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Let's hope the police don't forget about this " 'After the session ends on November 28 police can take him for questioning,' Senator Somchai Sawaengkarn told AFP."
Then let's hope he gets prison time. He has admitted it, though he says it was accident. Let's hope he doesn't get just the 20,000 baht fine as that is probably loose change in his pocket.
Let's hope, but silly me, TIT
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Keep this in perspective please.
As unfortunate as it is, this stabbing of a Thai man took place "during a fight in a remote street in East Pattaya" (aka The Darkside because in the old days there wasn't much street lighting and perhaps still isn't in some places).
From a previous poster "Wasn't Pattaya going the be the prime location in Thailand to take your family on vacation?"
Would you say don't go to London because somebody was stabbed in some derelict area in the East End of London? Families visiting Pattaya would be unlikely to go to East Pattaya, unless they are visiting family/friends who live there.
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So drunk that he never knew his property was stolen till police told him
!!! Luckily there are honest people around!In this case, yes. Some months back an English friend of mine had an epileptic fit at the side entrance of Tukcom while I was bringing my car round to him. I got there to find him collapsed on the steps with a crowd of people around him. Somebody told me that a Thai woman had picked up his mobile phone that had been in his hand and just walked off...and nobody bothered to stop her!!!
As for this Dutchman, sum nam na, but he was a lucky one.
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Chalerm made known his determination right a meeting with tourist police, senior officials from the Tourism and Sports Ministry and governors of tourist-destination provinces at the Royal Thai Police headquarters. Attending the one-hour meeting were the governors of Phuket, Ayutthaya, Nakhon Ratchasima, Khon Kaen, Chiang Mai, Ubon Ratchathani, Sukhothai, Tak and Kanchanaburi.
it seems that Pattaya's/Chonburi's officials were not invited to join this meeting. I am just wondering!
He, as well as the Prime Minister and other members of the government, had been in Pattaya on 18th/19th June for the 5th Mobile Cabinet Meeting.
Chalerm took time out to meet Police officials, as you will see in this Thai Visa news item:
http://www.thaivisa....-opening-hours/
Same answer for EyesWideOpen, who I have just noticed raised the same point
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This happens a lot. A couple of times / year.
Why do people continue to ride elephants?
Sit on the beach instead.
Sit on the beach instead...just don't hire a jetski!!!
What an extremely lucky couple. It could have been so much worse.
As a Travel Agent, I trust the wife will be advising her future clients of what not to do, when they come to Thailand
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If she were to become PM, I would start watching Thai political broadcasts on TV. I still wouldn't understand anything but the viewing would be more pleasing to the eye.
Very watch-able
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Lemsip
in Chiang Mai
Everyone else in the family has got a cold but I've got man-flu, I think I'm dying and Sulidine is just not cutting it. This is one of the rare times that I crave something from 'the old country'.Does anyone know where a miserable, self-pitying Brit can find Lemsip in town?
Sadly no, me old fruit
I'm down to my last sachet, which I will take tonight, otherwise I would have gladly passed you on a few. All I can offer is to post you some next month. I realise that won't do you any good at the moment, but loads of nasty weather coming.The reason I have had from pharmacists is that the dosage of 1000mg exceed the Thai limits
The 1000mg that you mention is for Lemsip Max. Please note that the standard Lemsip contains 650mg. Please also note that Lemsip contains aspartame for which there has certainly been a lot of controversy, particularly in regard to this ingredient in diet sodas.
As I am currently suffering from man-cold, I have been googling the likes of Tiffy to see if they have any adverse reactions. Tiffy appears ok (though I'm not 100% sure), but Apracur and Actifed both state that they should not be taken if you have blood pressure and/or thyroid problems, of which I have both.
Just yesterday my wife was sold Actifed at a local pharmacy without any mention of those problems. Good old Thailand.
Give me Lemsip any time, if it was available here.
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Why are so many posts in this thread
?It is about an English guy called Richard Hewitt who recently found himself in a very bad situation in Pattaya Police Station, which I am glad eventually worked out for him.
It is not about the long deceased Lady Isobel Barnet, neither is it about any profession which he had back in the UK.
Keep to the topic please, if you are going to post something
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Yet another thread brings out the Pattaya knockers. While I know this may be off topic, I can not let certain comments go without commenting myself.
The opposite to 'quality tourists' is 'low quality tourists', and I therefore take great exception to the Pattaya knockers here, e.g softgeorge and samran, though there are no doubt others who agree with them, like craigj7, for saying that Pattaya should be bulldozed down or that an atomic bomb should be dropped on it.
Shame on you all.
In making such stupid comments, and in agreeing with them, you are insinuating that I and my many friends who live here are low quality human beings, and likewise all those who come out to visit us must be as well, I and my friends who live here were tourists once, before we decided to retire and live here in Pattaya.
p.s I see that craigj7 is knocking the Americans as well now. Jeez, what is wrong with you? I am British and know many really decent Americans here in Pattaya. Grow up will you, please.
