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"Several social media platforms have posted images of the Russian, taken from the shop’s CCTV system." Any of them show the crime in commission? I would also very much like to have seen what was/wasn't being worn under those tables in the background: Open season now on foreigners......plenty of unscrupulous, greedy Thais willing to attempt to capitalise on that.

"There must be a flip side of the coin; complete nutters or the copper got out of hands and started to brandish his gun around" In between "complete nutters" and "copper got out of hands" one might insert "cop attempted to extort a bribe to let them go and they told him to **** off". That would give the story an interesting "spin".

Illegal entries and "ulterior motives" A bit too late to start screening people after they have entered illegally.......and pointless. Just throw them out and ban them if you like. Potentially every visitor may have an "ulterior motive". How do you screen them........scapolomine/lie detector test, on entry, at the airport for VE visitors? "All crimes committed by foreigners to be investigated and prosecuted, including violations of the Immigration Act, the Alien Employment Act, the Entertainment Places Act, illegal business operations, nominee arrangements where Thai nationals own shares or real estate on behalf of foreigners to avoid legal compliance." Previous policy was to ignore crimes by foreigners? It would be a better idea for Thailand to clean up its act and desist from being a magnet for crooks, scum and lowlife. Have your leaders, authorities and state employees stop blatantly acting like crooks, scum and lowlife (in doing so passing on that example to the rest of the population) and you might get that "better class" of visitors that remain your eternal wet-dream. It is your reality, not your absurd, hubristic, deluded self-image, that brings the worst possible types....don't blame the flies for swarming to the sewer.

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However the potentially rain producing clouds may not dump their load.......not unusual. The object of cloud seeding (introducing a chemical catalyst into cloud) is to try and ensure that they do. That is what will be happening. Unfortunately there is little evidence to show that cloud seeding significantly affects precipitation.

Meanwhile the cops mates stand back and video instead of stepping in to help him? Keep up the good work RTP.

"After being contacted by Narenthorn Centre, Capt. Dr. Atchariya Pangma, NIEM’s secretary-general, approved the use of a helicopter to quickly transfer the tourist to Trang Hospital and coordinated with the Fourth Army Region to send one." "NIEM’s Sky Doctor emergency service is available in all parts of the country to assist both both locals and tourists free of charge with the cost being covered by the Emergency Medical Fund."

So much nicer in the good old days, when "Israeli" was invariably followed by "family", "Holocaust" and everyone burst into tears. Thank Netanyahu for the passing of those days.

Indeed. It would have been a good idea for some earlier contributors on this thread to have actually read it before MSNphobic auto-heckling.

"....they will simply reincarnate as the 'X Forward Party' for the next election......" Why bother? They have already tried to play the fixed game twice as FF and MF, but they have known all along that those were long shots and that they would most likely have to escalate: “If parliament cannot be an effective arena for settling differences of opinion and finding consensus among parties and people of different ideologies, then of course, people will have little choice but to go to extra-parliamentary means to voice their opinions and to push for changes,” https://www.thaipbsworld.com/move-forward-to-press-ahead-with-amending-article-112-but-within-limits-imposed-by-court/ The ballot box means nothing in Thailand.

In other words they are alcoholics who, like you, don't really know about the other alcoholics that they find themselves washed up next to. Reason being that, like you (and every other alky in the world) they talk only about about themselves and have no interest in anybody, or anything, else. Nothing else except, of course, your precious ******* alcohol....how you drink it, how you mix it, when you drink it, how it makes you feel, what you feel like when you can't get it. Other people, including other alcoholics, are only there to be talked at...... not listened to. You talk only about your self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-loathing, self-pitying, out of control, car crash of a life (as you do on AN) and don't listen.......they talk only about themselves and don't listen. That is the essence of "friendship" among alcoholics. Complete ******* bores the lot of you.

