BTITmaker

Howard get booted out of Thailand ??

Your source is?

Well, for starters the only other raw/uncut video available for viewing at bigtroubleinthailand ... just take a look from 1:35 and tell me if that's not precisely the same audio as when JJ produces the gun? Except at that point the Marines were trying to prevent a fight between JJ and one of the Marines. I know because I was there. The source is the horse's mouth. I like my reality as real as it possibly can be - for any number of reasons but especially because it can result in the arrest of people, as we have seen, and because you the viewer - yep, even Bravo viewers - deserve better. And I think Thailand should be treated fairly too.

Well, depends on how selective your hearing is ... or how pro-JJ your hearing aid is.

But in the newly-released raw footage JJ produces the gun at 2:25 and the audio is very different to that which was broadcast.

In the broadcast version you can hear the Marines are nervous/frightened, they're calming JJ, apologising. It's different audio and replaced the original/genuine audio to make the scene more dramatic, which JJ in the circumstances could have done without, given his arrest etc and international shaming. Depends, I guess, how real you like your reality. But does lend credence to the Thai authorities claims the whole thing was faked and detracts from the credibility of the documentary. Doesn't matter what you think about JJ, but the fake audio actually came from earlier on in proceedings when JJ WASN'T armed.

London-based Vera Productions, makers of Big Trouble In Thailand, faked the sound on the JJ gun scene, giving credence to the allegations of the Thai authorities that the entire confrontation was set up - the audio of the Royal Marines' reaction to JJ producing the gun was false, as evidenced by the original footage just released at bigtroubleinthailand on youtube ... just compare the two clips.

We're reaching halfway point - Episode 4 of Big Trouble In Thailand airs on Monday ... thanks everyone for your stamina and the interest you've shown in the series. BTIT is going down a storm in the UK - Bravo's highest-rated programme with hundreds of thousands of people watching on TV and online ... and any fan of BTIT is a fan of Thailand!

In this week's show ...

A Bangkok Airways plane crashes into a control tower on Samui, killing the pilot - local Tourist Police Volunteers Linda and Louise and and the British Consul respond. Brit passengers are injured, some tell of their miraculous escape. Programme contains never-before-seen video and photographs of the immediate aftermath and rescue effort. As usual, Thai Tourist Police seen doing an excellent job.

It's Songkran in Chiang Mai and mayhem on the roads - we're on the scene of another DUI incident involving backpackers on a motorbike - hurt, under the influence and no helmets. And we visit a motorbike 'graveyard' - filled with the mechanical remains of fatal accidents - with Chiang Mai Tourist Police Volunteer and sausage and bacon king Rob, originally from Manchester.

BTIT goes out on river patrol with the tooled up border police in Chiang Rai, armed to the teeth and looking for drug smugglers - this week's Thai jail inmate who gives us his account of life in the monkey house is Michael Connell from Manchester - he's still doing a lot of time in Bangkwang for drug smuggling.

And what would Big Trouble In Thailand be without TPA Howard Miller who finds himself in the middle of a lively punch-up between a Thai man and a group of deaf tourists. DO NOT RESIST US!! Tourist Police Assistant Paul Harrison is also in this week's programme, responding to a fire at an apartment block in Pattaya.