2014

PUBLISHED WITHOUT COMMENT This is the CCTV recording of the grenade thrower who tossed a ping pong bomb into the crowd of anti-government protesters at Victory Monument, Bangkok, Sunday. He seems a little distracted by the comings and goings to the door on his right. But when the coast is clear he throws and makes […]

LEGAL ADVICE ON STEROIDS News in this week from the resort of Pattaya on Thailand’s eastern seaboard is that Thailand’s most famous American, Drew Noyes, has secured deals with the local steroid King of Steroids. Now, short of selling crack cocaine, the steroid market is one of the most lucrative in the world because in […]

THE MIGHTY FALLEN? FROM A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SCAM TO A CONDO RIP-OFF. A reader wishes to know the whereabouts of a former ‘boiler room’ security manager who disappeared with millions of baht from a condo in Pattaya, was arrested, released and does not appear to have been seen again. Jalit telling the author ‘Don’t mess […]

FLYING SPORRAN’S WEEKEND DIARY Well I have had a surfeit of Bangkok demos and correspondents’ various versions of it, so in this week’s Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary I present a tongue in cheek piece by Allan Hall a former colleague on the Daily Mail many moons ago when newspapers hunted in packs.  Working on these […]

I COULD NOT GIVE A MONKEY’S UNCLE* As the world’s press continues to portray the current demonstrations in Bangkok as anti-democratic and one between the rich and middle class elites of Bangkok and salt of the earth working people in North East Thailand there are of course other considerations. Well, one of course is the […]

CABINET MINISTER, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ACCUSED BY COUNTER CORRUPTION COMMISSION CROOKS OPERATING AS POLITICIANS (Pic: Boonsong) Anti-corruption officials in Thailand dropped a political time bomb today announcing that they would be charging fifteen people mainly government officials with corruption over Thailand’s rice trade. As thousands of anti-government demonstrators continued to blockade the capital Bangkok complaining of […]

‘YOU’RE NICKED!’ – SPC Bower caught on the loose again in Cambodia A former British Special Constable, who fled Britain while staying at a bail hostel under licence having served a sentence for paedophile offences, has been found wandering freely about in Cambodia having been jailed there too for sexually abusing young boys. Ian Paul […]

Aussie conman David Tyson exposed here on these pages for his Global -I-Care scam and property sharp dealing on the island of  Phuket has surfaced again – this time in Poland. After trying similar scams out in Vietnam he moved on to Britain, France and Germany and is now hobnobbing with politicians and businessmen in […]

I have lifted the followed in its entirety from Chiang Mai City News. I don’t know why, but I just loved it. I do not necessarily agree with it all. I am afraid there are a few four letter words in it and the author may not totally have caught the demographic of a foreign […]

Goudie mimics calling police A video tape handed in to this site shows how Brian Goudie, a former convict in Australia, who arrived in Thailand posing as a barrister, shopped a legal client to the Royal Thai Police condemning him to 15 months in jail apparently on a false charge of child sexual abuse. He […]