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You came to the city with the intent to cause havoc and mayhem to the other citizens who live here and you got shot. You set fire to our business and rode through our streets like hooligans.. are you really surprised that you got shot.

Whats the morale of the story? You wanted to do harm and you got harmed. Karmas a !!!!!!!!!!!!

Your last sentence should read "You got shot at and I am not surprised that you lost control and set fire to some businesses and rode through the streets like hooligans."

This is not the first time that the army has shot at unarmed demonstrators - why do you find it difficult to believe?

Is divorce such a bad thing? Should a marriage last a lifetime?

Yes it is and yes it should.

Divorce is certainly not necessarily a bad thing – I would suggest it is never a bad thing after just a few months.

The fact is, that marriage can be a bad thing. But that was not discovered maybe, until it really happened. Very severe and appalling things can start - making divorce a blessed release.

Lifelong successful partnerships are a boon but since nobody remains the same person after twenty years (let alone forty) the people finding one are very lucky or tolerant.

Teachers from experience can say ‘it works’ about corporal punishment – but only because they are seeing short term and local. It usually does work in the short term but resentment and disrespect builds up. It did not work in the OP did it!

All the posters who want to beat children have been belted themselves – it is a vicious circle.

Chastisement and discipline does not have to be physical! Violence begets violence; there is no doubt about that.

First you must have a society that is clearly respecting people’s rights equally and is holding everybody to the law. Then the person who calls someone to order must have won some respect.

Every day I watch (because my wife does) Thai serials where violence is clearly the first reaction of anyone who is angry or even just bothered with anything or anybody. Especially women attack men and mostly get no retaliation. Gangs of men attack and beat individuals just because that is what their boss wants.

Here, everybody who has money or considers they have rank, from prime ministers down to policemen in the street, behaves as if they are above the law.

Children growing up with this around them are not going to consider behaving morally, thinking of others as equals to be respected. Students and their families here are only reflecting what they have learnt from infancy. Some of them have become teachers.

BCC reports it was his secretary http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-19247135

and they would know?

their wording makes it clear they are only passing on second hand information. Maybe they should have added ''we are unable to confirm this report."

It is amazing how the story is changing. The different ways of referring to his victim unfortunate casualty is just understandable. They could all be true. But the different guns are not even similar - in name or looks. This sort of story change is usually associated with cover-ups.

Any way, it seems he had a gun – that point has never been challenged – at a mother’s day meal. That seems odd. It was loaded; that is sinister. But as a poster has mentioned, nobody in their right mind would set out to dispose of someone on that kind of occasion and in front of relatives.

Unless - it is a cunning way of ensuring that the case will be dismissed quickly as no witness will squeak about it or anything else, ever.

At least the driver of the Pajero had the decency to turn herself in, the report says she coolided with the cyclists after being forced to avoid another vehicle which changed lanes suddenly, I wonder how many other accidents are caused this way, at least no-one was killed in this accident. RIP to the deceased in the other accidents, hope the police catch the truck driver and throw the book at him.

Yes they were... One of them passed away in hospital, he was best man at my friends wedding..

RIP all of them.. The roads here are a lottery and always will be !!!!

There is no need for the roads to always be a lottery. With correct driving standards and supervision, good vehicle design and regular testing, improved road design and maintenance, road signs and marking to match then road transport can be very safe. I guess you mean, Thai roads without colossal change in the education and attitude of all who should be responsible. You are right; not in the foreseeable future.

It's sad if people can't control their urge to drink for a few minutes/hours ride.

I feel sorry for these weak people and will feel much better now not being surrounded by drunken people on a public bus.

There are more important things in life than booze.

Name one.

Sex

Important? I think enjoyable is what you are thinking.

If the sex is bad; the drink after cheers you up.

If the drink is bad the sex will be too!

FLASH: Alcohol bans in all vehicles and factories; Thaivisa member commits suicide

Funniest thing seen on Thai Visa today!

Why do most of the comments on this thread seem to think that alcohol inside people is banned?

To put it another way;

On entering one pays for all the tollway available ahead. There is no refund if you leave 'early'.

This is because there are only toll plazas on access and none in the length of the expressway.

I would guess (just under a million births a year) there were say, 5 million under six. Total population say 66 million. Population over six is about 61 million. All using internet?

The same sort of warnings were common when TV was new. Maybe when books became common!!

I'm not a gun expert but were there guns being used that day that are rated as low velocity guns? Which side had them? Could a low velocity gun penetrate the heart?

9mm and .45 ACP are considered low velocity at around 1250 and as low as 900ft/s respectively compared to 7.62 NATO @ 2700ft/s and 5.56mm NATO at ~3000ft/s. Slow and heavy can transfer as much energy as fast and light(er) and its the energy transfer (shock) that does the damage.

Can a low velocity gun penetrate a heart? Usually it's the bullet, but yes, quite easily - and not necessarily the heart to be fatal.

Which side had them? Both, though not what you would expect from "peaceful protesters."

As there is no history of the ‘authorities’ shooting peaceful protestors they do not need to arm themselves. Or am I wrong?

" Getting home at 1:00 AM, i discovered the theft"

did you sleep in the taxi ride home?

