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hmmmm ...... what medicine was near the sofa ? where was his mobile & wallet ? where was his thai gf ?

too many suspicious gaps .... 51 years old is not a dying age .... if he was in his 70's yes .. but not 50's.

A proper sherlock Holmes you are eh?.

R.I.P.

He ain't no SH, just a bored individual with no other outlet for his fantasies and skewed opinions.

As has been posted here previously, and by myself on other and similar threads, this poor man's family and friends may well be reading this very thread in the hope of finding new and relevant information.

Please show some restraint when posting you're mindless and irrelevant musings, they are neither interesting or funny and contribute nothing to the dialogue surrounding this tragic event.

Commiserations and condolences to his family and friends...

Unfortunately, being Politically Correct is not one of my personalty traits. I, like many others, will probably never alter our opinions because the victim's family might stumble onto this forum. I assume that they are grown individuals who can separate the wheat from the chafe. If not.....

I try to avoid commenting but I could not resist on this. Have a look at the top 10 Cause of death in the world stats from WHO, I did. No where can I find death by Thai GF on the list. Yet you dullards who choose to be here consistently harp back to the same subject. Please please go home -if you need a lone for the ticket (one way of course) I am sure there are loads of us who do not normally bother to comment who would chip in.

Now I know your tired old fingers are itching to hit the key board and star trolling me but before you do you should remember one thing, your thoughts and ideas are so limited and of such little importance that I really do not care.

Have a great day

Perfectly stated. Thank you Trexpat.

Its not perfectly stated at all, its a poorly thought out and ridiculous example. How does posting a chart of the top 10 causes of global death relate to the phenomena in Thailand of girlfriends having their boyfriends and husbands bumped off?

Any sensible person would know that it would not show on this chart. I will briefly explain why for you. Thailand has around 70 million people, the whole world 7 billion so Thailand only has 1% of the global population. Now consider how many people are murdered under the above circumstances and it should be pretty obvious to everyone it could never appear in the top 10 causes of global death.

i would say that it is an issue in Thailand judging purely by the amount of times i have read about suspicious deaths here where a family member is suspected. By the way, deaths by poor safety standards does not appear in the top 10 global causes of death either but i suppose you would consider no improvement needed there?

As I said before, I won't lose any sleep over this but I do consider myself informed and i will be cautious about who i chose as a partner. Both of you can trudge on blindly pretending this issue does not exist and good luck to you...

You did notice that murder and being the victim of 'collateral damage' (think: Hellcat Missile), or for that matter actually being the intended target, in the overly numerous "hot-zones" and war-zones around the world aren't listed on the chart. Violent death around the globe is an ugly fact. Guess we need a different chart, imho.

hmmmm ...... what medicine was near the sofa ? where was his mobile & wallet ? where was his thai gf ?

too many suspicious gaps .... 51 years old is not a dying age .... if he was in his 70's yes .. but not 50's.

My best friend, 6'4'', semi-athletic, not over-weight, 42 years old, keels over after church on a Sunday morning and died on the spot. Cardiac arrhythmia. It happens.

When your button get's pushed, it's time to go. Age is irrelevant. The future in uncertain.

This is another fine example of Thai police and their investigative prowess. Why not leave the drugs where they are and post a few officers around the area in hopes that the

drug dealers will come to pick up their booty . Then they get to arrest the scum.

But no They want to show everyone how well they do by confiscating the stash

Keystone cops all the way SO SAD They never will get it will they

You do realize that most Thais can't see far enough into the future to make plans like that. That's an observation and not a condemnation. It's just culturally ingrained.

I'm thinking some drug smuggler is either going to have a hot-lead infusion, or needs to leave the country for good.

Just contact Acer using their website.

Fill in your details and ask them for the product key. If they don't have it, then you have an illegal installed version.

Normally doing a recovery Windows never asks for the product key !!!

What's frustrating is that computers bought in Thailand generally need to be registered on the Thai version of the computer manufacturers site. When I tried to register my Acer on the US site, it didn't recognize the serial number or my compute model (obviously my model isn't sold in the US). If you go to the Acer Thai site, well it's in Thai. Unless you read Thai, good luck on finding a link to an English translation. So trying to contact Acer US for a computer sold in Thailand will probably yield mixed results. If you are able to contact an English speaking Help Desk rep on the Acer Thai site, best of luck. Dealing with any 'Help Desk' in Thailand is about as fun as walking though hot coals and broken glass.

