

What is the encouragement to drive at 50, rather than the 60 speed limit in Royal areas, and where exactly are those areas? This part seems, mmmm, hazy. overall, people will drive at the speed which they are able, depending on traffic conditions. The particular speed limit is pretty much as irrelevant as the pedestrian crouch are routinely ignored.

I’m sure I read an article on this very website a few days ago extolling Pattaya as a sleepy fishing village transformed into an idyllic paradise. Now it has a dark side? Both articles are hogwash when it comes to tracking Pattayas development and what it has become.

There’s no money in maintenance, that’s why so little is done. The money is in ripping out something that is poorly maintained and starting from scratch.

Having police on the streets stopping people for riding motorbikes without a helmet, fining them, and then allowing them to ride off again without a helmet, is also doing nothing. so it’s more than just getting them out on the streets, although I agree it would be a start

The traffic will be chaos for more than a week. There is a lot of preparation pre race and dismantling of equipment (barriers, grandstands etc) post race. Plan on a month.

Blah blah blah.

Is that in every state? ie a federal law?

Don’t they understand that alcohol laws don’t matter, without enforcement to go along with it and the fact of the matter is that there is little to no enforcement in Thailand.

Maybe he expected that when asked politely to leave his car alone, they would move on? see, I can make stuff up too, just like you did when you said he was “sneering”. Fact is neither of us were there so don’t know. Another fact is that whatever verbals took place, a beat down is disproportionate and and illegal act.

Same the world over. Look no further than a certain N American country to know that. Thailand is in very “good” company

An incredible recovery from serious illness

5k baht is hardly a lot. A pair of earrings, like wise not much gold. Important documents? Passport, ID card, bank card? I can’t see your point 🤷‍♂️

“With all this on offer it is little wonder the Brits are swapping Blighty for the Land of Smiles. What are you waiting for? Book that flight!” Perhaps most are waiting for reality to match the fantastical picture that the “article” posits

Well, first of all, was this article written by TAT as an infomercial? It certainly seems so. Brits are leaving their colder climes for warmer destinations, as they have done for decades. My own sister left for southern France a year and a half ago. i am also wondering about the 285% increase in relocations since 2018, statistic. There would have been no relocations during 2020, 2021 and maybe 2023. A little thing called COVID saw to that. There is no mention of the other thing Thailand is famous for, a plentiful supply of women for single/divorced, ugly, fat men. I guess not something that would find its way into a blatant advertisement masquerading as a news article. All in all a waste of time to read type “article”.

I wouldn’t call it “bizarre”. More the sort of thing I expect from Russians from time to time. No mention of why a group of police happened to be escorting him at the time he went berserk. I would have thought THAT should be the point of the story, not that he simply resisted arrest.

Seemed like pushing and shoving between two drunk farang while a Thai guy in a white shirt slapped the bejezus out of one of them. Hardly the stuff to cause much alarm, in fact par for the course on Bangladeshi road.

There is mention of some child pornography. No way that should be ignored.