billythehat

Deepblue2406, on 2012-05-27 17:07:08, said:

Well said and I totally agree. I can't believe the local expats are happy to just let these people carry on with their lives as if they had done nothing wrong. As I said before, if they were 6' 4" skin head thugs then I could understand it a bit more if people wanted to pretend they didn't exist, but to stand by and do nothing while these fat old scum bags run amok is madness.

Just simple things will help. Why doesn't someone just stand on a chair in the bar, point him out and tell everyone in the bar what he gets up to. You see how long it takes for his suave, confident demeanor to disappear  If one of the regulars did that every time he walked through the door.

Most bars have a group of regular expats who know the owners well. If you all got together and had a word, it shouldn't be too hard to make it so they simply weren't allowed in most of the bars in the area they live.

Like I said before, if you really wanted to make people aware of them, you could put warning posters up in every 7-11 window, on every telegraph pole outside   well used business' etc etc.

If all else fails you have the good old fashioned, hood over the head, bundled in the back of a pick up and taken for a quiet word some where to try and educate them to the error of their ways.

These people rely 100% on the apathy of others. If you don't give them it they are screwed.

silsburyhill, on 2012-05-24 17:53:13, said:

Sorry, I couldn't reply to this straight away, I had to get my dictionary out for the word 'acquiescence'. Every day's a school day.

Maybe you're right, but I think that will have something to do with what I said earlier about them selecting specific targets. I believe conmen will always pick their 'mark' carefully. They will look for traits that will make them confident they are dealing with weak minded people who will be too timid to put up a fight when they know they have been ripped off. That is why so many victims are elderly.

I hope that's the case anyhow. I would like to think there are enough people out there that are man enough to confront them if the opportunity arose. I personally wouldn't be able to keep quiet if they walked in a bar I was drinking in and they haven't ripped me off, so I very much hope someone who they had ripped off would do the same.

As for how prevalent they are I wouldn't know. I keep myself to myself, and I'm highly allergic to bull shitters, so when people like that start talking to me I normally make my excuses and slide down the bar long before they've tried to sell me something.

pointoffew, on 2012-05-11 10:58:45, said:

No-one here is condoning murder that i have read, only that we shouldn't be surprised when this happens.

It seems that a whole culture of tearing out Farang's hearts for the money is becoming normal, and with that a whole lot of emotion that can, for some, be overwhelming when they realized that they have been conned.

Nobody wants to see murder happen, but just the same, i do not feel any pitty for the woman when this happens.

Play the game and suffer the consequences, it is their own greed that really destroyed them, not the knife, gun, whatever.

Perhaps if they actually had a brain they could learn from these terrible murders that are becoming more and more regular.

Disgusting fascist and racist.

Just exploit the Burmese worker, without them impossible to keep most of activities and business running.

lavender19, on 2012-04-30 17:50:23, said:

You can blame people for their actions or inactions, but you can't blame him for the actions of his predecessors.