2 hours ago, soalbundy said:

 Maybe at 45 he should consider a haircut and possibly a bath.

Looks primed and ready for the just stop oil brigade.

Looks like scum bye bye.

Edited July 10, 20233 yr by bkk6060

Like some commenters wrote : that is just his side of the story.....

3 hours ago, soalbundy said:

 Maybe at 45 he should consider a haircut and possibly a bath.

He's a climate change expert. They're exempt aren't they?

Three thoughts...

 

1)I always thought esctacy ('X') was an overated ripoff.

 

First of all, it's overpriced.  It only lasts a couple of hours.  Shrooms or acid last much longer.

 

And it's psychedelic effects are way less than shrooms or acid.

 

2) I'd be afraid, at least in America to take X tabs fearing they might be adulterated with fen.  That <deleted> is BORING and just puts you to sleep and possibly kills you by making your body forget to breathe 

 

3) X makes you feel like listening to bad music (EDM), grinding your jaw and getting dehydrated 

 

Also, isn't 45 a little old to be hanging out with gap year students at a full moon party, dude

 

 

 

Edited July 10, 20233 yr by SiSePuede419

4 hours ago, wombat said:

He sounds and looks like a drama queen using poetic license to embellish his story...there must be more to the story than he is telling...no one gets that sort of treatment for 2 tablets 

Absolutely, and no one is "forced to sleep naked" in Thai prisons, being naked is not even permitted in the showers.   Appears that he may be trying to make his story sound more sellable.

4 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

Everyone in the world knows that SEAsian prisons just like south American prisons are hell holes.

Another gem from someone who has no idea what a Thai prison is actually like.  

Reported racist troll post and a reply have been removed.

4 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

He was lucky that it was Thailand.  Imagine what he would have faced in a place like Singapore.  Now will the PI let him back since he is now a convicted narcotics offender?  Might have to go back to NZ and get a job.

As the article clearly states, he is back in New Zealand.

If you don't want to pay the price...Don't do the Crime.

It's THAT simple.

The man is a liar...or an embellisher.  Prisoners in Thai police detention jails are not starved, they are provided with adequate Thai food, they do not have all their clothes taken so that they have to sleep/be naked and neither do visitors have to bribe the police to allow them to bring food for detainees.

4 hours ago, soalbundy said:

Maybe at 45 he should consider a haircut

He has, read the OP.

4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

They wouldn't even let him take a shxt!

They did.

4 hours ago, Aussie999 said:

it still doesn't excuse the actions of the RTP

His version of the RTP's actions.

3 hours ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

5 hours ago, moe666 said:

Thats just his side of the story

So lets here from the RTP and get the CCTV footage?

For what reason, why should the police have to rebut his ridiculous claims of being "starved and kept naked" (which he, himself, contradicts in the link) when it, obviously, isn't true?   Unless you really believe that prisoners in communal cells are all naked and unfed.

3 hours ago, renaissanc said:

Thai Police can be real scum at times. There's no need to treat a prisoner like that. How different they behave when the media is filming them.

AN posters (not referring to you, of course) and newspaper reporters can be real scum at times, also.  The chances of what, allegedly, happened to him being true re the starving and forced nakedness is zero.  Anyone who has been in a similar situation here would know that.

Edited July 10, 20233 yr by Liverpool Lou

Stupid is as stupid does.

Its a hell of a story but it is possible that he is only tell some of it. Why did he need to come to LOS to trade crypto when all you need is an internet connection? and leave his family behind! But Thai media often get the story wrong and or leave out vital pieces of information so only he and the fine upstanding RTP know the full story if there is more to it. 

Edited July 10, 20233 yr by paul1804

3 hours ago, alanrchase said:

it seems he was never in prison. It appears he was fined and kept in IDC waiting to be deported.

Yes, it seems that he was kept in the police jail before getting bail until his conviction in court when he was transferred to IDC for deportation.

3 hours ago, Aussie999 said:

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

Oh dear, is that the best you can come up with, here's another saying, you shouldn't judge a book, by it's cover....

Oh, dear, is that the best you could come up with? 

Here's anther cliché for you, "You should always judge a book by it's cover" (LL).

Edited July 10, 20233 yr by Liverpool Lou

2 hours ago, Caldera said:

Embellishing his story a bit like many others... Who is he hoping to sell it to anyway, considering it's all been said?

The New Zealand Herald, perhaps, which is reporting his "story"?

Edited July 10, 20233 yr by Liverpool Lou

Banged up abroad will surely give him 45 Minutes to tell his story.

He should look at the bright side of the drama - imagine if it was Singapore or On of those Middle East countries!

 

He wouldn't have had a chance to speak to the press. 

2 hours ago, oxo1947 said:

5 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

We also know that embassies can do little

We also know that embassies can  do little ...

"We also know" that embassies cannot intervene in Thai legal proceedings to get their miscreant nationals off the hook.

2 hours ago, WHansen said:

Something doesn't sit right about this story as many have already commented.

All of that for a couple of E's ???

Theres a full moon party every month down there with thousands of people dropping them like smarties and enjoying themseves, so the local police are no strangers to finding people in possesion of a few pills.

Theres definately more to this story.

probably right

7 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

We also know" that embassies cannot intervene in Thai legal proceedings to get their miscreant nationals off the hook.

They were not intervening in any legal preceding--he had been told he could go--they (embassy) just had to arrange the plane seat. After 6 years of prison visiting I have seen this a lot--UK takes the top prize for being the worse western country IMO , even when a sentence is completed , they allow the person to be transferred to the worst prison in Thailand  (Suan Phlu) while they shuffle papers around. ---Ireland, would be one of the best, sometimes giving an allowance for their citizens to buy food and claiming them back immediately....Scandie countries are very close behind & do much the same. 

50 minutes ago, paul1804 said:

Its a hell of a story but it is possible that he is only tell some of it. Why did he need to come to LOS to trade crypto when all you need is an internet connection? and leave his family behind! But Thai media often get the story wrong and or leave out vital pieces of information so only he and the fine upstanding RTP know the full story if there is more to it. 

Doubt Thai media interviewed the guy instead just copy paste tit bits from the NZ herald which did interview him and published a very similar story.

Reported false Information post has been removed 

6 hours ago, wombat said:

He sounds and looks like a drama queen using poetic license to embellish his story...there must be more to the story than he is telling...no one gets that sort of treatment for 2 tablets 

...why make reference to his fathers occupation...I suppose there was 'an ill-wind blowing'. 

(suck it up sunshine)

37 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"We also know" that embassies cannot intervene in Thai legal proceedings to get their miscreant nationals off the hook.

They CAN…..but do not. The United States has MASSIVE arm-twisting ability. So does the UK. They choose to do nothing. They do not represent their citizens.