YimSiam

All of this confirms one of the primary rules about visits to Thailand: Do NOT bring your wife or girlfriend.

Are we back to Burmese boat crews, or is this a new set of seamen who will help compare DNA samples?! Christopher Alan Ware... Guilty or innocent, once authorities start using all three names for you, you're pretty much f*cked...

I suspect that those who include political reasons in the suicide - like the 911 guys, and perhaps like this pilot, too, if he was protesting Anwar's treatment - would probably come up smelling roses on a psych eval, since they are confident in their motivations and aims, feeling very self-assured and fulfilled in the meaning of their lives.

Certainly true... this one probably #10 on the Richest Thais list, T. The others put their money on yellow-green, and that bet is coming up a winner for many decades. http://www.forbes.com/thailand-billionaires/

Wow, I will at least give her credit for having the balls to do that - take off your shoes first, and jump? Sad but impressive... I could blame the farm if children were falling in due to their lack of precautions, but suicide by adults committed to get in there? Can't stop that - or shouldn't be expected to.

October 17 for me - start the 30-day clock! YimSiam

Not if he keeps running off to BKK all the time - that habit has implications on career trajectory, I'm afraid... YimSiam

From what I've seen on Suk and at Panthip, the rule is that if it involves foreign women or Thai ladyboys, copyright does not apply...

Why is the army getting credit or criticism for the registration of migrants? That is a Thaksin project, circa 2004, I seem to remember registration of a couple million from MYA, CAM, LAO, some bitching about them having to pay a fee for health insurance and so on - I guess that project has continued to date in various forms. YimSiam

Cost of price supports to farmers: 400 billion baht Unexplained additional "piled up" cost: 300 billion baht Cost of current and coming years of military dictatorship with unfettered expenditure and no civilian or elected oversight: Priceless!

Sorry to say, uniformed or otherwise, I've never seen six Colombian women so unattractive. Keep your girls off the bike, dads - it turns 'em fugly!

And they are not looking for a Lao or Cambodian because Lao/Cambo are too lazy to do such a thing...

File under "Dumbass Evangelical Christians", along with the rest of the Americans in North Korea.

I like the Santa's Little Helper outfits, very nice. And that octopus - I have some vague memory of that creature tentacle-fucking Jade Marcela, but maybe that's from a dream rather than a memory...

If not for Burmese, Nigerians, and perpetrators who "fled the scene" nary a Thai case would close!

They seem to find a remarkable level of coexistence, you'd think the Thai would really defend their turf but looks like they are ready to take a slice and allow many to operate. Not many countries would put up with the visible level of foreign organized crime you sometimes notice, but hey, Amazing Thailand.

Or failing that, it was a British friend who left the island already. In short: Anyone but a Thai!

"Behavior" apparently includes "Dying"...

Why not just push it off a balcony and call it suicide?

One good way to know for sure that your barfine was a kathoey is to find an apparently used maxi in the bathroom bin. Don't ask me how I know this...

Did he leave it discreetly on your bedside table? Maybe just "money for taxi"...

I've always assumed there were entities around that area at that time of night to ensure things remained at least somewhat civil... apparently I've been wrong about that. Adroit if dubious use of the term "splashboard"...

266 foreigners? Must be way, way more than that, even if you just count those affliated with mafia...

And that last is all that matters, isn't it!

Jay-sus, but this parade of horrors seems like it's going to go on... and on...