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Why is this 'heart-wrenching?" Honestly - the vet should have attempted to find a home for the dog. Dog's are pretty resilient. If the owners abandoned it, if adopted the dog would have been fine with its new owners. Like - it's a vet office with large numbers of pet owners coming and going. A sign on the door advertising the dog as adoptable probably would have resulted in the pup finding a new home. That's the only "heart-wrenching" thing I see here.

That's basically it. Go to immigration, fill out your own TM.30, pay the fine, and Bob's Your Uncle as long as you don't leave Thailand.

Forewarned is forearmed. Write it as an addendum to your contract and get your landlord's signature indicating that failure of the landlord filing a TM.30 is a breach of contract.

Again - that is not true. You can Direct Deposit into any commercial bank in Thailand.

As of late mine shows as a foreign funds transfer to SCB and that is in my passport. So I'm sure a Credit Advice will show the same.

I wouldn't jump to conclusions. Home invasion do happen here. Let the cops do their investigation. However, my guess if he had a name like "Tony" or "The Boss" he'd be out on bail pending investigation.

I have a great idea. Let's tax all foreign funds inflows to Thailand!

So they had encephalitis, which is deadly, than contracted influenza which together with the comorbidity ended their lives. Therefore all children need flu shots, to mask up, and heck - let's close the schools again and use Zoom instead! In the meanwhile, how many kids have got killed on Thai road in the last week? Shouldn't cars be banned or at least children should no longer be allowed to be passengers in cars or no motorcycles. "For the safety of the children!" "Well that's ridiculous!" Exactly.

When I bike I always have the hair on my neck stand up as cars approach (figuratively). Trust me - I'm extremely aware of two things: 1) Thais lack driving skills and 2) a bicyclist is no safer than a dog who dares to wander onto the road. Then - get out and drive at Zero-Dark Thirty on a Thai road? Most bicyclists who drive in the dark, even if they have their little lights and little flashing blinker, simply are immensely difficult to see. "You're an anti-bike car lovering cyclist-hater. Arrgghh." Not at all. A bicycle was my ONLY transportation in University (I was dirt poor), and I'd routinely put 30 miles a day on the bike, much of that at night on US roads. Driving on US roads at night was dangerous. Imho, driving in the dark in Thailand is deadly. Case in point - right here.

Sounds like the Thai cops had an Uvalde mind-set. Sit on the sidelines and look cop-like until one brave off-duty Border Patrol agent armed with a borrowed shotgun and some cajones ends the standoff. So - there are similarities it seems. The questions should be, if they are not trained - why? And if they are trained - why? And like Uvalde, where the hell was the leadership?

What's a Laurence Fox?

Thai PM vows enhanced security after deadly Siam Paragon shooting He'll accomplish the exact opposite if he makes Thailand into a banana-republic police state. This is really a knee-jerk reaction. If his plans are to focus on gun crimes while overlooking the much more frequent murders accomplished with machetes, rebar, knives, or gangs of Thais beating a foreigner half to death over a loss of face or a disputed bill or for asking to for the taxi meter to be used - well - he's not going to actually stop the exact crime that affects most foreign tourists. Yes - shooting in malls are horrific, but they are a 'one-off' events. The average tourist is about 1000 times more likely to get killed or injured on the Thai roads than get shot in a mall by some nut-job with psychological issues. Or getting macheted to death over a 30 THB taxi fare by a taxi drive with normal Thai "Face" issues. Want to change something Srettha? Work on changing the mass-psychological disconnect that causes Thais to attack and injure foreign tourists. TAT should promote a "Jai Yen" campaign: "Stop Killing And Injuring Our Foreign Guests"

That's not a "plummet." That's fluctuation.

No complaints here.

Highly egocentric. "It's all about me!!! I'm wearing a white dress. I plan to give food to monks. All dogs, pesky neighbors, and evil spirits begone!!!" I agree with the above. Childish. If she wins in court I'll have my wife start making lists of dogs, neighbors, and evil spirits who dare invade her space when she gives the local monks on bindabat food. From a Buddhist perspective this is 'wrong-view.' The concept behind giving monks food is to be generous and compassionate. It should be given freely without any attachment or wish for remuneration. It seems this woman sets herself on a moral high-ground and expects the world around her to conform to her wishes and antics. Unfortunately too many Thai Buddhist laity think that it's about giving something to get something, and in her case, she considers it to be a holy ritual performed on the street, and the mundane world around her must stop and praise her. And the part about 'banging a pot to chase away evil spirits" is pure Animism. I'd have a suggestion for her. Invite the dog, the 'evil spirits', and the neighbor over to give food to the monks and share the merit. With all of that anger and self-rightousness, she's might as well toss all of her perceived "merit" in the well.

A handgun costs 5x what it costs in the West. The process to obtain a legal registration can take upwards of weeks to months. That is for registering a "legal firearm." Trust me - Thailand's gun laws makes legal gun ownership very difficult. Firearms dealer are highly regulated and controlled. The kid, from what I understand, was not using an legal firearm. The government can take all firearms away from citizens. The vast majority have them for home invasion protection. Most are middle and upper class. Trust me. Somchai Average can't afford a 90K to 120K handgun. They don't carry them around loaded unless they plan on doing prison time. Concealed carry permits are as rare as hen's teeth. This isn't the US. Gun regulations are extremely tough here. Black-market firearms are a different story. Thailand should point their law enforcement at slowing and stopping the trade of illegal weapons use by criminals to commit crimes. And as well, try cracking down on criminals. But - those law-abiding citizens with legal, register firearms are low-hanging fruit. Watch!

I bought a soft-plastic mouth guard from Lazada. You can get them from 20 to 50 THB. It works fine. The dentists here will charge you a small fortune from a custom mouth piece. I had one once in the US. This cheap plastic guard works better and is more comfortable than the over-priced custom job made by my US dentist. Buy one and try it. You're out 57 THB if you don't like it. If it works - I just saved you about 10,000 THB.

He'll be back on the street at the age of majority - 20 years old. And given that he's done it once?

You should have call the police and arrange to give the gun back to the student in their presence. Because the chances of that student having the legal right to carry a gun are about zero.

What about compassion and respect for the privacy of the shooting victims? Honestly, when you commit a heinous act such as murder, I think you give up any privacy that you may want.

Not anymore. You can direct deposit your Social Security to any commercial bank in Thailand.

No - But the women he 'coached' were definitely pole vaulters.

Obviously "brake failure."

"There's a sucker born every minute" — P.T. Barnum

I remember a short time back when there was an article here about the Chinese being fearful to come to Thailand due to people on Social Media saying it wasn't safe. This event should hammer the last nail into that particular coffin.