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Pattaya teen missing after planned meeting with foreigner

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7 hours ago, trucking said:

Plenty of idea after living for 11 years in a rural area. There are plenty of jobs around for those who are willing to work. Restaurants ,7/11s , nearest big c or tesco , pumping gas , helping in family business...all the usual jobs.

They might not offer the possibility of getting rich quick but work is there. Alternatively , they look for work in Bangkok or the industrial estates surrounding it. So much work in fact that even Burmese and Cambodians come in to fill the jobs Thais wont take.

You are living in the past. Thailand has moved on and there are more factories here than you could imagine.

You are trying to paint a picture whereby young Thai girls have a stark choice. Prostitution or a life of poverty. Simply not true.

My girlfriends two sons and their girlfriends are all working in Isaan, and they were all working in factories in Chon Buri earlier. There is always work if one wants it. Going to the trade and making more money, and paying in rent the difference, doesn't work out with much if any profit, especially if they're sending money back home to parents who are usually watching the children. Just an excuse to shirk responsibility for the children if any.

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    According to Facebook, she was found.

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    Sadly her tattoos tell a story.

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    She's rather cheap looking for a 17 yo. That's said let's hope that she's found safe and well.. . These online dating services are really dangerous for young girls. They have no idea who they are text

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5 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Whether abandoned or not, Thailand has a Universal Newborn Allowance, a monthly allowance of 600 baht

600 baht, are you kidding me, have you fathered any children in Thailand?

I've fathered 3 children, 600 baht buys you a few nappies

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33 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Good comment.

And I would add, if there was no welfare for the single mothers in the west, we would see just as many, if not more, girls working in the sex industry

Not really, as there isn't near the prostitution in the west as there is here, and jobs there you can make a lot more money. Parents in the west also aren't going to coerce their daughters to be prostitutes so they can get cash sent home like here also.

Thailand also has as much as 40% of children being raised by grandmas, whereas no other country comes even close, so it's about responsibility more than money.

There are always jobs and people to watch the children in both places. One gives you welfare , WIC and food stamps, while the other has family at home watching the children while you work, and there is always local work within a scooter drive in Thailand. Thailand doesn't enforce child support like they do in the west, which is abhorrent as that allows boys to have sex with as many naive girls as possible, creating babies, and then taking off.

49 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

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10 hours ago, NanLaew said:

Has anyone mentioned the many uneducated "freelancers" that don't work any sort of bar any more (if they ever did), that have upwards of half-a-dozen love lorn farang basement dwellers, each on the hook for 10k and up, live streaming or doing DIY videos on their brand new iPhones. They don't even have to "sleep" with anyone.

Simps ruin everything. We still had the internet in full swing when millennials were in their 20's. But this level of simping did not exist. Even the hottest girls had to earn their money.

1 minute ago, Harsh Jones said:

Simps ruin everything. We still had the internet in full swing when millennials were in their 20's. But this level of simping did not exist. Even the hottest girls had to earn their money.

Rubbish! Idiots were sending money from abroad, even when communication via Internet was in it's infancy.

Many times I was in the gym, being eyed up by girls on the phone to their sponsors, asking when the money will arrive. There was absolutely no love, loyalty nor affection.

They often just had to give it up a few time over a few weeks in order to keep the money coming in for the rest of the year.

8 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Real pensions are contributory, if they are not provided with an occupational pension there's nothing to stop them investing in their own pension their own pension. It's false to state that only government employees are provided with real pensions

We are talking about Thailand. Most Thais in the provinces live close to poverty level. Even all those with factory jobs live day by day on very modest incomes. There are no funds left to invest in an own pension.

15 minutes ago, IsmeUno said:

Rubbish! Idiots were sending money from abroad, even when communication via Internet was in it's infancy.

Many times I was in the gym, being eyed up by girls on the phone to their sponsors, asking when the money will arrive. There was absolutely no love, loyalty nor affection.

They often just had to give it up a few time over a few weeks in order to keep the money coming in for the rest of the year.

Those idiots were at least banging them a few times a year. The simps I am talking about are paying sums of money to women and getting NOTHING in return. That level of simpering beta cuckery is what has changed

At least for those sponsor simps, the blowjobs they got felt like ecstasy

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1 hour ago, IsmeUno said:

Rubbish! Idiots were sending money from abroad, even when communication via Internet was in it's infancy.

Yes imagine a gang of tarts yelling '1-2-3-Thank You' as they knocked back a thimbleful of water and charge some super simp many thousands of baht to watch this spectacle from thousands of Km away on his basement laptop! The simps got desperate in the covid days, the bars figured out survival.

3 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

600 baht, are you kidding me, have you fathered any children in Thailand?

I've fathered 3 children, 600 baht buys you a few nappies

Ok. You had the position that Thailand does not offer social assistance. I listed the social support programs and plans available. Now you are not satisfied with the amounts provided. Although not adequate by western standards, which has its generations on the dole to demonstrate the hazard of making it easier to be a lay about than a worker, it is generous when considered from the perspective of the local culture.