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Why all the inane comments about whether or not the unfortunate victims were tourists or not? Jeez!!!
Without reading every comment in the (so far) 7 pages of this thread, and without wanting to judge the driver, I have to say that I hate driving at night time here, Why? Because of the idiots coming towards me with their main beams on, blinding me, as this minivan driver said happened to him. However, I do slow down and I flash my beam at them, though usually to no avail.
And as for the other idiots driving without rear lights (usually motorbikes or those motorbikes with side bits attached) along poorly lit or unlit roads,... a recipe for an accident
Amazing though that the driver escaped as the front of the minivan was 'crushed', after 'hurtling' towards and 'slamming' into the back of the truck.
But whatever the reason for this tragedy, and as I said, without wanting to judge the driver, my thoughts go out to the families of the dead and injured.
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The OP asked this question:
Is this throttling by TOT?
So far as I am concerned, the answer is a whopping yes!!!
About a month ago I upgraded with TOT from 2Mb to 6Mb, for just an additional 100B per month.
Worth the risk, I thought..
To start with my torrent dl speeds increased to over 200kB/s ( I was never able to get over the 200 mark before), with speeds occasionally getting up to 400kB/s.
For the past 48 hours, my speeds have plummeted down to well under 100kB/s (at the time of writing it is around 50kB/s), and this is with sites that I know and use regularly.
If only I could switch to another provider, but where I live I am stuck with TOT
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I totally agree with the previous post. TOT are awful, at least where I live. A friend of mine just 10 miles away has TRUE and says they are very good.
If I could I would switch over to any other provider, but in my neck of the woods, I have no alternative, so I'm stuck with them
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Latest 'throttling' update from me with TOT Laem Chabang (Pattaya) area.
Like I've said before, I should be getting 150-200 kB/s down. The only dl I have atm is from a public tracker (normally good speeds with this site), and it is coming down at average 7 kB/s!!!
That is 'throttling', pure and simple.
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Further to a prior post where I said I was running at 25 - 30% of normal speed, like so many others now, I have dropped dramatically, currently running at under 10% of normal . I'm with TOT in the Pattaya area.
Last night I started to dl a 4.6GB file. After some 12 hours, I was at less that 3% complete, with an ETA varying from 3 to 5 weeks. <deleted>!!!
I called a friend of mine in Patts who is with 3BB and he is getting it for me. He is on limited speed as he shares in a condo, but even so, he will have it for me in less than 24 hrs
If only I could switch, but I am stuck with TOT where I live!!!
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Downloading again now. TOT Laem Chabang (Pattaya)
Just very slow atm, running at 25 - 30% of what it should be. Just hope it picks up later.
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monspencer +1
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Same, same, same here.
I had so many problems, that my way of making this problem go away is to have 3 internet cornections. So now i use TOT, MAXNET and CAT. There is always one of them working, stupid way, but only way!
Well, you are a very lucky person to have all 3 where you live! Where I am, there is only TOT, and because I live so far from my nearest exchange, I am a mere ten miles out of the centre of Pattaya, hardly the back of beyond, I also have to suffer from only being able to have their slowest package
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Thaks for some of the replies re watching it on websites and PC etc.
So, is there no way I can watch normal British TV 'live' on a normal television?
No to watching 'live', but yes to watching on a normal TV. The method comes over the web, and as I said in my PM (which you have not as yet replied to), you can be watching programmes within hours of UK airing by simply copying to CD/DVD to watch through a compatible DVD player, just like you would have recorded something back home to view later.
The other advantage is that you can get literally thousands, of old archived TV shows, American as well as British.
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Disregard what I said in the post above about it being the weekend...it's up and running again.
Just hope it lasts for more than the hour or so it was up for yesterday
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Hey, I'm up and running again, and listening to BBC Radio 2. Let's just hope it's not simply for another hour or so like it was yesterday
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So, moving off topic, here's a sod's law thought.
Why, when I'm cooking fried eggs, do the yolks break when I crack the eggs into the frying pan, but when cooking scrambled eggs, they don't when cracking them into the mixing bowl?
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metre
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The Eyes Of Truth - Enigma
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If I Should Fall Behind - Bruce Springsteen
!!! Luckily there are honest people around!
I'm down to my last sachet, which I will take tonight, otherwise I would have gladly passed you on a few. All I can offer is to post you some next month. I realise that won't do you any good at the moment, but loads of nasty weather coming.
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Fizzy-Drink Drive Concerns Thai Health Advocates
in Thailand News
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First, I have edited the swear word you used...no need for it at all.
Second, I have googled about Aspartame and there are many sites which talk about that very point, i.e. the reference to it changing to methanol.
Read this link to start with http://www.mac-archive.com/ns/side.html
Very worrying