But in saying that

I have installed Linux Mint 17.2 on all my Computers

to get away from Microsoft steeling all my Data

No need for an Anti virus But I have one install just in case "clamtk"

I have learned recently that Anti viruses on Windows are only 20% efficient anyway

Linux Mint is free easy to install works just like Windows 7 comes complete with everything the Average user would need

http://www.linuxmint.com/

How does this help the OP get his key back....

It give the OP other options for running his computer, especially if he finds out his system was pre-loaded with pirated or illegal software, and continuing to run it is not a good option.

Running a totally free version of Linux is an alternative option.

But if he has a legal copy of Windows 8 and a product key somewhere on his system, then he can ignore this information. If not.....

But in saying that

I have installed Linux Mint 17.2 on all my Computers

to get away from Microsoft steeling all my Data

No need for an Anti virus But I have one install just in case "clamtk"

I have learned recently that Anti viruses on Windows are only 20% efficient anyway

Linux Mint is free easy to install works just like Windows 7 comes complete with everything the Average user would need

http://www.linuxmint.com/

clamtk Linux AV. Haven't hear of that before. What's your impression. Has it ever found a virus on your system running Mint 17.2?

But in saying that

I have installed Linux Mint 17.2 on all my Computers

to get away from Microsoft steeling all my Data

No need for an Anti virus But I have one install just in case "clamtk"

I have learned recently that Anti viruses on Windows are only 20% efficient anyway

Linux Mint is free easy to install works just like Windows 7 comes complete with everything the Average user would need

http://www.linuxmint.com/

The cool thing about software like Linux Mint is that you can choose what User Interface you would like to use. These User Interface implementations don't radically change over time. I mean really? Don't you just love having Microsoft change the entire Window that you see to something completely new each time they put out a new release of <gag> MS Windows or other MS Software like Office.

Buy a cheap computer and load Linux Mint on it to start. And then research Linux and the different distributions, user interfaces, and software packages. Buy a Linux of Dummies book or use the Internet. Google Linux Mint, go to the official site and read about it.

Or plan to go purchase a legal copy of MS Windows, MS Office, and all the other copyrighted software that your local IT store pre-loaded on your system. Like I said in my previous post, those days are coming to an end.

Just contact Acer using their website.

Fill in your details and ask them for the product key. If they don't have it, then you have an illegal installed version.

Normally doing a recovery Windows never asks for the product key !!!

With Thailand's present government agreeing to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership, retail stores selling systems with pirated copies of the Windows OS will soon come to an end.

The TPP basically allows corporations to completely bypass a country's government and beat the consumer and small/medium business to a pulp using your host country's judicial system, but by having that judicial system enforce laws and sanctions that your host country's legislative branch never enacted into law. And the TPP agreement is completely opaque: You can not read it; you're legislators or MPs, in many cases, can not read it. The only individuals privy to the TPP are upper level corporate executives and upper level government officials within each country's executive branch. This is corpocracy which is enacted to strip the individual in order to enrich the corporate and government aristocracies.

Maybe, just maybe about 5% or less of the population that will be impacted by this trade agreement understand exactly how Machiavellian this truly is. Everyone else: sheep to be sheared. But it's a US corporate wet dream come true. The countries that signed off on the TPP need to build more jails and poor-houses.

So, educate yourself, and start learning how to use legal, free software such as Linux. Get rid of all your illegal software. Stop downloading copyrighted torrents. Big changes are coming down the line.

And educate yourself. Start here to understand more fully how the TPP will impact the computer industry and consumers:

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp or Google "EFF TPP Issues"

Once the TPP is in effect, clean up your act. Ignorance will not be a legal defense.

Why do you think Microsoft give Windows 10 away for free? Think about it for a couple of minutes.

Learn to use Linux. If you need Windows to run legacy Windows applications, learn to use a virtual machine within Linux running Windows 7 or learn to use Windows emulation software. Buy a copy of Windows 7 so you're legal. When support runs out on Windows 7, you can still run your windows software, but it's pretty much in a 'sandbox' and risk and damage from hacks will be limited and repairable.

Not just no, but hell no.

I've got 4 computers, and even the 11 year old Dell laptop will get the job done, especially considering I'm running Linux on it instead of, <gag>, Windows. And none of my computers have been expensive or top-of-the-line. Moore's law and economics: Five years from it's initial manufacture date, an Acer computer that I choose to purchase on the cheap in the future, will be 4 times as powerful and 1/4 the price of the one manufactured 5 years earlier. I don't need top end equipment - it's all relative to what I have now.

