https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2024/06/01/hot-headed-british-man-punches-thai-village-manager-to-the-ground/

Pretty clear cut. I wish the authorities would get serious with these people.

Let the excuses for our lad begin.

8 minutes ago, Baht Simpson said:

Pretty clear cut. I wish the authorities would get serious with these people.

 

Who cares?

 

Nobody cares when a farang is assaulted by a Thai. It's applauded.

I only arrived in Thailand permanently two weeks ago.

And joined this forum to get visa advice which was top rate.

 

But this forum seems to be more about Brits behaving terribly in Thailand more than visas. Murders, running up sexual service bills and refusing to pay, assaults, sexually assaults on kids, human trafficking, working illegally

etc

 

And that is just what is reported, it is probably 100 times worse.

I have to say this entitled behavior by my fellow countrymen is very embarrassing for me. 
 

We hate immigrants behaving badly in England and are quick to criticize.
But it seems we are worse. A lot worse. 
 

what is wrong with us?? The Thais are so lovely and so many of us treat them terribly.

We should be showing gratitude and respect. 
 

I hope they deport him and all the other trouble makers. 

11 minutes ago, FruitPudding said:

21 minutes ago, Baht Simpson said:

Pretty clear cut. I wish the authorities would get serious with these people.

Who cares?

Nobody cares when a farang is assaulted by a Thai. It's applauded.

 

To justify that cobblers, FruitPudding, just one example of Thai authorities' doing that would be interesting to read.

2 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

I only arrived in Thailand permanently two weeks ago.

 

 

 

what is wrong with us?? The Thais are so lovely and so many of us treat them terribly.

We should be showing gratitude and respect. 
 

 

You have much to learn I,m afraid.....without condoning what this idiot did  

1 minute ago, petermik said:

You have much to learn I,m afraid.....without condoning what this idiot did  

Sounds like you are trying to shift the blame from the Brit attacker to the Thai who was just doing his job? 
 

Perhaps that is part of the problem with us, we can not admit when we are in the wrong? Which goes back being “entitled” 

 

The British man, named Matthew, has been living in the village with his Thai wife for several years. He is known among the security guards as a hot-headed person who frequently causes disturbances.

After being physically assaulted, I’m terrified of this foreigner because I’m old and work alone in the office. If this aggressive resident barges in to yell at me or assault me again, I won’t be able to fight back,” he said.

 

67 year old smaller Thai man. 

 

 

23 minutes ago, BigStar said:

Let the excuses for our lad begin.

 

No excuses possible....  This guys a 'scum on a short fuse'....      I'm not part of the 'anti-brit' brigade, but I am most certainly part of the 'anti-ayhole' and would happily see such characters charged with assault, serving a penalty for assault before being deported...

... When people say "Thailand doesn't need people like this", I fully agree...  his home country can deal with him after he's served whatever penalties he's given here in Thailand. 

14 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

Male baldness is associated with higher levels of testosterone

I read male baldness is associated with poor diet, main ingredient 99 baht breakfast, fish and chips. 

 

1 hour ago, roo860 said:

British man assaults Thai village manager 

Strange that these older guys are behaving like school children. 

I get the occasional nasty, aggressive, childish reply on my comments on AN forums. 

 

These angry people may be the guys affected by the low UK pension I read recently, some are only receiving 14000 baht a month. 

 

You Brits are a funny bunch. Good laffs.

24 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

 

To justify that cobblers, FruitPudding, just one example of Thai authorities' doing that would be interesting to read.

 

Who said Thai authorities applaud it?

 

It's appauded by self-hating farang on here.

 

And the authorities do their best to ignore crimes against farang as much as possible 

29 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

I have to say this entitled behavior by my fellow countrymen is very embarrassing for me. 

 

 

Just think yourself lucky that you are not a Russian ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

 

40 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

You Brits are a funny bunch. Good laffs.

Cheers, appreciate the compliment!🙃

1 hour ago, MalcolmB said:

I only arrived in Thailand permanently two weeks ago.

And joined this forum to get visa advice which was top rate.

 

But this forum seems to be more about Brits behaving terribly in Thailand more than visas. Murders, running up sexual service bills and refusing to pay, assaults, sexually assaults on kids, human trafficking, working illegally

etc

 

And that is just what is reported, it is probably 100 times worse.

I have to say this entitled behavior by my fellow countrymen is very embarrassing for me. 
 

