HighLife

If you book for them you'll need to check they can board without showing the card that the tickets were bought on. I believe that most flight companies insist on this now and they could be refused boarding. Not a nice way to start their holiday.

Does anyone know if Bayview Haad Yao has been sold or under new management, I read a while back that it was up for sale.

Not sure if it's been sold or not maithai99 but I hope that whoever buys it has the sense to knock that eyesore of a hotel.

Wishful thinking I guess.

Out of interest, what happens to the foreigner if the land office finds that the thai partners are nominees?

Beckis' web-site is up and running again in case anyone want to have a read.

Some of the threats directed at him are just disgusting. These chumps are not too bright - making death threats on-line where their IP can be traced. A few trolls have probably jumped on the band-wagon pretending to be involved in the parties / attack when they probably weren't.

I personally hope karma pays them a visit in the near future.

Weather you agree with his cause or not, the man's got balls.

I think this story will make international news

i kind of doubt that, and even if it does nothing will be done

You could be right but some people on Beckys website have posted that they are reporting this to their embassies.

If it does make the news, swift action will be taken but I suspect someone will be made a scapegoat and the real villians here will escape justice.

Becky has lived in Ban Tai for something like 15 years so I guess this makes him about as local as a foreigner can be. From what I hear he is well liked and respected by the local Thai families.

After doing a couple of the dreaded visa-runs with him I started to follow his website. It's a bit of a free-for-all in that people post anything they like - insults, threats, offensive views etc - this particularly came out on the subject of the Ban Tai parties.

When I first read the articles about his campaign to move the parties to a place out of ear-shot of where hundreds of villagers were trying to sleep (he was not trying to stop the parties) I did think he was playing with fire due to the type of people involved in the parties and half expected to read a story like this one but hoped I wouldn't. I do agree with his plight and think it is incredibly inconsiderate and disrespectful to have all night parties where large numbers of people are trying to sleep however this is not a fight I would personally like to take on.

These articles were first posted on his website a couple of months ago but then one day were removed because of 'the usual threats' as Becky himself put it. Then the party organisers finally met with some of the village leaders and residents at Wat Po after pressure from Surat / Bangkok where a 6am finish rule was agreed upon and only 1 party a month for each of the parties. Becky then re-instated his article on his website. 2 weeks later beaten with a baseball bat and shot 3 times.

It's sad to have to admit it but it's just not a good idea to tackle powerful people in Thailand, maybe especially powerful people on Thai Islands - even when you try to go about it in a fairly civilised manner as Becky did. We are guests here and many Thais want us to remember that, especially when it come to affecting their incomes. There are many downsides to the (possibly over-) development which KPG is experiencing but I hope it will bring with it a level of civilisation where shooting a foreign resident because he wants move parties in order to to improve the quality of life for himself and his neighbours does not happen.

I think this story will make international news and if so the officials in Surat and Bangkok who Becky has been in contact with can't ignore what has happened. I hope justice is done and the people who did this get what they deserve but sadly I doubt it.

I love KPG but this is bad news for the Island and for Thailand.

I wish Becky a speedy recovery.