Manufactured by Beechcraft.......but originally designed by Pilatus (SWITZERLAND!) as the PC-9: Beechcraft licence produce it as the T-6 Trainer (also supplied to RTAF) and, as is common with military trainers, developed an armed Light Attack version. Related news: https://www.key.aero/article/thailand-retires-pc-9-trainers-after-30-years-ops

The majority of every generation eventually says more or less the same things as you do. They firmly confirm, as you do, that they belong to yesterday. It's official.......you are old.

I saw no sign of a "hitchhiker". I saw someone walk in front of a vehicle compelling it to slow down and stop.

What race does Hester belong to such that he was subject to racism? Irish is not a race....it is a Nationality. The Irish are an Ethno-national group.

That's some ****** up logic system that you've bought into. Being a screwed up foreigner is bad.......but being Thai and brutalising someone you know, while the rest of your "society", including the police, look the other way, is fine? I guess all those Thai guys who murder their exes are also "nothing out of the ordinary", nothing to attract comment?

Foreigners are no more "obsessed" with ladyboys than they are obsessed with women. Does the fact that that 100's of thousands of foreigners turn up in Thailand, to have reasonably priced, easily and openly available, stigma free, no strings, leisure sex with women indicate that they are "obsessed" and can't have sex with them in their own country? Those are the reasons for Thailands enormously popular and lucrative leisure sex trade catering to foreign tourists: Reasonably priced, easily and openly available, stigma free.........all on the back of a cheap tropical holiday. It has proven a winning formula for Thai tourism.

si·ne·cure /ˈsinəˌkyo͝or/ noun noun: sinecure; plural noun: sinecures a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit. "political sinecures for the supporters of ministers" Similar: easy job, soft option, cushy number, money for old rope, money for jam, picnic, doddle, walk in the park, cinch, gravy train, bludge.

He deliberately attempted to stop her, pulling in front and across her direction of travel and braking hard, to a standstill, with little or no time for her to stop. Clearly shown when this story started rolling on Saturday:

However it might be reasonable to infer that they were free to leave the plantation: A witness told reporters that, on March 6, he saw a bronze pickup truck arrive and park in front of Somjit’s plantation. The dogs ran to it, after which and the vehicle sped off. The witness does not say that they saw someone leaving the vehicle and taking food to the dogs on the plantation.

And It is not an "unlikely friendship". They have so much in common that it was very likely that a friendship would be forged if they were sat next to each other for what was probably a 12-13+ hours flight. Possibly an unlikely or remarkable coincidence that they should be sat together......but not an unlikely friendship. Cc: Puntid Tantivangphaisal

However Biden will have people to help him if he gets re-elected......he will welcome their counsel. Trump will only have people to obey him and satisfy what will, eventually, destroy him........his narcissism. Trump has no concern for any "country"......his patriotism is that which Dr Johnson wrote of: "In 1774, he printed The Patriot, a critique of what he viewed as false patriotism. On the evening of 7 April 1775, he made a famous statement: "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." The line was not, as is widely believed, about patriotism in general but rather what Johnson saw as the false use of the term "patriotism" by William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (the patriot minister) and his supporters. Johnson opposed most "self-professed patriots" in general but valued what he considered "true" patriotism" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Samuel_Johnson Trump rides the patriotic tide to serve his own vain needs......not those of any nation, politics, ideology or people. He is a self-serving opportunist whose narcissism commands his behaviour. Biden, on the other hand, is just a tired old man. Both terrible candidates, but only one of them will seek to take the country down with him in his own spiral of self-destruction.......it had a taste of that on Jan 6th 2021.

Words that were not said on the boat: "Don't touch or take anything down there" "Drop that back in the water and don't post what you did on the internet" Why not........because 100% guaranteed that the foreigner will get all the **** thrown at them. Or is there a chance that the boat owner will be charged with conspiracy to commit a crime/aiding and abetting a crime/transporting contraband?

"We are going to see more and more of these articles, so many losers coming to Thailand now, without money."