We hate immigrants behaving badly in England and are quick to criticize.
But it seems we are worse. A lot worse. 
 

what is wrong with us?? The Thais are so lovely and so many of us treat them terribly.

We should be showing gratitude and respect. 
 

I hope they deport him and all the other trouble makers. 

Welcome to Thailand.

Just remember that only bad news sells.

100s of thousands (millions) of Brits live and visit here and nothing happens. Even when we do good things.

That does not appear in the blogs or papers.

There are racists everywhere, of all colours.

To quote Brian - 'Always look on the bright side of life'.

 

1 hour ago, BigStar said:

Let the excuses for our lad begin.

Let him off, he's British, it's a mitigating reason.

Around my end of town (western suburbs of Bangkok) I might go several months without seeing another Westerner. As for the places I visit for shopping and physicians, there are rarely any there either. Good ole Matthew here exemplifies why I like it that way and am in no hurry to socialize or even be in the same building with other Westerners. Hotheads they are.

 

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The British man, named Matthew, has been living in the village with his Thai wife for several years. He is known among the security guards as a hot-headed person who frequently causes disturbances.

 

2 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

I only arrived in Thailand permanently two weeks ago.

And joined this forum to get visa advice which was top rate.

 

But this forum seems to be more about Brits behaving terribly in Thailand more than visas. Murders, running up sexual service bills and refusing to pay, assaults, sexually assaults on kids, human trafficking, working illegally

etc

 

And that is just what is reported, it is probably 100 times worse.

I have to say this entitled behavior by my fellow countrymen is very embarrassing for me. 
 

We hate immigrants behaving badly in England and are quick to criticize.
But it seems we are worse. A lot worse. 
 

what is wrong with us?? The Thais are so lovely and so many of us treat them terribly.

We should be showing gratitude and respect. 
 

I hope they deport him and all the other trouble makers. 

If you read these forums regularly you will find the most of the problems (though not all of them) are concentrated in the areas of most tourism, such as Pattaya, Phuket, the southern islands, but rarely elsewhere.

 

Most of the farangs of all nationalities living outside of these areas cause few if any problems. They are generally married to Thai ladies and have families of their own, or are retired. They get on well with their Thai neighbours and cause no problems for anyone.

 

If you stay with the forum you will find that the majority of posters are normal, some are pedantic, some are grammar nasties and some are simply not worth bothering with.

 

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"...joined this forum to get visa advice which was top rate.

But this forum seems to be more about Brits behaving terribly..." 

The forum is "AseanNow", what makes you think that the emphasis of the forum should be on visas?

This forum changed its name a few years ago.

 

Back in 2003 when I joined the forum it was called the Thai Visa Forum and is probably still called that by some of the older members, such as me.

This is an expatriate forum so naturally its news sections tend to report incidents involving expats, and does not tend to report  the countless incidents involving only Thais which can readily be found in the Thai media. 

 

News in general, everywhere   reports the unusual and problemstic. "Man lives peacefully in his village with no problem"  does not make the news anywhere. 

1 hour ago, Tropicalevo said:

Welcome to Thailand.

Just remember that only bad news sells.

100s of thousands (millions) of Brits live and visit here and nothing happens. 

 

 That may well be true but us Brits make up less than 10% of the total number of tourists here and seem to making up 90% of these unsavory incidents sadly.

There is not even a close second.

 

 

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

I reckon that it's the retarded, narcissistic head-shaving that causes all this aggression.  It always seems to (literally) raise it's extremely ugly head. 

 

Yea , they get it from those pesky monks.  Never turn your back on one , especially when armed with an alms bowl.

8 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

 That may well be true but us Brits make up less than 10% of the total number of tourists here and seem to making up 90% of these unsavory incidents sadly.

There is not even a close second.

 

 

"there are three kinds of falsehoods, lies, damned lies and statistics"

57 minutes ago, billd766 said:

If you stay with the forum you will find that the majority of posters are normal, some are pedantic, some are grammar nasties and some are simply not worth bothering with.

 It is a very helpful forum for someone like me who is new here. 
If you can not find something you can just ask and get helpful information.

Glad I found it, especially for the visa stuff.

 

Just a few weirdos with some sort of chip on their shoulder.

Who are probably the ones causing all the trouble with their attitude. 
Easy to spot the ones with issues.

3 hours ago, BigStar said:

Let the excuses for our lad begin.

