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I like it! They should have a wax museum dedicated to Corruption in Thailand: Naming Names, and Kicking Butt. Perhaps video too.

The BIB shakedowns at roadblocks. Backroom deals between politicians and corporate executives. Tea money passing hands in the Land Office. Mafia and BIB collaboration on the beaches of Phuket to shakedown jetski rental victims. The Wall of Lost Face, naming the names of those convicted for corruption. One could make a pretty extensive exhibit.

Sounds like a nice guy, leaving the kids and wife in the car for an hour whilst he's off eating dinner with friends. More Thainess.

Looks very similar to me to when I see foreigners (many many times) bringing their Thai ladies into a restaurant for him to eat with his foreign friends. ...she is usually left totally alone and ignored, while he and his friends spend their time laughing and chatting together. Better he just let her go off with her own friends than sitting there bored and alone.

My condolences to the family and friends of the two deceased.

Personally, I can not count how many times I've taken Thai family and friends to dinner, or attended all Thai gatherings, where I was basically ignored, except for the occasionally Thai who comes by to practice the one line of English that they know: "Hello, good morning", regardless of the time of day.

In the over eight years that I've lived here in the LOS, I can count on my right hand the number of times that I have taken my wife out and chatted away with other farangs with her sitting out of the scope of the conversation. And interestingly enough, all the farangs where friends of her's before I met them. Although she speaks darn good English for a Thai, she can't keep up when we switch to talking regional American or British at a fast pace. And she has never complained once, on the contrary, she says she'd like to see me hook up with mutual farang friends more often. It's compromise and it keeps the relationship stable. But on the flip side, it's very seldom that I hook up with farangs who don't have a native Thai G/F or wife with them. Then the farangs talk English, and Thais talk Thai, sometimes we all talk together and have a good time. It's all relative to your perspective and experience, and from my experience, I'm not seeing what you're seeing. Very rarely. Generally tourists with a Thai girl who is their escort while on vacation. In the expat community? I very rarely see anything like that.

Did you ever stop to think how often those same Thai ladies take their escort, B/F, or husband into a restaurant or gathering or their village where they, if non-Thai speakers, are left out in the cold? In any good relationship, it's compromise. Quid pro quo: "something for something." Reciprocity. Google it if you don't understand. You and I obviously live in the same country, but also live in different worlds. I'm not knocking what you're saying, I'm just saying that that is not my experience as an expat.

Carbon monoxide got into the passenger compartment, probably via the rear booth.

Heard this happened over 30 years ago in Singapore to a couple who had sex with the air-con on and engine running.

Humm. Sort of a new twist on erotic asphyxiation. RIP to the unlucky couplers couple.

Carbon Monoxide (CO) is not your friend. Binds with hemoglobin so O₂ doesn't. RIP.

Mirabel is dog friendly and quite a nice place to enjoy a couple of beers. Food and drink are a little on the pricey side, but what the hell you only live once right, unless you are Buddhist that is. Only a couple of Beagles there who didn't show any interest in my dog, but will probably go again just for the ambience.

Glad you were able to find a place. Yeah, you'd only have a problem if your pet was a raccoon. Lol

Get another dog. I've always have had two or three pets, when I've kept pets. Having just one pet is just asking to have a maladjusted pet. Dogs and cats need to socialize. Dog parks? I've never really like them because there is always 'alpha' dogs in the mix, and then you have to get in the middle of the fray. Then the next thing you know, the dog owners are having it out.

My dogs socialize together at home, and get to be alpha dogs in their own territory which is bounded by a wall and gate. My dog do not roam. They have about 2/3 of a rai of their own. Unlike my Thai neighbors, I consider that to be being a responsible pet owner. I'll hold on to that part of my Western culture. Our immediate Thai neighbors next door do the same. How un-Thai. Good people. All other dogs in the neighborhood roam. We've had four killed withing 50 meters of our house on the narrow road passing our house. Thai driving 60 to 80+ kph on a road where the top speed should be maybe 40 kph. Just another reason my dogs don't roam.

My wife says she will take care of me. I believe her.No plan B at the moment.

Same here. If my wife passes before me, and I still have my mental faculties, I have a nice home in the rural North and I know my wife's extended family well. I have a Usufruct contract in place, and my step son and I get along like father and son. I can hire a member of the family to care for me.

Of course there is the Pattaya option, although I wouldn't have a condo with my 'caretaker' above the second floor.

Do they speak fluent English or other Western language?

Did they graduate from Uni? If so, what major?

Did they graduate from Technical College? If so, what emphasis?

I suppose a lawyer can figure it out for you.

Just asking(!): does anyone has practical experience with one of those private investigators?

I'm thinking the same thing. Don't hire a lawyer, hire a PI to dig into what is 'really' happening. PIs work with discretion.

If true, don't worry too much about your son; family takes care of family in Thailand. It's a hell of a lot better than the West where Child Protective Services gets involved and your kid ends up in the foster care system which is a nightmare. A ward of the State instead of being care for my family or even close friends of the family. That is one of the positives that Thailand has going for it, imho.

Where in Thailand?

Moar War!!!

Invest Long: Defense Stocks

Suicide

That's the last thing I'd ever do............................

That's a good thing to write into your will. "If I die of suicide or murder, this will is null and void."

Imagine the neighbour who just agrees to kill a man for 20k in the hand ..... And another 20k after he's dead...

Probably a man he knew fairly well too if they lived next door for the past few years ....

