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If you like your military junta, you can keep your military junta.

Funny how the sheep are cheering for their own enslavement !

1. Helmets are for PERSONAL safety and as such should be a PERSONAL choice

2. Helmets do NOT make traffic more safe !!!

Samui has no bigger problems I guess ... but that's not so popular like the Helmet-band-waggon BS !!!

If you believe that helmets are a personal choice, then I guess you will agree that the rescue teams who have to scrape your brains off the road following an accident also have a personal choice not to bother.... if you are too stupid to live in a reasonable society, then you cannot ask that society to look after you....

Bike helmet laws to be enforced in Koh Samui

OMG! How did I survive the 1950s and 1960s as I kid?

Found another way to add to the BIB slush fund.

Monks, by taking vows to adhere to a Buddhist's monk's life, are shedding 'assets'. If a monk has assets, the monk needs to shed the robes and go back to being a layman.

Does Thailand have a gun problem? Boasts highest rate of gun-related deaths in Asia

Staff Writer

BANGKOK: -- Data from the University of Washington shows that Thailand has the highest rate of gun-related deaths out of ten countries in Asia, reports Channel News Asia, confirming what many have suspected for some time: the Kingdom may just have a gun problem on its hands.

These statistics are particularly galling when one considers the recent fatal shootings that have befallen Thailand – just this past Valentine’s Day, a man shot and killed himself and his lover at a Nonthaburi department store, for instance.

Deaths from shooting in Thailand clocked in at 7.48 fatalities per 100,000 people in 2013 – a figure 50 percent higher than the Philippines, who were the next country in the ratings, and double the rate seen in the US.

For a full analysis of these statistics, see Asian Correspondent as they highlight the discrepancies and gaps.

Regardless of the statistical details, however, it’s clear that violent gun crime is prevalent in the Kingdom even if we just go by newspaper headlines alone. But why?

Gun ownership in Thailand is widespread with over six million registered guns found in the Kingdom. In a country with a population of 67 million, that’s an ownership rate of around one in ten. Gunpolicy.org believe the actual figure to be closer to 10 million guns, if illegal ownership is to be taken into the equation.

Full story: http://whatsonsukhumvit.com/does-thailand-have-a-gun-problem-boasts-highest-rate-of-gun-related-deaths-in-asia/

-- (c) What's on Sukhumvit 2016-02-19

Who put the misleading picture up on this article? Those weapons are illegal to own here. The best you can buy is a .22 LR 'assault' look-alike. You ain't buying an AR-15, AK-47 Kalashnikov, etc, here. If I'm wrong, correct me, and source it.

Other than that, Syria has a gun problem. Sudan had a gun problem. Afghanistan has a gun problem. DR Congo has a gun problem. Iraq has a gun problem. Turkey has a gun problem.

Thailand does not.

Surprise!!!!

I'm thinking 10 year. As long the the Constitution has been trashed.....just saying.

Send them to Brussels.

The entire presidential pageant show is rigged. Bread and circuses.

And just how, with the economy in decline and nearly 90 per cent working families heavily in debt, do they propose to pay for the cost of nearly a quarter of the population being elderly within the next 10-15 years?

Pass the smoke and mirrors, please.

By increasing the indigenous, wild tiger population. But they better start my reclaiming the forests. lol

"Maybe it's time to get grandma and grandpa for a 'walk in the woods'. 'Eh?

I hear the local Tiger population is increasing. Nice, fat and happy tiggers. "Hey, where's grandpa?"

Wait for another 5.4 Magnitude earthquake and act all excited again?

While the main cause of death was road accidents (34), swimming and boating accidents claimed nine lives, congenital disease six, suicides four, and other causes 30.

The statistics showed that in 2015, visitors had a 1 in 301,204 chance of dying in Thailand, including a 1 in 735,294 chance of being killed in a road crash.

The main cause being road accidents at 34, but following close behind is "other" at 30.

What are the "others"?

Pattaya Base Jumpers without parachutes.

I said it last year: Bush/Clinton. Clinton wins. Don't get excited until around Labor Day. This is just bread and circuses to placate the citizenry. Reality TV at the National level for the gullible.

I think the conservation of this beautiful creature and other species is vitally important for so long man has denigrated the planet raping it of its minerals plundering the oceans of its fish killing animals for show or meat in some cases we do need to take stock.

One asteroid hit or X50 class solar event and Gaia will be all cured.

...at the same time the elderly Thai population is decreasing. "Hey! Where did Grandma go?"

"...improve the country’s potential for competition."

In order to accomplish this, they don't need to inject cash into the economy. They need to inject education into the school system.

That's like saying the need to inject morality into Wall Street.

the development of broadband Internet.....that will be throttled

at the one gateway, A.K.A. the Great Firewall of Thailand.

regards worgeordie

No worry. The country can hardly join two pieces of PVC pipe together much less implement a high complex technology.

They'll probably start building the Great Firewall of Thailand with cinder-block until in dawns on them.......Ohhh, that kind of "firewall". Opps!

Can't wait for the replay of 1997. Hulks of unfinished 'Mega' construction projects as a testament to power of nations in debt and institutionalized 'casino' betting by the Big Boyz of commerce who will keep repeating the mantra, "But, we never saw it coming!!!"

Hummm, bypassing such a good business opportunity. Just export the ganja to Washington State and Colorado.

Constructing modern buildings ten times the size of Chiang Mai Immigration?

What does he expect. He fires shells across the boarder into Syria targeting the Kurds

fighting al-Assad. At least the Kurds targeted a military target. Very civilized of them as

far as I am concerned. Not terrorism, a military target which has targeted Kurds. Of

course I think both sides are guilty but if they keep it between themselves I would

stand back and let them have at it. NATO don't get involved. Turkey is not Europe's

or NATO countries friend or ally.

Im sure someone from NATO will read this and follow your brilliant advise.

If Turkey gets destablized Europe will be faced with 20-30m muslim refugees.

Good. May they reap what they sow. Can't go to the US, too far of a swim. Anyway, think on the bright side. They now have a larger work force that will do jobs that Europeans won't do for a fraction of the Euros that greedy European workers demand. And the rest? Send them to Germany and France. Merkel and Hollande will take good care of them. And Sweden still has plenty of room too. Can't wait for the day when Mexican Cartel coyotes on the Mexican/US border are hauling German, French, and Swedish asylum seekers across the open US Border seeking to escape the insanity in the EU. Couldn't play our better if the Rand Corporation had planned it.