18 hours ago, Ray60 said:

yes, employees who worked for min. 15 years get a pension of about THB 3.000,-- per month. That's like no pension compared to us.

Yeah, but that is actually not the reality for the ones who plan a bit, and not use all the money to drink Lao Khao after work.

You have what you said already. That´s 3,000/month.

After that, there is a fund that pays out a one-time sum when the person is about 60 years old. That one cost about 500 baht per month and gives minimum 300.000baht (Min. 27 years monthly payments to qualify)

Beside that there are also funds available at Thai Smile insurance that cost around 700 baht per month and depending on how you chose to take it out gives about 7000 baht per month for 15 or 20 year. Not 100% percent sure about the time there.

18 hours ago, NanLaew said:

So is your cultural blindness.

So, for you it´s acceptable to blame lack of responsibility on cultural differences. Ok, that was a new one! 😂

No, I have no cultural blindness. I know exactly how things work here and how people think. It´s just that I think it´s wrong, but you on the other hand, defend it with a blanket reply. That´s awesome!

19 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

Hey at least she is charging for it. Most her age have HS boyfriend who gets it almost free same as teenage matayom students.

It may not be right but look at your own country I guarantee it's happening there also.

Surely! I know it happens in all countries. Just that it´s a little bit too much here.

21 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

There's a difference between being employed in a bar as a bargirl (that her sister said she didn't/couldn't do) and a freelancer going into a bar to meet foreigners.

Yeah, in your view. The result is the same, right? Also, if she can´t work in a bar, then she actually can´t freelance in a bar either, as that according to the Thai law becomes the same problem for the bar owner.

On 7/16/2026 at 8:47 AM, Deerculler said:

Sadly her tattoos tell a story.

Yeah, they surely do. Sad, at the age of only 17. Without all that make-up and the tattoos, she would actually pass as a decent, good-looking teen. I can´t get why so many have to trash down.

She's safe.

Good.

Leave her alone and MYOB.

Creeps.

44 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Ok. You had the position that Thailand does not offer social assistance. I listed the social support programs and plans available. Now you are not satisfied with the amounts provided. Although not adequate by western standards, which has its generations on the dole to demonstrate the hazard of making it easier to be a lay about than a worker, it is generous when considered from the perspective of the local culture.

The 600 baht newborn scheme is not yet universal,
still currently in trial/proposal/approval stage
and even that is literally just 2 days since trial approved
It is yet to be seen how this scheme will play out
or whether it will run out of funds before it can get going
and there will most likely be a catch somewhere if it does become universal
(anyone with a few brain cells could take an obvious guess at what conditions they would set for the 0-6 year olds to receive payments and probably be on the money)

"It is still in the proposal/approval stage and not yet implemented as a universal benefit. The current program continues with its income test." -Grok

5 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

My girlfriends two sons and their girlfriends are all working in Isaan, and they were all working in factories in Chon Buri earlier

They are the lucky ones. In my wife's local area of Khon Kaen, there are also factories, a cement plant, a Siemens operation, a municipal waterworks and electric sub-stations.. so these employment opportunities are there. But getting a job in these places takes connections (patronage). You can't just fill out an application and get hired. Doesn't work that way - at least not there - and I suspect most other areas of Issan are the same. That's why most stick to subsitence farming, do odd jobs like electric or house and car repairs as freelancers in their villages or others nearby. Others migrate to Bangkok - drive taxis, paint nails, work as waitresses or at a 7-ELEVEN. Others go to Bnagkok and Pattaya for sex work.

26 minutes ago, ronnie50 said:

They are the lucky ones. In my wife's local area of Khon Kaen, there are also factories, a cement plant, a Siemens operation, a municipal waterworks and electric sub-stations.. so these employment opportunities are there. But getting a job in these places takes connections (patronage). You can't just fill out an application and get hired. Doesn't work that way - at least not there - and I suspect most other areas of Issan are the same. That's why most stick to subsitence farming, do odd jobs like electric or house and car repairs as freelancers in their villages or others nearby. Others migrate to Bangkok - drive taxis, paint nails, work as waitresses or at a 7-ELEVEN. Others go to Bnagkok and Pattaya for sex work.

7-11's, Amazon, Lotus, Big-C, and others like that are always hiring as kids quit after getting bored with working. They got jobs at the 7-11's in her town and Amazon, along with KFC. Didn't have to wait too long. The large cities have more jobs, and competition, along with having to rent places to stay , which make up the difference instead of staying local. One of her sons just got hired by her Tesaban as a driver's helper. Kids don't want to be farmers too much these days. A few stay on the farm and take over, but they know how hard farm work is and rather work in an air conditioned place.

23 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

17-year olds can be employed in bars?

Perhaps she wanted to get out of her place and was sitting in the bar studying for her final school exams.

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2 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

Without all that make-up and the tattoos, she would actually pass as a decent, good-looking teen. I can´t get why so many have to trash down.

