Thread: Most un-Thai place in Thailand

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

One of them was jailed for 18 months so they weren't all "falsely arrested".

The owner of the Billabong was falsely arrested.

Originally Posted by mad_dog

Indian, Chinese, farang, Japanese and Korean residents or workers. It gives an unThai more sophisticated feel to the area.

How the hell can you say that Indians, Chinese and Koreans are sophisticated?

^ Loads of people got arrested on Samui. Some were crims and some were not. It doesn't matter that they were from Bangkok, they're still fucking clueless.

The main shareholder of the Billabong was arrested on false charges and was only released when a senior Thai naval officer turned up and asked why he was being detained when everyone knew that the charges were bullshit. He was then released.

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

The owner of the Billabong was falsely arrested.

If it were local plod I would tend to agree with you but it was DSI from Bangkok with a SWAT team.

So someone arrested by the police makes them guilty in your opinion?

Originally Posted by Fabian

So someone arrested by the police makes them guilty in your opinion?

How on Earth did you come to that idiotic conclusion?

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

when everyone knew that the charges were bullshit.

The DSI obviously didn't.

I am curious to know what happened to the witnesses in this case as one of them was missing and presumed dead?

Any news on them?

Did they eventually turn up?

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

and was only released when a senior Thai naval officer turned up

That suggests to me that they had a case against him but were, shall we say, 'encouraged' to release him by an influencial person.

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

That suggests to me that they had a case against him

Think what you want. I know the guy and have done work with him and continue to see him fairly often. You just try to stir shit and come to your own conclusions regardless of what other people have stated.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Think what you want.

100 officers from Bangkok's DSI don't go down to an Island and use a SWAT team to arrest someone without good reason. They must have thought he was up to something! It was a leading news story on the national news at the time I remember.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

You just try to stir shit and come to your own conclusions regardless of what other people have stated.

And what have you stated exactly? That you're his mate?

You surely must agree that it looks suspicious that such a fuss was made over his arrest and subsequent charges and then as you have said some high-ranking Thai navy guy comes along and he is released?

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Originally Posted by Fabian

So someone arrested by the police makes them guilty in your opinion?

How on Earth did you come to that idiotic conclusion?

Form your idiotic assumptions, moron.

Originally Posted by Fabian

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Originally Posted by Fabian

So someone arrested by the police makes them guilty in your opinion?

How on Earth did you come to that idiotic conclusion?

Form your idiotic assumptions, moron.

Why oh why doesn't TeakDoor have a stupidfilter?

Why would you wish one, then you would have been gone long ago.

The most un-thai I know is any pristine Thai tourist promotion, all are complete schams.

Can't get any less pristine and more real Thailand than Pattaya - sleazy sex tourists and thai ho's, crooks and scam artists..... Highly recommended for the family with young kids.

Most un-Thai?

Khao Sahn Rd.

thought that was the pinnacle of thai culture? ^ oh man have i been mislead all these years

Originally Posted by isdatu

From personal experience whats your most un-Thai destination in Thailand?

ahhh....the U.S. Embassy?

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

100 officers from Bangkok's DSI don't go down to an Island and use a SWAT team to arrest someone without good reason.

C'mon Tuddy - even you're not that thick.

They didn't send 100 officers to Samui to arrest someone. They were sent down there to arrest pretty much every foreigner involved in land and property development on the island and only had evidence against a handful of people. They were hoping they could get some shit to stick against the rest of them.

Originally Posted by sunsetter

thought that was the pinnacle of thai culture? ^ oh man have i been mislead all these years

mislead indeed

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

I am probably thinking about the mystical "Siam" and more specifically the orient that I learned about when I was a kid and really I feel that is what the OP is referring too.

When you consider that about 60% of the population will never be able to enjoy the new Thailand let alone being able to afford to enter these places I cannot really associate these places with the OP's question.

Do you know where the term "Siam" originates?

^ Cats?

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Do you know where the term "Siam" originates?

Siam is an old Cham word, meaning "the Land Between'.

^ Goverments

The Irish Cock in Udon Thani.

Ao nang.

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

The Irish Cock in Udon Thani.

Which member is that?

Carrefour, Patong (land of conspicuous consumption)
Carrefour, Rama 4
Tesco, Nong Khai (land of fat Thai people)
Tesco, Ranong

^^^^ Mmmmmmm frosty cold Guinness.... Saaaap lai duhr.

And thin brown smiling wenches.

Yeah that ain't Thailand.