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The incident happened in Nong Khai? And don’t be surprised if it was the mother that pimped her out. I doubt the “financial transactions” used to catch this guy involved the victims own bank accounts. Someone else made money off the illegal act and it should be easy for the cops to identify them, assuming they aren’t paid off.

Well, something caused the policeman to take a pretty dangerous evasion maneuver, that’s for sure. Equally certain is that the articulated lorry did try to ram his truck by starting to veer after him, before realizing the cop was actually going to complete the left turn the wrong way up the slip road. The video shows that. What happened before that we don’t know. We have the cops side of the story. But what I see on the video shows cause to charge the truck driver with reckless driving. Whether the cop was justified to complete his dangerous maneuver is subjective. Not sure I want to meet either of them on the road

Maybe one of them transferred the money to the others account. Then showed that payment slip on their phone. Massage people briefly glanced at it, maybe saw amount and not much else because the phone was whisked away. Looking at e transfer slips on mobile phones is like checking signatures on credit cards. Very rarely done properly, if at all.

Well, I applaud the intention to do something to combat crime. But two big questions occur to me: 1. if they know these people use land crossings from Cambodia, why didn’t they previously stop them using those routes to enter? 2. Just how do you identify these people anyway? They are hardly going to honestly answer if asked whether they are connected to a scam call centre. All in all, this sounds like todays crackdown news distributed to try and show that they are contributing to the war effort.

I’m fairly ignorant about military hardware, but isn’t the top picture one of an anti aircraft gun?

They waited a year?

Ok, so that’s this week. But what about next week and the week after that?

Am I the only one to think that someone who has 12million in cash stuffed in a plastic box, might be up to no good? I really can’t think of a good reason for doing that.

My teenager daughter stupidly allowed her WhatsApp account to be cloned. The cloner sent me messages saying he had control of her and asking for money to be sent to a specific bank account, in order to “get her back”. I realized what was happening and called her to delete her account. My Thai wife looked up the account holders name on Facebook, so I had location, photos, name and bank account details of the perpetrator. Police weren’t interested. No money was lost. So I guess the guy just moved on to trying to scam someone else.

Jeez, in Nong Pra Jak park of all places. It’s such a family style place with people doing all sorts of normal activities. And a nice place to take stroll at 9:20 after having dinner. It’s no Bangla road or walking street, nothing like it. Is nowhere safe now?

Thanks for that stunning insight.

Apologies. I read your original post and responded to that. Couldn’t wade through 8 pages of responses

I note that you flew to Manchester, but you don’t really say which specific parts of England you visited. The country is is in danger of becoming a failed state imho, but not really for the reasons you describe. I usually visit Cornwall (where my mother lives) and St Albans ( where my son lives) and visually both are very nice places with none of the slum type conditions you describe. But having said that, it’s clearly evident that most aspects of British life are suffering from systemic overload. NHS, finding a dentist, roads, motorways, airports, passport issuance, every aspect of British life that that I experience is overloaded to the extreme and in danger of breaking down. Delays to achieve virtually anything are very long and getting longer. There is simply no slack in functions of public life and zero planning for the future. Take the NHS, something I know quite well since my mother is elderly and in need of constant care. There are no spare hospital beds in Cornwall and patients, such as my mother, routinely spend nights in an ambulance in the hospital car park. Ok, that’s the current position. So how many new hospitals are being built in Cornwall? Answer: none. Instead they keep trying to squeeze more out of the current situation by not hospitalising people or, simply letting waiting times get longer and longer. So that’s just one example of what I am trying to explain and why I would never live in England and why my sister also left two years ago to live overseas. The country’s infrastructure is slowly breaking down.

To the naked eye, that oil slick looks bigger than my front garden, which is 10 meters by 10 meters.

“What money has she been living on for those 5 years?” Perhaps she has savings from being a London based investment banker? Or has rented her Mayfair flat? Your question is silly because the possibilities are endless.

North Korea would be proud of them

I think you will find that the ICJ ruled for Cambodia because Thailand failed to file its claim in time. I will try to find links for the story which was widely reported.

“Alleyes are now on law enforcement to determine the course of justice following this jarring episode.” I wouldn’t be holding my breath for law enforcement to do anything.

Loads of them everywhere. But none I venture to suggest in the armed group of youths that were arrested. This whole right wing, Ibiza stuff is simply hijacking this thread and is totally off the topic within the article.

What’s that got to do with these Cambodian, Myanmar and Karen youths? I doubt that they feel particularly entitled, nor have been anywhere near Ibiza. Did you only read the headline perchance?

Ok, helmets are certainly part of the equation. They help reduce injuries from accidents. But, they do NOT reduce accidents and that is what also requires immediate attention. The grim reality is that neither helmets nor accident prevention measures will be implemented with any consistency or longevity. The motorcycle Russian roulette will continue for the foreseeable future and I have to say, as I advance in years, the overall level of road danger whether in a car, on a motorbike or on a bicycle, is becoming an increasingly bigger factor on how much time I spend in Thailand or whether I spend any time at all here.

Part of the equation of the rest of the world stepping up it’s defence spending at the insistence of the USA, should be to spend money on non USA manufactured goods so as to increase production capacity in places other than USA. So on a macro level, I’d say this is a good decision. Whether it makes sense for Thailand specifically or will ever actually happen, I have no idea.

A pretty stupid move I think. If Cambodia is quietly building up its military presence in the region ( which I am not aware is a proven fact), then a responsible Thailand would do the same, quietly. This rah rah move gives the appearance of the intention to stir up nationalistic pride and the Cambodians are a useful and readily available target. Presumably there will be a next step in the works which will be revealed in the fullness of time.

“Outreach efforts are expanding into schools” If they feel the need to reach out to Thai schools, it would suggest that tourists are NOT to blame. They are however a convenient scapegoat for the VERY casual attitude of Thais toward sex. As for COVID, wasn’t that all over a few years ago?

“Upon arriving, officers verified that the vehicles displayed foreign license plates, reinforcing the belief that they were rented by tourists visiting the famed island.” This makes no sense. Foreign number plates indicates the cars were NOT rented locally but driven over the border. I guess even wealthy tourists have their issues. Low class tourists like a punch up, high quality tourists think they can park anywhere they want.