Boloa's Village News

[Albert Shagnastier]

Everyone was told they had to pay 3k towards the party and if they didn't have the money they had to borrow it or get they family in Bangkok or where ever they are working to send the money to help.

Rule No. 1:

Anyone says ridiculous shit like that to you, act in a way that they'll never ever bother to try it again for the next 50 years.

Honestly man, that's simple shit.

Kindness - seen as a weakness to most predatory folk.

[boloa]

Everyone was told they had to pay 3k towards the party and if they didn't have the money they had to borrow it or get they family in Bangkok or where ever they are working to send the money to help.

Rule No. 1:

Anyone says ridiculous shit like that to you, act in a way that they'll never ever bother to try it again for the next 50 years.

Honestly man, that's simple shit.

Kindness - seen as a weakness to most predatory folk.

Hold on...I paid fcuk all The wife paid 500 ( so I paid a little indirectly I guess as it came out of the house keeping money) ,the 2 sisters and the brother paid for their Mum and Dads that live next door ( so that was the wife's families 3k ),the locals paid because they either wanted to or just to follow rank and file.....in-fact a few paid 10 k ,some only paid 500 baht ,most paid 3k.
I pay the 100 baht if someone dies only because I have a yellow house book ,that means the wife gets about 30k to put me in a box when I'm dead.
I'm not a newbie,I've lived in the Village for 9 years and Thailand for 12 years.I don't get involved in their Village problems and the only reason I'm telling this is because I find it funny the Villages just keep getting themselves into all this shit.It's like living in a comedy show sometimes

[boloa]

Not doubting the story, just the amounts.

I have read lots of you posts Jim and most are quite informative,this time your wrong mate .The figures I have quoted are fact ......not fiction.You keep going on about how you live in the wild-west where people are run out of town for asking for a few extra baht and I've already posted that there could be some sort of Chinese Whispers involved...that's why I said" I will keep you all informed of any latest updated news when I get it.".....so stay tuned

You may read about shootings and killings on the Cambo border, it's in the press because of the temple dispute. we are may be 50 km north, no press, no police, only border soldiers. Law is dispensed by the local heads and village leaders. Do bad things and you get told to leave, if you don't, things get bad, Not a year goes by without bodies being found in the jungle nearby. Nowhere as bad as the Cambo border where I think at least 52 were killed last year, but everyone here has guns. I once asked the sub district Governor, while he was signing a land buy. What happens if in years to come the seller comes back and claims the land. He would have to kill him. simple.
As a farang, no one would question me carrying a rifle or a hand gun, border soldiers are locals and all are family.
My nearest neighbor [ farang ] caught a guy burgling his house, he is on the main road about 7 km away, broke his hand pouncing the crap out of the guy There is a police presents on the road the police arrived, only 300 meters from his house there is a police, small station. His wife's family are highly respected in the area and some are senior police. He was told the guy is still alive, do you want us to come back in a hour.
This side may be Thailand, but this is Lao country and communist controlled, BKK is another country. Plenty of people on both sides of the land border carrying AK 47s and M16s.
If a farang wants to go into the jungle, he has to have at least a 2 soldier
escort at all times. It's not Korat or Surin, it's a jungle land crossing, lots of smuggling, drugs, animals, motorbikes, illegal logging and people. And you don't screw around, village head or not. Jim

It sounds like hell Jim,why the fcuk would anybody want to live there ??,you are truly a man amongst mice on this forum !!!!

[baldrick]

there are a lot of places 50k from the cambo border on the road between praseart and sisaket

[jamescollister]

Not doubting the story, just the amounts.

I have read lots of you posts Jim and most are quite informative,this time your wrong mate .The figures I have quoted are fact ......not fiction.You keep going on about how you live in the wild-west where people are run out of town for asking for a few extra baht and I've already posted that there could be some sort of Chinese Whispers involved...that's why I said" I will keep you all informed of any latest updated news when I get it.".....so stay tuned

You may read about shootings and killings on the Cambo border, it's in the press because of the temple dispute. we are may be 50 km north, no press, no police, only border soldiers. Law is dispensed by the local heads and village leaders. Do bad things and you get told to leave, if you don't, things get bad, Not a year goes by without bodies being found in the jungle nearby. Nowhere as bad as the Cambo border where I think at least 52 were killed last year, but everyone here has guns. I once asked the sub district Governor, while he was signing a land buy. What happens if in years to come the seller comes back and claims the land. He would have to kill him. simple.
As a farang, no one would question me carrying a rifle or a hand gun, border soldiers are locals and all are family.
My nearest neighbor [ farang ] caught a guy burgling his house, he is on the main road about 7 km away, broke his hand pouncing the crap out of the guy There is a police presents on the road the police arrived, only 300 meters from his house there is a police, small station. His wife's family are highly respected in the area and some are senior police. He was told the guy is still alive, do you want us to come back in a hour.
This side may be Thailand, but this is Lao country and communist controlled, BKK is another country. Plenty of people on both sides of the land border carrying AK 47s and M16s.
If a farang wants to go into the jungle, he has to have at least a 2 soldier
escort at all times. It's not Korat or Surin, it's a jungle land crossing, lots of smuggling, drugs, animals, motorbikes, illegal logging and people. And you don't screw around, village head or not. Jim

It sounds like hell Jim,why the fcuk would anybody want to live there ??,you are truly a man amongst mice on this forum !!!!

