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The only thing that springs to mind is that he got a top job again after he made a big fuss when he was removed as Immigration Chief, maybe he thinks it will work again if he screams loud enough?

So they await the Royal Decree in the Gazette? all but gone except the formalities.

Security needs training on what to do in these type of incidents, that is what they are employed in shopping malls for, public safety and well-being.

I don't say the Police handled it correctly, they didn't. Why take the 3000 baht and not report it at the police station, when they gave him the option??, he had enough wits about him to video the incident. Why didn't he phone his parents? I don't accept he took the 3000 baht because ' he was in a rush '

Now he's demanding the top job despite being dismissed from the force? A bit like demanding an Oscar because you thought your acting was better than the movie that won it, and telling the panel to reconsider and watch it again. As other posters have said, he just doesn't know when to call it quits. No good will come from this methinks.

The latter. Yep, Agree with that, I have met loads of decent fun loving Aussies and a few idiots, it's the same with my people and countrymen.

Cops will be round looking for their %%%

Middle of a field with a tinfoil hat on?

That's why I won't go to Aussieland, people like him.

Nothing to add but my agreement.

What happened to the US kid and that horse, that's what I want to know about. Last I heard, he had "proposed marriage" to save a scandal.

Well, his underlings were involved by all accounts in the gambling saga and he is by association, as they were his staff. The PM hasn't done anything to help or hinder from what I can see. There are certainly major players grouping and determined to see the back of him. It's a messy business when sharks start eating sharks

I don't care one way or the other, but it looks like his goose is well and truly cooked and he is lashing out and blaming anybody but himself. He knows the game, he's been an active participant for long enough. He forgot the first rule of the RTP,' If you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas ' It's not the first time he has resurrected his career, but it could be the final nail in the coffin this time.

The Problem with the current and previous governments is they harp on about quality tourists but they don't provide a quality destination in all its forms. They provide a nickel-and-dime service but want to quote gold-standard dollar pricing structures for everything, it just does not wash. Then to justify silly ill thought out, knee-jerk policies they quote what other countries in the region do whose tourists do not resemble Thailands. Thailand is not Singapore, Bhutan, Vietnam, or Malaysia which attract a very different clientele.

I was in Pattaya full-time from the early nineties till the first decade of the 2000s and the place was fun. Very few Russians, Chinese but only organised flag-waving coach tours, not the massive influx there is now. There was an Arab quarter, but they kept themselves to themselves. Big-spending Westerners, loads of guys working offshore with plenty of cash, well-heeled guys from all over the globe. It was fun, it was exciting, and there weren't all the big mafia killings and extreme violence that seemed to have crept in back then, Pattaya was a big little town. The fun has gone out of it and it no longer holds the ' mystique ' of bygone days. The internet explosion didn't help much.