Thread: Interesting Story from a Phuket Expat

BLD - No need you're in the Truman Show, we got you covered.

Quote"After reading this i think i better go and get a rear dashcam as well. Perhaps i also should get dash cams on the left and right sides of the car to."

Originally Posted by beerlaodrinker

After reading this i think i better go and get a rear dashcam as well. Perhaps i also should get dash cams on the left and right sides of the car to.

And up, never know when you get blamed for a swan diver.

With the way some women are these days, Brazilian soccer players need cams on their penises.

Originally Posted by cyrille

So that's why you have such a sky-high opinion of yourself.

You're Doctor Strange.

A very odd response to a tongue-in-cheek comment.
Strange is as strange does.

Originally Posted by tomcat

a judicial system he claims is fair.

This hints at a considerable level of vanity and self-absorption, doesn't it.

Maanaam, who claims to be a kindred spirit, seems to share these qualities in abundance.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Maanaam, who claims to be a kindred spirit,

Outright lie.

Originally Posted by cyrille

This hints at a considerable level of vanity and self-absorption, doesn't it.

A perverse, illogical, and plain weird take on the guy's experience.

You really are an odd fellow.

Originally Posted by tomcat

Pyrrhic "victory"

That's certainly a reasonable take on it if one does not consider principles as having much value.

The only thing I drive here is the exercise bike, the Mrs does the driving, any problems she can sort out

Originally Posted by jabir

Principles are all well and good and credit to him for standing firm, but having been acquitted his life was still turned upside down with the physical and emotional indignity and uncertainty of a Thai jail, on principle, through no fault of his own.

As others have said, cams could help avoid the need for them.

this outcome has given the police a PAIN IN THE POCKET aswell as the NECK.
he now has to watch his BACK aswell as EYE'S IN THE BACK OF HIS HEAD.
so SELL the car and leave the bike at home.

^WHY the CAPITAL letters ON random WORDS?

Polite Tourettes

Originally Posted by armstrong

I'll just film using my phone in my left hand.

Why only with the left hand?

(Copying from the old joke:
Police stops the man driving with his hand aroud his sweetheart:
"What for you have the other hand?"
"And with what hand I would steer the car?"

Totally agree on the dashcam. Installed one for only 3,500 baht in the Hilux we purchased. Records front and rear views. I recall reading a humour book written by a farang doctor living/working in Pattaya about twenty years ago. A friend of his had heavy pressure to pay compensation to two Thai brothers aged 7 & 10 who rode through a stop sign across an intersection on an unregistered bike and crashed into his parked car that he was sitting in with the engine off. Seemed amusing at the time but I learned a lesson about eight years ago when a Thai pretended I'd knocked his motorbike over when I backed out of a parking spot. My wife knew I hadn't and went into utter shock for hours over both the lies the guy told, the aggression and quite frankly, her new found shame of this Thai behaviour. BTW, the guy was trying to scam me for only 200 baht. I threw it on the ground at his feet. Didn't get out of the car.

Originally Posted by BoganInParasite

I threw it on the ground at his feet

...because contempt certainly demonstrates superiority...

^^Throwing the monarch on the floor isn't the wisest move here

Originally Posted by BoganInParasite

I recall reading a humour book written by a farang doctor living/working in Pattaya about twenty years ago.

Oh yes....that would have been Iain Corness. An amusing chap who wrote different columns for the local newspaper. I wonder if he is still alive ?

^ Yup.

He's still writing.

https://www.pattayamail.com/author/iain

Originally Posted by Maanaam

To me, it's a story of encouragement and strength of character.

Absolutely, a true stand-up person,....the OP is,...^ Indeed(s)

Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen

Absolutely, a true stand-up person,....the OP is,...^ Indeed(s)

The Thai Court could have simply demanded the OP to surrender his passport, in lieu of the case being sorted.

Keeping the OP incarcerated for 19 months was bordering on arbitrary judicial bias against a foreigner national,

who (obviously) has maintained a long-termed, verifiable residence in Thailand. Go figure the Thai Magistrates reasoning process...

Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen

Go figure the Thai Magistrates reasoning process...

...we have only one side of this heroic story posted here...

Originally Posted by tomcat

...we have only one side of this heroic story posted here...

That's ^ quite true. However, my (non-sardonic) considered opinion, is rooted in the first-hand experience factor,...

Thus, I believe the plausibility factor...of the OP story. Cheers!

Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen

my (non-sardonic) considered opinion, is rooted in the first-hand experience factor

...otherwise known as the subjective experience...

Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen

I believe the plausibility factor...of the OP story

...there are a number of other plausible reasons for his incarceration...none having to do with heroism...