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  1. On 1/12/2022 at 3:22 PM, pacovl46 said:

    Thais in general are peace-loving, but obviously there’s exception to that, just like there’s exception to almost every rule on the planet. You make it sound like all the Thais are murderous psychopaths and they’re clearly not! 

    so just like most tourists and expats make it seem europe is some sort of hell hole especially UK. when they have lower murder rate than thailand... and always rant about how UK is hotheaded and dangerous. but thailand is all peace and love, little to no gun violence, thais are most peaceful. far majority of foreigners have no clue what happens in thailand except the few crime/violence news aseannow or bangkokpost publish....

  2. On 1/12/2022 at 9:37 AM, BangkokReady said:

    Yeah, it's crazy the things that you hear of someone being stabbed to death/chopped up for here over the years.  I know most of our countries are far more dangerous, with much higher rates of violence and murder, but there's something about the way such an insignificant action can result in boiling rage that drives otherwise "normal" people to violently kill.

     

    It's so senseless, and they often regret it afterwards.  Generally multiple lives ruined for nothing.

    ''I know most of our countries are far more dangerous, with much higher rates of violence and murder'' and which countries is that? western europe,australia, new zealand, etc aint ''far more dangerous with much higher rates of violence and murder'' than thailand.... and how would you even know that? you read/see a few or not even a few, rarely violent crimes or crime news in thailand being posted on english speaking thai news and make your assumptions based on that? 

  3. 12 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

    Ghetto ???? Yeah every city has a "bad neighborhood(s)," have you considered moving? I've lived in 3 different moobaans in East Pattaya and never been burgled. As criminal behavior in general is so low...the Thai perception of crime is very high...that accounts for the dramatic coverage of it in the Thai press when it happens. Also, much of the violent crime is inter-personal, familial, or business related. Random stranger danger is quite rare...unlike in the West.

    ''Random stranger danger is quite rare...unlike in the West.'' and how do you know that when news dont report on all crimes or violence? and certinly not english speaking thai news, and i assume you cant read thai. 

     

     ''the Thai perception of crime is very high'' so you know better than thais, so their perception of high crime is not true because you personally never experienced crime or seen it, and never hear/read about it? 

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  4. 10 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

    I've lived in Thailand for over twenty years and I've not noticed (nor read about) any increase in crime rates during my time here. In particular, I've not felt any increased danger during the past two years of the pandemic, when many Thais are quite skint.

    Being able to read thai opens up about crime happening which people or pages post on facebook, i am from pqttaya our house was burgled 2 months ago, my family went to the local police station and filed a report, the cop laughed and said we get 10 such reports almost daily in that area, and said not much they can do except telling us to reach out to the insurance company if we had insurance. All crimes I read about in thai news language, none of them gets published to English thai news pages

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  5. 10 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

    I've lived in Thailand for over twenty years and I've not noticed (nor read about) any increase in crime rates during my time here. In particular, I've not felt any increased danger during the past two years of the pandemic, when many Thais are quite skint.

    As if thai police or news publish crime rates, also news barely publish crimes unless its shootings or stabbings (which not all is even published) tons of crimes go unreported or unpublished. 

  6. All depends on what area, Bangkok is huge city.  with slums,tourists areas, high scale upper class areas, cheap apartment complex, housing projects often all in same area.

     

    Bangkok in general is safe. But also not every crime is reported to the police and news, like this recent incident, thai man robbed/bag snatched a korean person, he admited he targeted foreigners, but mostly koreans and Japanese. And he done it a few times. Crimes against tourists/foreigners is not as rare as you may think. Especially during high season.

     

    Most crimes in Thailand are not reported at all.

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  7. On 11/13/2020 at 11:35 AM, Natai Beach said:

    Yes, one bloke was in there pushing the others away. There wasn’t that much in it really, the boyfriend died 10 days later. 
     

    This topic will bring out the thaibashers, but this stuff with young blokes, women, testosterone mixed in with alcohol happens all over the world.
    No weapons used, if it was the USA maybe he would have been shot, stabbed in the U.K. or glassed in Australia. 
     

    Stupid, one life lost and others ruined. Sad for the old mum. 
     

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    this one case without weapons, all other cases is with guns or machete/knife otherwise

  8. 19 hours ago, quake said:

    20 years here, never had a gun pulled on me.

    the few Thai males i know, don't have or carry guns.

    I think your post indicates the type of people you hang out with or the bar you drink in.

    Sure there are guns around, but not every Thai male has one.

    Think your find more machete type knives than guns in cars.

     

     

     

     

     ''but not every Thai male has one.'' i never said that. but your previous comment it seem like you dont know how common guns is here, all types of people have guns here not only thugs.

     

    majority of people have not had a gun pulled on them,  you never had a gun pulled on you does that mean thailand has little guns?

     

    there is around 6 million registered guns, and around 4 million unregistered ones, but who knows how many unregistered there really is when alot of people make them at home and sell them and there is loads of guns coming from cambodia and myanmar smuggled in to thailand.

     

    yes machetes and knifes are more but guns is not uncommon exactly in cars or under the seat of bikes.

  9. 7 hours ago, quake said:

    So you only know two Thai males then.

