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A British Furniture Shop owner from Jomtien, who is currently on-bail relating to two drugs offences has been arrested for a third time on suspicion of selling drugs.

There is just no helping some people.......muppet.

i can only shake my head! some of you people are really disgusting. there's a poor chap in a coma, double poor because he has no health insurance, and you discuss whether he was drunk, asked for it, deserved it, was disguised as woman...

saorsa, on 2012-05-17 08:55:56, said:

He's bi-polar...or is that bi-city?

It's funny that so many people on this forum slag off Thai people for not being good drivers (and other things) and then it turns out that many of the drink and drive themselves. Double standards.

I got caught a little over a year ago and could not settle it "out of court" (believe me, I tried). From what I understand, penalties depend on which court you are brought to. In my case, I was caught in Asoke and brought to Lumpini Police Station who then decided in which court I would be prosecuted.

Below is the penalty, which apparently is the harshest it gets for a first time DUI:

- THB 20'000 bail to get out of jail and come back to court on Monday (was fully refunded)
- THB 8'000 fine (THB 6'000 if caught on a motobike, irrespective of how much you are above the limit)
- 6 months licence suspension (irrespective of how much you are above the limit)
- 3 months of jail on probation for 2 years (irrespective of how much you are above the limit)
- 4 yearly visits to a probation officer (irrespective of how much you are above the limit)
- 12 hours of community service (only for a certain amount of alcohol in the blood, but not sure how much)

I legally work here and there never was any mention of deportation. I have since then renewed my WP and visa with no problem. They give you a fair warning on your first DUI and as long as you don't repeat the same mistake, you will be fine...

Perhaps I'm mistaken but I suspect her publicity machine has generated this somewhat ironic comment with a deeper and clever message regarding the abundance of pirated goods (also pirated copies of her music) - A clever and publicity drawing attack on the authorities for permitting counterfeit and copy rights infringement to exist to such a degree.

If some people are getting offended by this then they really need to learn to accept criticism and the realities of Thailand's tolerance of illegal activity.

Fake watches are sold here in Thailand and that's a fact. Maybe if DJ Suharit Siamwalla feels so strongly about this, he should campaign to stop fake merchandise being sold in Thailand. He is a DJ after all, so he would have a lot of clout and influence.

How brave and loyal some of these nationalists are when it comes to sticking up for their country and people. Just say good things all the time, and never address the real issues which would actually help this country and these people you love so much. Hypocrisy and ignorance and its very best.

its always funny to see how serious Thais become when an international icon is talking about the TRUTH ....and nothing than the TRUTH ...oh my goodness ..how shocking ..... I will boycott the concert ...bla bla bla .....if you dont want any one to talk about fake rolex or other watches ..clean your pavement ... intellectual properties here means nothing .Thais for sure have NO sense of humor. so we cannot talk about prostitution ? fake Gucci shirts ? and illegal music CDs ? LOL what a joke .....

This whole "war on drugs" is total BS. Another invisible enemy to dupe the mass Plebian society and control them through.

Yes drugs can be harmful,.. but so can cigarettes, alcohol and prescription drugs that the governements of the world push en-mass and with zero conscience or consequence!

As long as "illicit" drugs remain illegal it translates into the fuelling of a multi billion (trillion?) dollar industry for everyone from the cops, lawyers, judges, prison systems, pharmecutical companies,...and the list rolls on.

Enough of this insane lie-ridden BS and the condoning of judicial murder of scapegoats for an insipid hierachy of capitalist and power hungry supremacists that do zero for the genuine advancement of the human population of the world!

Tell the truth,... and the truth is that something stinks in Demark and it ain't just the cheese!

For those of us happy in life....here is the thread to express it.

If you are content in life feel free to share.....thanks for all positive responses.

When I lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, going saltwater fishing was cheap and snow skiing was expensive- so I fished a lot and skied behind a boat.

When I lived in Casper, Wyoming, snow skiing was cheap and saltwater fishing was expensive so I skied a lot and fished the lakes and streams

When I lived in China, taxis and mass transit were cheap and owning a car was expensive, so I took taxis.  In Bangkok, I don't need a car because I can find everything I need fairly close to home.  That's not the case in suburbia in Casper or Corpus.

I find some things in Bangkok to be very cheap and others to be very expensive and that figures into what I do and how I live here.  Overall, it is possible to live on much less money in Bangkok than in the USA.  

But if I choose to live the same lifestyle as "back home", it will cost a lot more because of the high cost of goods that aren't indigenous and are taxed and marked up as luxury goods- though they would certainly not be considered luxury goods in most western countries.

Overall, I spend about as much to live in Thailand as I would in the USA or China, but live a very different lifestyle.  Not better, not worse, just different. (And every once in awhile I suck it up and spend a big wad on something I miss from "back home")

philw, on 2012-05-20 19:57:09, said:

Actually, I think you'll find neither one of them were very interested in getting the big bag barrier torn down. That illegal and unconscionable dam turned my village into a lake for 2 months under 2+ meters of water so that those in inner Bangkok could stay dry.  On the other side of that structure, waters were only about 50 cm. Doesn't matter which one of them paid for the construction vs. the other one allowing the construction to happen. They are both guilty and are both scum. Both the BMA and the central government need to pay compensation to those of us who were forced to suffer for the "greater good."

We were promised a minuscule 20,000 baht, and to date not a single baht of even that piddling amount has been paid.

But never mind...

TommoPhysicist, on 2012-04-19 17:56:33, said:

it shows how little you actually know about thai women to make a statement like that
thai women (esp in bangkok ) are as sexually liberated as their equivalents in nearly any other country
its just in their culture to be discrete and not broadcast about it
dont blame me because you need to visit the atm   every time you feel horny
its not like that for many guys in thailand .....

This might sound like real out of the box thinking, wana, and forgive me for coming up with a completely crazy idea, but how about a bank?

FarangBuddha, on 2012-05-10 19:20:24, said:

"Easy solution"? Not if you're living on the bright side. I couldn't think of anything worse than sitting in traffic jams all day long and stressing out trying to find places to park. A car can turn a 10 minute ride into a 30 or 40 minute nightmare on Beach Road, 2nd Road, 3r Road, Klang, Nua and Tai.... no thank you.

BTW, I seldom get pulled over and it's only very occasionally when they're doing rego/insurance checks. Maybe once or twice a year at the very most and I'm putting in about 6000km a year primarily in the tourist zone. I think I've now gone way over a year since I was last pulled over. It's not a problem in need of a solution. If you've got your licence, rego and insurance handy you're off in a couple of minutes.