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Can you imagine what would happen if an armed police officer did that in UK or Europe? I suspect pulling a gun on someone then waving it at a crowd of people would get you a jail sentence.

yes but were not in Europe,were in planet Thailand,you very rarely see Thais go off like this,but when they do get the fuc_k out the way, especially an armed one! scary

How can they actually afford a 1.2 Mill. car ?

I hope they are both former police officers now !!

They have to accept that cars repaired after accidents are never the same as they was before, but that they have to claim insurance companies and the poor craftmanship !

(i got full insurance paid out after an accident, it took more then 5 months and it was still not made properly, so the insurance company paid out the full sum and sold the car)

Maybe i was lucky !!

are you still in phuket karsten?

Well i hate smoking, so tax that to the hilt,as for alcohol,its still cheap in Thailand so no complaints there,£3 a pint in my local in the uk,but only 50bt a big bottle of leo in my local restaurant in chaing mai,and all those talking of leaving because of the price,well leave,then we don't have to listen to your whining and bitching!

Girls in Laos have bigger tits and beer's much better,.

Titties and beer...................

there boys but the beers good

Thai authorities have issued a statement in regard to this incident. They say it is OK the speedboat wasn't damaged and the captain, aside from a bit of a hangover, is doing fine.

That would be about right,same as drink driving,no problems

We were on scene at 2030. Unfortunately what you heard was correct, although number of deceased not confirmed. Horrific accident scene.

I live in sanameng and heard the ambulances going up and down for hours

When I read comments on TV I am really ashamed to be part of the Farang community.

If you think there is no corruption in your own country you are seriously mistaken, the difference is : here they say they will share the 300k thb.

Makes me wonder why all posters who are so full of hate over this country are still living here ..... wait wait, I know, because of cheap beers and girls wich makes up for all the atrocities you claim the Thais to do....

Before talking about flaws of Thailand you should really look back at your country and its flaws.

Here here,im from the UK and have lived in Thailand for 18 years,and it does have some flaws,but i feel safer going out at night here than in my home town of Liverpool for a night out,were you can also get mugged quite easily and beaten up for a small amount of money,or in some cases,just for looking at somebody the wrong way.I wont be leaving Thailand any time soon.But my heart goes out to the poor woman who was killed and her family,just hope they got the right guys.

I find Mohamad's story very strange, seems something fishy about it.

Pretty common to get mugged on the road in Phuket late @ night.

Happened to a friend of mine - in that case, they just rode up & kicked him off the bike.

I lived in phuket for 12 years and ran a restaurant in patong beach.Every year during the low season the crime rate goes up,and its not just falangs that get mugged,it happens to plenty of Thais, usually coming home from work in the early hours of the morning,and they dont fight back they just hand over what they have,and alot of the time it goes unreported. I Personally used to drive my staff home in the car if we finished up late,as they were scared to go over the hill to khatu.It was also well known that if you drove out of patong to kamala or the hill to karon early hours of the morning that there used to be gangs hanging around waiting for an easy target,it was just common sense not to travel up there early hours of the morning.

Not fishy, Slum and drug peaple all over the places. Also here in Pattaya. They are lazy to work, just stealing is easy. I got my own lesson. I got surRouded by 5 locals last Octobre. What chance do you hace without weapon? The problem is that we foreigners can't carry guns. In my home country i can do that. So we are just victims in this country. In my case police was useless.

Not even regular Thais can walk around with a gun, but they do... and plenty people back home do as well, so just because you live here, you wont break the law? Shit, im well qualified to handle myself but if your surrounded or up against weapons, it doesnt seem all that bad idea to break the law and carry a pistol.

I looked it up on http://www.gunpolicy...gion/thailand It estimates10,000,000 civilian Thais are licensed for guns. It says 15.6% civilians but presume multiple gun ownership per person has blown out the data integrity. Am waiting for clarification re stun guns.

Other info is:

In Thailand, only licensed gun owners may lawfully acquire, possess or transfer a firearm or ammunition

Applicants for a gun owner’s licence in Thailand are required to prove genuine reason to possess a firearm, for example, hunting, sports shooting, collection, self defense

The minimum age for gun ownership in Thailand is 20 years

An applicant for a firearm licence in Thailand must pass background checks which consider personal conduct, living condition, income and criminal records

Where a past history, or apprehended likelihood of family violence exists, the law in Thailand stipulates that a gun licence should be denied or revoked

Can a falang legally own a gun?

