[SURVEY: Should Thailand require foreigners to be vaccinated?]

6 hours ago, Saltire said:

the biggest number of foreigners in, and coming to Thailand are from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos

you forgot china

[Mechanic dies in garage due to exposure to cold weather]

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

Is the much smaller child who contains far less heat yet managed to survive in hospital being treated for hypothermia?

 

alcohol dilates the  blood vessels in the skin which leads the body to cool down. If somebody has got enough alcohol in the blood and is confronted with low air temperature that might very well  cause death.

[Pickup truck hits power pole, causes power outage]

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Pickup truck hits power pole, causes power outage

What about the driver?

 

Power outage, too?

if yes: before or after?

[Khao San: After the hype comes the reality - once "billion baht" street" deserted in the daytime]

Just now, sweatalot said:

Why is TAT so desperately trying to get tourists back?

And where did I mention the word survive?

[Khao San: After the hype comes the reality - once "billion baht" street" deserted in the daytime]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

Around 1998, KSR changed to a Thai students' nightlife scene. 

Thailand can survive without tourists, and their over-inflated self-importance. 

Why is TAT so desperately trying to get tourists back?

[Khao San: After the hype comes the reality - once "billion baht" street" deserted in the daytime]

56 minutes ago, webfact said:

was driven by 99% of the customers being foreigners,

exactly - without the foreigners -even backpackers - Thailand's  future will be dark

How many backpackers is the worth of a "quality tourist" ?

I doubt there will ever be enough quality tourists the way TAT is dreaming of.

 

btw. The word "quality tourist" is an assault created by greedy people taxing other people only by the amount of money they can press out of them

[Tourists told: If you came to Chiang Mai and got Covid we'll give you 100,000 baht]

They forgot to add that they will pay for insurance and  all the private hospital bills that are not covered by insurance.

[Five killed, including baby, as car ploughs into pedestrian zone in Germany]

I, too was thinking of islamic background immidiately. Drinking alcohol is no evidence of not being muslim. The name and background of the driver might help to make things more clear.

 

It is no surprise that acts like that imitdiately makes one think about muslim terror.

I know some will insist on not thinking this way. But political correctness is not helpful may be even dangerous.

[Maximum Law Enforcement for Illegal Returnees]

Might backfire because those illegal reenterers would  keep quiet now about their infection

 

 

[Thailand confirms SECOND domestic COVID case in as many days - this time in Chiang Rai]

1 hour ago, mark131v said:

 

 

I believe people who die are not routinely tested. That's the reason for low number...

That would mean that the number of deaths in Thailand has been much higher this year than in years before. Is that so?

[Amazing Thailand: Independent and handicapped Thai man lives in adapted old vehicle - but his old job is a doozy]

Interesting story.

Has he been in prison by the way?

 

Or was his injury counted as equal to jail time?

[MOJ Launches Project To Avoid Repeat Crime]

Easy. Don't let them out

(sarcasm end)

 

Better judge whom to send in prison and have the sentence  appropriate to the crime.

 

Would probably mean a quite different jail population (More of the kind of that Red Bull guy, and more murderers)

[Surat Thani dog owner refuses to pay full hospital bills after 2 bitten]

26 minutes ago, JimmyJ said:

So if it bit the mailman, visitors, etc., likewise it would be their own fault.

Of course - if they enter the premises without permission

 

Not when it happens outside

[Plan to grant work permits to foreigners who invest $1m clears first hurdle]

You don't get it. You have to immerse in the way Thai politicians think. 

 

I did so (by means that I cannot describe here)

 

And yes - I see millions of   foreign millionaires struggling to get hold of this incredible offer.

[Two men found dead in Samut Prakan public toilet]

11 hours ago, brianthainess said:

What an awful way to go.

may be 

 

or may be not.

 

it is painless - no more pain no more worry

a surprise that you will not be aware of

It will just put you asleep in a blink of an eye - not to awake anymore

 

a mereciful way out for drug addicts ?

[Two men found dead in Samut Prakan public toilet]

48 minutes ago, ronaldo0 said:

Fentanyl  ! ????????☠️

Why?

[Trump lawyer Giuliani claims voter 'fraud' in long-shot Pennsylvania challenge]

If Giuliani cannot show evidence - how can he claim there was fraud?

Beyond me

[Pickup driver killed after vehicle smashes into trailer truck]

U-turn again.

 

Big trailer making a u-turn thus blocking the whole street. No lights on the side, so not easy to see in the dark.

And the pick up driver,  in the middle of the night may be dui,  streets empty (he thought)  - high speed - bang

Truck driver may be dui, too

 

Probably would not have happened if they had a better solution than  u-turns

[Thailand allows thousands of migrants to extend work permits]

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thailand allows thousands of migrants to extend work permits

Seems their vantage point is distorted a little bit.

What they actually should say is "Thailand begs on their knees that migrant workers  stay - so that economy does not crash completely"

[Tripadvisor slaps warning on Thai hotel that sued expat over bad review]

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

TripAdvisor has slapped a warning on a Thai hotel whose legal action over a review posted by an American expat landed him in jail.

 

well done - Now what about Koh Tao?

[Video: Trucker caught in blatant lie after early morning smash at red light]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Trucker caught in blatant lie after early morning smash

over time I come more and more to the conviction that you can believe Thai drivers involved in an accident only when they admit their guilt 

[Dental nurse stabbed boyfriend to death "because she didn't want to lose him"]

Very informative picture on this thread - not?

[Senior monk takes dim view of "High tech flying monk" on a hoverboard]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thaivisa notes that those who have entered the monkhood are obliged to follow 227 precepts. They are supposed to shun earthly possessions and own almost nothing except robes. 

 

The reality however is somewhat different.

 

exactly that's the problem. Those who don't follow the precepts are not real monks and they should be denied the robe.

[Thailand’s UDD leader Jatuporn raises questions over the new US consular office in Chiang Mai]

"...-jatuporn-raises-questions..."

 

shock.  I had hoped never to hear about  this freak again

-thought he was where he belongs  - in prison

[Muslims have 'right to punish' French, says Malaysia's Mahathir]

10 hours ago, prakhonchai nick said:

All immigrants and refugees given a home in a foreign country must obey that countries rules. No need to give them or their offspring citizenship. If they commit a criminal offence then show them and their family the door. They are guests purely and simply. They should not have any rights other than basic human rights. They must earn their rights! If its not to their liking, then they should stay put where they originated.

Why even let them in?

Why not take them all out now - as their brutality is evident and praised by their leaders?

Sorry for the decent muslims - but political correctness is not always helpful