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    Security volunteer slain in Pattani

    Online Reporters, Published on 23/04/2012

    » A security volunteer was killed in a driveby shooting in Pattani's Muang district on Monday morning, Muang Pattani police station chief Somporn Meesuk said.

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    Spanish king's grandson shoots himself in foot

    AFP, Published on 10/04/2012

    » Spanish King Juan Carlos' 13-year-old grandson has shot himself in the foot, the royal family said Tuesday, sparking a scandal because he is below the legal age for using a firearm.

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    Indonesian police shoot dead two terror suspects

    AFP, Published on 30/03/2012

    » Indonesian police killed two suspected terrorists in a raid on the outskirts of Jakarta, a force spokesman said, less than two weeks after officers shot dead five suspects on the resort island of Bali.

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    Ready, Aim, Perspire!

    B Magazine, Published on 18/03/2012

    » I raise a revolver to the man's head. I don't know what I am doing, I just know it has to be done. In the still of silence, with one eye closed and a finger on the trigger, I pause ... and fire.

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    If they didn't want it then, why would they want it now?

    Database, James Hein, Published on 08/09/2010

    » A number of companies are now readying their iPad challenger. But why? What has changed in the past 10 years to suggest people who once rejected pen or touchscreen computing will now embrace it?

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    About Face.

    By Sean Moran, Created on: 14/10/2008, Last updated on: 13/04/2014

    » One olde axiom that comes to mind is, '[i:3b539sim]If you can't say something nice, then keep your mouth s.h.u.t.[/i:3b539sim]' Just a thread that pertains to one of the cultural differences one might notice in venturing from a typical 'westernised' society of the assertive kind to the shores of...

    • Sean Moran commented : ut, he made sure to carry his revolver. Not to shoot me, but because I was farang, TO PROTECT ME [b:188q8ofh]in case I got up to too much mischief when I was drunk[/b:188q8ofh]. I'll never forget that. That was altruism. Maybe just the same as he had a word in Mrs Na's ear about not ripping off the farang the night I first got invited to KMS (Karaoke Mai sanuk), he may have displayed a little courteous firepower to some of the strangers at the night clubs (without my knowledge) if ever there were (and believe me there were on one or two occasions) times when I was too pisst to know which country I was ranting and raving in. When I decided to head off from Rayong to Chanthaburi, which turned out to be Khorat and then Nonthaburi, my best mate served the dinner and while I ate, he rode off on my mo-sai without my knowledge to have both the front and back tyres on the Suzuki replaced by the shop across the road. The cost was less than 300 baht. That's what I remunerated, but it actually cost less, because they trusted him as the restauanteur across the road, and he (in the same overprotective way that I can't help but appreciate) didn't know that I'd been going to that same motorcyucle shop since I bought the bike for new kickstarts and oil changes. I reckon I would have paid around 250 baht each for the tyres, which is fair for a farang, but my best mate got me an even better deal. After my collision, I saved the Suzy and it coasted off into the wilderness while I hit the car without need of extra force. It spent a few months in the police holding yard and accrued 200 odd baht in charges for sitting there rusting away. I gave Anuchit the bike, and went 50/50 on the disposal fee for him to get it out when I got back to LoS. The least I could do. I'll always be a wanderer, but I don't want to be an hermit.

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