     

    I don't think you realise how many guns and how common it is with thai males in public to have guns in their car or their little man bags. And how many teenagers who has it.

     

    There is a sh*t ton of homemade fully functional guns out on the streets, but also tons of proper factory made ones of course.

     

    you can buy them on facebook,twitter,youtube. Some full auto. 22./9mm/380. Etc. Pistols firing 12 gauge shells too. These homemade/illegally made guns costs around 3,000 - 5,000 baht.  Theres tons of these guns for cheap money.

     

     

     

     

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  10. On 8/19/2020 at 5:57 AM, geriatrickid said:

    I was going to make a dismissive comment, but it seems we are getting a violent murder murder at least once a month now. We had the shooting of the seafood restaurant owner at the start of the month;  four bullets to the head, chest, hip and arm while he was in bed; The fellow who had his face bashed in and was  found in his pickup truck in a staged crash by his wife and her friends; And the two men who were shot near in the Bo Khaem canal.

     

    I always used to think of Cha- Am as a sleepy town where the  biggest excitement  was the weekly expat card game where saucy language was used.

     

     

     

     

    And not everything gets reported to English news either. And in early August, women pregnant I think too shot dead.

  11. On 7/20/2020 at 8:22 AM, maprao said:

    Committed a murder before????

    Why was he free to do it again???

    It's common, I regularly read such cases in thai news often, some day ago a man got shot in a pub, it was reported he had shot and killed 2 people at 2 different occasions. It did not say if he has been in prison or not.

  12. All the comments talking about USA, Europe being worse than Thailand is hilarious, USA and Thailand have same or very similar rates of gun murders, USA is considered bad but not Thailand despite having same or similar gun murder rate.

     

    No European country except russia, has higher murder rate than Thailand or gun murder rate, but Europe is so awful and Thailand is safest country on earth...

     

    Yall think UK is so bad with it's around 650 murders yearly, but Thailands at least 2,000 - 3,000 murders yearly minimum is very safe and good.

     

    And most people here most likely cant read or write thai, so you automatically miss the other shootings and stabbing or other crime news, as thai visa and bangkok post only post a few cases.

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  13. 7 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

    thailand start to become like the place/reason I left my home country for

    It's so funny when people miss or dont see/hear about the rest of 90% of shootings and stabbing in Thailand as most of those news don't get published to thai visa/Bangkok post and always say "it's starting to become like USA/Europe" etc. When in fact it has always been like this and has actually decreased majorly all over Thailand.

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  14. On 5/23/2020 at 11:18 PM, samsensam said:

     

    and, sadly, in many other countries too

    You just had to point that out, almost as someone said this only happens in Thailand, Of course it happens in all countries, The difference is how often it happens.

     

    As soon as someone says "this happens alot in thailand" with shootings or violence someone just have to write the obvious that it happens everywhere. Rare in some countries, everyday in some.

  15. On 5/24/2020 at 4:51 AM, shambo said:

    I feel safe here in Thailand since 17 years. And I am happy not to live in violent Sweden or catholic Mexico where they found 10 new death victim in a car yesterday. All thai bashers may go over there, why not! I only avoid the roads here as much as possible but still takes trip om my MC. Lately 400 km to BKK and safe enough. 

    "Violent Sweden" haha are you joking? You realise Sweden got among the lowest murder rates in the world right?..

     

    i feel safe in a "no go zone" in botkyrka sweden since I moved here from Thailand.. never been victim or know anyone been victim of crime.

     

     

     as soon as violent news gets published here its almost as the news and the people commenting here say this only happens in Thailand, Thailand is the most violent in the world, so thai apologists has to act and say this happens everywhere, this European country is worse ????????

  16. 11 hours ago, CrunchWrapSupreme said:

    Quite a few posts about getting these American gun nuts out of Thailand.

     

    First of all, he merely said he's "got lots of guns". Did they find these guns yet? How'd he get them into Thailand? Or, how's a guy with a teacher's salary go about buying them on the black market? I think it's more likely that many people, especially the mentally afflicted, spout off a lot of nonsense when in difficult situations.

     

    Now, to address those deeply concerned about the gun nuts in Thailand. There was that guy in Korat. There was the school director who shot up the gold shop some months back. There's the guy here currently in the Thai Visa news, who shot his ex's new BF. And now currently on the One 31 news, the wife's hearing about a 16 year old loaded up on yaba, who went nuts on his family with a shotgun.

     

    These people are all Thais. I believe the posters are in the wrong country, and looking at the wrong people, to be worrying about gun nuts.

    I think it was that the 16 year old killed his father, the father apparently shot and killed family members and 16 year old shot the father dead, but the news could be updated, but when I red it, this was what happened.

  17. On 2/29/2020 at 8:31 AM, Tarteso said:

    The horrible news, the bloody murders, the rapes of children, the increasing levels of deaths on the roads, guns, fire, smog, corruption, begin to be the norm. I have got the impression that this the real daily life on the land of.....“SMILES”?. 

    If you have been here for some time you should know this has always been like this, except for korat shooting that was first of its kind.

     

    You do realise thaivisanews and other English news in Thailand dont publish most of crimes and violence happening right?

     

     

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