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I’ve taken to walking down the Beach Road for exercise. The shaded promenade provided good cover against the sun and the distance allows you to work up a moderate sweat, while surveying the various vignettes of street life occurring in various locales. The free-lancers working the beach are mostly old as is their clientele of […]

There are no subways in Pattaya. Only baht buses, This transit deficit would make it really hard for NYC’s champion groper to grope a lot in Pattaya, which is why after his release from prison Freddie Johnson resumed his touchie-feelie program on the Manhattan subways. Not every woman appreciated his attention and within two weeks […]

You’re in a foreign country. You’ve just been arrested for copyright infringement. 3000 baht is all you have to your name. What will you do? What will you do?

Most people in the world will have no memory of the actor Karl Malden asking the same question in a 1970s Amex Commercial, but his solution was […]

After paying 30,000 baht bail in the Sathon cyber-police station I drank beer with Khim at his place on Soi 33. Leo beer. Five bottles. He told me not to worry. The police said the same thing. My crime of selling counterfeit shirts over the internet was nothing and Khim shrugged off the charges. “It’s […]

My wife’s father sleeps in a wooden hut in the middle of his rice paddies. Den didn’t grow a rice crop this year. Instead he watches over his 15 cattle worth 15,000 baht each. 225,000 bath on the hoof for the teams of cattle rustlers ranging over Thailand’s central plains to take advantage of a […]

Thailand’s new airport was meant to symbolize the nation’s entering the 21st century, however a blight of corruption scandals has tarnished the airport’s reputation as well as its ability to service the millions of passengers passing through its terminals.

Unfortunately bribery, graft, and nepotism are deeply rooted in many Asia countries from the police asking for […]

My faux-French uncle has seven casinos in Rousillon. He taught his nephew that a gambler never beats the house. I learned that the hard way from personal experience as well as witnessing the exodus of Thai gamblers leaving the Cambodian border casinos.

Their shoes are scuffed, the clothing badly washed, and their faces painted with fourteen […]

Several years ago the USA enacted the USA Protect Law prohibiting US citizens from sex with under-18 years old in foreign lands. Within a week the FBI arrested a 19 year-old student in Bangkok for having consensual sex with his 17 year-old girlfriend. There was no follow-up to this story, although a placard at the […]

As a young boy I clipped change out of my mother’s purse. I know I’m going to burn in Hell for this crime, although I never stole more than a dollar. At least to the best of my memory.
 
The commandment says, “Thou shall not steal.” without saying says how much, because the Bible considers any stealing […]

In 2001 I was living in a townhouse off Soi Bongkoch with my girlfiend Mem.
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The PM Thaksin had initiated a War of Drugs. Death squads were hunting down dealers. Two members of this extra-legal branch of the police confronted my next door neighbor. He was a Thai jeweller. They accused him of […]