Macs are a nice machine if you have the money to shell out for one. You'd think that they'd be cheaper considering the slave labor the dirt-cheap, cost of manufacturing in China. But, executives and stockholder need their millions $$$ and billions $$$$$$. And debt-ridden consumers need the latest and greatest, never being happy with what they have already.

Enjoy standing in line with the other clones. If you're in the US, if you wait until Nov 27th, Black Friday, maybe you can club, stomp, and fight your way into a 'big box store' and get to one of the two or three 2015 iMacs on sale.

Black Friday: the day I sleep in and then wake up and have a turkey sandwich breakfast. Then I wait until Dec 24th to do my Christmas shopping with all the other guys who know exactly what they want to buy, walk into the store, make their purchase, get it wrapped, and go have a micro-brew and a game of pool with the guys.

Interesting. In Thailand you really do have to be careful. There are many back-street places, and I have seen two people with very bungled face and nose jobs.

I have had upper eyelids, bingo wings, man boobs and two tummy lipos, none done here. The final result doesn't show for about 6 months anyway. They always do a before and after series of cam shots. Some will take a shot of more gory bits done when you are asleep, as "proof". I had a neuroma in my foot done here, and I was given the proud photo of it (ok, it's not really plastics, it's neurosurgery really)...a small white maggot on a piece of gauze.

The best plastics guy I knew was an Italian in Marbella. The best plastic surgery is subtle, an art form. This guy could change your face without making it obvious. My eyes (upper bags/fat hooded owl) still look great after 15 years thanks to that man.

I once stood very close to Sophia Loren at Valencia airport. She was 70 but obviously she had had the best work. Flawless but not looking like a 20 year old girl. A terrible example was the spanish Duchess of Alba, who died recently. Her face had been carved like a turkey. Too many facelifts.

Eddy

Complete flawless, the same as brilliant white teeth don't look natural. I think the best is if it looks like the person had no surgery and looks naturally.....

I know some elderly Thai women who pretend to be 20. They look like an alien designs a computer generated face. You can't see anything wrong, but still it somehow doesn't look human.

You just described Joan Rivers to a tee. Have you ever bought a piece of fruit that looks exquisite on the outside, but once you cut into it, you see the reality? Wax, preservatives, and a nice buff job on the outside, but inside it's degenerated and not something that you'd eat.

Oh, apologies. Just realized that the photo in the 1st post is the "before" photo. Nice work, indeed...

I was thinking along the same brow lines. Dude, you were a handsome guy in his fifties. Why waste the money and risk the surgery? Really. That 'before' picture of you looked great.

But, if you're happy, well, that's good. I won't fault anyone for trying to find happiness in their own way.

Virtually everyone I know who has had plastic surgery ends up looking - odd, fake, altered.

Self-acceptance and acceptance that everything and everyone changes - we get older. So I don't look like I did when I was thirty, who I'm I trying to impress by altering my looks? I'd rather just age right along with my wife. Acceptance.

Vanity will screw your mind up in the long run. Look at Joan Rivers - she didn't look right - sort of freakish. Angelina Jolie looked beautiful, but then did something that now makes her look - sort of freakish.

There is a natural beauty in aging and the acceptance of aging.

But, it's a personal choice. It's not a road I'd venture down as vanity is a dead-end. But all the same, best of luck with your decision. But once that cosmetic work starts to deteriorate, and it will, then what?

Buy a copy of the book Thailand Fever, then scan the book until you find relevant information pertaining to "The Silence". After you grasp the cultural background, then find the corresponding section about how farang deal with problems.

Basically we get angry, blow off steam, and it's over and done with;

Thais get angry, brood, and either get over it, or they don't and eventually 'explode'.

My wife is now more like a farang. She'll get angry, and instead of sitting on it in silence, she'll just blow off steam - but I usually have to start that process. It usually starts when I ask her, "What are you so pissed about...", and then she has permission, so to speak, to get angry and vocal. An hour or two later, we're all good. She also knows that when I 'go silent' to simply leave me alone. I 'go silent' when I have personal problems I'm trying to deal with, and I need quiet time. She understands that. Your wife may interpret that from a Thai perspective and assume you are angry at her. From our farang perspective, it's simply part of our independent nature to work alone to solve problems. If I go quiet, I'll eventual tell my wife why, and that I need 'my own space and some time for myself to think'. She understands. That's compromise.