Recently graduated and looking for a job in a new country within 30 days.

Good luck you need lots of it.

Yep, that´s the situation. Is that taking any of my motivation? No. Do I travel to Bangkok totally unprepared? No. Do I have job-interviews there, when I arrive? Yes. So, sure. I might need luck, but what is even more important is to have hope, patience and trust in my choice.

Not taking a risk would not even get me a job here in good old Germany, or Denmark as the grass is not greener here either.

I think that my chances are even both places (low), so why not try to find myself a job on a market that is interesting for me and then take it from there.

If I find no job within 30 days then I try somewhere else. If I am not open to anything and just doubt everything before I try, then I might never find out what possibilities there are out there. I bet Columbus never thought: "Oh, the priests are probably right. I should just accept what they say is true and forget about what I believe in myself". He took a risk and had succees. Yet I might not discover new lands or become famous like him, but at least I may discover new experiences for me that I would not have gotten in front of my computer screen here - and become happy and achieve a fulfilling job and life.

Hey! Like yr attitude!

You do need luck; and it sounds you are ready and able to see it and take whatever opens up.

So I add my good luck wishes – if I had any contacts or ideas I would give them!!

Only make sure you stay out of trouble – a foreigner here can easily put one foot wrong and be in deep deep trouble.

Consulates vary and so are unpredictable! But few would over look such an omission.

To avoid costly delay to your travel, do as suggested and fax a copy. Phone first if you do not have the number.

The link you have been given to Bangkok Bank site has a very clear explanation. Only silly problem I had was that I have Skype installed and it changed the account numbers into phone numbers on my screen. Confused me at first.

I have transferred from an HSBC ac via BB in London and it works well and fast. The best deal is always to transfer in GBP

The most difficult part will be to accept the IJC decision without losing face and looking feeble. Or trying to ‘stand up’ to IJC by saying ‘you are wrong’ which will get nowhere and be losing more respect internationally. I feel she is on a hiding to nothing.

Thailand has a reasonable case morally but a useless case legally.

It must be pointed out that it was the government who 'took to the streets with arms'and only then did the red shirts start to burn things down.

I think you forgot about pouring blood, storming parliament, and storming Thaicom ... and then using grenades and an armed militia. Once they'd done all that, then they burnt things down.

It is true that there were some snipers on both sides before the Army in APCs and battledress took to the streets against a mainly peaceful demonstration. There is no way, you can compare the redshirts actions before that, with the how the army behaved.

I accept that the redshirts were not blameless. Pity, they would have had a very strong case if they had been able to follow the example of the student lead demonstrations in Beijing rather than the example of the army on previous occasions in Bangkok.

Let’s face it, they knew from previous patterns of behaviour that the Army would attack them, and not with water cannons. I am not surprised they armed themselves.

What the red shirts attempted whilst Abhisit was in power was to cut short his term by force, by violence, by intimidation. It wasn't democratic. In many ways it was much like a coup attempt. If they had respect for democracy, they would have said, "ok, we don't like the way that Abhisit came to power, but we will respect the democratic principles we preach, and will demonstrate this not by taking to the streets with arms and burning things down, but by trying to get him removed within the law and via the courts, and if this fails, we will simply campaign hard and make sure he is not re-elected at the next election".

It must be pointed out that it was the government who 'took to the streets with arms'and only then did the red shirts start to burn things down.

She so loves democracy – one would think she had been elected!

If there was any vote casting I didn’t hear about it or who was qualified to vote. Certainly not linked with the people via direct or indirect elections. Not even the mass of the redshirts.

Being against coups is quite fundamental. Good democracy needs rather more than that. It needs free speech and general education to work well.

Thailand needs a lot of things

Some of them are possible

This is not not one of them

That's one way of looking at it. But last year was also a statistical outlier. Year-on-year comparisons are always problematic. Compared to 2007-2010, inclusive, this was a better year.

2007: 361 deaths, 4,805 injuries and 4,274 accidents

2008: 368 deaths, 4,801 injuries and 4,243 accidents

2009: 373 deaths, 4,332 injuries and 3,977 accidents

2010: 361 deaths, 3,802 injuries and 3,516 accidents

2011: 271 deaths, 3,476 injuries and 3,215 accidents

2012: 320 deaths, 3,320 injuries and 3,129 accidents

I have, as a professional, looked at their stats for road accidents and fatalities and spoken to the people collecting them.

To be polite, they are politically affected.

The political requirement from local and national politicians is that they get better – so they do.

I often hear politicians say ridiculous and baseless things but this must be the most fantastic ever.

Maybe it was some ancestors of these Thai experts that managed to wangle themselves onto the board of The White Star Line to similarly announce that the Titanic wouldn't sink either.

What a ridiculous comment.

My dicionary says that Ridiculous can mean: comical, funny hilarious...

I think the connection is indeed there and is comical, funny hilarious...

so OK both of you

I found the video the still is from.

Her name is Hina Aisawa

NSFW

Well, I can't link it.

How many hours did you have to watch before you recognised her face?

Or did you recognise her before that?

Quite a good idea from this troll but didn’t cause as much sarcasm as I would have expected. Are TV posters getting tired?