Sonhi Shooting: Concern About Phuket Pad Concert

[alanmorison]

Anxiety about the weekend PAD concert on Phuket intensified today with the shooting of yellow-shirt leader Sondhi Limthongkul, who was due to paly a key role.

A group of men in a pickup opened fire, spraying the vehicle with bullets, as Khun Sondhi, the best known leader of the yellow shirts, made his way to his newspaper and television office in Bangkok about 5am this morning.

Organiser's of Saturday's concert in Phuket City said security would be dramatically increased. Khun Sondhi's wounds put him in hospital, along with his driver.

Details at: http://phuketwan.com/tourism/timely-pad-ph...000-sell-10999/

[billythehat]

Anxiety about the weekend PAD concert on Phuket intensified today with the shooting of yellow-shirt leader Sondhi Limthongkul, who was due to paly a key role.

A group of men in a pickup opened fire, spraying the vehicle with bullets, as Khun Sondhi, the best known leader of the yellow shirts, made his way to his newspaper and television office in Bangkok about 5am this morning.

Organiser's of Saturday's concert in Phuket City said security would be dramatically increased. Khun Sondhi's wounds put him in hospital, along with his driver.

Details at: http://phuketwan.com/tourism/timely-pad-ph...000-sell-10999/

All well and good for the report, Al, but what are your thoughts/comment on the matter?

So the party is making the 728km jump down from Bangers for the next meeting of great minds. The line about the event “boosting tourism” was, ahem, interesting, notwithstanding that many western folk go back home after the Easter break, except of course the folk from nearby SEA countries.

Unlikely that the world media will grab this one, like the recent Bangkok ‘Circus Maximus’, unless any tourists are involved should anything kick-off.

[chiang mai]

It's called Bangkok for goodness sake, not bangers. Nobody refers to London as londers, Manchester as manners or Liverpool as livers! What's so difficult about that?

All well and good for the report, Al, but what are your thoughts/comment on the matter?

So the party is making the 728km jump down from Bangers for the next meeting of great minds. The line about the event "boosting tourism" was, ahem, interesting, notwithstanding that many western folk go back home after the Easter break, except of course the folk from nearby SEA countries.

Unlikely that the world media will grab this one, like the recent Bangkok 'Circus Maximus', unless any tourists are involved should anything kick-off.

[LivinginKata]

It's called Bangkok for goodness sake, not bangers. Nobody refers to London as londers, Manchester as manners or Liverpool as livers! What's so difficult about that?

Bangers is a well used term by many visitors and local ex-pats. Anyway this is way off topic, and I hope that's the end to it...

[chiang mai]

It's called Bangkok for goodness sake, not bangers. Nobody refers to London as londers, Manchester as manners or Liverpool as livers! What's so difficult about that?

Bangers is a well used term by many visitors and local ex-pats. Anyway this is way off topic, and I hope that's the end to it...

Yes sir, done sir.

[billythehat]

It's called Bangkok for goodness sake, not bangers. Nobody refers to London as londers, Manchester as manners or Liverpool as livers! What's so difficult about that?

Sir,

Thank you for your informed and concise explanation of complex analogies. By line 4, you will have noticed that I had regained my composure and substituted my use of the common vernacular.

Good day to you, Sir,

Billy in Bangers on the Phuket Forum.

[bdenner]

Looks like it's not --- This thread has been knackered before it got on the ground. ANYWAY! IMO he should have had the fore thought to realise his health was in jepody after red's mobilised some weeks back. Security and Thailand is an oxymoron.