 

There are no excuses for what he did. The statement "jail and then deport" is used too often on this forum, but in this idiots case, he could do with a few weeks as the fudge at the packers shop and then on his way out of here, never to return.

3 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Murders, running up sexual service bills and refusing to pay, assaults, sexually assaults on kids, human trafficking, working illegally

 

Most murders, and sexual assault of kids often by teachers, is committed by Thais. not Brits. Someone was murdered for 20 baht last week. Be careful out there.

1 hour ago, MalcolmB said:

 That may well be true but us Brits make up less than 10% of the total number of tourists here and seem to making up 90% of these unsavory incidents sadly.

There is not even a close second.

 

 

Anyone else think MalcolmB's constant referral to US Brits is a bit of a decoy? Quite possibly a stool pigeon. Another Brit hater? Maybe even the return of Bignok..... 

5 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

But this forum seems to be more about Brits behaving terribly in Thailand more than visas. Murders, running up sexual service bills and refusing to pay, assaults, sexually assaults on kids, human trafficking, working illegally

etc

Crimes and bad behaviour is not limited to any particular section of Thailand's expat society - I suspect if you could access the actual facts, not just those reported on here, you'd find that the Russians are probably involved in far more wrong doing - of all sorts in Thailand.

 

To think of Asean Now (previously ThaiVisa) as a site where you can come for real world visa advise is fair, I think that's why a great many arrived here in the first place.  However, you need to understand that Asean Now is a commercial enterprise - its not a free visa advice site. Look behind the arguments and verbal slagging that goes on here and you may notice on every page here (and far more if you don't employ an ad blocker) a large amount of advertising. At least Asean Now hopes you notice that advertising.

 

Are you starting to understand now?  Asean Now is not a Community Help site for expats and its 'raison d'etre' is making money. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

 

So, imagine you are the site's owner, how would you attract advertisers to  your site and thereby gain income?  Advertisers want to see traffic so your job would be to produce that traffic.  How do you do that? Well you can start by providing a space where those in the know can provide 'community advice' etc. but you'd also want growth right?

 

What better way to get people talking (fighting and posting) than posting news articles that affect foreigners? Let's say that from doing so you notice that posting certain subject matter provokes additional fights and comments - would you locate more such stories and post them or less?

 

5 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

The Thais are so lovely and so many of us treat them terribly.

 

You have just arrived, let me make a suggestion - learn to read Thai.  When you have, go out and buy a Thai newspaper every day for a week.  Then, at the end of that week add up all the stories you've read that include bad behaviour by foreigners - in particular, make a note of how many of those stories include accounts of British Expats/Tourists behaving badly.

 

When you've arrived at your total, go back through your newspapers and locate all the stories of murders, fights, kiddly fiddling, thefts, assaults, drug deals etc.etc. perpetrated by those 'lovely' Thai people you mention.

 

I think you might just realise that your thinking about British Expats is about as out of date as that of those who suggest we eat '99 baht breakfasts and Fish & Chips'.

 

Thailand has quite a high 'actual' crime rate, much of which can be attributed to the lack of policing.  Crime/bad behaviour is actually rampant in some areas of Thailand- especially in deprived areas where few expats venure, let alone live. The country has very big drug problems - particularly with one called 'Yaba' which accounts for a high proportion of crime. You'll read some of those stories on here but they are a tiny proportion of what actually goes on.

 

Give some thought as to why you read so many stories on this site that involve certain branches of the expat commumity behaving badly.  If you owned a website like Asean Now and you wanted to make money, would you post news stories about Thai's or Expats?  If you noticed that posts aimed at a particular section of expats were popular, would you promote such stories or not - 'clicks = cash remember. Also keep in mind that Brits form a substantial part of Thailand's expat community.

 

As shocking as any expat focused story may seem, I guarantee you that there are ar least 100 more shocking stories regarding 'lovely' Thai nationals every week.

 

Don't be fooled by what you read, think of what lies behind it.

 

Its called 'Populism' - Trump and Johnson became leaders of their respective countries by applying the same theory. Populism does not necessarily portray the truth - it simply is what it says - popular.

1 hour ago, Keeps said:

Anyone else think MalcolmB's constant referral to US Brits is a bit of a decoy? Quite possibly a stool pigeon. Another Brit hater? Maybe even the return of Bignok..... 

Absolutely, he's giving himself away, it's our old friend GOAT, I actually liked his posts, rubbed a few folk up the wrong way which was amusing.