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Something to take CAREFUL note of here is that this was premeditated...the cabbie circled round and called his friends to join him...

The friends had prior knowledge of the plan...and so it had been already previously discussed with them...You don't just call a friend out of the blue and say hey, I have two people in my cab, stop what your doing right now and come and meet up with me, we can beat the guy and rape the girl...

Or perhaps, this is not the first time they have done this...a phone call was all that was required because they already knew the game plan...

An all time low...

Where else in the world would a husband travelling to work in a cab with his pregnant wife, be at risk of assault and pack rape by their driver and his friends?

And what about the apartment where the poor girl was raped. A thai apartment, in Bangkok, with dozens of people coming and going, no one saw three Thai cabbies rough handling a tiny girl out of a car and up the stairs...no one...?

Kidnapping, rape, assault and battery, robbery. I wonder what sort of criminal sanctions the justice system hands out for doing that with premeditation. A couple of years in jail and a slap on the wrist. But we'll never know. Unless the crime was committed by some Hi-So, snot-nosed kid, you never hear about the outcomes of criminal trials. The news media only reports the crime, never the court proceeding or sentencing.

come on BIB, do your job and cover this up. it is on the web now. what will the tourists think?

i am surprised these Myanmar people are allowed to make trouble like this. they don't understand Thailand.

its only a beating, 500 baht and one of those cheap phones.

and why was she pregnant? didn't she know she was going to be beaten?

what the hell is going on?

It is ultimately the womans fault. She should not have been wearing clothes that would excite a Thai man. And her bf should have been holding on to her to show his manliness. When will foreigners learn that they need to look like Muslims covering themselves completely and if a man is with them he needs to be able to show strength. Poor taxi drivers just can't help themselves when a woman (any woman) makes them aroused. Those burmy need to be out of Thailand for sure. ( sarcasm at its best)

Issuing Concealed Carry Permits could mitigate some of that stupidity. But...that's just the American in me talking out loud.

Another day, another bus crash. More senseless, unnecessary deaths. Driver will probably just get a 500 baht fine and be driving a bus again next week. The criminal justice system here is so <deleted> up.

Until Thailand wakes up and puts Highway Patrol cars on the road to stop, ticket or arrest drivers in the act of moving violations, the carnage will continue.

I spent three years riding a bus between Chiang Mai and Korat every six weeks for business purposes. I seldom slept on those 12 hours night-time rides, but instead watched with amazement at some the the most suicidal driving I've ever experienced shy of Chiang Mai to Mae Sai border runs in minivans. I've come to the conclusion that all Thai drivers are unbalanced, but commercial drivers of buses and minivan are truly psychotics. I'm thinking that must be a hiring requirement.

I either fly or drive my own car nowadays. Neither the wife or I will get on a bus again. Trains? Again, I'd rather fly or drive myself.

We don't have chickens but our neighbors do. I've never been bothered by the crowing prior to sun-up. Criminy, they're chickens. That's what chickens do! Lol.

I think our brother farang should consider moving back into the city where only the noise of tuk-tuks and girlie-bars will disturb his slumber at 2am in the morning, and then the drunk expat neighbor with the bar-girl he hooked up with stumbles in at 4am to make boom-boom until sun-up.

I'd rather have the chickens next door personally. Lmao

12 gauge shot to the head and the guy is still alive. Wow, there's the universe saying, "It ain't your time to go yet."

What vegetables are typically grown during the Cool Season? I live in Northern Thailand in a mountain valley in Lamphun Province. Any info would be appreciated.

You can grow cherry tomatoes any time of the year but other varieties only during Thailand's coolest months as the flowers need cool night time temps to self pollinate.

It has been unusually hot this year, my 6 week old tomato seedlings are only 4-5 inches tall; squash and watermelon are doing fine.

Although I've been asking for over a year, I simply can't get any help from my wife concerning what and when to plant vegetables.

You have squash, watermelon, and tomatoes growing now. What other vegetables are usually planted during the 'cool season'. I understand that potatoes are. Bell pepper? Can anyone make suggestions for what needs to be planted now?

I'm surprised someone would be deported for an assualt charge.

Now, would Thailand request that a Thai citizen be extradited from the US to Thailand on an 'assault charge'. Given the fact that assault will get you a whooping 500 THB fine, probably not until Hell freezes over.

I've got to assume the US will pay Thailand for the care, feeding, and extradition of this dude. I can't see them going through the hassle if they aren't compensated.

Too bad the dude didn't do his 'assaulting' in Thailand. 500 THB fine and the US citizen he assaulted couldn't do a thing because the 'crime' is out of the jurisdiction of the US. The individual who was assaulted couldn't even file for civil damages in a US court. So for any US citizen who gets into a scrape with another US citizen, do it in Thailand.

Doing anything remotely 'criminal' in the US seems to get you tossed into the clink. Seeing that the US prison system is privately owned nowadays, the courts go out of their way to throw people into jail. The US has 5% of the world's population and 20% of the world's prison population. Crime does pay! That is, if you're a stockholder in company that runs US prisons. I wonder how much this 'assault' extradition will cost US taxpayers. Silly move imho.