Sister in law took the Police exam in bkk two years ago. was openly told the pass mark was 400k, she did not pay and failed. Same with teaching exam, that was 200k a few years ago.

My nephew has been trying to get in for years,hes got a degree and has passed all the entrance exams,only to be told there is no place for him,the reason why is he does not have the money to pay his way in,he comes from a poor family,but has done well academicly,the bad part of it is he is a good guy and wants to join the police to serve society and not line his pockets,not to many like that around.

These kinds of incidents are very common in Thailand to Kids of So Called Hi-So Families. This is how the Rich in Thailand take care of there kids, load them will lot of money all the time.

This is nothing New.....Another week or so and we wont hear anything about this incident again....

same as the 16yrd who killed all those people on the Bangkok express-way in the mini bus

Wow. I polled the 10 women in my moo baan here in Isaan, and only 2 drink. So, yup. Eighty percent of the women in the Northeast do NOT drink. Go figure.

All the women in my moo bann in chaing mai drink

i guess second hand car and bike prices aren't high enough already, so need to stomp on any possible competition

Top Gear did a piece a few months ago where the presenters bought top of the line 2nd hand cars for about 7000 pounds. Clarkson got a fantastic looking, fully loaded, high end merc that looked like new for about 7 grand so that's about 350000 baht. over here the same car would probably sell for 2-3 million.

i picked up the same merc in the uk for 6 grand,great car for a run about,just bought a nissan march here for the wife for 11 grand,the mercs nicer.

It's very simple : Thai drivers are ignorant , selfish, aggressive and for most downright moronic ..

If you randomly picked 10 Thai drivers , and got them to take a proper European style driving test, the failure rate would be 100 %.

They simply have no idea what to drive responsibly and safely means.

you have to get them to pass the Thai test first,they do that over and over until they pass it.ive done it 3 times,a 10 year old could do it,but in every class ive been in,most of the Thais have had to do it again.

Thais and alcohol , alcohol and Thais.....hmmmm makes for an interesting life altering combo.

you forgot to add car and motorbike,lol

I was just in my local tesco lotus,buying some last min things,and there were 4 kids in front of me buying spy coolers and not one was over 15,and no id was asked for,then all 4 got on a bike outside and rode off.What crackdown on alcohol? they never ask in the soi shops but tesco lotus???.

How about actually arresting drunk drivers and having them spend 24 hours in the slammer, minimum. Repeat offenders also get heavy fines, and have their vehicles impounded for 7 days.

Selling alcohol and drinking is not the (main) problem. It's the yahoos who drink AND drive.

Might also want to properly tax the Thai white spirits, Lao kao. If it wasn't so cheap, perhaps the related problems wouldn't be so bad either. It is also absolute rotgut.

They sell 10bt shots at the shop at the top of my street that also is on the chiang mai-chiang rai highway,i sit and have a beer there and its frightening watching these big trucks pull over,and the driver having a few shots,then off in his 10 ton truck.scary

I've been out driving around Chiang mai today to get my shopping in,so i don't have to leave the soi for 5 days,All i can say is the madness has started,it was like driving in death race 2000 today,its always bad here,but you can feel the danger level has gone up about 50% today,ive never been cut up so many times on the same highway i drive on everyday,just absolute idiots on the road,and it will get worse tomorrow.I live on highway 118 the main road to chaing rai,and there are any number of shops selling booze down here,to pick ups fully loaded with Thais,to keep them well fueled up,so they can kill each other.Ive seen 15 songkrans here and the novelty wore out years ago,i just stock up and stay close to home now.

Doing a "runner" seems to be the logical course of action for Thais when they are involved in motor vehicle accidents. Obviously the penalties for this must be a slap on the wrist. Leaving the scene of an accident is treated as a very serious offence in most western countries. Even the petrol pump attendant did a runner when he accidentally filled my brother's brand new Isuzu with gasoline instead of diesel, I guess he thought they would ask him to pay for a tank full of petrol, or the cost of draining the tank. Or both.

they do thats why he bolted

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News flash: Cambodia has Asian males as well.