Because that's what the young motorbike racing street boys like. They don't care what some decrepit old holier-than-thou Western snakehead thinks. 🙂

1 hour ago, patman30 said:

The 600 baht newborn scheme is not yet universal,
still currently in trial/proposal/approval stage
and even that is literally just 2 days since trial approved
It is yet to be seen how this scheme will play out
or whether it will run out of funds before it can get going
and there will most likely be a catch somewhere if it does become universal
(anyone with a few brain cells could take an obvious guess at what conditions they would set for the 0-6 year olds to receive payments and probably be on the money)

"It is still in the proposal/approval stage and not yet implemented as a universal benefit. The current program continues with its income test." -Grok

Are you able to do your own verifications or are too lazy to check the government website? Grok is not a reliable source of information because it scrapes websites like facebook, which are not credible information sources.

The new plan that you refer to, is actually a change in the existing child care plan. The child support grant was introduced in 2015. The new plan removes some of the registration requirements to encourage enrollment. It also expanded the age group of children who qualified. In respect to the criteria, it was already in place and was working just fine for the past 10+ years.

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23 hours ago, trucking said:

Di

Yes, my wife gets her old age pension at the base rate of 600 baht a month. Her mother at 90 gets 900 plus various free aids for her incontinence. Nappies etc ( wife says free corks would be handy ). Had minor surgery for free at government hospital..

Sister in law recently spent 5 days in ITU for a total of 650 baht which was for some kind of medication she needed.

Thailand is moving in the right direction, albeit slowly. Had the Peoples Party won they had promised a big increase on government pensions.

Did they mention where they were going to get funding from?

5 hours ago, Harsh Jones said:

Those idiots were at least banging them a few times a year. The simps I am talking about are paying sums of money to women and getting NOTHING in return. That level of simpering beta cuckery is what has changed

At least for those sponsor simps, the blowjobs they got felt like ecstasy

Same same...😊 All 'simps'.

Personally, I've given people money for nothing, other than thinking they might need it. Big difference from paying anyone a retainer or whatever the cam guys are doing.

1 hour ago, fredwiggy said:

7-11's, Amazon, Lotus, Big-C, and others like that are always hiring as kids quit after getting bored with working. They got jobs at the 7-11's in her town and Amazon, along with KFC. Didn't have to wait too long.

Sure, I'm not saying the minimum wage jobs are hard to get (anywhere), but factory and more skilled jobs in places like you and I earlier mentioned, factories, warehouses, electric/water works basaed closer to home are more skilled and all pay more and thus harder to get. So many go to Bangkok, only to find it's the same story there - and as you say more competition.

3 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

So, for you it´s acceptable to blame lack of responsibility on cultural differences. Ok, that was a new one! 😂

No, I have no cultural blindness. I know exactly how things work here and how people think. It´s just that I think it´s wrong, but you on the other hand, defend it with a blanket reply. That´s awesome!

Where am I defending anything that you chose to rant and rave about?

As for your claimed ability to "know exactly how things work here and people think", it's blindingly obvious that you don't. But you think you do, so carry on.

14 hours ago, trucking said:

Everyone is entitled to the old age pension even without any work record.

Not much at 600 baht but they can claim it

Yes, but what can you do with 600 baht a month? It's as good as nothing.

10 hours ago, vangrop said:

Wake up, my friend.

I think it's you who needs to wake up.

10 hours ago, vangrop said:

Most of these sex tourists are low-class workers who come to show off in Pattaya for two weeks thanks to their paid vacation.

Rubbish.

If that was the case, why is there a Hilton Hotel and other major international chain hotels in Pattaya?

10 hours ago, vangrop said:

If she decides to go back to the looser's home country, she'll be in deep trouble. She'll end up in some Thai massage parlor to make ends meet, since the guy can't afford it.

Rubbish.

Even if she does end up in a massage parlor in the west, it's a lot more money than what she gets working in a bar in Pattaya.

Why do you think the Thai girls go to Korea, Japan, Singapore, the UAE etc? Do you think it's for a "holiday?"

10 hours ago, vangrop said:

Forget about winning the lottery, these are fairy tales

Rubbish.

I know a few guys who have taken bar girls back to their home country.

Some of the girls have legitimate jobs, albeit lower paid jobs, but some have never worked a day since. Yes, early retirement, in their 20's.

Don't kid yourself. For some, getting a farang on the hook is like winning the lottery. Even more so if they have a baby.

8 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Good comment.

And I would add, if there was no welfare for the single mothers in the west, we would see just as many, if not more, girls working in the sex industry

And I would also add, it's the various Family Law Courts in different western countries that keep these women out of prostitution, and push the ex husband / father into it. 😂

22 hours ago, Ray60 said:

yes, employees who worked for min. 15 years get a pension of about THB 3.000,-- per month. That's like no pension compared to us.

They also get a lump sum payout from GSB, which could be 1-2 million, provided they contributed to that fund as well.

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

Where am I defending anything that you chose to rant and rave about?

As for your claimed ability to "know exactly how things work here and people think", it's blindingly obvious that you don't. But you think you do, so carry on.

Exactly in the comment below, where you state cultural blindness for realizing that parents don´t take responsibility. However, you seem to have a hard time understanding what your expression really means. You go on thinking what you see fit. Have a great day!

23 hours ago, NanLaew said:

So is your cultural blindness.

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