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ah ...... another taxi driver doing his thing !! thainess at it's best !

Don't know where you get Thainess at it's best from, this is nothing to do with normal Thai's, there is a criminal element in all countries.

I'm just happy to hear that the gf was found unharmed.

"Normal Thai's" 555 as compared to what, abnormal Thai's?

If your too ignorant to figure it out, I meant normal as in the Thai people in general, and just because you don't read about it in the news in other countries doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

How often do you hear about New York taxi drivers going 'Bangkok' on their passengers by pulling out machetes, assaulting, robbing, or otherwise harming them? Rarely. It's not because it's 'covered up' and not reported by the press, heck the US press would be like a pack of jackals at a zebra kill. Cab driving, like virtually everything in the US, is highly regulated, police are virtually militarized, and the judicial system tosses violent offenders in jail for long periods of time which is a deterrent. In the US it's usually the other way around - taxi drivers are the victims of their passengers. It's a dangerous job.

The WORLD is catching up with Thailand. About time

Now if the WORLD would catch up with corporate crime and start jailing executives, like Iceland, perhaps the impropriety would stop because it's no longer safe for those engaging in illegal profiteering. These acts don't occur in a vacuum.

I wonder how many thousands of lives were lost (and how much $$$'jack'$$$ was made via organ/tissue sales) before the gunman arrived. Not condoning what the gunman did, nor condoning what PP doctors do on a daily basis. Both in the wrong as far as I'm concerned, and two wrongs don't make a right.

Translated: We need to sucker some pension fund into buying carbon offset derivatives in order to line the pockets of various banks, dictatorships, and pseudoscience organizations. What a scam...Follow The Money.

Think about it.The instructors taking these gullible Chinese for certification and tour diving are of the same type of people raised in a country known for obtaining goals via the shortcut method.It would be like having a supposedly proficient Thai teacher teaching English at Cambridge that obtained hie degree via money and parents influence..I started diving in Thailand in 1975 and use only An American owned shop and later an Englishman's shop that I trust..Diving is a very dangerous sport even done correctly.Check out The Mermaid in Pattaya..

Agreed. A Mai Bpen Rai attitude and diving are a deadly combination.

500 THB criminal fine for the dive operator and maybe 100k THB civil fines...maybe. Of course, the dive operator could just blame her for her own death, or her dive buddy. She did have a dive buddy, right? Guess well find out tomorrow...maybe. Anyway, RIP young lady.

Why isn't something done?

Because it's Thailand.

Surely you've lived here long enough to understand this?

Why isn't something done?

You obviously have not acculturated yet. You're still thinking with a farang mind. Stop that!!!

My 100% response to that silliness.

There is so much hot air in that statement that you could float a lead balloon.

They werent topless, nor were they male.

Surpising some think a bikini in a public park on a tropical island is offensive. One has to wonder about how some think sometimes.

I suppose Im so used to it in australia where seeing a girl in a bikini is a common scene and not offensive at all. I guess Some westerners are offended very easily. Perhaps should reconsider where they live if so easily offended.

I can imagine the conversation with their friends.

"Yeah, we came to the Island of Phuket and got kicked out of a public park for sunbathing."

"Really? I think we'll cancel the vacation plans to Thailand and head to Canjun or Cabo. Thanks for the 'heads up'."

A strange comment to make, considering Thailand has the biggest sex trade in the world, per capita.

The cop should have suggested that they proceed to a Go-Go Bar where they'd fit right in.

Pretty soon they will have the new "Singapore" and an unemployment problem and the social ills that goes along with it.

"It's hard to imagine what justification the military could offer for sampling the DNA of an infant in Pattani"

No, it's easy to imagine.

The sample is to help connect the evidence dots, it's not and could not be for evidence itself.

The rights of the child? Well, yes, it was the child's smear of saliva that was stolen. I think bigger thefts have occurred and I am positive that the child will not miss those few dead cells.

Grow up. In 20 years, everyone's DNA will be in a database whether they gave permission or not.

They already owe massive amounts,to the Teachers benevolent fund,

(or whatever it is called),the problem is too many think been a teacher

you are nearly in the HiSo bracket,and overspend to create this image,

regards Worgeordie

That's exactly right. My wife is a teacher (and gets 15000 per month for 50 hour weeks including 24 hours class time!) and scoffs at her colleagues who all buy cars and the latest phones, and go out to expensive dinners.

She says what you say: That they need to keep up appearances, and she thinks they are stupid.

Kudos. You married a smart woman. +1

I can't believe Thai banks would lend money to someone who is so far in debt.

The inability for the debtors to budget properly is one side of it. The stupidity of the banks in handing out money to people who can't repay it is another side of it.

And then a farang with 100K baht/mo income can't get an unsecured line of credit without depositing said amount of the requested credit line into a bank account. But the screwed up banks will hand out a couple of million baht to a Thai who doesn't have enough years in their life time to pay it back. Amazing Thailand.

Obviously Chai (not his real name) doesn't know how to manage his personal finances. No one put Chai in debt but Chai.