Yes, you are correct but it also has much more flexible visa rules, property and business ownership and I can at least register my motorcycle in my name. Gambling is legal and the police are not arrogant cowboys. Males seem to be far more friendly and accepting of foreigners, especially if you have skills to teach them.

You can register a car or motorbike in your name in Thailand,i have both in my name.

I was out at my house in mae on this week in the mountains,and there was allot of fires up there,my wife says its some of the local people,they set the fires so that when the rains come the mushrooms come out,she also called them stupid for doing it,and shes one of the local people.Theres also allot of small fires along the sides of the roads, usually caused by cigarettes being thrown out of cars.But the local government here in chaing mai says its not Forrest fires but an ozone problem,I sometimes wonder what drugs these people are on who put theses reports out ,they must think the whole general public are completely stupid,all you have to do is drive 30 mins anyway out of the city and you will see something burning.Anyway the next report will be the usual shift the blame,and say the smokes coming from Burma,you bad burmese fire starters.

Its just something that will never happen in this country,ive driven here for 16 years and it gets worse by the year,as more idiot untrained drivers take to the roads,and cause mayhem,and the amount of accidents just pile up all the time.I talk to my neighbors here who are all Thai and they complain about how dangerous the roads are here in chaing mai,at the same time one of them who works for a large car insurance company is teaching his 16 year old daughter to drive,the guy is a terrible driver ive been out with him,i also asked him was he worried in case his daughter had an accident,as she is not old enough to have a car licence,so will not be covered by his insurance,he never answerd that question and wont because that is the real world and most Thais just dont live in it.Im not Thai bashing,thats just the way things are,same as driving here,most Thais drive in planet Thailand,and most do know when they are driving badly,its just the old deny everything attitude,its somebody elses fault.That kills people here everyday.mai pen rai.

Do you really think a lie detector will serve any purpose other than to appease the press and as a tool for the advancement of those in the big chairs?

An entire nation that is driven ON EVERY LEVEL by an unshakable culture of lying, depict and, most importantly a refusal to admit to, or apologise for personal error. A lie detector in a jail might as well be made of cheese. It will never be used in the cause of good or for it's true purpose, it will be a tool for framing the innocent and scoring points within the system.

A few weeks ago I walked in on my thai father in law. He was looking at an old photo album full of pictures of beach scenes and pictures of a young woman and her two teenage kids . He was alone and sobbing. When he saw me he quickly closed the album (not before I had a chance to see some of the photos), got up and left the room. The photos were blatantly of his second wife and their children together who I know exist (my wife told me). My wife later asked me if she though her father was acting strangely. Then, and only then did I volunteer what I had witnessed a few hours before. She told her mum and the two of them then got really mad with me and called me a liar. For the remaining two weeks of our stay with them neither the father nor the mother talked to me. To this day my wife still refuses to talk about it. The mother knows I told the truth, yet refuses to accept it. Bitch.

QED, these people are fa*king fools, living in denial seems to suit them perfectly. I lie detector will only serve to annoy them with the facts.

When dealing with the Thais I have turned into one.

After a lot of tedious experiences I now only ever ask three questions

- Have you eaten?

- Are you "Sabai"?

- Are you drunk yet?

Any other question results in an answer I don really care to hear and is probably not the truth anyway.

Keep it superficial and mind your own business; its the way to a pleasant life!

To true mate,ive lived here 18 years and thats about the only question i ever ask Thais,and the same you never will get a straight answer ,i dont think ive ever had one in 18 years,lol

If there will be an attempt to boost Pattaya's image than it is about time that they start arresting local politicians, police and other upstanding members of society too, I suppose. Only fugitives with hormonal problems and not so smart ones would opt for Pattaya. Staying out of Americans hands must not be too hard if you opt for another country than Thailand, closer at home there must be some countries around with a similar climate as Thailand but who are not as close diplomatically.

Venezuela is a good one

I'm just surprised it doesn't happen more often.

It probably happens much more often than we realise. Only a small fraction of traffic accidents in Thailand end up in the news.

This is true,there were 4 people killed last weekend here where i live on the118 from chaing mai to doi saket,theres accidents every day down here on the u turns on the highway,as they build more moo banns,along here,that are maybe half a kilo from the u turns,the locals just drive down the highway against the traffic to the u turn,and they get all angry when you hit the horn as they are driving towards you on the wrong side of the road flashing there lights at you,all i can say is brain dead idiots.