We have no front doors on the house, no locks on the bedroom doors, kids play in the street, if you can call it that. Everyone is family and the village as a whole decides what is OK and what is not. Screw up and the village will judge and set the punishment,

As for killings in the jungle, don't get involved with drug smuggling, poaching, illegal lumber or stealing stuff from the locals to sell in Lao.

Safest place I have ever lived, as long as you follow the rules. Jim

[jamescollister]

there are a lot of places 50k from the cambo border on the road between praseart and sisaket

Not that many north of the Emerald Triangle on the Lao land border. Jim

[boloa]

Asked the Wife if there was any more news on what's happening about the missing money.she told me" It may take a few weeks for the Amphur Office to come and check all the accounts "....now if I had stolen 500 baht off somebody or walked out of a Bar without paying a bill I would be locked up by now or out on a large bail-bond whilst waiting to go to court !!!......

[boloa]

Safest place I have ever lived, as long as you follow the rules. Jim

Is that why your neighbour had to beat the crap out of a local burglar,I don't think anybody has been robbed in the 9 years I have lived in our Village and I always go out leaving the windows and Doors open.
I once had a GF from Sa Kaeo who live right on the Cambodian boarder,at night everything ( and I mean everything ) had to be brought into the house and locked up or it would be stolen.I even had me trainers pinched one night...Would I have lived there.....would I f***.........

[Rural Surin]

Asked the Wife if there was any more news on what's happening about the missing money.she told me" It may take a few weeks for the Amphur Office to come and check all the accounts "....now if I had stolen 500 baht off somebody or walked out of a Bar without paying a bill I would be locked up by now or out on a large bail-bond whilst waiting to go to court !!!......

It's all about money.
And face/image.

[boloa]

Asked the Wife if there was any more news on what's happening about the missing money.she told me" It may take a few weeks for the Amphur Office to come and check all the accounts "....now if I had stolen 500 baht off somebody or walked out of a Bar without paying a bill I would be locked up by now or out on a large bail-bond whilst waiting to go to court !!!......

It's all about money.
And face/image.

I gathered that RS

[Rural Surin]

Asked the Wife if there was any more news on what's happening about the missing money.she told me" It may take a few weeks for the Amphur Office to come and check all the accounts "....now if I had stolen 500 baht off somebody or walked out of a Bar without paying a bill I would be locked up by now or out on a large bail-bond whilst waiting to go to court !!!......

It's all about money.
And face/image.

I gathered that RS

Yep.....
So we live with it.

[jamescollister]

Safest place I have ever lived, as long as you follow the rules. Jim

Is that why your neighbour had to beat the crap out of a local burglar,I don't think anybody has been robbed in the 9 years I have lived in our Village and I always go out leaving the windows and Doors open.
I once had a GF from Sa Kaeo who live right on the Cambodian boarder,at night everything ( and I mean everything ) had to be brought into the house and locked up or it would be stolen.I even had me trainers pinched one night...Would I have lived there.....would I f***.........

As said neighbor lives over 7 km away on a main road on a 10 rai block and not in a village. Big isolated houses will always be targets for junkies. Villages out here are different, stilt huts 3 or 4 meters apart, no passing traffic, strangers stand out and will be watched.
Village rules are simple, one case a guy got caught stealing, can't remember what. Punishment, he and his family including brothers were prohibited from working for anyone in the village for 2 years, No rice or cassava planting or harvesting for others [no money ] If a lad goes on the yabba and starts stealing to feed his habit, exile from the village 2 to 5 years. Don't pay a bill for work done by someone in the village and people will just turn their back on you as you walk down the soi, local shops will not acknowledge your presents, until the bill is paid.

That's how it's been for 100s of years and will remain that way until the place stops being a border soldier area and becomes a policed area. You have a problem you can't phone the police for help, they won't come, you phone the head who will come with some of the boys and he will be armed if necessary. The Government issues rifles and shot guns to elected officials, FIL being one. Jim

[boloa]

Sounds a bit like our Village in Surin Jim ( apart from the robbing and and the druggies )....... and apart from the guns of course......that sounds more like the USA

[Rural Surin]

Sounds a bit like our Village in Surin Jim ( apart from the robbing and and the druggies )....... and apart from the guns of course......that sounds more like the USA

Need to recoate to the civilised southerly Amphoes of Surin, Alan....

Fucking Surin.
Happy not to be there.