Hopefully they all get life in the most uncomfortable prison Thailand has to offer

It wasn't that long ago that this would get you 15 rounds from a table mounted Heckler-Koch machine gun to the back. They still do lethal injection though. If I had my choice between life in prison in the Bangkok Hilton and lethal injection, I'd opt for the latter.

I would prefer machine gun myself - lethal injection isn't always quick and painless as described

Not everyone dies immediately, I saw an interview with aa death row priest and the way he described the process was chilling.... The first injections paralysed your body but you're brain is still awake when the next injection is delivered and it the lethal stuff burns like a fire through your veins.... Terrifying

They use to use phenobarbital which is sufficient enough to kill you by itself. Then a paralytic so you don't thrash around. And then potassium chloride to stop the heart. It's the potassium chloride that is painful from a discussion I had with a doctor.

Now countries like the US want us to believe that phenobarbital isn't manufactured in the US and EU supplier won't supply. So instead, they use intervenous midazolam which is used in conscious sedation. The average intervenous dosage for a colonoscopy is 5mg IV push. In lethal injection they use 50mg to 200mg. The trouble with midazolam is that you can and do wake up. How many heroin junkies die each year. God, just shoot the convicted up with a lethal dose of heroin and call it a day.

Regarding the machine gun. They botched an execution a number of years back. A woman was being executed for, how ironic, having her husband killed. They strapped her up, but decided to only use 10 bullets instead of 15 because she was a woman. A witness said that when they took her down, she had a massive hole in her chest. Took her out an laid her in a morgue table and went back to polish off another two convicts. Suddenly, the lady comes back to life and tries to get up. One of the prison officials started to try to strangle her. <head shake>. They decide to tie her back up and shoot her with another 15 rounds. God, what a mess!

What I don't understand is why countries that promote capital punishment don't just use an air-tight room where the air (O₂) is sucked out and replaced with a pure nitrogen or helium atmosphere or other inert gas. Easy, clean, painless, and not messy. It's like, those who think up capital punishment go for the most morbid means possible. The world is full of sadistic, psychopathic 'leaders', who are just about as mad as the criminal element they wish to dispose of via capital punishment.

But it you want to go messy', do what the Italians did in WWII. Tie the convicted to a chair backwards, and use a firing squad of three to four soldiers with high powered rifles to shoot them in the back of the head. It pretty well vaporized the back and top of the head. Messy? Quite. Did the convicted feel a thing? I seriously doubt it.

If it was me and I had a choice. A shot of heroin and then suck the air out of the room and replace it with helium. That would be a rather pleasant way to exit stage right.

She was able to have him killed for 20k

Frightening....

That's double the normal hit free of 10K.

10K when I first got here, but with inflation, obviously the price has since doubled, along with a number of items that I buy in the market.

C'mon already!..another greedy witch with a stupid plan that probably came from some dumb soap opera she was watching fails again...I'm sure she will be happy behind bars now.

how they allow all that Violence on Thai Soaps is beyond me, plus the Drama, Which TG'S bring into their life.

I'm not generally disturbed by much, but the thematic violence on Thai Soaps is quite over-the-top. How much of that do the average clones have to watch before they actually believe that that is normal behavior. On the bright side, the new generation are addicted to their smartphones and probably don't watch much TV.

Imagine the neighbour who just agrees to kill a man for 20k in the hand ..... And another 20k after he's dead...

Probably a man he knew fairly well too if they lived next door for the past few years ....

Hopefully they all get life in the most uncomfortable prison Thailand has to offer

It wasn't that long ago that this would get you 15 rounds from a table mounted Heckler-Koch machine gun to the back. They still do lethal injection though. If I had my choice between life in prison in the Bangkok Hilton and lethal injection, I'd opt for the latter.

Where is the TV member who was tossing out the "hate-speech", "racist", and "Thai-bashing" rhetoric when those in the TV community were saying that this looked sort of suspect and fishy. And then the police arrest her as a suspect.

Why do people say what they say: Because we've seen this play out before on more than one occasion. Where there's smoke.....there's fire.

Well, Hill. Just fire up your server again and send everyone in the US a personal message.

Fun until it becomes like Argentina circa 1998 - 2002.

And that terrific exchange rate is writing on the wall that Venezuela is possibly a stone's throw from economy collapse, like Argentina.

Not a place you'd want to be when

Haggis? Yum.

Why stay in Thailand if you're sick and tired of your fellow expats. Feel free to go home.¹

¹Caveat: I really didn't mean go home, because honestly, I think everyone has their right to their opinion regarding living in the LOS without being told that if they don't like it they can go home. That particular line is old, tired, worn-out, and rather dry - but it's easy for rather simplistic people to spit out instead of engaging their brains.

I'd expect nothing less from the Nobel Peace Prize winner.

"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength"

-INGSOC

Nothing's changed here in the last 40 years.

The LOS has a lot of coast. How about desalination plants and pump water to up country reservoirs. At the rate it's going, the Mekong will be a small stream by the time it gets to the ocean.

Everyone has to be on the same page , it is not good enough to have villagers coming down with heavy metal complications , for too long mining in Thailand has been allowed to operate under the blind eye approach akin to third world standards , the Mines department along with the Health and Environmental need to have more powers to order remedial upgrades, to stop or close operations for breaches of the mining or environmental act , the mining act in itself is out of date and I dare say the environment act could do with a makeover , concession allocations by the Government is subject to corruption through departmental bribes for favourite status in concession allocation.

The government could always attempt to spin it like fluoride in the US.

"Sure, mercury is good for you, it stops....hummm, intestinal worms. It should be in the water supply throughout Thailand."