You both need to come to grips with the differences of your respective cultures, and then talk and find ways to compromise and accept each other's cultural oddities.

Compromise is the key word.

Best of luck/Chokdii

But, but, but...it was a heart attack, right? So much for the TV apologists OP-bashing, 'Thai bashing' OPs.

I love Thailand, but I'll point out the problems here just as fast as I'll point out the problems of any other country, especially my own. Problems need to have the light of day shined on them. Hiding them in the dark doesn't get them fixed.

Safety: a country-wide issue in many areas.

Lying to save face: a cultural issue

Inability to accept responsibility: a cultural issue

...and the list goes on.

Ban metal kitchenware.

I see they have dusted this off and started rattling the cages again. There assessment is much akin to Thai Visa. Biased opinion. Lot of difference between the Buk and an Sukhoi Su-24. Their story has as many holes in it as the plane's fuselage. Gotta keep banging and banking on the same, tired narrative.

Start putting freaking patrol cars on the road and pull people over for moving violations.

At the present moment, Thais are trained that a police cruiser with it's sirens blaring and lights flashing means VIP being escorted.

What they need to be trained to react to is that a police cruiser with it's sirens blaring and lights flashing means 'pull you butt over to the side of the road'.

Afraid the LOS has a ways to go...can't really blame the public. I've never seen a patrol car pull anyone over. Always road blocks.

I'd walk 15 miles and eat ants for a Camel!

Filtered or unfiltered?

When the Camels Cigarette advertising slogan, "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", was famous there was no such thing as a filtered cigarette.

Should have been, "I'd walk a mile for a coffin nail."

Better than ants surviving on a 62 year-old lost Australian man.

"Humm. Tasty. I've always been fond of these British transplants. Much more flavorful than the indigenous Aborigines."

The irony is that the Judge who sentenced him probably went home that night and poured himself a large scotch.

Did you know ! That the country that consumes the highest amount of Johnny Walker scotch second only to the USA is..........Saudi Arabia. It is a huge business smuggling it in for the Saudi dignitaries and well heeled locals.

Had a mate whose wife was a senior nurse for the Royal's at the Royal hospital. She said all of them without exception and even moreso the Royal women were always in hospital being treated for chronic alcoholism.

Last time I was there I was thirsty and went into the supermarket and bought some red grape juice. At checkout the Indian guy said 'oh sir you have forgotten your sugar and yeast' !! (Which were conveniently placed on the shelf right next to red and white grape juice!

I guess his real crime must have been selling it or providing others with it outside the compound. At his age I don't fancy he will survive a 3 year stint in that jail. Very sad but a barbaric country. Hey wait a minute aren't Saudi now holding the Chair for the UN Human Rights Committee? What a bloody joke.

Yep. What do all the Saudi princes do when they get to Las Vegas in their private jets? Play mahjong, drink tea, and socialize with modestly dressed escorts whom they send home by 10PM so that they can go to bed early and maintain their celibacy? Oh, and pray 5 times a day in the middle of the casino to demonstrate their piousness. I'm sure that's what they do. If they didn't, they'd surely get 5000 lashes when they returned to the land of sand, oil, whips, severed hands and death by stoning. Very modern in a 13th century sort of way.

This man has brought this problem onto his own head.

Allegedly he has lived/worked in Saudi for 25 years so he should know what the "rules" are.

The Saudis are remarkably tolerant of Western lifestyles as long as it is kept within the gated compounds where most expats live.

By transporting alcohol he knowingly broke Saudi Law.

But their own go to farangland to do what they can't do in their own country...Even hi-so's..........

Seems similar to expats in LOS.

lets stay by the whipping, what do the whippers wear ? lack perhaps and can you choose to whipped by a woman of your own choosing, if you are going to be whipped try and get some enjoyment out of it.

Mark Mothersbaugh should be the defacto Sheikh of Saudi Arabia:

Crack that whip

Give the past a slip

Step on a crack

Break your momma's back

When a problem comes along

You must whip it

Before the cream sets out too long

You must whip it

When something's goin' wrong

You must whip it

Now whip it

Into shape

Shape it up

Get straight

Go forward

Move ahead

Try to detect it

It's not too late

To whip it

Well, whip it good

Written by Mark Mothersbaugh, Mark Allen/Gerald Casale

There is something seriously wrong with that country. At what point did God say, "Prosper, multiply, and be ye all sadomasochist psychopaths in my name."