Tropicalevo

More people today because immigration was closed from 4-6th May. Today first day open. Closed again 10-12th May so 13th will be busy again.

Our water supplier is struggling to provide water for everyone in the development where I live. (> 100 houses) Many houses are buying water trucks yet the bills from the supplier show that usage is higher than normal. I suspect that the main water pump is pushing air to the properties, when the main water tank level is low. Is there a meter that I can install near the water meter that will tell me if there is air? Disconnecting the feeder pipe would be a hit and miss affair.

I have no interest in electric vehicles. I think that road deaths will be higher because of them. I have less than 50% hearing and I never hear the little sods when they are racing up behind me when I am walking. They are silent killers. The rules for crossing the roads have always been Stop, Look,Listen. How the heck the visibly impaired manage I will never understand. Then I try really hard to never buy Chinese goods. EV no thank you.

Seems cheap for a Mercedes. I think that is the estimate of the repair cost.

The unfortunate young men will now have to look at either fighting, on one side or the other, or coming to Thailand (and others) illegally. Then the press will have a field day showing more 'illegal immigrants' being arrested. Thailand will send the poor guys back to Burma thus showing their support for the illegal military junta.

Poor lady. Possibly scarred for life thanks to that nasty little man. Glad that he has been arrested.

Poor guy died of his injuries at the hospital.

Yes it is a nice story. Only the conspiracy theorists will be disappointed. The people that count in Thailand, government and its employees, are happy with the findings of suicide. (As in the BP and others.) Mind you, they are even more happy that they are sniffing around looking to see if the poor French lady's company set up is valid or if it used nominee shareholders. The interior ministry will be looking to get their hands on the business if it is illegal and then they will be allowed to sell it's assets. Still, the maid will still have the 500k and any possible bank accounts and other items in the estate.

It is even more rare in SE Asia. Not many Thais with O-

Very lucky passengers in that truck.

"No one questions that it was a suicide." Apart from the AN bar-stool conspiracy theorists.

A few articles on this story confirm the second quote. This article is about the value of the estate - not the suicide.

Fixed it.

The MEA have already admitted guilt in another article.

Do you have proof of these dumb accusations? I assume that the brown squiggly thing at the end of your sentences is your signature.

So not really a deterrent then.

All other reports stated that the camera angle had been changed. Not disabled. If I read this report correctly, they are not questioning suicide (yet) but just the value of the estate. The poor maid will probably only end up with 2/6d.

Me too.

Very true here on Samui. Daytime highs are 37 C plus, slightly higher than previous years. But night time lows at midnight are still 31 to 32 C. (Higher in my bedroom.) The bigger change this year is the pollution here on the islands. Rarely seen in previous years - especially in May. We are not in the same league as the rest of Thailand, but it has been noticeable this year.

Not just live music. I often go into an empty bar/restaurant for a quiet time and the first thing that they do is switch on the music and place a large fan blowing a gale into my ear.

Perhaps step out of the broom cupboard where you live and look around the great big world that we live in. Have you heard of assisted suicide? Euthanasia? DNR (do not resuscitate/living will)? Lots of people 'give up on life' when the living is not worth the reward. I have informed family and friends that I will take one of these options when the list of chronic diseases that I have, become 'not worth the effort'. I already have the organ/body donation in place along with a DNR at the main hospital where live. I have also given away the properties that I own. So maybe, just maybe, it was suicide. It happens more often than you seem to realise.

Why?

Eureka! I was in Chaweng (Koh Samui) this morning and as I left the shop, after buying a few tins of a new IPA there, it started to rain. Only a light shower, but the first rain that I have seen all year. Also a smattering of light thunder in the distance. Sadly, the shower was over by the time that I got to my motorbike. (A one minute walk.) Half a kilometre on and the roads were still dry.

If there was no will, then the Thai's parents and siblings would have the inheritance. If there was a will, then they may contest it.

Two firework sellers were also arrested. (from the full articale in the Thaiger.)