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It’s a good point. Any chance the cops will follow up on who is supplying firearms illegally? Nope, didn’t think so.

Why call him a business man. So he owns a restaurant, he’s still clearly just another Russian gangster.

I hope that there won’t subsequently be any whining from the Thai populace about badly behaved Russians. Thai people reap what their government sows.

A lot of things were ok 50 years ago. They aren’t now. Or do you intend to own slaves because that was ok in the past? jeez, get a grip won’t you.

Kick someone in the back and you become a national figure of hate, rather than just an arrogant idiot. Threaten a taxi driver with a knife…..nothing happens. is there a disconnect here?

To be fair, how many of these people would have been unable to afford, or would have been refused, a visa? I think they would all have got a visa and would be here even if there were no free visa scheme. of course, had the Thai government decided to reduce the number of Russians by making a visa very hard to obtain, that would be a different matter.

In some respects, they already do.

“and occasional reports of scams or incidents targeting foreigners. “ how do they define “occasional”? A daily occurrence?

I think you misread the article, as I did at first. he was not talking about apprehending “influential people” in the sense of hiso thai people. He is talking about, well, criminals in the conventional sense. Although he termed it as people of bad influence who habitually offend. He goes on to list a number of crimes but focuses on drug crime. bad headline really. The article, as far as I can see, is simply talking about crime in general

“Policeannounced their intention to summon Mai’s parents and relativesfor questioning at a later time.” first things first. They will interview the poor girls family…….when they get round to it. Sad state of affairs, no one is going to care about a 10 year old girl because she comes from a poor family. Why aren’t netizens up in arms? Because there is no video to drool over and the victim is a nobody. SMH. Get our Daily Newsletter - Click HERE to subscribe

Is that “related news”.

Why is it scary? It’s an internet news site and chat forum. It’s not like it’s an integral part of anyone’s life

And so it’s ok to beat them up because they honked their horn? Stop being a Thai apologist, it is totally out of order to beat up people, much less stab them, who honk their horn at you, whether the honk is warranted or not. As the journalist wryly pointed out, although the assailants claimed they could not move in the traffic, they were able to make a getaway. But, as I just said, able to move in traffic or not, physical assault with a deadly weapon because of a horn honk, is unacceptable.

Guess it was just his lucky day

Technically 6 vs 2. Phi and Shi.