[jamescollister]

Sounds a bit like our Village in Surin Jim ( apart from the robbing and and the druggies )....... and apart from the guns of course......that sounds more like the USA

You have to remember, this is a place that was passed by for many years. We only got a tarmac road 4 or 5 years ago. It goes nowhere just stops, in the jungle. Many villages not on or near the road still have no electricity.
There was still a shooting war going on here in the 80s, last battle with the Vietnamese from Cambodia was 1985. The Communit Lao were still a threat after that and most here were supporters. Both side gave weapons to whoever they thought was on their side. Most of these weapons were never handed in after. Believe there are cave in the mountains full of weapons still.
Next came the drugs and there are a hell of a lot of drugs brought over from Lao, it's a big, big jungle. It's not a police matter, but an army matter, arrests only occur on main roads. In the jungle it's ambushes and firer fights, but I happily hike up there without any fear, I am no threat, just an oddity.
As said the place is safer than most western cities, as long as you don't get involved with other things. Jim

[crepitas]

Sounds a bit like our Village in Surin Jim ( apart from the robbing and and the druggies )....... and apart from the guns of course......that sounds more like the USA

You have to remember, this is a place that was passed by for many years. We only got a tarmac road 4 or 5 years ago. It goes nowhere just stops, in the jungle. Many villages not on or near the road still have no electricity.
There was still a shooting war going on here in the 80s, last battle with the Vietnamese from Cambodia was 1985. The Communit Lao were still a threat after that and most here were supporters. Both side gave weapons to whoever they thought was on their side. Most of these weapons were never handed in after. Believe there are cave in the mountains full of weapons still.
Next came the drugs and there are a hell of a lot of drugs brought over from Lao, it's a big, big jungle. It's not a police matter, but an army matter, arrests only occur on main roads. In the jungle it's ambushes and firer fights, but I happily hike up there without any fear, I am no threat, just an oddity.
As said the place is safer than most western cities, as long as you don't get involved with other things. Jim

geesh mate...hope you are working on a book or atleast a series of articles for the press..would make for entertaining reading methinks as well as very lucrative?

[boloa]

Need to recoate to the civilised southerly Amphoes of Surin, Alan....

Fucking Surin.
Happy not to be there.

Is Kalasin the place to live now ???

I have a friend who's family live at Phanom Dong Rak........ very much like collister country...........not for me I'm afraid !!!!!

[jamescollister]

Issan Thailand Life

My blogg.

[boloa]

No 'News' on the missing funds but last night there was a Murder

There has been a funeral going on for the last few days and like most funerals locally ........night time becomes an illegal gambling den for family members and locals alike.

Apparently 4-5 young lads ( 16-17 ) were playing card together and one lad was accused of cheating one of the other lads of 20 Baht.There were words spoken and the one accused of cheating left with his friend.30 minutes later he returned with a gun,walked up to the young lad who accused him of cheating and shot him twice in the head at point-blank range killing him instantly .

The police were called and the shooter was arrested.No doubt drugs ( Yaba) and alcohol was involved too.

My wife told me the mother of the shooter said " she doesn't understand why her lovely son would ever do such thing ,he's a great lad and has never been in trouble before "

All this for 20 baht.........I ask yer !!!!!

[Rural Surin]

Need to recoate to the civilised southerly Amphoes of Surin, Alan....

Fucking Surin.
Happy not to be there.

Is Kalasin the place to live now ???

I have a friend who's family live at Phanom Dong Rak........ very much like collister country...........not for me I'm afraid !!!!!

Outside of Mueang, it's extremely rural and the local society reflects appropriately. It's quite a beautiful province.....

[Marmite the Dog]

My wife told me the mother of the shooter said " she doesn't understand why her lovely son would ever do such thing ,he's a great lad and has never been in trouble before "

It is quite incredible. I bet he smiled a lot too.

[boloa]

My wife told me the mother of the shooter said " she doesn't understand why her lovely son would ever do such thing ,he's a great lad and has never been in trouble before "

It is quite incredible. I bet he smiled a lot too.

I think the locals nicknamed him 'Forrest'

[Rural Surin]

My wife told me the mother of the shooter said " she doesn't understand why her lovely son would ever do such thing ,he's a great lad and has never been in trouble before "

It is quite incredible. I bet he smiled a lot too.

I think the locals nicknamed him 'Forrest'

Indeed.....life is similar to a box of chocolates.

[Koetjeka]

Nice thread Boloa, I'll follow it!
I guess it's time to start my own topic about village life as well.

[jamescollister]

Nice thread Boloa, I'll follow it!
I guess it's time to start my own topic about village life as well.

If it's anything like my village life, it will be one boring thread. Today the kids didn't go to school, big rains last night, bridges under water. Nice and cool, slept to 10.30, played on the net all day.
Yesterday went for a walk into the jungle, a place where I am not allowed to go without at least 2 armed soldiers. Said hello to the 3 border soldiers, swinging in hammocks as I passed and visited a Buddha retreat in the jungle.
Came home had some food and watched a DVD [copy] and a few beers.
Life on the edge. Jim