Tropicalevo

Maybe because there are more people there making an honest living. Of course, they never appear in the newspapers.

Sinkholes have been around in Bangkok for decades. Here is one of the latest ones. https://mothership.sg/2024/10/sinkhole-appears-in-bangkok-thailand/ and another

And then the rescuer picked the poor mutt up by it's throat. That dog does not look very happy.

Very brave lads - well done.

Not sure if this is official or just the police being creative. 'No parking' signs have gone up on the road into Fisherman's Village coming from Bangrak. These signs are made from some kind of plastic covered material and are just tied onto the lamp posts. They turn in the wind! Now, it is a good thing that something is being done about the parking there but this one seems to be a bit flakey. The signs run from QR restaurant (and Chez Francois on the opposite side) down to the one way exit road. I saw quite a few cars clamped with the police coming along later to collect the money and unclamp them. The next money grab comes after 20:00 or if you try and park from where the signs stop - the owners come out and ask for 50 baht parking fee.

Even a helmet did not save this poor lass. A tree that large is pretty unforgiving.

Back in the UK, in the 1950's, things like this were drummed into us at school. There were even road safety lessons in the junior schools. In senior schools, these progressed to bike riding and even a riding test. For adult drivers, there were the black and white TV commercials.

And houses. Not sure if it is happening more often, or just being reported more. Certainly, since GA came onto the scene at AN we are seeing a lot more local news. Thank you George.

What is the issue here? I always have to pay all of the costs when I stay in a hospital here in Thailand. Presumably he his also having plastic surgery. He certainly looks different in the photo in the main picture

I must have missed something. What law are they flouting? I can find nothing in the AI blurb that tells me. I just just see a small crown of lads. Is that against the law?

Totally agree. Hopefully his reward will not be a motor 'accident'.

There are responsible Thai leaders? Who the heck was he?

Noooooo! Leave the BOT alone. They know what they are doing.

Not to us hardy bike riders.

Well done lads. Your parents should be proud of you.

Family agreed to switch off the life support. There were no alternatives.

That poor lad is not at all well. He needs help.

Maybe but not likely. I had friends running a pub some 20+ years ago on Samui. On a border run to Burma, I bought a couple of bottles of Johnny Waler Blue label. About 150 baht each. It tasted so close to the real stuff that the boys sold it to punters. At a much reduced price of course.

it's not a 'home brewed' spirit. It is distilled under licence of the authorities. Mind you, no one knows that happens after they open the bottle,. Also, the youngsters seem to have been drinking in more than one establishment.

Only one country is escalating things. The others are responding. The west has not threatened Putin with nuclear weapons. Putin has been threatening to use them for a while. (I have forgotten how many times, it seems like every other day.)

Apparently, this all kicked off around November 10th. The first victims fell ill shortly after that with the Aussie girls being hospitalised on the 13th. Not sure when the Danes passed away (they were the first), but is seems that the Laos police did nothing to investigate this until it was raised at government level earlier this week. Makes the Thai police almost look proactive. RIP youngsters. So sad.

People are NOT poking the bear. They are trying to kick it's buttt out of an innocent country that it has invaded and where it is killing innocent people. Please rethink your your (mis)understanding. It is the 'bear' that is escalating things. Go nuclear? Bring it on. The bear will do it regardless, but please stop all of this 'if you repel me, I will nuke you' rubbish. 'The bear' started this. why are you supporting it?

I feel a tad sorry for delivery drivers and taxis etc trying to follow Google maps or whatever. Here on Samui - the maps are inaccurate with some sois not being on the map and some in the wrong place. I live on an unnamed sub soi. It is in fact two roads from the main soi, which heads in three different direction with the ends of those roads being 1.5 kilometers apart. Then we have the house numbering system. I built three houses. Numbered 8/23, 8/52 and 8/11. They are in a row on the same plot of land. The house number tells you when it was built - not where it is. 23rd house built, 52nd house built, 11th house built. My next door neighbour is 8/159! Then we have 'sponsored' street names. Named after the hotel that sponsors the sign. Just because it is there on the internet, does not mean that it is accurate or true.

Who would have guessed.

Or stoned.